You can ‘drag’ your learners to a learning management system (LMS) but you can’t make them ‘drink’ in the content unless it’s engaging. The solution – could Facebook be used as an LMS?
http://www.flexiblelearning.net.au/content/facebook-next-lms…
100+ Free Internet Resources for Real Teachers in Real Classrooms
A great list of free resources for every classroom.
https://sites.google.com/site/meetthegeeksii/Home/teacher-tools…
Osmek: A Content Management System Built on the Cloud
Osmek is a new kind of CMS, built in the cloud so your content is available where and how you need it. It’s a beautiful interface for creating content, and a powerful set of APIs for retrieving it.
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Teaching & Learning in a Networked World (by Alec Couros)
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Magisto makes video editing a snap for the masses
Few people have the time – or even the skill – to trawl through and edit those good bits down into a real sequence. So with one click Magisto finds the good edited highlights automatically.
http://eu.techcrunch.com/2011/04/05/magisto-makes-video-editing-a-snap-for-the-masses/…
Identifying Anonymous Email Authors
A team of researchers from Concordia University (Montreal) has developed an effective new technique to determine the authorship of anonymous emails. Tests showed their method has a high level of accuracy.
http://www.concordia.ca/now/what-we-do/research/20110307/identifying-anonymous-email-authors.php…
Create Useful Charts on the Visual Support Engine
Visuals Engine is a useful free resource from ConnectABILITY. The Visuals Engine provides six customizable templates for creating choice boards, story boards, schedules, and achievement charts.
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2011/04/create-helpful-charts-on-visual-support.html…
Skype Launches a Dedicated Network for Teachers
The company launched Skype in the Classroom, a dedicated teacher network. Using the platform, teachers can create profiles that describe their classes and teaching interests. They can also search a directory of teachers from all over the world by student …
48 Interesting Ways to use an iPad in the Classroom
This guide is constantly being updated by users. It’s a great resource with interesting tips on how to use an iPad in the classroom.
https://docs.google.com/present/view?id=dhn2vcv5_721gdk5jtd8…
Learning Through Digital Media: Experiments in Technology and Pedagogy
This website is the product of a collaboration that started in the fall of 2010 when a total of eighty New School faculty, librarians, students, and staff came together to think about teaching and learning with digital media. These conversations …
Why Use Games in the Language Classroom?
Games help the teacher to create contexts in which the language is useful and meaningful. The learners want to take part and in order to do so must understand what others are saying or have written, and they must speak
Beyond iPad: Top 10 tablets to watch this year
Tablets are hot, thanks to the original iPad and now the iPad 2. The tablet space is going to get really smoking hot this year with some compelling devices hitting the market that will crank things up a notch. Here …
3 New & Superb Ways To Share Files Online
We’ll take a look at some of the newer web-based storage and file-sharing sites that despite their simple looks, offer convenient drag-and-drop, as well as, shortened URLs and statistics (something that most desktop programs don’t provide yet).
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/3-superb-ways-share-files-online/…
An Educators Guide to Twitter
An interesting guide to Twitter created using Livebinders.