Education Innovation in the Slums
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Mobile Trends, E-books, and the Web
Good brief analysis, with figures, on mobile learning. “The bottom line is that the mobile market continues to grow explosively, and along with it come the growth of certain activities. One old-school activity that remains popular is texting. “
http://blog.xplana.com/2010/08/mobile-trends-e-books-and-the-web/
Group calls on Montreal to join open-data movement
A group of citizens is pushing Montreal to join a worldwide movement to make its information accessible to all citizens. The group, Montréal ouvert, was started by Michael Lenczner, co-founder of Île sans fil, a free wireless service, and three
Email overload? Try Priority Inbox
Google has just introduced Priority Inbox (in beta)—an experimental new way of taking on information overload in Gmail. Priority Inbox is like your personal assistant, helping you focus on the messages that matter without requiring you to set up complex
10 Essential Free E-Books for Web Designers
This post highlights 10 of the best free e-books for web designers, with selections available as PDFs or in HTML.
TIME’s 50 Best Websites 2010
TIME has today released its “50 Best Websites of 2010,” an annual list to the best of the Web, which aims to include everything from “the big hitters to the unknowns.”
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/completelist/0,29569,2012721,00.html
Top 4 Freeware Spam Blockers That Actually Work
Even if your email’s not public, many users get targeted by so-called “dictionary” attacks against their email providers. One solution is to use temporary email addresses, but if you’re already receiving a lot of spam then the problem’s going to
Google Brings Google Voice to Gmail: Make and Receive Calls Right from Your Inbox
Google is testing a web-based telephony service inside Gmail. If you are a Gmail user in the U.S., you can now make free Web-based phone calls to any phone in the U.S. and Canada right from the Gmail interface. You
A Great New Tool For Making Timelines & Slideshows
LIFE has just unveiled a neat new feature that lets you search for any photos in its archives and create an online timeline/slideshow that you can share with a unique url address. Their Photo Timeline lets you use their original
Google Releases Universal Search for Gmail, Docs and Sites
Ever wanted to search not only your e-mail, but your presentations, spreadsheets and documents? Google is working on an experimental project to do just that.
10 Cool Web 2.0 Tools for Educators
Here are many new ‘tools’ or websites that can be used with great success in the classroom. Web 2.0 refers to a supposed second generation of Internet-based services. There are hundreds of Web2.0 sites – here are 10 that can
What are Learning Analytics?
Learning analytics is the use of intelligent data, learner-produced data, and analysis models to discover information and social connections, and to predict and advise on learning.
http://www.elearnspace.org/blog/2010/08/25/what-are-learning-analytics/
Notre Dame embarks on a paperless course with iPads
The University of Notre Dame’s yearlong study of eReaders in academics is starting the school year with a bang — a course that will use the iPad as the only textbook students need. The course is entitled Project Management, and
10 Things that Teachers Should do
The list states 10 points which means, that I will try and have ten points, but best of all the post had a video of the coolest teacher in world, well not of this world. However, the clip ended short
Sneffel: Web Based Whiteboard To Share Diagrams & Ideas
Sneffel is a web based whiteboard that lets you create diagrams, share them with friends, embed them on your website, and collaborate on them with others. While this sounds typical of a real-time, virtual whiteboard, Sneffel has an interesting feature