While reconstructing the destroyed universities is a long-term task, University of the People is hoping to give Haitian students a way to continue their educations before it’s completed. By opening a center where students can take advantage of the scarce
The Ultimate Guide To Canadian Teaching Resources
Whether you’re Canadian or not, there are a ton of helpful resources for all teachers available at CanTeach. It’s a simple-to-use website that has lesson plans, links, and other resources for nearly any topic.
http://edudemic.com/2010/11/the-ultimate-guide-to-canadian-teaching-resources/
A Moodle Makeover
The Moodle environment which the DECclic Corporation (Montreal) is using experimentally, is offering a stable platform bursting with pedagogical promise. François Lizotte describes several projects in progress as well as future prospects which he finds extremely promising.
http://www.profweb.qc.ca/en/news/columns/nos-premiers-pas-dans-moodle/index.html
7 Sites That Can Help You Deal With Information Overload
The problem that most people run into while browsing the internet is complete information overload. Finding data is a problem that Google mainly solved years ago – now the challenge the typical user faces is how to find relevant information.
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Long Live the Web: A Call for Continued Open Standards and Neutrality
The Web is critical not merely to the digital revolution but to our continued prosperity—and even our liberty. Like democracy itself, it needs defending. An article by Tim-Berners Lee, the inventor of the Web.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=long-live-the-web
Google Launches Interactive Book to Teach Everyone About the Web
In an attempt to teach the average person about the fundamentals of browsers and the web, Google has released an interactive online book that explains concepts like, TCP/IP, HTML, browser extensions and malware.
YourName(R) – Trademark Protection is Coming to Social Networks
Your personal and corporate reputation and popularity on these networks pivot on an identity known as your username. The role of usernames as brand identifiers is following a similar pattern as domain names but without any of the protections that
Macrowikinomics: Beyond Superman to a New Model of Education
This article is a review about the newly released book Macrowikinomics: Rebooting Business and the World. The book argues that many of the institutions of the industrial age have finally come to the end of their lifecycle, and are now
Google Apps Now Has 10 Times More Features!
Google has announced that nearly all of Google’s tools can now be integrated into your Google Apps for Education account. This means that if there is a Google tool that you want the users in your Google Apps for Education
Teachers’ Views on Technology in the Classroom
The New York Times asked teachers to submit videos on how the use of technology has changed the way they teach.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/11/21/technology/20101121-brain-teachers.html
ClipYourPhotos: Do funky things with your digital photos
ClipYourPhotos is a web-based collection of tools to do fun things with your photos.
How to Verify an Email Address?
How do you verify if a given email address is real or fake? Well an obvious solution is that you send a test mail to that email address and if your message doesn’t bounce, it is safe to assume that
A Teacher’s Guide to Using Audio and Podcasting in the Classroom
A teacher’s guide to using audio and podcasting in the classroom is a nice overview of applications to use in the classroom, including videos.
http://edtechkit.blogspot.com/2010/11/teachers-guide-to-using-audio-and.html