Presentation of the Week
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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
How To Make Better Teachers
A short sharp post from Dean Shareski suggesting that the way to make better teachers is to get them to blog. If it doesn’t work, he says, “you get my golf clubs.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dean-shareski/how-to-make-better-teache_b_783392.html
Top 40 Video Web Sites for Teachers
Video produced by universities, major television networks and organizations all provide entertaining and enlightening shows, lectures and films that can enhance learning experiences for students of all ages. The following top 40 sources for open courseware videos (meaning they are
5 Internet Technologies That School Administrators Need To Know About
These technologies can enable educators to improve communications, enhance student learning, controls costs, manage Internet access in the classroom, and more.
Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction
Students have always faced distractions and time-wasters. But computers and cellphones, and the constant stream of stimuli they offer, pose a profound new challenge to focusing and learning.
Google Launches Plugin That Fuses Microsoft Office With Google Docs
Google has just released a new plugin for Microsoft Office called Cloud Connect, which will tie Google Docs directly into the ubiquitous productivity suite, free of charge. Editing a document in Word? It’ll automatically sync to your Google Docs account