If you enjoy maps too, you should check out a blog titled The Map Room that I recently discovered. The Map Room is a blog about all things maps. You’ll find a variety of creative uses of maps in The
What Google Knows About You and How to Tweak it
Everyone who has a Google account should visit their Dashboard once a year. It’s like Google’s way of showing you their hand—let you see what info they have on you—and allow you to change it.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/11/what-google-knows-about-you-and-how-to-tweak-it.ars
More Professors Give Out Hand-Held Devices to Monitor Students and Engage Them
More than half a million US college students now use wireless devices to register class attendance and take quizzes.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/16/education/16clickers.html?_r=1&emc=eta1
Google Docs: Why Teachers and Students Should Be Using Them For Course Work
Google Docs, an increasingly popular technology with teachers and students, is free! Google Docs includes an online word processor, spreadsheet, and presentation editor. Students and teachers can use these tools to collaborate on assignments, projects, newsletters, and blogs, among other
The Best Web 2.0 Applications For Education — 2010
An annual compilation by Larry Ferlazzo on the best web 2.0 applications for education. A very interesting list!
http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2010/11/17/the-best-web-2-0-applications-for-education-2010/
Moodle 2.0 and its new friends
This post gives an introduction to some of the new integrations which can be used, how they work, and why you should care – and remember, you don’t need to be a software developer to make these integrations work, you
Education Nation: Six Leading Edges of Innovation in Our Schools
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Eight Reasons An Innovative Educator Uses Twitter
An interesting article on why teachers should consider using Twitter.
http://theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/2010/09/five-reasons-innovative-educator-uses.html
The Things You Need To Know When Buying A New Hard Drive
Your computer’s hard drive is its only form of long-term storage. Music, photos, documents, games – it all goes on your hard drive. If you’re running out of hard drive space it’s only a matter of time before you need
Worldometers: World Statistics in Real Time
Worldometers is part of the Real Time Statistics Project, which is managed by an international team of developers, researchers, and volunteers with the goal of making world statistics available in a thought-provoking and time relevant format to a wide audience
Google Give Searchers ‘Instant Previews’ of Result Pages
Google is trying to save users from the back-click button, by giving them the option to see a visual preview of the page they are thinking of clicking on.
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/11/google-instant-previews/
New Google Docs Community Offers How-to Videos
Google launched a new community on YouTube for Google Docs users to share tips and ideas for using Google Docs in education and other arenas. The community features how-to videos created by Google and by Google Docs users just like
Use Microsoft Word as a WYSIWYG Editor for Wikis
If you have ever tried editing a page on Wikipedia or any other Wiki based website, you know how different the formatting syntax is – more so when you are used to working with rich-text editors like Microsoft Word or
VoiceBase: Transcribe Audio To Text Automatically Online
Lecturers and speakers often record their presentation’s audio and appoint somebody to transcribe it. By converting the audio into text files, the audio can be made searchable on the web, making it easier for others to find. A web service