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Create A Book With Batalugu
Batalugu is a new site that lets you create your own online book for free. You can then share it’s url address.
http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2010/10/12/create-a-book-with-batalugu/
TEDx McGill 2010: Registration is Opened
Experience riveting talks from remarkable students, faculty, and special guests. We’re putting on a one-day event to feed your relentless curiosity and share the experience with six hundred others.
MarkUp.io – Draw On Any Webpage
Markup.io is a free service that enables you to quickly draw and write on any webpage. Markup.io could be useful for commenting on and critiquing online articles then quickly sharing your comments with others. Students could use Markup.io for news
IT in Education – Another Rhetorical Strategy
Like many teachers at the beginning of their careers, Michael Helfield teachs in more than one school. In terms of information technology, this has proven to be a distinct advantage as he is experiencing IT from more than one vantage
10 Awesome Free Tools To Make Infographics
Information graphics, visual representations of data known as infographics, keep the web going these days. Here are some great tutorials on infographic creation.
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/awesome-free-tools-infographics/
Bill Gates Announces $20 Million Program to Expand Educational Technology
Arguing that we need to do a better job not just ensuring access to quality higher education, but helping students actually graduate from college, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have announced the Next Generation Learning Challenges initiative.
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/bill_gates_announces_20_million_program_to_expand.php
Google Things to Do: Find Out What You Can Do With Google Products
As you know, Google has a lot to offer beyond web search. Even the web search has features which not everyone knows about. Google Things to Do is a nicely designed page by Google UK that makes people aware of
RateMyProfessors: Is There a Lesson to be Learned?
RateMyProfessors.com needs no introduction to most instructors. The problems with the site are equally well known. There’s no guarantee that the students who select to evaluate and post the comments are a representative sample—and no guarantee that the assessments themselves
Create Impressive Videos With Wax 2.0 (Windows)
Wax 2.0 is video creation software that comes from the creator of Wink (which lets you make awesome Flash-based product demos) who is dedicated to ensuring that anyone can start authoring their own videos. You can use Wax 2.0 to
EPearl – an ePortfolio as a Tool to Organise, Structure, Reflect and Grow. A bilingual, hands-on workshop
In this full-day, hands-on workshop, participants will engage in and reflect on the portfolio process while exploring EPearl, an on-line portfolio tool available in many Québec school
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Blackboard Brings Collaborative Tools to Moodle, Sakai and D2L
Following up on a commitment made at the time it acquired the two companies, Blackboard has announced that Collaborate, its new collaborative learning suite that taps into technology from Elluminate and Wimba, will work with competing learning management systems.
Search For Similar Images Online Using Images Rather Than Keywords
The ways we search for information online are constantly evolving. One of the most interesting (comparatively) new methods currently being developed by companies around the web revolves around the idea of using images as a basis for search queries.
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/search-similar-images-online-images-keywords/
50 Excellent Open Courses on Teaching With Technology
This is a listing of 50 free online courses that are offered on a wide variety of instructional technology topics. The courses are free, self-directed, and accessible over the internet.