Why Google Apps for Education?
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Screenjelly – Quick and Easy Screencasting
Screenjelly is a free web-based tool that allows anyone to quickly create a screencast video. To use Screenjelly all you need to do is go to Screenjelly.com and click the big red “record” button. Once clicked Screenjelly will begin recording …
Some thoughts on tablets in education
Christoph Derndorfer writes: “I think tablet-style devices could be quite well suited for use by primary-school children however I don’t think that the products currently available or foreseeable to be available within the next two or three years will be …
Presentation of the Week
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TinEye – Reverse Image Search
Yesterday, Google announced that they were completely revamping the way that image search results were displayed. TinEye is a reverse image search engine. Here’s how it works, upload an image to TinEye or paste an image url into TinEye and …
Augmented Reality for Learning
Augmented reality (AR) is a term for a live direct or indirect view of a physical real-world environment whose elements are augmented by virtual computer-generated imagery. Here you will find a list of interesting resources for using Augmented Reality for …
Top 20 Sites to Improve Your Twitter Experience
We’ve compiled a list of the top 20 third-party websites for making your Twitter experience more useful and easier to manage.
PBS TeacherLine Moves to Moodle for Course Management
Online professional development program PBS TeacherLine has made the conversion to the popular open source learning management system (LMS) Moodle. The organization said it made the move in order to make its program easier for schools to customize in offering …
Moodle Do’s and Don’ts Comic
This is a comic style tips sheet for Moodle. love the design and layout (maybe it’s time for an updated comic version?). It was originally uploaded to Moodle.org in 2006 and created in part by Steve Noonkesser.
GradeGuru’s Top Ten Student Tools for 2010
After monitoring digital trends in student technology and tools for some time, GradeGuru, a McGraw-Hill Education startup has worked out which tools are the most useful for students.
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/gradegurus-top-ten-student-tools-2010/…
3 Smart Tips to Keep Your PC Secure When Downloading Files Online
For the unsuspecting soul who thinks a file downloaded for free is awesome, here is an an opportunity to learn about the digital trapdoors, ways to avoid them and how to verify if it is the real deal before installing …
The Web Means the End of Forgetting
Legal scholars, technologists and cyberthinkers are wrestling with the first great existential crisis of the digital age: the impossibility of erasing your posted past, starving over, moving on.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/25/magazine/25privacy-t2.html?_r=4…
India Develops World’s Cheapest Tablet (US$ 35)
In another attempt to bring a usable computer to the masses at an extremely affordable price point, India has developed a touchscreen computing device which will cost only $35. According to a press release by India’s Press Information Bureau, the …
5 More Websites To Share Videos Privately With Friends & Family
The choice of the right private video sharing website will ultimately boil down to the file size allowed and the ease of sharing with the right kind of privacy features. So try out the five below and let us in …
Facebook Hits 500 Million Active Users
Facebook has just announced that they now have 500 million active users, a substantial percentage of the world, and far more total users than the US has citizens. Using the most recent world population estimates, 7.4% of all people in …