Internet users create accounts on many websites. For security reasons, it is a wise practice to keep different passwords for different accounts. But as your number of accounts increases, the passwords become increasingly difficult to remember. A solution for this
How to Create Self-Graded Quizzes in Google Docs
This article includes directions for creating formulas that will result in quizzes created in Google Docs forms being self-graded.
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2010/09/how-to-create-self-graded-quizzes-in.html
Gary Wolf: The quantified self
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Facebook Chat History Manager: Save Facebook Chat History The Easy Way
At times keeping a track of your chat conversations can be very beneficial. Instant messaging clients often have this feature built in through which you can read past conversations. Facebook Chat, however, lacks this feature but you can use Facebook …
Japan to Pilot Digital Textbooks in Classrooms
Japan will soon start trialling electronic textbooks in primary schools, enhancing the role of IT in the classroom for a generation of “digital natives” born in the wired age.
4 Awesome Free Tools to Visualize & Analyze Twitter
Some free Twitter tools that let you map or browse Twitter networks in a graphical way.
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/5-awesome-free-tools-visualize-analyze-twitter-networks/
Bill Gates on what’s wrong with public schools
Gates appears in the new documentary Waiting for “Superman,” a powerful indictment of the U.S. education system, it features educators running the innovative Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP) schools, and follows families desperate to get their children into high-performing charter
… 10 Ways to Use Voting Systems
Electronic response systems. A good resource, or a waste of time?
http://www.ictineducation.org/home-page/2010/9/29/10-ways-to-use-voting-systems.html
Universities and Libraries Move to the Mobile Web
Web-enabled smartphones (and their applications) have converged with cloud computing to change the ways people interact with each other and their environments. The study reported here examined the mobile websites of large research universities and their libraries in the United
GooReader: Desktop Client For Reading, Searching & Downloading Google Books
Google Books is one of the biggest libraries for digital books online. However, the reading experience while accessing Google Books with a browser is awful. GooReader is a desktop client that solves this problem by giving a nice user-friendly interface
Neotake – An Ebook Search Engine
If you’re in need of some new reading materials for your classes, but you don’t have money to spend on new books, search for some free ebooks on Neotake.
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2010/09/neotake-ebook-search-engine.html
Google Project 10^100 – The Winners
Google Project 10^100 – The Winners
Last fall Google launched Project 10^100, a call for ideas to change the world by helping as many people as possible. The response was overwhelming. Thousands of people from more than 170 countries submitted
… Last fall Google launched Project 10^100, a call for ideas to change the world by helping as many people as possible. The response was overwhelming. Thousands of people from more than 170 countries submitted
Collection of 13 Moodle Videos
A collection of 13 videos on Moodle and a few other great documents for your reference. A great resource for all Moodlers!
Tagxedo – Making Tag Clouds with Style
Tagxedo turns words – famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters – into a visually stunning tag cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text.