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.
3 Registration-free Tools for Collaborative Writing
Google Docs, Zoho Writer, and other online word processing services are great tools for collaboratively writing with others. But to use those programs everyone you want to collaborate with needs to have an account and you need to have their
Diaspora Preview – All You Need to Know About The New “Open Source Facebook”
Diaspora came about when a group of New York University students from the Courant Institute of Mathematical Science were inspired by a speech about freedom and privacy online. Columbia University law professor Eben Moglen described centralised social networks as “spying
Mobile Learning: Is It Doing What It’s Supposed To?
Susan Smith Nash asks, “Is mobile learning really doing what it’s supposed to be doing?” The answer, of course, depends on what it’s supposed to be doing, which Nash characterizes as “engag[ing] in substantive, meaningful learning any time and any
How to Stop Multi-Tasking and Change Your (Work) Life
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