An interesting article by George Siemens (Athabasca University) on the new web.
The Freesound Project: Thousands Of Free Sound Effect Downloads
Digital sound effects can help computer users in various ways. For example if you are creating a presentation, a slide show, or editing a scene in a movie, you could add a digital sound to fully achieve the desired effect.
Google Maps Street View Available on All Continents
Google Maps Street View is a great tool for showing students what various towns and cities around the world look like. Last week, Google announced that Street View imagery is now available for locations on all seven continents.
30 Posts About Free Education Technology Tools & Resources
A very useful list of Educational Technology tools and resources for teachers.
http://www.emergingedtech.com/2010/05/30-posts-about-free-education-technology-tools-resources/
How To Make Your Own Podcast For Free
Have you ever thought about making a podcast, but didn’t really know where to start? Don’t stress – you’re not alone. There’s a lot of people out there who aren’t quite sure what a podcast is, let alone where to
Punchcast: Generate Strong Passwords For Your Online Accounts
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