Sciyo is an interesting portal that brings together scientists and science students from all over the world. The platform offers tons of books and articles related to science and also allows you to publish yours without any hassle. Over 200 …
Use Microsoft Office for Free with Microsoft Web Apps
Google Documents has its problems. Its features are not comprehensive enough for truly serious office work, and it can be a bit slow and finicky when compared to a traditional office program. Microsoft knows this and has released Microsoft Web …
7 Great Completely Free eBooks on Social Media You Have to Read
Love social networking? Want to learn more? Don’t you just wish you could go to all the great seminars around the world? Listen to all the great minds in social media. Here’s a selection of completely free ebooks which come …
Sweet Search – A Search Engine for Students
Sweet Search is a search engine that searches only the sites that have been reviewed and approved by a team of librarians, teachers, and research experts. In all there are 35,000 websites that have been reviewed and approved by Sweet …
To Stop Cheats, Colleges Learn Their Trickery
The frontier in the battle to defeat student cheating may be at the testing center of the University of Central Florida. This series examine cheating in education and efforts to stop it.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/06/education/06cheat.html?_r=2&hp…
Social Networking To Save At-Risk Students
As graduation success coordinator for Everett School District in Everett, WA, Maria Brennan has used a combination of traditional methods and high-tech approaches to help improve graduation rates for the district’s four high schools.
http://thejournal.com/articles/2010/07/07/social-networking-to-save-at-risk-students.aspx…
3 Informational E-Books for Teachers and Educators
With all the great resources, websites, articles and other helpful information for educators, it may sometimes be hard to keep track of all these items. What better a way to integrate technology into the classroom than to start by doing …
Your Next Read – Book Recommendations
Your Next Read is a neat little site that provides you with a web of book recommendations based on the authors and books you already like. Here’s how it works; type in the title of a book you like or …
Life in a Day: a Documentary, Shot in a Single Day, by You!
Life In A Day is a historic global experiment to create the world’s largest user-generated feature film: a documentary, shot in a single day, by you. On July 24, you have 24 hours to capture a glimpse of your life …
Free Online Conversion of Many Media Formats
Online-ConVert is a great site that handles video, audio, text, and image conversions all in one place. Online-ConVert handles all of those media formats plus ebook and hash conversion in one central location.
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2010/07/free-online-conversion-of-many-media.html…
iPhone 4 (16 Gb) parts cost $187.51
iSuppli has done its usual thing with the 16GB iPhone 4’s components, calculating the raw cost of each of them, and the total comes to: US$187.51. The most expensive thing in the phone is the retina display screen. Read more:…
4 Best Sites To Get 10GB Free Online Backup & Storage
In today’s digital world, our entire life — both work and home — are tied to computers. Hard disks are unpredictable and are prone to failures leading to data loss. Research shows that every year 43% of computer users lose …
Why isn’t Ubuntu good enough for US classrooms?
Ubuntu clearly rivals Windows 7 in terms of stability, speed, and functionality. Yet school IT staff who try to take advantage of this free software often meet with serious resistance.
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/education/why-isnt-ubuntu-good-enough-for-us-classrooms/4055…
Google solves encrypted search issues for schools
Google’s encrypted search now has a new home, making it easy for school admins to block it, while ensuring access to Google Apps for Education.
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/education/google-solves-encrypted-search-issues-for-schools/4062…
Reflections on Teaching with Social Media
I think there’s a big difference between allowing the use of social media and requiring it. That difference probably explains the ambivalence of students in Brian Croxall’s courses, and he had them bouncing from wikis to Twitter to Wave. You …