Other than attending staff meetings, writing and grading quizzes might be the least enjoyable part of teaching. Fortunately, there are some tools that can make the process a little bit easier. Here are five tools teachers can use to create
California tests a full year Algebra course on an iPad app
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, a major textbook company, has launched a year long pilot project with the HMH Fuse: Holt McDougal Algebra 1 full year algebra course on an iPad. The course mirrors all the content of the Holt McDougal Larson
Wordia Brings Words to Life in Video
Wordia is a free visual, video dictionary. Wordia features a selection of user-submitted and professionally created videos explaining the meaning of a word. The videos focus on the everyday use of words while the text accompanying each video provides the
Open-Source Lecture Capture
A new project from the online educational technology collective OpenCast, called Matterhorn 1.0 devoted to the lecture capture market. The Opencast Matterhorn project is an enterprise-level, easy-to-install open source podcast and rich media capture, processing and delivery system.
Think Tutorial – Free Web Apps & Software Tutorials
Think Tutorial is a site providing free, easy to follow tutorials on a variety of web services and software. On Think Tutorial you will find tutorials for taking advantage of the many features of popular email services like Gmail, Apple …
How Brazil is Blazing a Trail for Electronic Democracy
In the land of all-night samba clubs and soccer fanatics, Brazil is throwing its famously high-energy spirit into the untested waters of online democracy. Multimillion dollar budgets are being handed over to online “town halls,” and the federal government is
Tips and Tricks for Finding Science and Math Images on the Web
Like everything else on the Internet, trying to find images is like trying to find a needle in a haystack. Without the right tools for finding science and math images on the web it is often an impossible, or at
… Two easy ways for educators and students to start a blog (for free)
It’s really easy to get started blogging – here’s two different ways to get up and running with a quality blog site quickly.
RemindPost: Dead Simple Task Manager & Reminder
There are a number of really sophisticated task managers available on the web but if you are looking for something simple it doesn’t get better than RemindPost. The tool allows you to assign a task to somebody (or yourself) by
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The iPad, five months later
One early adopter reflects on how Apple’s tablet has affected his daily routines.
Teacher Training Videos
A nice collection of training videos for teachers.
100 Extensive University Libraries from Around the World that Anyone Can Access
Universities house an enormous amount of information and their libraries are often the center of it all. You don’t have to be affiliated with any university to take advantage of some of what they have to offer. From digital archives,
How to Sell a Migration to Moodle
The folks at Wesleyan University have a blog up that is a stellar example of how to evangelize for an LMS platform to faculty when you’re facing the front end of a migration.For starters, their FAQ is rich with information,