We’ve all been there. You’re interested in a website or a download, but the site wants your email address before letting you near the goods. But what if you could instead supply a temporary email address that was forwarded to …
QlipBoard: Create How-To Videos Easily
QlipBoard is a free software that lets users easily record instructional videos and add things like annotations, screenshots and other media to them. The resulting videos are produced in .WMV format and known as Qlippits. It’s an all in one …
Testmoz: A Simple Web-based Test Generating Application
Testmoz is a simple test generating application created by Matt Johnson, an undergraduate student at Washington State University, Vancouver.
DocTranslator: Free Tool For Translating Documents Online
DocTranslator is a nice web based translator that can translate your documents, such as Word documents, spreadsheets, powerpoint presentations and text files, to and from more than 50 languages. It uses the Google Translate API to convert documents.
Collaborate, Create, and Collect: Web 2.0 Tools for Class Projects
Project-based learning is powerful because it is student-centered and real world driven. It allows for a more creative, in-depth investigation of a topic with more meaning and relevance for the learner. Whether the students are working on real world problems, …
Finding a Place for Twitter in Higher Education
Alarmingly a recent survey of higher education professionals showed that more than half the surveyed faculty members think Twitter has no future in academia or potential use in higher education.
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GoogleApps for Education Demo Site Now Available!
Please be sure to check out the newly available GoogleApps for Education Demo site, which allows you to do all sorts of stuff. Thanks to Dana Nguyen from GoogleApps for Education for sharing this information!
10 Ways to Use Google Books for Lifelong Learning and Research
Google Books is a Google service that makes discovering book content easier for us on the web. It started way back in 2004 and since then its mission has been to digitally scan and archive tons of book. But Google …
3 Smart Visual Search Engines To Find The Images You Want
Searching for images has long been a neglected feature in common search engines. You had to rely on good tags, otherwise it was difficult to find just the right image. Tracing images across the net was out of the question. …
Google Streetview Inside World Cup Soccer Stadiums
Just in time for the start of the World Cup later this week (today, June 11th), Google has released new Google Maps Streetview imagery for South Africa. The imagery includes views of the interior of the stadiums in which the …
Google Maps Navigation Now Works in Canada and Most of Europe
In October 2009, Google released Google Maps Navigation for Android devices, a free turn-by-turn navigation system based on Google Maps. At first, the service was limited to the U.S. Recently it was extended to the U.K. and Ireland, and now …
Fotobabble – Turn Pictures Into Audio Stories
Fotobabble is a free service that allows you to quickly turn a picture into an audio picture story. Using Fotoabble is easy, just upload an image to Fotobabble, allow Fotobabble to access your computer’s microphone, and start recording your voice. …
Hooked on Gadgets, and Paying a Mental Price
Scientists say juggling e-mail, phone calls and other incoming information can change how people think and behave. They say our ability to focus is being undermined by bursts of information.
Tools for the 21st Century Teacher – Great eBook
Michael Zimmer, who writes The Pursuit of Technology Integration Happiness, has published a great 17 page ebook titled Tools for the 21st Century Teacher. In the ebook Michael outlines a variety of web-based tools that can be used in almost …
Reflections on Teaching with Social Media
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 can’t just …