The Open University (UK) will be using Google tools to support student internet services. “In our first foray into cloud computing, Google will be hosting for our students email (gmail), contacts, instant messaging and presence, calendar, document creation, storage and …
Prezi Announces New, Free Education Licenses
Prezi, a great service for taking presentations beyond bullets and pictures, has just announced that they’re offering a free education license for teachers and students. The new education license will allow teachers and students to keep their content private. The …
Things I Want To Model As Your Teacher
What I like about Wes Fryer’s presentation is that he doesn’t teach, he models. Teachers who understood that what it is that they model, rather than what they say, that gets learned would probably conduct themselves very differently.
http://www.slideshare.net/wfryer/things-i-want-to-model-as-your-teacher…
The Ultimate Google Wave Guide for Students: 100 Tips, Tools, and Tricks
Students are always on the hunt for tools that save their time and trouble, especially on homework. That’s why we’ve generated this list of tips and tricks for using Google Wave, a powerful collaboration tool that lets students manage projects, …
Thinklinkr – Collaborative Outline Creator
Thinklinkr is a free service for collaboratively creating outlines. Users can invite collaborators to join into the outlining process at any point in the process. When you’re done creating your outline you can embed it into your blog or website. …
Measuring the iPad’s Potential for Education
Expectations run high for Apple’s new mobile device, the iPad, which made its formal debut Wednesday. And much of the anticipation is centered around education, both in terms of its usefulness as a computing platform and its potential to usurp …
e-Learning in the Cloud
Elearning has grown rapidly in importance for institutions and has been largely facilitated through the “walled garden” of the virtual learning environment. Meanwhile many students are creating their own personal learning environments by combining the various Web 2.0 services they …
SubZin: Find phrases in Movies and Series
SubZin is the search engine to use when you are looking for specific quotes or lines from movies or TV series. All matches are time-based contextualized, and linked with the imdb movie database. Get the exact moment when a word …
SocialLearn, an Open University project, steps onto the stage
They write: “We’re moving from operating as a confidential business project, to an open source, open architecture, open partnership modus operandi. May 2010 be an Open, Social, Connected year for us all!”
http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/sociallearn/2010/01/07/sociallearn-2010/…
Virtual 3D Tours of the Winter Olympics
Today, Google announced the completion of 54 3D models of the 2010 Winter Olympic venues in Vancouver. You can view these models in Google Earth by selecting in the 3D buildings layer. You can also view and tour the buildings …
3 Awesome Tools To Add More Functionality To Your USB Drives
USB drives are ubiquitous these days. Almost everyone has one but what do you use them for? Storage? Is that all? We recognize this and we have covered a plenty of tools and applications that you can use with USB …
Get Organized This Semester With Google Calendar
One of the best things you can do to start your semester off right is to leverage free online tools to help you manage your classes. In this article, you will learn how to manage your schedule and get organized …
SMARTBoards and Making Music with Kisstunes
Here’s a really great tool for playing and recording music using your computer QWERTY keyboard, your mouse, or by touching your SMART Board. It’s called Kisstunes. It’s incredibly simple to use and the really fun thing about this program is …
Flavorsme – Create Your Own Free Personalized Webpage
Twittering the other night, I stumbled upon a service called Flavors.me. It’s a personal portal website for linking all your content from around the Internet. Which means that visitors to your Flavors.me page will get links to say your Facebook, …
14 Technologies Educators Should Watch in 2010
Which technology tools can help improve teaching and learning? Which can boost productivity? Which are just plain useful for keeping organized? Education technology veterans shared their lists of apps intended to make life in and out of the classroom faster, …