As funding becomes tighter and schools are looking for ways to save, switching to Google Apps for Education makes sense for many school districts. The decision is one that is often preceded by a lot of questions from school boards …
Social Media Toolkit
About five years ago, if you wanted to get attention for consulting or speaking engagements, frequent use of “web 2.0″ was required. Today, you can get the same mileage from “social media”. In fact, add “social” to anything and you’ll …
Google Books Adds Shelving Options
Google recently announced two new enhancement to Google Books. You can now browse through many of the Google Books categories using a horizontally scrolling interface. This same horizontally scrolling interface is also applied to the collections of books that you …
2010 Student Science Competition Opens
Discovery Education and 3M have opened up the 2010 Young Scientist Challenge, an annual opportunity for students in grades 5 through 8 to tackle problems through science and a chance to win the grand prize of $50,000.
http://thejournal.com/articles/2010/02/01/2010-student-science-competition-opens.aspx…
CBC’s New Licensing System Causes Anger
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) is under fire for restrictive copyright licenses. It is requiring that sites wanting to use their content pay steep fees for doing so. Meanwhile, it has systems installed on its website that track user downloads …
EduFeedr – to handle your open online courses
Interesting set of slides describing an open course content aggregator called EduFeedr. Hans Poldoja provides paper-based mock-ups and a development plan for an application that would perform many of the functions provided by software such as what we used in …
Memonic – Capture and Organize Your Web Findings
Memonic is a relatively new tool for curating collections of information from the web. Memonic’s key function is to give users the power to clip sections of websites and build them into a personal collection. Along with the clipping of …
Using Shmoop to Make Learning Relevant
Students often ask – “Why must we learn this?” Shmoop helps educators answer this question through its digital resources that make learning fun and relevant for students. The online resource uses relevant and current cultural points-of-reference to help students see …
Eight Interactive Whiteboard Tips
Interactive whiteboards are effective learning tools for whole class instruction. Here are some tips to help you make the most of your interactive whiteboard:
http://blog.learningtoday.com/blog/bid/25649/Eight-Interactive-Whiteboard-Tips…
Textbook Publishers Embrace iPad Apps for Education
Textbook publishers have already enlisted the third-party services of developers to build adaptations of textbooks for the iPad, the Wall Street Journal reports. McGraw-Hill, Houghton Mifflin, Pearson and Kaplan have struck deals with iPhone and iPod touch developers ScrollMotion Inc. …
Web 3.0 and Its Relevance for Instruction
While Web 3.0 has been talked about for some time, there has been increasing and ongoing discussion as to how it should best be defined and what the foundational characteristics of the technology are or will be. The reality is, …
Videos: Avatar Earns 9 Oscar Noms — See How Cameron Created His Sci-Fi Epic
James Cameron’s sci-fi epic Avatar has just been nominated for nine Oscars, including Best Picture. To date, the 3-D movie about a paraplegic ex-Marine who bonds with an alien culture has made more than 2 billion dollars worldwide, making it …
The Future of Moodle and How Not To Stop It (iMoot 2010)
A very interesting presentation, showing the recent discussion about the death of the Course Management Systems and the new developments of Moodle 2.0, showing new concepts like an appstore for repository plugins and learning activities.
http://blog.hansdezwart.info/2010/02/05/the-future-of-moodle-and-how-not-to-stop-it-imoot-2010/…
What the Web of Tomorrow Will Look Like: 4 Big Trends to Watch
Did you know that it’s been nearly twenty years since the first website was placed online? Have you ever thought about how the Internet and the web have evolved in time? Let’s take a look on four trends for the …
What could you do with Augmented Reality?
Augmented reality is one of the few technologies that have come out within the last few years that really have the ability to simply drop jaws. The big question of course is, does Augmented Reality have a place in education, …