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 …
Google Docs now supports free Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
This is huge news. Take a scanned document and convert it via OCR technologies to editable text via Google Docs. All for free!
http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2010/06/optical-character-recognition-ocr-in.html…
Bounce: Share and Collaborate on Screen Captures
Bounce is a neat application that not only allows you to make annotated screen captures of websites but also allows you to instantly share those screen captures with others. Bounce could be a good tool for sharing comments about design …
Two more states open Google Apps for teachers and students
Colorado and Iowa are joining the movement. After Oregon, Google Apps for Education will now be available to more than 3,000 schools across the two states. These state-wide agreements enable schools and districts to benefit from centralized resources such as …
Downloading Videos for Use In the Classroom
The quantity of good, educational content on YouTube is far greater than the quantity available on any other site. If you work in a school that blocks YouTube, there are still ways that you can use YouTube content in your …
Showdown: The Wikipedia Dictionary (Wiktionary) vs Urban Dictionary
Those of us who spend a lot of time online have a slightly different vocabulary than the rest of the world. We use words like blog, webinar, and meme on a daily basis (and actually know what they mean). There …
Five Real-time Search Engines for You to Try
Real-time search engines draw their results from popular social media services like Delicious, Twitter, Facebook, and Flickr. What makes real-time search results different from standard search results is that the most current links are given priority over older links. Real-time …
Animated Explanations
Animated Explanations is a website for finding animated explanations of topics and concepts in the fields of health, technology, and work. The animations can be embedded in your blog or website.
Create A Font From Your Own Handwriting and Use It To Send Emails
There is a new website called PilotHandwriting that allows you to create a font out of your own handwriting and send emails (or letters as they call them) with it.
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/create-a-font-from-your-own-handwriting-and-use-it-to-send-emails/…
Embed a 3D Photo Gallery in Your Website With Cooliris
Cooliris is one of the most popular 3D photo gallery solutions online. Damien shared how using Cooliris can enhance the photo browsing experience on the iPhone, and Jackson covered the desktop version of Cooliris in some detail. Since then, Cooliris …
PowerPoint Templates and how to use them
Presentations can often be boring, uninteresting, unimaginative, dull [insert your own negative description based on the presentations you’ve wished you had missed here] but that is not always the fault of the speaker. In this article the author, Daniel McMillan, …
How To Record Skype Video Calls For Free With Vodburner
If you want to record Skype video calls and you don’t mind paying, you have many options. If you don’t want to pay, however, there is one program which jumps out as the leader – Vodburner.
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/record-skype-video-calls-free-vodburner/…
YouTube Video Editor
YouTube has a new video editor that lets you create videos using excerpts from the videos you’ve already uploaded. You can also add a music file from the AudioSwap library, but YouTube mentions that it might display ads if you …
10 Google Forms for the Classroom
With the new school year fast approaching I thought I would share 10 ideas for using Forms in the classroom. Google have brought them up front a bit as you can now create a new form from the NEW menu …