It’s official: Google has just announced Google Buzz, its newest push into the social media foray. This confirms earlier reports of Gmail integrating a social status feature. Google Buzz is a new way to start conversations about the things you …
News Map – Visual Display of Trending News
News Map organizes and displays news stories from around the world. News Map uses Google News to source the stories displayed in the grid so the content is frequently updated. The stories are displayed in a color coded grid reflective …
TEDxMcGill Presentations
TEDxMcGill is a student run independently organized TED event at McGill University in Montreal. TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. Started as a four-day conference in California 25 years ago, TED [ http://www.ted.com ] has grown …
How Can You Find Out Who Is Googling You?
Have you ever Googled a coworker or yourself? Wouldn’t you love to know who is Googling you? Or be notified as it happens? Unfortunately, Google doesn’t reveal this type of information. To obtain this information, you have to set up …
Filtering, Crowdsourcing and Information Overload
Are the training solutions being produced part of the problem of information overload? How do we shift to a position where we are helping to filter information and reduce overload rather than possibly contribute?
http://elearningtech.blogspot.com/2010/02/filtering-crowdsourcing-and-information.html…
Google Apps for Education FAQs Answered
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. …