The free version of Flickr (www.flickr.com) is nice but really lacks if you want to use it as your main photo storage. Only the last 200 photos will be shown for instance and you don’t get to view and share …
Blackboard (WebCT owner), Desire2Learn End Dispute
Blackboard and Desire2Learn have formally ended their three-and-a-half-year legal dispute, a conflict that was triggered when Blackboard received a hotly disputed patent for electronic learning technologies and proceeded to enforce it through litigation against D2L.
http://thejournal.com/articles/2009/12/15/blackboard-desire2learn-end-dispute.aspx…
What you watched and searched for on YouTube in 2009
This year has been the biggest yet for online video, and for the first time we’re sharing our official Most Watched lists and some of the fastest-rising search terms on YouTube. Some moments were big (President Obama’s inauguration), some small …
Report: The Most Active Online Are The Most Educated
People who spend the most time online are in fact the most educated claims a recent report from Eurostat.
http://thenextweb.com/europe/2009/12/16/report-active-online-educated/…
Why Google doesn’t want your money
Do you love Google? Would you pay to use their services? They wouldn’t let you, even if you forced the money into Eric Schmidt’s clammy hands.
Digital Dialects – Activities for Learning 55+ Languages
Digital Dialects has a large selection of educational games and activities for learning 55 different languages. Most of the games are designed to learn and practice the basics of each of the 55 languages listed on the Digital Dialects homepage.…
Does using social media make your writing gooder?
While the results of this survey by the National Literacy Trust are hardly conclusive, students who engaged in higher levels of social networking tending to consider themselves better writers.
http://www.teach42.com/2009/12/14/does-using-social-media-make-your-writing-gooder/…
Technology Explained: What Is MP3 Format & What Is Its Origins?
MP3 – you keep hearing it all over. You realize that it has something to do with music or that it is an audio file extension. However, there are many audio file formats out there, but nothing as popular as …
10 Gift Ideas for Web Geeks
With Christmas approaching you might be looking for the perfect gift for the web geek in your life. Maybe you are that web geek and just want inspiration for your list of requests?
Here’s a list of some of the …
Browsershots – Preview A Web Page In Different Browsers & Multiple OS’s
Do you have to work on websites that will be viewed on MANY different systems and MANY different browsers? Well then how do you preview a web page on all of these systems? See the answer on the link below:…
Need Math Help? Try Wolfram Alpha
Wolfram Alpha is an interesting search engine because of the unique tasks it can perform. Wolfram Alpha has a function that will walk you through the steps of solving an equation. To use this function, enter your equation then click …
Navify – Images and Videos to Match Wikipedia
Navify is a mashup of Wikipedia, Flickr, and YouTube. Navify attempts to match videos and images to Wikipedia articles. To use Navify, simply enter a search term just as you would on Wikipedia. The results of your search will be …
Social Networking: Rethinking Productivity
Nice paper looking at the benefits and negatives of social networking. An interesting negative is ‘social resistance to change’: “Active social networking opens you up to being heavily influenced by others. In a way it subjects you to a new …
8 Free and Easy Tools Innovative Educators Can Start Using Today
The following tools are all free and simple to use. This means there’s no cost, nothing to download, no CDs, no manuals and no training. The best of these also do not require users to have email, registration or log …
Free Video Editing Webinar (Dec. 17th, 2009)
Assigning a video creation project can be a great way to get kids excited about your class. When kids are excited about a project they will generally invest more effort into that project. YouTube is offering a free webinar that …