Shwup is a new service for creating videos based on your images and audio files. At its most basic Shwup is a place for creating collaborative private photo albums. As the creator of an album you can select the best
Meshin: A Semantic Search Engine For Your E-Mails
Sorting, searching, and making sense through thousands of e-mails can be very messy. Even if powerful e-mail clients today like GMail and Outlook can handle being your conversation assistant, you still end up spending more time searching past e-mails to
Professors Shore Up Wikipedia Entries on Public Policy
Professors at nine universities are enlisting their students to update Wikipedia entries on public policy after a request from the Public Policy Initiative of the Wikimedia Foundation. Students will write and publish articles and edit existing Wikipedia entries. The test
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Changing Education Paradigms
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DawsonITE: The Anatomy of a Referred Site
An article about DawonITE on ProfWeb
http://www.profweb.qc.ca/en/news/columns/the-anatomy-of-a-referred-site/index.html
Lessons for Digital Natives
Digitally ‘native’ children are not digitally ‘literate’ – they just accept digital technologies as part of their everyday lives, argues ICT teacher Tristan Ashman. So how, he asks, can teachers meet pupils’ expectations?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/classroom-innovation/lessons-for-digital-natives
Platforms for Interactively Sharing Student Work
We’ve been living in the 21st century for a decade now, and it’s time more of our classrooms looked like it. The good news is that process is not only easier than ever, it’s also easier to receive support as
Twenty Google Tools Tutorials for Teachers
Some of the tutorials you will find on the Google tools tutorials page are: Creating Self-graded Quizzes. Embedding Videos Into Google Maps. Embedding Google Maps Into Wiki and Blog pages. Creating Data Visualizations in Google Fusion Tables Removing the Navigation
21 Signs You’re a 21st Century Teacher
Are you a 21st Century Teacher? Read the article and find out yourself!
http://blog.simplek12.com/education/21-signs-youre-a-21st-century-teacher/
NYU goes Google
NYU is the latest major university to announce its migration to Google Apps for Education.
The project is estimated to save the University around $400,000 annually by eliminating the need to purchase, upgrade, and maintain in-house mail servers and software
… The project is estimated to save the University around $400,000 annually by eliminating the need to purchase, upgrade, and maintain in-house mail servers and software
15 Moodle Tutorial Videos
Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota is a Moodle using institution and has a nice collection of Moodle (pre-2.0) tutorial videos available at their site.Take a peak and learn more about, online and offline assignments, Files the HTML editor, blocks, Gradebook
Find the Person Behind an Email Address
You get an email from a person with whom you have never interacted before and therefore, before you reply to that message, you would like to know something more about him or her. How do you do this without directly
Metricly: Cool Web Metrics Dashboard For All Your Online Stats
If you are running an internet business that is popular across a number of online platforms, then tracking and managing it over all those platforms can become quite a hectic task. Keeping its traffic stats in check along with managing
Learnopia – A Place for Hosting Online Courses
Learnopia is a new service that offers hosting for online courses. Learnopia is also a place to find and take online courses. If course creators make their courses free for others to take, then hosting is free.
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2010/10/learnopia-place-for-hosting-online.html