Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjcO2ExtHso
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Common Craft recently released a new video that everyone who banks, shops, or just uses email should watch. Secure Passwords in Plain English walks viewers through the pitfalls of weak passwords and how to create strong passwords.
This website has a great motto: “to organize the world’s educational videos and make them universally accessible and down-loadable”. They offer 740 + free online video courses from leading universities universities. All courses are categorized by Subjects and Universities.
Who said learning and social networking cannot come together? Smart.fm is a fun website that combines education with social networks. The web app serves as an online academic assistant that offers courses to anyone who wants to learn about any …
This is about the extreme future 10 to 20 years out. It’s not a crystal ball but an informed look ahead at the good, bad, and ugly. A great presentation by Ian Jukes at ISTE 2010 Conference.
It is the very interactive nature of social web tools that academics are finding so useful in the classroom. What you can do with the Web 2.0 is that you can deliver material gradually and you can allow students to …
This is about the extreme future 10 to 20 years out. It’s not a crystal ball but an informed look ahead at the good, bad, and ugly. A great presentation by Ian Jukes at ISTE 2010 Conference.
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPO_HGafBsE
Music by Fat Boy Slim: “Right Here Right Now”…
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 …
QlipBoard is a free software that lets users easily record instructional videos and add things like annotations, screenshots and other media to them. The resulting videos are produced in .WMV format and known as Qlippits. It’s an all in one …
The nuances of Copyright and Creative Commons and the differences between them can be confusing. I recently came across this neat little video that does a good job of explaining Creative Commons and what Creative Commons licenses allow or do …
It’s a tablet. It comes in a box nearly identical to the iPad. Yet, one letter makes a big difference: it’s called the iPed, and it costs only $105 – approximately five times less than Apple’s original, the iPad. And …
Google officially unveiled Google TV at its Google I/O conference today. We’ve heard lots of rumblings about Google TV over the last few months, but today the product was demonstrated before a live audience. Google is teaming up with Intel, …
Ken Fogel (Computer Science Program Coordinator at Dawson College) has been coordinating a project involving the five English language CEGEPs to develop a framework for encouraging enrollment in technology programs using Computer Science as the test bed. The result is …
As the end of the school year approaches, the feelings and emotions of teachers may be up and down and all over the place! From being stressed one minute, to feeling absolutely exhausted the next, those last few weeks can …