November 2011
20 posts
Free Technology for Teachers: Tag My Doc - Assign...
Via Scoop.it - Tech Pedagogy This is a tool looking for a task. While the one Richard Byrne suggests is fine, QR codes have a resonance that seems to ring toward something else. Not sure what it is yet, but maybe you can figure it out. Via freetech4teachers.com
What a Tweet Can Tell You
Via Scoop.it - Tech Pedagogy I get the little frisson of wonder when I read about this—and I wonder how I can use this in my life as a teacher and tech pedagogue. Just need to use it. If you find a cool use let me know. Via readwriteweb.com
Create and Publish a Web Page in Seconds: Pen.io ...
Via Scoop.it - Tech Pedagogy From the article: “The original project and idea was simply to create the fastest way to put a piece of content online,” Pen.io founder Anthony Feint says.
“I was looking at WordPress and thinking it was quite complicated just to put a recipe or quote online,” he adds. “I didn’t necessarily want to start a whole new blog just to quickly put up a single piece of...
Aparna Rao: High-tech art (with a sense of humor)...
Via Scoop.it - Tech Pedagogy TED Talks Artist and TED Fellow Aparna Rao re-imagines the familiar in surprising, often humorous ways. Via www.ted.com
Moving at the Speed of Creativity - How to Make...
Via Scoop.it - Tech Pedagogy An interesting take on the mess that online learning represents to some students and teachers. Via www.speedofcreativity.org
Creating a web literate planet (proposal)
Via Scoop.it - Tech Pedagogy This is a series of posts about Mozilla’s role in teaching web skills and web literacy. I love the edupunk ethic in this. We are all responsible for each others learning.
Via commonspace.wordpress.com
Viral Video Chart - OmniTouch - Demo Video - ACM...
Via Scoop.it - Tech Pedagogy Omnitouch—proof of concept of ad hoc screen and multi-3d gestural interfaces. Via viralvideochart.unrulymedia.com
Collaborate On The Same Document in Real-Time with...
Via Scoop.it - Hashtag Chats Is this a classic of the later adopters finally seeing the light? These etherpad-like tools have really proliferated since Google bought the original etherpad and then released it as public code. Now folks are beginning to pick up collaborative writing in business and education so the curators begin to ‘discover’ them. Prophets in their own country and...
Internet Archive News: “In-Library eBook Lending...
Via Scoop.it - Tech Pedagogy Wow, talk about an impressive growth rate! From 150 participants in February to 1000 in June.
Congrats to Brewster K., Peter B., George O. and the entire IA team. Impressive work!
From an Int… Via infodocket.com
Washington State Guarantees Cheap And Open Courses...
Via Scoop.it - Tech Pedagogy We’ve discussed a bunch of times how the lack of market forces in the textbook market has allowed publishers to jack up the prices massively. It’s why various textbooks can cost around $200, and students can spend over $1000 a year just to… Via www.techdirt.com
PageLines To Launch An ‘App Store’ For WordPress...
Via Scoop.it - Tech Pedagogy A year ago, at BlogWorld Expo in Las Vegas, PageLines announced the release of Platform, a drag and drop design framework for WordPress. Via techcrunch.com
findings: Find, Organize, and Share Your Clips
Via Scoop.it - Tech Pedagogy Findings is an awesome tool to do something I have wanted to do for awhile—share my Kindle book highlights and notes. You can do it with the click of a bookmarklet. You can share others’ highlights and notes. You can highlight and share any text on the web as well. I am planning on using the cheap Kindles next semester ($79) to have students...
The Easiest Way To Create A Browsable Showcase of...
Via Scoop.it - Tech Pedagogy DropMocks is a super-simple web-based image presentation service, which allows anyone to create in a few seconds an easy to share showcase of images.
DropMocks works by allowing you to drag and drop any number of images onto its browser page and uploading them into a browsable collection that you can share with anyone with a specific URL.
A DropMock collection can...
The Easiest Way To Create A Browsable Showcase of...
Via Scoop.it - Tech Pedagogy DropMocks is a super-simple web-based image presentation service, which allows anyone to create in a few seconds an easy to share showcase of images.
DropMocks works by allowing you to drag and drop any number of images onto its browser page and uploading them into a browsable collection that you can share with anyone with a specific URL.
A DropMock collection can...
Sync All of Your Files Across All of Your PCs and...
Via Scoop.it - Tech Pedagogy Robin Good: Syncdoc allows you to backup online, sync computers, and share files while leveraging the distributed and massive storage capabilities of Google.
Syncdocs syncs folders between all your PCs and smartphones and Google Docs and allows you to map Google as a your network gDrive.
Select a folder on your PC, like “My Documents”. Syncdocs copies this folder...
Sync All of Your Files Across All of Your PCs and...
Via Scoop.it - TeacherWorkflow Robin Good: Syncdoc allows you to backup online, sync computers, and share files while leveraging the distributed and massive storage capabilities of Google.
Syncdocs syncs folders between all your PCs and smartphones and Google Docs and allows you to map Google as a your network gDrive.
Select a folder on your PC, like “My Documents”. Syncdocs copies this folder...
Free Screen-Sharing for Up To 96 People At A Time:...
Via Scoop.it - Hashtag Chats Robin Good: FreeScreenSharing.com is a new webconferencing service that integrates screen-sharing, text chat and audio conferencing in a simple and free to use tool.
FreeScreenSharing can accomodate up to 96 concurrent participants and any account can have a maximum of 6 hours per month of use. The service integrates a US-based toll-free tele-conferencing service...
Xpert Image Attribution tool
Via Scoop.it - Tech Pedagogy From Amber Thomas’s open and free Scoop it: A little bit of genius from the University of Nottingham and Pat Lockley. ‘You know the faff of downloading an image from flickr, then laboriously copying and pasting and editing information about it so you can attribute it, to comply with the “BY” requirement of CC licences? This little tool searches...
Xpert Image Attribution tool
Via Scoop.it - TeacherWorkflow From Amber Thomas’s open and free Scoop it: A little bit of genius from the University of Nottingham and Pat Lockley. ‘You know the faff of downloading an image from flickr, then laboriously copying and pasting and editing information about it so you can attribute it, to comply with the “BY” requirement of CC licences? This little tool...
A Non-Designer's Guide to Making Attractive...
Via Scoop.it - Tech Pedagogy You may not be a designer, but your presentations also don’t need to scream I’m visually incompetent! Show original
