January 2009
22 posts
10 Ways Social Media Will Change in 2009 -... →
Social media’s new job descriptions will call on subject-matter experts who can plan for relevant interaction within networks and aggregating platforms and bring together products, services, and…
WatchDerek Wenmoth introduces EPS2.0 on EDTalks
The Partnership for 21st Century Skills →
Successful learning environments break through the barriers that separate schools from the real world, educators from each other and policymakers from the communities they serve. Yet, many schools…
installing windows 7 on a mac
“Although Intel Macs can run Windows 7 in Boot Camp, for most users, the easiest and most hassle-free method will be to use virtualization. This way, you can test out all the features of Windows 7, without having to dual-boot. The three big players out there for virtualization on the Mac are:
VMWare Fusion
Parallels Desktop
Sun’s VirtualBox
PARALLELS: The latest 4.0.3810 (released...
The 2009 Horizon Report →
eyeOS - a cloud computing operating system
The first eyeOS version for 2009: eyeOS 1.8.0, is available…
*Cloud Computing* is hitting this days the technology books and newspapers. It’s all about working and doing almost everything from Internet. But usually this model means giving away our privacy. The eyeOS Project was born to create a “Cloud Computing Operating System”, hosted from any server, trying to solve the...
school 2.0 learning ecosystem
This comprehensive toolkit includes interactive map, leadership resoures and reflection tools for US setting.
“The School 2.0 Learning Ecosystem “map” depicts a variety of educational and management scenarios for using technology throughout the education enterprise. Some may already be in place or under discussion in your community; others may be a significant departure...
distributed social networking
“Distributed Social Networking” (DiSO) is what a growing number of people are calling the move to aggregate and integrate our activities, data and social connections built up on sites like Facebook, LinkedIn, Flickr, Twitter and our personal blogs.
The idea is that the DiSO Dashboard would be a place to read, write, manage, make discoverable, connect and normalize the data for all...
Leading a Digital School →
This critical new book informs educational leaders about current developments in the use of digital technologies and presents a number of case studies demonstrating their value and complexity. It…
diigo educator accounts
Diigo is a powerful research tool and a knowledge-sharing community that I am using more frequently these days. Diigo have Educator Accounts; these are special premium accounts provided specifically to primary/secondary (K-12) educators.
Educator sccounts have these additional features:
You can create student accounts for an entire class with just a few clicks (and student email addresses are...
RESEARCH ARTICLE: Helping Teachers Learn:... →
This paper describes (1) four broad initiatives principals employ to support teacher learning and (2) the developmental principles underlying the practices. This investigation offers insight into…
free web conferencing service
“Dimdim is a free web conferencing service where you can share your desktop, show slides, collaborate, chat, talk and broadcast via webcam with absolutely no download required to host or attend meetings.
Dimdim’s built-in VoIP capability is a godsend to customers with limited access to quality phone service, providing free calling to and from any computer with a microphone and an Internet...
free online screen recorder
You can record all your on-screen activity with Screen Toaster without downloading any software. When you hit the Stop button, the recorded video clip will auto-upload to the web and the quality is pretty good. From the site…
“Register & use it anywhere anytime Make screencasts / tutorials / demos
Record your screen in one click No download. Compatible with Windows, Mac OS X,...
20 Free eBooks About Social Media |... →
20 Free eBooks About Social Media. In all cases, the first link is to a PDF file, the second link is to the site where itâs hosted.
100 eLearning Articles and White Papers :... →
Tony F’s collection of eLearning Articles, White Papers, Blog Posts
stinto: simple one click chat
“stinto offers you a comfortable, yet also easy to use chat, which you can create with one click and which will be deleted after a longer period of inactivity”.
Create a chatroom by clicking on a button, share the resulting URL, and the chatroom disappears a few hours after you’ve finished using it.
100 top sites for the year ahead →
our latest selection finds that location-based services, work-anywhere collaboration and video are prominent
Online Collaboration And Learning: The Best... →
If your goal is to improve the ways and tools with which you collaborate with your team, as well as the resources and approaches to to learn, discover and share more of what you know, here are the…
private torrents now on limewire5
Limewire is a P2P file sharing service that has been around for a long time. Limewire is alpha testing their newest version… Limewire 5. And one of the features that is being included in this newest update is the ability to set up private torrent networks. Which means that only your friends and others that you invite will beable to access this network and download the torrents that are...
internet news ahead of trad newspapers
“Pew has released a study showing that for the first time more Americans get their news from the internet than from traditional newspapers…. 59% of people under 30 said they get most of their news online while an equal percentage said TV was a primary source of news. The kids these days are not as keen on newspapers, which got a response of 28%…”
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