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Cloud Computing in Plain English - Common Craft - Our Product is Explanation
Good simple explanation of web-based services
BBC NEWS | UK | Education | Danish pupils use web in exams
"Students are no longer required to regurgitate facts and figures. Instead the emphasis is on their ability to sift through and analyse information."
Doesn't sound too bad to me.
Gideon Shalwick — The Meta Workings Of An Online Entrepreneur
Blog site with a short how-to explanation of using a free web service called UStreamtv to embed streaming video in a blog.
Guidelines for Developing Mobile Web Content
Making web pages easily readable on a keitai is a significant issue when working with university students in Japan, who tend to access the Web more through their phones than through computers. This document is not intended for education per se, but has some useful guidelines as we try to sell our "product" to our students.
Chrome Portable 3.0 Lets You Take Google's Browser Anywhere - Chrome - Lifehacker
Possible nice addition to FF portable for times when you need to have two Google accounts running simultaneously.
International Higher Education Consulting Blog™: Social Learning Sites and Online Communities for Language Learners
Good list of online language learning sites.
JISC RSC Scotland N&E: EduApps
Educational support site in Scotland that offers customized application packages for downloading to a USB stick drive. There are different packages for teachers and learners. You can also create your own package.
Colleges Consider Using Blogs Instead of Blackboard - Chronicle.com
but then we knew this already.....
Teacher Training Videos for using technologies
Good source of how to videos to encourage teachers to use technologies more effectively in their teaching. Includes a section on English language teaching.
ScreenCastle | One Click Screencasting
Looks like a fairly simple way to make screen casts for training purposes.
Educational Leadership:Literacy 2.0:Orchestrating the Media Collage
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The demands of digital literacy make clear that both research reports and stories represent important approaches to thinking and communicating; students need to be able to understand and use both forms. One of the more exciting pedagogical frontiers that awaits us is learning how to combine the two, blending the critical thinking of the former with the engagement of the latter.
NFB.ca - Watch quality Canadian Documentary, Animation and Fiction
The National Filb Board of Canada is making many of the films in its collection available for free on line. I highly recommend watching a 9-minute film called A Chairy Tale if you don't know it. It can be an excellent resource for discussion and writing. Lots of other great film resources as well.
Teach Web 2.0: CCK08-Connectivism: Networked Student...The Movie
Very nice 5-minute movie about the use of Web-based connectivity for students. I especially like the part at the end about the future roles for teachers.
The Tower and The Cloud | EDUCAUSE
E-book in which each chapter is dounloadable as a pdf. Good set of readings on "the impact of IT on higher education and on the IT organization in higher education"
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