Judi Millage's Public Library

"We’ve heard arguments from ed tech experts about how using technology for learning may in fact deepen the divide between wealthy and low-income kids. Students who have access to technology and are encouraged by teachers and parents to leverage it for new ways of learning, the argument goes, will leap even further ahead than low-income students who are forbidden to use it in public schools."

BYOD technology e-learning

"When it comes to using technology in school, the tension between what students and parents want and what schools allow is becoming more apparent — and more divisive."

BYOD technology e-learning

"JISC, the UK’s leading expert on the information and digital technologies for education and research have recently published the findings of their project The Role of Metadata in the Discovery, Selection and Acquisition of e-Books. The survey in particular reveals some quite interesting information."

jisc ebooks

"20 ways of thinking about digital literacy in higher education"

digital literacy

"TagMyDoc allows you to apply a tag on a document which can be scanned and retrieved as a virtual copy."
Upload a Word document, ppt, pdf, images to tagmydoc. This generates a QR code which is embedded in the doc and can be saved as an image.

Qrcodes qr codes

Instant screen sharing

screensharing

Share your screen instantly to any device with a browser

screensharing

"learn some tips and tricks that can help you take the first steps towards using Twitter for coursework, research, building a professional network, and beyond."

twitter

"This article focuses on a pilot study of the use by academic staff and students of a next generation learning space - the Pod Room - and makes recommendations for further research into the effectiveness of new learning spaces in universities."

learning space technology

Create free Android apps

android apps

"InfosmART is a portfolio of easy-to-follow interactive modules in information, study and research skills."

information literacy information skills

"Free and easy to use audience response system"

poll polling

"QR Treasure Hunt Generator!
Get students using their mobile devices to move and to learn
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qr codes

"A college library uses a blog to generate marketing content and a variety of other media - to distribute it."

screenr college library blog marketing

Flexible working toolkit

toolkit

Provides lots of interesting statistics and information on use of mobile technologies

mobile technolog*

"iExplorer, formerly called iPhone Explorer, lets you use an iPhone or iPad in disk mode, like a flash drive. iExplorer is an iPhone browser or iPad file explorer that runs on Mac & PC that lets you browse the files and folders on your iPhone as if it were a normal USB flash drive or pen drive. You can use the easy drag-and-drop methods to add or remove files and folders from the iPhone. "

iphone ipad iexplorer

Build a Body enables learners to construct a human body system-by-system.

anatomy science biology interactive