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Free Manuals for Free Software

FLOSS Manuals, located at flossmanuals.net, is a collection of manuals that explain how to install and use a range of free and open source software. The FLOSS acronym stands for Free/Libre/Open-Source Software. The manuals are friendly and simple, and they are intended to encourage people to explore the wide range of free, open source alternatives to expensive and restrictively licensed software. Continue

Posted by Kevin Chilton on October 13, 2008 at 9:24pm — No Comments

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Superstruct - Play the Game, Invent the Future

Superstruct is the world's first massively multiplayer forecasting game. By playing the game, you'll help us chronicle the world of 2019--and imagine how we might solve the problems we'll face. Because this is about more than just envisioning the future. It's about making the future, inventing new ways to organize the human race and augment our collective human potential. So come and join and hel… Continue

Posted by Kevin Chilton on October 8, 2008 at 8:00pm — No Comments

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Moodle

Congratulations to Moodle Founder & Lead Developer, Martin Dougiamas - who has just received the Google-O’Reilly Award 2008 for Best Education Enabler. The awards have been presented to individuals for dedication, inn… Continue

Posted by Chad Outten on July 31, 2008 at 9:56pm — No Comments

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UNESCO's Virtual Laboratory Toolkit

The Virtual Laboratory Toolkit provides an extensive set of free person-to-person (P2P) communication tools (audio and video conference, scientific text chat, whiteboard, collaborative authorship, portal and mailing list management, etc.), and also basic advice on person-to-equipment (P2E) tools. The toolkit is available for download at: http://virtuallab.tu-freiberg.de/ Continue

Posted by Kevin Chilton on July 25, 2008 at 2:00am — No Comments

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Technically Speaking

Technological literacy, a broad understanding of the human-designed world and our place in it, is an essential quality for all people who live in the increasingly technology-driven 21st century. This website explains what technological literacy is, why it’s important, and what’s being done to improve it. Continue

Posted by Kevin Chilton on July 20, 2008 at 6:59pm — No Comments

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I Seminário Web Currículo - PUC-SP

O I SEMINÁRIO WEB CURRÍCULO – Integração de Tecnologias de Informação e Comunicação ao Currículo – será realizado nos dias 22 e 23 de setembro, pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo - PUC-SP, sob responsabilidade do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação: Currículo. O evento busca também identificar as abordagens pedagógicas mais utilizadas em práticas escolares desenvolvidas com o uso de tecnologias. Veja mais em: I Seminário Web Currícul… Continue

Posted by Neli Maria Mengalli on July 20, 2008 at 3:13am — No Comments

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The Immersive Education Initiative

The Immersive Education Initiative is an international collaboration of universities, colleges, research institutes, consortia and companies that are working together to define and develop open standards, best practices, platforms, and communities of support for virtual reality and game-based learning and training systems. Immersive Education, a Media Grid initiative, is an award-winning learning platform that combines interactive 3D graphics, commercial game and simulation technology, virtual… Continue

Posted by Kevin Chilton on July 11, 2008 at 3:08am — No Comments

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Connecting students around the globe

I have a vision where students connect with their peers from around the world. Why? Because it's interesting. It's challenging to create global friendships, across cultures and across seas. And it's interesting to learn what other are studying. Even the very precise studies, like math, are not exact all over the world. Sometimes you need help figuring out a problem and someone from across the world, who studied it in a different way, will offer that different angle that opens your eyes. This is… Continue

Posted by Or-Tal Kiriati on June 3, 2008 at 5:12pm — 1 Comment

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Getting started

My world is now revolving around an online life. Use it or lose it! My aim is to teach my students with 21st Century learning methods so if I don't know how to use social networks, nings, google reader, rss feeds etc, etc then what hope have I to teach others. Educators must become involved or they become out of touch. I am so frustrated that most of my fellow teachers at school only use powerpoint and internet searching - yet they talk about integration of ICT as being important. I must continu… Continue

Posted by Gail Casey on May 18, 2008 at 7:25pm — No Comments

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Digital Education Revolution

In January 2008, Australian Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd announced the Federal Government's Digital Education Revolution - a $900m 4 year program which aims to achieve 1:2 (computer to student) ratio in all Australian secondary schools. Grants up to $1m are available to schools for computer hardware whereby the Federal Government enters into a funding agreement with respective Block Grant Authorities. The $900m figure was calculated on 900… Continue

Posted by Chad Outten on May 16, 2008 at 10:42pm — No Comments

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Ending the School Year

We will conclude the school year at the end of May. As I clean my room, I am also preparing for a possible move. If another second grade is added, I will move up to teach in that position. It may or may not develop, so I am just mentally preparing as I sort through my materials. I've maintained a class blog for this group since January. I am really wanting to post a podcast on our class blog as a final statement. With the possibility of changing grades… Continue

Posted by Martha Hayes on May 16, 2008 at 11:30am — No Comments

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Minds on Fire: Open Education, the Long Tail, and Learning 2.0

"If access to higher education is a necessary element in expanding economic prosperity and improving the quality of life, then we need to address the problem of the growing global demand for education, as identified by Sir John Daniel. Compounding this challenge of demand from college-age students is the fact that the world is changing at an ever-faster pace. Few of us today will have a fixed, single career; instead, we are likely to follow a trajectory that encompasses multiple careers. As we m… Continue

Posted by Kevin Chilton on May 7, 2008 at 7:38am — No Comments

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Team effort Advertising

All Teamed Up is a program that was built by like-minded individuals FOR like-minded individuals, dedicated to helping each and every member that joins our All Teamed Up Community, find the TRUE SUCCESS that every person deserves! And we would like to invite YOU to join our All Teamed Up community as well... All Teamed Up is designed with EVERYONE in mind, from the total Newbie to the Experienced Marketer. Lisa Simpkins

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Posted by Lisa Simpkins on April 23, 2008 at 1:57pm — No Comments

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Everyone Learns Differently

There are many ways to Learn. You can watch someone doing the task You can watch a Video Some like a written explanation Some want a text book equation. Some would like one on one, (some cannot afford that) Do you notice however you learn we all get to the same place. To expand on learning, sometimes its more about guiding or mentoring. Some people have some fine skills they just have to apply what they have learnt, that is where they are stumped. Everyone learns at there own pace, there is… Continue

Posted by Lisa Lomas on March 18, 2008 at 6:49am — 1 Comment

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2008 California CUE Conference

Last week I had the opportunity to attend the Computer Using Educators Conference in sunny Palm Springs, CA. The weather was beautiful and the conversations were amazing. Here's a blog post with my thoughts on the conference: dgrice.blogspot.com/2008/03/cue-thoughts.html Continue

Posted by Dennis Grice on March 12, 2008 at 8:31am — No Comments

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5to Simposium Iberoamericano en Educación, Cibernética e Informática: SIECI 2008

CONVOCATORIA 5to Simposium Iberoamericano en Educación, Cibernética e Informática: SIECI 2008 en el contexto de la Séptima Conferencia Iberoamericana en Sistemas, Cibernética e Informática: CISCI 2008 Del 29 de Junio al 2 de Julio de 2008, Orlando, Florida (EE.UU.) www.infocibernetica.org/sieci2008 Presidente Honorario: Freddy Malpica Presidentes: Andrés Tremante y Friedrich Welsch Presidentes Comité de Programa: Ángel Oropeza y José Vicente Carrasquero Presidente Comisión Organizadora: Belk… Continue

Posted by Neli Maria Mengalli on March 3, 2008 at 12:00pm — No Comments

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Google Generation: Myth?

'Google Generation' refers to a generation of people born since 1993, who have grown up in an Internet dominated world. According to Wikipedia, the phrase has entered common usage as a "...way of referring to a generation whose first port of call for knowledge is the internet and a search engine, Google being the most popular".

The Online Computer Library Center recently conducted a global survey that indicates… Continue

Posted by Chad Outten on January 30, 2008 at 10:31pm — 1 Comment

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5 Innovative Ways To Advertise Your Business

1. Directory Linking
Create a directory of web sites on a specific topic.
Give people the option of adding the directory to
their web site by linking to it. Put your business
advertisement at the top of the director's home
page. This technique will get lots of people to link
to your web site and give you free advertising.

2. Bonus Advertising
Do you have a product or service that doesn't sell
good? Offer it as a free bonus for som… Continue

Posted by Lisa Simpkins on January 24, 2008 at 1:34am — No Comments

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KindleLab opensource interactive whiteboard application for your Wiimote Whiteboard

If you are using the Wiimote whiteboard and are needing an opensource interactive whiteboard app here is something to try - http://kindlelab.com/software.html & a video of it being used is here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80-75kPfF48

Will work with other… Continue

Posted by Rich White on January 23, 2008 at 12:32am — No Comments