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I was struck this week by this
article on Forbes.com by a CEO who outlawed email at his company for a week
and discovered that everybody actually got more work done. More important, they
all felt more sane and less frantic as "a sense of calm descended."
The CEO, Shayne Hughes, argues that a lot of what email does is just get us
all wound up, stressed out - spinning our hamster wheels but going
nowhere.
I've even had people from Google - the most wired of wired environments - talk
to me about the importance of going "off the grid," and how this makes people
more productive.
I was recently at Our Lady of the Angels Rouse Hill doing a workshop with them in creating iBooks using iBooks Author. The Principal Eva La Rocco and the teachers saw the main benefit for the software as a way of students demonstrating their own understanding and knowledge by creating an iBook that incorporated all their work. The focus being for the students to create content rather than it being pushed to them via a teacher created iBook textbook.
"Correctly citing an image with a
Creative
Commons
licence can be a tricky task for both educators and their students.
ImageCodr
is a website that aims to help by providing a
generator that will construct attributions for
Flickr Creative
Commons
photos that can be embedded into blogs and websites."
"One of the great advantages of the internet is the convenience of cloud based
services where you can store documents, pictures, bookmarks or notes and access
them on any device with an internet connection. Despite this level of
convenience it is still important to maintain backups of your data in the case
of unforeseen circumstances, such as your account being hacked or a service
shutting down. Here we will take a look at a few ways to backup your online data
from some of the most popular services like Diigo, Google and Evernote."
"From Moodle to Edmodo to Inquisiq r3, there's a lot of tools you can use to
manage, track, and deliver courses and training programs in your school. They're
called Learning Management Solutions (LMS) or sometimes Learning Management
Systems. Either way, how do you pick which is the best? A new infographic from
Capterra
spells it out in
simple stats."