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U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan says schools and colleges should deliver course content to the cell phones that students use to talk and text every day. Some campus officials are listening, and classes via web-enabled cell phones could be mobile learning's next evolution.

This is a fantastic way to view your feeds via Firefox Plugin for Google Reader

Search engine specifically for education Topmarks claims that "All of the content on Topmarks is carefully reviewed by qualified teachers and regularly re-checked because of the changing nature of the web." via http://paulhami.edublogs.org

Today, we're launching an initiative to help authors and publishers discover new audiences for books they've made available for free under Creative Commons (CC) licenses. Rightsholders who want to distribute their CC-licensed books more widely can choose to allow readers around the world to download, use, and share their work via Google Books.

Education - mostly Maths.\nA growing collection of links (via Diigo) and and comments on favourite Maths websites Also web2.0

writing to participate\n\nWriting has never been more important but we must recognize this cultural shift. Educators must develop a new tool belt that supports the interaction and connectivity that our students now thrive upon. Our students text, comment, and tweet. Our job is to use the tools that they are familiar with to create an environment that develops the literacy skills Yancy mentions while building upon our students' communal interactions via social media.

The focal point for this project is How I Spent My Summer Vacation by Mark Teague. Participating classrooms can write their own summer vacation adventure story or calculate the miles traveled during their vacation. Both activities will be shared via the Internet. Project begins August 31st.

via Kathy Schrock "...Terry Freedman has collected a ton of practical, useful, and pedagogical ways to utilize Web 2.0 tools to support teaching and learning in this no-coast, downloadable publication"

The challenge is to connect your students with 80 schools from around the world via Skype (a free video conferencing tool).

The power of compelling "story" and the ability of such story to go viral via the social web Also a testament to the importance of story in a presentation (Garr Reynolds, The Naked Presenter)

Internet Safety Online Curriculum via @simplek12 #edtech20 #safechat #edchat

This school in NJ is looking to connect with other students via Skype

Today Creative Commons and the Association of Educational Publishers (AEP) announce the Learning Resource Metadata Initiative, a project aimed at improving education search and discovery via a common framework for tagging and organizing learning resources on the web. The learning resources framework will be designed to work with schema.org, the web metadata framework recently launched by Google, Bing, and Yahoo!, as well as to work with other metadata technologies and to enable other rich applications.

Like the digital pen...take notes, draw, and record at the same time. (found out via Larry Ferlazzo)

via Anne Rongas

Giovedì 5 novembre nella convegni PAN alle 10.00 con moderazione di Marco Lombardi una presentazione della raccolta di saggi Universi del Fantastico. PAN Via dei Mille 60 - 80121 Napoli info@palazz...

Google Docs script that allows you to automatically grade responses collected via a Google Form and simplifies providing individual student feedback.

FOG is a Linux-based, free and open source computer imaging solution for Windows XP, Vista and 7 that ties together a few open-source tools with a php-based web interface. FOG doesn't use any boot disks, or CDs; everything is done via TFTP and PXE. Also with fog many drivers are built into the kernel, so you don't really need to worry about drivers (unless there isn't a linux kernel driver for it). FOG also supports putting an image that came from a computer with a 80GB partition onto a machine with a 40GB hard drive as long as the data is less than 40GB. Fog also includes a graphical Windows service that is used to change the hostname of the PC, restart the computer if a task is created for it, and auto import hosts into the FOG database. The service also installs printers, and does simple snap-ins.