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from Craig Snyder The grave has been dug for Google Reader. It's almost dead and gone, and I'll surely miss it. It definitely surprised me to hear that they were putting an end to this beloved service, but it didn't worry me. Savvy folks like you...

"Students and faculty may love them, but IT personnel get a major headache when they try to integrate Apple tablets--and the company's TV technology--in an enterprise setting."

"While the delivery of on-line instructional courses in higher education institutions is flourishing, it is the faculty who play the key role in its successful implementation (Betts, 1998; Rockwell, Schauer, Fritz, & Marx, 1999; Willis, 1994; Wilson, 1998). Limited research has shown that a number of circumstances influence whether or not faculty choose to teach via on-line. Since faculty are pivotal to the success of online instruction, this study explored their backgrounds, concerns, and their on-line teaching practices. The information that is provided will update decision-makers of the current needs and concerns of on-line instructors so an effective distance-learning program can be fostered."

By being ad-supported, AnyMeeting offers its services at no cost to users, making it an ideal deal for small businesses on tight budgets. If you are looking for free alternative to WebEx, GoToMeeting and others, anymeeting is the way to go.

"Any institution, he maintained, demonstrates its quality in five inter-related areas - learning effectiveness, access, scale (capacity enrollment achieved through cost-effectiveness and institutional commitment), faculty satisfaction, and student satisfaction. These five have become OLC's Five Pillars of Quality Online Education, the building blocks which provide the support for successful online learning. "

"The growing adoption of Google Docs as a data repository makes it a target for litigation holds and discovery processing. With CloudLock for Google Apps, the domain admin can now extract the exact files that need to be processed by using different criteria based on both metadata as well as content residing in those docs."

from Ryan Dube Wouldn't it be nice to have the ability to just open up an Excel spreadsheet or a Word document, and without having to do anything at all, data gets read directly out of a text or CSV data file and loads directly into a chart embed...

from noreply@blogger.com (Mr. Byrne) TodaysMeet.com is a completely free service for hosting backchannel discussions. Over the years I've used it in a variety of ways including as a real-time discussion during a classroom viewing of a video, as a...

"Monitter is a real time twitter search tool that enables you to monitor a set of keywords on twitter. It also allows you to narrow the search to a particular geographic location, allowing you to find out what's going onin a particular part of the world."

from Med kharbach A personal learning network is a method of linking kids and adults to major sources of information on the Internet. It is like choosing your closest friends that you want to listen to because they... .....read more

"Apowersoft Online Audio Recorder allows you to record audio online, free of charge, on Windows OS or Mac PC. It's easy to operate and lets you record any sound that you can hear. It allows you to record audio files from various audio inputs - System Sound, Microphone, and both System Sound and Microphone."

from Aaron Couch There's no doubt that Evernote is an incredible tool with a lot of uses. In fact, if you aren't using it, you should be using Evernote to remember everything. . There is a lot of emphasis put on organizing notes in Evernote. Howe...

"what so many teachers do not know about YouTube is that it has recently  included several powerful features of video editing, recording and even slideshow making and all for free. To access these features you need to be already logged in to YouTube and click on " Upload "button near the search box in YouTube homepage."

"Many professors consider social networking sites as great tools to communicate with their students, colleagues and other educators. This infographic explains how faculty use social media and what are their remaining concerns regarding it. "

"A useful way of understanding how to put Bloom's into action in your classroom (and ensuring that you're using the right level of the taxonomy while doing it) is through the use of action verbs."

"Using Prezi, you can create a visual classroom without succumbing to death by PowerPoint. Its interactive features, zooming display, and creative options will enable your visual lessons to engage students without distracting them from lesson objectives. With all those bells and whistles, Prezi might sound complicated, but it's actually quite simple to use. Read on, and I'll show you how to use this innovative tool."

It would be cool to have something at GCC.