"This post is inspired by the Xmas end of year podcast by the EdTech Crew."
Another great resource of thoughts and ideas to add to the discussion about eLearning leadership.
"A website full of animated movies, interactive tutorials and instructional videos, all free for you to view and to embed in your website. Simply select an animated explanation and follow the instructions to integrate it in your site."
Information Communication Technologies in Science Education
The aim of this wiki is to provide a useful set of ICTs and other tech tools for Science Teachers to utilise in their classrooms.
Each type of technology will be briefly explained and a classroom example will also be attached, together with a comprehensive list of links.
Research paper by Wendy Drexler summarizes how "networked student" concept guides personalized learning to develop portfolio in the context of high school class.
EduApps is an initiative developed by the JISC Regional Support Centre Scotland North & East and consists of seven useful software collections that are free for you to download and use.
MyStudyBar is a tool which helps overcome problems that students commonly experience with studying, reading and writing. The tool consists of a set of portable open source and freeware applications, assembled into one convenient package.
From Educational Service Unit #3 in Omaha, Nebraska, this wikispace contains numerous tips on getting started, synching and other aspects associated with using iPads as well as listings of apps under curriculum areas.
Google Image Swirl organizes image search results based on their visual and semantic similarities and presents them in an intuitive exploratory interface.
Quote: "Parents who push their children to work hard at school have a bigger impact on their child's academic success than their teachers, research suggests."
"Remember in March when we shared with you that more than 24 hours of video being uploaded to YouTube every minute? Well, you continue to amaze us: you've increased the amount of video uploaded to YouTube to 35 hours per minute. That breaks out to 2,100 hours uploaded every 60 minutes, or 50,400 hours uploaded to YouTube every day. If we were to measure that in movie terms (assuming the average Hollywood film is around 120 minutes long), 35 hours a minute is the equivalent of over 176,000 full-length Hollywood releases every week."
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Semantic Web technologies have immense potential to transform the Internet into a distributed reasoning machine that will not only execute extremely precise searches, but will also have the ability to analyze the data it finds to create new knowledge. This paper examines the state of Semantic Web (also known as Linked Data) tools and infrastructure to determine whether semantic technologies are sufficiently mature for non-expert use, and to identify some of the obstacles to global Linked Data implementation.
"Back in August I predicted that newspapers in their current form will be irrelevant in Australia in 2022. That received significant international attention including from The Australian, The Guardian, Editor & Publisher (which called me the 'Wizard of Aussie') and many others.
Part of the point I wanted to make was that this date is different for every country. As such I have created a Newspaper Extinction Timeline that maps out the wide diversity in how quickly we can expect newspapers to remain significant around the world."