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"Can computers really grade essay tests? The National Council of Teachers of English say "no," even if there is new software that says "yes."" Read the pros and cons in this article and judge for yourself. Can software do an ADEQUATE job of grading essays?

"Meet Dictation v2.0, a web-based speech recognition app that will transcribe your voice into digital text using the Chrome Speech API. You can also install Dictation as a Chrome App." I tried it and it works pretty well. No special software is needed, so it will run fine on a Chromebook.

Presentation software for Mac & iPad. Free for students - four free flows for others.

Lifehack article on how "open source" idea could change lots of things beyond software, including schools, governments, corporations, and more.

The academic conversation on MOOCs is starting to polarise in exactly the talking-past-one-another way that so many complex conversations evolve: with very smart points on either side, but not a lot of recognition that the validity of certain key points on one side does not undermine the validity of certain key points on the other. I regret this flattening of online learning into a simple binary of 'politically and financially motivated greed' on the one hand and 'an opportunity to find out more about learning' on the other. Some of both in different situations can be true.

Powtoon is a neat app you might want to check out. Jayme does a great job with this example. You can see more examples by another teacher at http://learninprogress.blogspot.com/2013/09/starting-off-school-year-with-pow.html

Tony Vincent shares 10 effective ways to displays the iPad on a projector and has a handy chart shows/compares different methods.