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Simple to learn, easy to use, Shaderlight lets you see your image develop as you work. For rendering experts & 3D novices, it's never been easier to transform your SketchUp model in to a photorealistic render.

Shambles Newsletter May 2011 .. now online and it lives at http://www.shambles.net/newsletter/May2011 or use the short url http://bit.ly/kCxOmP It only comes out three time a year ... designed specifically for k-12 educators The Content in this issue includes - launch of ShamblesPad (built on EtherPad) - Facebook instant OpenSIM VW - IB in LinkedIn - CPD courses and conferences - iPad School Timetable App written by a student - SAGE: Speakers, Authors, Guests, Experts - PLANA Australia New Zealand CPD Portal - #21CLHK #learn21cn #TechEx2011 #barcampcm4 #rscon3 - iDevices Apps #mlearning #Apps #edapp - The Relationship Manifesto - Digitise the Text Book Industry - The TED-Ed Brain Trust - Generation Y: Who, What, How - Flipped Classroom I'd appreciate your help to spread the word by forwarding this email to education colleagues or by Tweeting or through Social networks. It might be more convenient to use the url http://www.shambles.net/newsletter/ which has a sign-up form and also contains archives back to 2002. The next edition out in November (enjoy the summer hols) Many thanks Chris Chris Smith (shamblesguru) http://shambles.net (over 10,000 visitors a day) Bio http://shambles.net/shamblesguruBIO Follow me on Twitter @shamblesguru I hope you are already signed up for the free Shambles newsletter http://shambles.net/newsletter … only 3 a year

Very thorough intro to Google+

Many of the participants in the UW-Stout E-Learning and Online Teaching Graduate Certificate Program use Google Sites to create their e-portfolios.  The portfolios are created and used throughout the program. During the practicum, when students become teachers by teaching in one of our graduate classes, they also refine and polish their portfolios. Ultimately the online portfolio becomes a job search tool that helps our graduates show a potential employer what they know. 

This is a site about project based learning using the Read-Write Web, through the integration of Google, Moodle, Blogs and Wikis

I use Skype and enjoy the free functionality. It's far from perfect, but has a place in my e-learning toolkit. (I've also used Jah-Jah to call my daughter in Thailand and was very pleased with this alternate take on internet telephony.) Like all things tech, Skype could go. As this article shows, the big hitting billionaires who run the show are in dispute. If i have to switch, so be it! Will Google Voice move into this space? Who knows? Wait and see as the future unrolls on a daily basis

To Learn More About Google Apps and how to use them see below.

A one page overview of how to check the accuracy of information. Includes a link to an online learning game to help learn essential concepts.

How Google Saved A School - Two years ago, this middle school was at risk of being shut down by the city. Today it's a success story. What happened?

Archived webinars

Learn how to be a better searcher by getting a different challenge each day.

Very useful, easy-to-learn mind mapping tool that integrates with Google Apps.

"http://youtu.be/J1A51TvTNgg" Learn about our upcoming online summit featuring Google for Education!

A weekend spent learning is always a weekend well spent. Our next Analytics Academy course (the third so far) is fast-approaching. If you're interested in getting better with Analytics, we recommend getting caught up on the first two courses if you haven't taken them yet so you're ready for what's next. You can take the first two courses on-demand, at your own pace on the Academy site here: http://goo.gl/HRUsSH ....and if you're someone who has taken the first two courses, registration is now open for the next (titled: Ecommerce Analytics: From Data to Decisions). We continue to listen to your feedback to improve the content, topics and format so always let us know what we can do to make the Academy better.

Google Docs is a user friendly suite of online collaborative tools that come with tremendous potential for use in the classroom. Last year all of the students in our school  received Google Docs accounts and I was kept quite busy getting students and teachers up and running with the new tools, then discovering innovative ways to use them as effective tools for learning. Here are some of the favorites.