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Garron Hillaire

Education Technology News: Fedora Scholarship Program to Proliferate Open Source Techno... - 0 views

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technology education open source

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  • The Fedora Project announced the opening of the 2011 Fedora Scholarship program, an award that recognizes the contributions of college and University students toward the project
  • Recipients will receive $2,000 per year for each of the four years that they attend college or university.
  • Garron Hillaire on 15 Nov 10
     
    Fedora to provide scholarship. Incentive to contribute to open source technologies for high school students. Perhaps getting high school students engaged in open source projects is a means of putting the medium of technology into the learners hands.
Stephen Bresnick

Hawaii Online Program Moves Away from Open Source LMS -- THE Journal - 1 views

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Open Source Moodle Blackboard #HGSET561

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  • Stephen Bresnick on 24 Sep 11
     
    Interesting follow up to a previous post about open-source learning management systems (LMSs), the most popular of which is Moodle. Hawaii's Virtual Learning Network has decided to scrap Moodle and go with Blackboard, a commercial LMS. Moodle's really losing its lustre...
Billy Gerchick

10 Tech Skills Every Student Should Have - 5 views

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skills technology wp1 w4 student competencies tech eng102 mcc research amnoi journalism medialiteracy

shared by Billy Gerchick on 10 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • 1. Internet Search - students need to know how to do a proper internet search, using search terms and modifiers. This skill is needed for school, work and life in general.
  • 2. Office Suite Skills - students need to now how to create, edit, and modify documents, presentations, and spreadsheets. Businesses still use MS Office for the most part, but iWorks, OpenOffice / LibreOffice, and Google Docs are all getting more popular. They all work similarly so the learning curve when switching isn't that big.
  • 3. Self learning of tech and where to go for help - knowing how to search a help menu on software or hardware, where to go to find user forums for help, and where to find the manual for technology is a huge skill that many do not know about.
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  • 6. Netiquette - Internet/Email/Social Media etiquette - proper way to use the internet, write professional emails, use social media in relation to your job (not complaining about the boss).
  • 5. Social Media - how to properly use social media for school and work, how to protect yourself on it, the issues of cyberbullying, connecting with others in your profession (PLN).
  • 4. Typing - yes, typing. I can get much more work done since I know how to type, then people who don't.
  • 7. Security and Safety - antivirus, spam, phishing, too much personal information sharing, stalkers, and more are all issues they need to know about.
  • 8. Hardware basics and troubleshooting - knowing what different parts of technology are called, how to make minor fixes, and how to do basic troubleshooting for WiFi, networks, OS won't load, etc
  • 9. Backup data - with all of the data that students create for school and work, it is important to back it up and have access to it at any time
  • 10. Finding apps and software - how to find, evaluate, and use apps for school and business. Also, how to find quality, free alternatives to paid software, apps and services.
  • Billy Gerchick on 10 Feb 12
     
    Gateway source for all students: high school and college composition and journalism and student of life. Bookmark this source and then bookmark the hyperlinks in this article. Do you have the 10 (11 for the bonus) tech skills down? I certainly can improve in some of these areas.
Chris Dede

Education Week's Digital Directions: Schools Combine Netbooks, Open Source - 2 views

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netbooks open source 1:1 T561

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  • Chris Dede on 20 Oct 10
     
    netbooks plus open source is a new model for 1:1
  • Margaret O'Connell on 21 Oct 10
     
    less money than an iPad and, in my opinion, more usable for the students - win win. Go Ubuntu!
Stephen Bresnick

Guide to Open-Source LMSs - 0 views

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#HGSET561

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  • Stephen Bresnick on 16 Sep 11
     
    Interesting look at the limited menu of viable open source LMSs that are out there. Moodle is by far the most popular, but as anyone who has ever developed any online courses on Moodle knows, the interface is clunky and it is overall pretty uninspiring (although adequate). Sakai sounds like an interesting competitor to Moodle and it sounds like it's gaining traction in the market- Rhode Island schools use it. From what I have read about it, it sounds like it is much more user friendly than Moodle and the students surveyed preferred the interface and design of Sakai to Moodle significantly (81% vs. 53%). Would love to hear any posts from people who have used any of these systems.
Jeffrey Siegel

Google launches open-source Course Builder - 3 views

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Google technology education open-source t561

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  • Jeffrey Siegel on 13 Sep 12
     
    Google has launched an open source course building web application for the growing list of K-12 and big-name universities developing online classes. The barebones website is a lightweight way to bring course material online, track student engagement (with web traffic and surveys), and evaluate performance.
Liliana Polo

Google Releases Open-Source Online-Education Software - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of... - 1 views

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  • Liliana Polo on 13 Sep 12
     
    A potentially transformative tool for the narrative of WHO educates and continuing the re-imagination of what constitues valuable knowledge.
  • Cole Shaw on 13 Sep 12
     
    Wow, I think that looks amazingly powerful....they've kind of beat edX to the punch of releasing an open source course platform!
Jason Hammon

Google releases Course Builder - 3 views

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Modular Open Source

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  • Jason Hammon on 17 Sep 12
     
    Google is releasing its own version of an online course builder. Open Source.
Jeffrey Siegel

Class2Go: Stanford's New Open-Source Platform For Online Education - 0 views

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Class2Go Stanford University Education edtech courses open source

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  • Jeffrey Siegel on 19 Sep 12
     
    edtech platforms should truly empower teachers to teach effectively, control their content, and engage their students. The platform does this by making all content created within, regardless of type, property of whoever creates it.
Kellie Demmler

BBC News - Google previews Chrome open source operating system - 0 views

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Operating_system Chrome Google Open_Source

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  • Kellie Demmler on 19 Nov 09
     
    Google is going after Microsoft with their new open source operating system designed originally for netbook users - so no software has to be installed.  It is all browser based and stores docs on Google servers - great for computer crashes - security???
Chris Dede

The Future of Education: Tablets vs. Textbooks - 0 views

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tablets textbooks concerns

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  • Chris Dede on 08 Oct 12
     
    Key concerns about the sudden rush to dump textbooks for open source content
  • Jason Yamashiro on 09 Oct 12
     
    This transition will happen relatively quickly given the current cost of textbooks and the low cost of tablets. Fortunately, I think we will find that the digital textbooks and other features on the tablets will be far more engaging and effective teaching tools than the traditional textbook. The ability of the digital text to read aloud (in several languages) and provide visual support including high def color diagrams, animation, and video, as well as create intuitive links to vocabulary and 'checking for understanding' will be a great support to students and teachers.
Emily Watson

College of Future Could Be Come One, Come All - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...to-crowd-sourcing-courses.html

Technology education

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  • Emily Watson on 20 Nov 12
     
    Discusses the use of crowd-sourcing and peer-evaluation in the MOOC system.
Junjie Liu

The Elements Of A Digital Classroom - 4 views

www.teachthought.com/...lements-of-a-digital-classroom

infographic classroom

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  • Junjie Liu on 04 Dec 12
     
    An infographic of common elements of a digital classroom: including eBooks, Book rental via Kindle, iPads, Open Source software, iTunesU, Digital cameras, projectors, and headphones.
Brandon Pousley

Library Of Congress Unveils Massive Common Core Resource Center - Edudemic - 0 views

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library of congress CCSS commoncore common core

shared by Brandon Pousley on 03 Dec 12 - No Cached
  • Brandon Pousley on 03 Dec 12
     
    Government sponsored Common Core resources for teachers. I searched around quickly and it looks like a great resource to find original documents, sources etc.
Deidre Witan

New Media Literacy .org | Projects | New Media Leveraged for Literacy - 1 views

www.newmedialiteracy.org/projects

new media literacy

shared by Deidre Witan on 11 Dec 12 - No Cached
  • Deidre Witan on 11 Dec 12
     
    The Daily Headhunt - an online game designed to help readers be more aware of the editorial choices made by online news sources
Hannah Lesk

iPads in education: Where's the money coming from? - 2 views

www.macworld.com/...res-the-money-coming-from.html

ipads funding

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  • Hannah Lesk on 31 Oct 12
     
    Even with state budget crises, schools are funding the money to purchase tablets through a variety of sources: grant funding, voter-approved ballot measures, reallocation of money that used to go to computer purchases, and reallocating textbook funds. Interestingly, unlike for computers, Apple offers no education discount on the iPad...
Emily Watson

Stanford U. Releases New Open-Source Online-Education Platform - 1 views

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t561 educational_technology

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  • Emily Watson on 15 Sep 12
     
    The new format adds integrated online classroom forums for MOOCs. You can check out Stanford's site here: http://class2go.stanford.edu/
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