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"Today we're please to announce that Google Docs has been integrated into Edmodo. This highly requested feature allows you to sync your Google Docs with your Edmodo Library so you can easily access and share your Google Docs with your Edmodo groups."

"We are the leading education management platform for Google Apps. Our tools address critical regulatory and performance mandates confronting schools and districts world-wide. Cutting through roadblocks in adoption, content management and security, we transform Google Apps into a powerful learning and analytics environment, reclaim teaching time and cut software costs."

"Not familiar with LTI? Basically it's like Facebook apps or Google widgets for LMSs. The tutorials page shows how to configure LTI tools in supported systems. There's also some handy extensions to LTI that you can learn more about on the extensions page. Tools with a gray label under their configuration xml support LTI extensions that won't work in all systems. Currently LTI extensions are only supported by Canvas. "

"We have to figure out a way to use it engagingly and teach students when it s appropriate and when it's not appropriate to be doing that.""

The purpose of this document is two-fold: - to offer an online history of the development of the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) - to use that history to describe major elements of a MOOC

"The Course Builder open source project is an experimental early step for us in the world of online education. It is a snapshot of an approach we found useful and an indication of our future direction. We hope to continue development along these lines, but we wanted to make this limited code base available now, to see what early adopters will do with it, and to explore the future of learning technology."

Hi-Fi, Stereo, Speakerphone & more

A potential tool to connect classrooms with Skype/Google Hangouts? The microphone might be better than most laptop built-in ones, it supports conference calls. Can also connect with mobile devices.

"Readium, a project of the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) and supporters, is an open source reference system and rendering engine for EPUB publications. EPUB is the industry-standard open format for eBooks and digital publications. The latest version, EPUB 3, is based on Web Standard technologies such as HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, SVG, and the DOM. The overall aim of the Readium project is to ensure that open source software for handling EPUB 3 publications is readily available, to accelerate adoption of EPUB 3 as the universal, accessible, global digital publishing format. Readium is built on WebKit , the embeddable open source Web content engine."

An open source rendering app to promote epub as an ebook standard. Works as a Google Chrome extension.