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Drop.io is a quick and easy way to share files, including pictures, video, audio, and documents, in real time. The ability to the restrict viewing of a drop, the uploading and/or deleting of files, combined with features like chat, make it a great classroom tool. The price is certainly right for education too: free up to 100 MB per drop, with no limit to the number of drops one can make. There is also no registration required, not for admins or users - just don't forget the name and/or password of your site(s)!

Always On Teaching, Learning, and Living with laptops both in and out of the classroom. Whether you're a teacher just starting out with mobile laptop carts or working in a 1:1 environment, find the tips and techniques you need to succeed when learning goes 24/7. Join Katie Morrow and Michelle Bourgeois as they share ideas and resources for teaching and learning with laptops.

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Copyright: Living Life Against the Law Lawrence Lessig (now at Harvard) has another thoughtful presentation regarding copyright that he gave at EDUCAUSE 2009. He makes a compelling case about how "things have changed" but that our copyright laws have not kept up with those changes. In the past, "copyright had a tiny role.

10 best celebrity computer ads of the 1980s Most celebrity-backed tech commercials of the 1980s were pretty terrible. These 10 were pretty awesome. Or at least, in some cases, awesomely terrible. -Posted by David Griner

* Getting Started with Google Wave o About Google Wave o Privacy and Security * Your Account o Signing Up and Signing In o Contacts o Getting Around in Your Account * Your Waves o Communicating in Waves o Managing Waves o Using Extensions and Gadgets * Troubleshooting o General Issues and Solutions o Error Messages

50 Awesome Ways to Use Skype in the Classroom 30 June 2009 | Resources Skype is a free and easy way for teachers to open up their classroom and their students to a world way beyond their campus. With Skype, students can learn from other students, connect Polycom, too...

After searching some public 'waves,' we came across an educational wave. Entitled 'Wave in Class,' this wave was started by Loren Baum (a self-described "collaborative learning enthusiast" and graduate student at Ben Gurion University) and Sam Boland (a Politics student and "Tech Enthusiast" at Occidental College, Los Angeles).

Many of the underlying standards that define modern e-mail technology were originally developed in the 1980s. Almost 30 years after the birth of SMTP, e-mail is still the dominant Internet communication medium despite its significant limitations and increasingly anachronistic design. Supplementary services like instant messaging and microblogging have emerged to fill in some of the gaps, but virtually no attempts have been made to build a holistic replacement for e-mail. Our most important day-to-day messaging infrastructure remains intractably mired in antiquity

This programme explores how Andy Markham uses thinking skills techniques to teach Russian to mixed ability students at Frederick Gough School, a specialist language college in Scunthorpe.

We will be using this wikispace to collect images or videos, and to discuss the cognitive process shown in the them. Images can be uploaded from your computer easily using the picture uploader tool. If you create an account at youtube you can upload your own videos to youtube and then embed them in the wikispace using the widget tool. Please see the screencast page for directions in case you get stuck.

Education Futures celebrates its first five years of exploring new futures in human capital development with a timeline of the history of modern education. This timeline provides not only a glimpse into the past and present, but plots out a plausible future history for human capital development. The future history presented is intended to be edgy, but also as a conversation starter on futures for education and future thinking in human capital development.

With tweetbook you can generate a pdf e-book of your latest tweets and favorites. Also share the tweetbook with your friends!

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