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This talks about a college that uses a bunch of different databases. It also talks about how they are used and how it helps with the technology in the classrooms.

get information on how to use mobile apps. watch how to videos.

this uses glow and ICT

this website is stating how doctors are beginning to convert to ipads instead of using the paper charts. examples; if a doctor wants to know a status about a patient, instead of going to their room to view their status on their charts, the doctors can be connected to EHR so their lab results can go straight to their ipads which can save time which is very vital for a doctor or nurse. there is even a hospital in Britain that is using ipads to relax their patients during surgery. also, ipads are now beginning to create apps so you will no longer have to fill out the clipboard and now you can do it on your app.

This website tells us that the internet has not yet told us exactly how to change anything on the internet. I think this is a very good source.

Why laptops are helpful, but why tablets are better

Very useful

@Christian - it would be useful to say how it is useful - you should paraphrase or pull out points or you will have to re-look at the information to write on the wiki. Good link.

This one talks about when students use wiki. Most teachers do not allow you to use wiki due to the fact that it is completely open and FREEDOM. Anyone can go on there and change things that are not true and you may think they are true if you don't know. So because this is a highly changed sight this causes the freedom of the internet to be bad sometimes.

Campus tour now comes with an iPad that helps future students around and gives them information 

South Koreans realize that technology doesn't always bring progress. Not going as ebook as planned according to this washington post article. "But South Korea, among the world's most wired nations, has also seen its plan to digitize elementary, middle and high school classrooms by 2015 collide with a trend it didn't anticipate: Education leaders here worry that digital devices are too pervasive and that this young generation of tablet-carrying, smartphone-obsessed students might benefit from less exposure to gadgets, not more. Those concerns have caused South Korea to pin back the ambition of the project, which is in a trial stage at about 50 schools. Now, the full rollout won't be a revolution: Classes will use digital textbooks alongside paper textbooks, not instead of them. First- and second-graders, government officials say, probably won't use the gadgets at all."

This article on collaboration describes what the term is, and then uses different real life examples on how it is used in every day life.

Learning analytics are underused but will be one of the most important tools in our online toolbox. Once we grasp the importance of these, we will be demanding more and more intelligence on behalf of the learning analytics that we use to support elearning, apps, and all of the things our students use as part of their learning toolbox. Reports from Educause

I've uploaded the portfolio assignment that I use for my one semester 8th grade keyboarding class. It includes movie making, self creation of rubrics, MLA paper writing, memos, block letters, blogging, and an efolio component along with QR Codes. I wanted to share this but also was testing the functionality of the site for sharing resources. Hope you'll share. (Note: KS3 in the UK means grades 7-9 - the site will be adding US grade levels soon.)

I use QR codes to assess on my iTouch and iPad but if a blog has flash - I just snap a pic with the QR code application for adobe air using the webcam on my pc. I don't have to type in long urls. Anything with a printout of any online material includes a qr code.

This is a great article on how this librarian in New Zealand is using QR codes in their library.

Nice presentation about 40 interesting ways to use QR codes in the classroom.

QR codes are here and they are going mainstream. MR Robbo the PE geek, myself and others are using these IN CLASS and they are useful ways of augmenting reality. Time to learn because people are going to be talking!

I know that some are saying that we can't gamify education. But what happens when problems become a game and we compete to find answers? This article talks about foldit and how crowdsourcing has become a possibility for something that can work when it becomes a game. This is a great read for those exploring how we will use games in education. I would suggest that this is an approach that we could use. ". Foldit, a novel experiment created by a group of scientists and game designers at the University of Washington, had asked the gamers-some still in middle school and few boasting a background in the sciences, much less microbiology-to determine the how proteins would fold in the enzyme. Within hours, thousands of people were both competing against (and collaborating with) one another. After three weeks, they had succeeded where the microbiologists and the computers had failed. "This is the first example I know of game players solving a long-standing scientific problem," David Baker, a Foldit co-creator, wrote at the time."

This talks about where game based learning is headed.

This article explains how game based learning works, why its effective and how it differs from traditional learning

Explains the differences in results between GBL and regular learning techniques.

14 ways to but your tablet to good use for business