"A digital badge is a validated indicator of accomplishment, skill, quality, or interest that can be earned in many learning environments. Open badging makes it easy for anyone to issue, earn, and display badges across the web-through a shared infrastructure that's free and open to all. "
"Welcome to the Commons
The network that brings together 49,972 OER, tools for sharing curriculum with the world, and news and training on the brave new world of open education.
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"We partner with organizations around the world to develop programs which support individuals in rediscovering how to listen to each other and share first person stories. Our group process, and the stories that emerge serve as effective tools for change amidst a world of technology and media overload. Learn more about the process. "
"4 Features to Look for in a 21st Century LMS
Two districts share their experiences of choosing a learning management system that does a lot more than help teachers post assignments."
Wordle is a toy for generating "word clouds" from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.
Virtual Environments Enable New Models of Learning
Hundreds of leading universities and school systems around the world use Second Life as a vibrant part of their educational programs. Linden Lab works enthusiastically with education organizations to familiarize them with the benefits of virtual worlds, connect them with educational peers active in Second Life, and showcase their inworld projects and communities.
A large, active education community-with hundreds of K-12 and higher education members-are engaged in Second Life. The Open University, Harvard, Texas State, and Stanford are just a few of the many universities that have set up virtual campuses where students can meet, attend classes, and create content together.
Second Life has also proven a valuable professional development medium for educators. Organizations such as the NMC have fostered shared learning among educators and are networking, running inworld seminars, conferences and symposia on learning and creativity related to virtual worlds. Visit the NMC website to learn about the range of Second Life related information and activity on offer or learn about the programs produced by their diverse international membership.
Perhaps you have a special skill, talent, or knowledge-base that you want to share with others, and maybe you've heard that teaching online courses can make you a little extra money. The resources below will help you discover how to combine both what you have to offer and what you wish to gain by guiding you through creating and establishing an online course. No matter what age of student, subject you want to teach, or size of the class, you will find resources and information to bring your class online.
ArcExplorer Java Edition for Education (AEJEE) is a downloadable, lightweight GIS tool for exploring geographic data. AEJEE can save and open projects, so work can be shared between users, or between school and home. AEJEE can classify and symbolize shapefiles, integrate a wide array of image data, project on-the-fly shapefiles stored in decimal degree, and use data distributed over the Internet from ArcIMS services from the Geography Network, or other hosted ArcIMS sites.
"Saywire provides a unique and engaging online learning platform in which people can create private, secure communities to collaborate and communicate with one another. Each Saywire community provides its members with a wide set of tools to quickly and easily build their own autonomous communities or "Spaces" as we call them, within the confines of their organization's parent community. These Spaces are great for learning, sharing, working together, or just connecting with other members of a defined organization/business/educational institution. Each Space can have its own member base, blogs, wikis, discussion boards or any combination of over 12 different features or tools depending on the needs of the Space. Sound interesting? Learn more."
"Assembly Bill 307 requires that California students and teachers receive instruction in Internet Safety and the ethical use of information.
To fulfill the requirements of AB 307 as incorporated into the SAUSD District Technology Plan (2009-2012) and District Technology Goals and Benchmarks, Education Technology and Instructional Media Services is providing lesson materials to educate pupils and teachers on the appropriate and ethical use of information technology in the classroom, Internet safety, plagiarism, copyright, and the implications of illegal peer-to-peer network file sharing.
The materials are provided for SAUSD classroom teachers to use during CyberSafety Week, February 23-27, 2009. Teachers should plan to spend 10-15 minutes delivering information to students on the topic for that day."
" * Listen to your music wherever you are. Share your collection with family and friends.
* Browse and manage your music collection with the user-friendly web interface, or use the AIR desktop app.
* Stream music to Android, iPhone and Windows Phone 7.
* Convert and stream lossless music on the fly.
* Manage 100,000+ files in your music collection without hassle.
* Download and listen to Podcasts.
* Get cover art, lyrics, reviews and other album info from Google, Chartlyrics, allmusic and Wikipedia.
* Plus much more..."
"it's connection sharing made easy.
it provides you with a QR Code, a single web address,
NFC tags and a completely flexible management system for your social networks, websites, blogs and online accounts so people can connect with you quickly and easily.
it's free. it's powerful. it's simple to use. "
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The Future of Online Learning
By Jeff Borden / August 2011
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Higher education is undergoing an explosive period of transformation that embraces the digital age. From tablets to smart phones to wikis and blogs, today's digital environment makes communication, collaboration and information sharing easier than ever before. "
"Tiny Techie is a 9 year old blogger. She enjoys singing, dancing and playing games on her iPhone and Nintendo DSi. She created this blog to share her reviews of all the games she plays. After looking at technology sites with game reviews, she realized adults were reviewing kid games. Some of the reviews of the games she enjoyed were unfair. That's when she decided to write her own reviews, from a kid's point of view. Tiny Techie is about all things techie. Just for kids."
Download videos from web sites like MySpace, Dailymotion, Megavideo, Google, Yahoo!, Metacafe, Spike, Megarotic (unlimited), Yahoo!, CBS, Comedycentral, MyPlay, Globo, RTVE, etc; now has support for more than 100+ video sharing sites!; and since the release 1.0.280 it has bult-in support for RTMP (Real Time Streaming Protocol), a new way for streaming video which hundred sites are using to deliver high quality
In this EMERGING list of Top 100 Tools, you can also compare the rankings of the tools with the last two years. If you are a learning professional and would like to share your Top 10 tools to help refine the list, email me, tweet @c4lpt or blog your top 10 tools (More info here). We will close for contributions on 15 November 2009.