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One-click access to Moodle files from within MS Office apps. Is this necessarily a good thing? Is it encouraging us to use Moodle as a filing cabinet?

Office add-in for Moodle allows individuals to upload (and download and edit) files directly to moodle from office. "You no longer need to use your web browser when working with Office documents stored in Moodle" is their statement, which is interesting in thaqt everyone else is moving to the web as the platform!

"Now there are quite a few tools that let you integrate Microsoft Office with Google Docs... Here are some tools worth a try:"

Terrible time for us, unless you're an insomniac (or ds106 DJ), but a format we could copy: 15 minute hangouts (BYO coffee).

The much anticipated MS Word MediaWiki filter: "Allows you to save your Microsoft Office Word 2007 and 2010 documents straight into MediaWiki."

Why Chris uses Google (and the 2 things he uses Word for)

integrated content environment - Tool bar for word and open office that supports direct publishing to web and print - supports templates

integrated content environment - Tool bar for word and open office that supports direct publishing to web and print - supports templates - can be used in conjunction with DSpace for example.

Google suggests that upgrading to Google Docs is a much better move than upgrading to Office 2010.

We will need a bigger office when our one arrives

We will need a bigger office when our one arrives

Hey all, this could be of interest. A huge bunch of eBooks shared in an MSDN post this week so is legit. A lot of them are product specific rather than technology focused but still a good looking resource

Excellent post on the blindness of the majority to discrimination on their part - often unintended but still existing because of their position of power.  It's something that we need to be conscious of since we all come from a position of being white, middle class, and majority male. It's not what we do in the office (but still needs to be applied there!) but how we think about the people we support and also how they might design for their classes.

"A report issued by the United States Government Accountability Office on June 6th confirms a trend of the educational publishing industry: textbook costs to students at higher education institutions are rising 6% per year on average, and have risen 82% over the last decade. The study, ordered by Congress, looks at the efforts of publishers and colleges to increase the availability of textbook price information and "unbundled" buying options as required under provisions in the Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008 (HEOA"

The Department of Education's (ED) Office of Educational Technology today released a draft issue brief - Enhancing Teaching and Learning Through Educational Data Mining and Learning Analytics - representing the results of a months-long discourse among 8 academic and 15 industrial data mining and learning analytics experts conducted by SRI International. The brief, inspired by ED's 2010 National Educational Technology Plan (NETP), articulates the challenges and opportunities of Big Data in improving student outcomes and overall productivity of K-2 education systems. It focuses on three key research areas - educational data mining, learning analytics, and visual data analytics - and offers a set of corresponding recommendations, categorized by various stakeholders. ED is now seeking public comment on the draft.

"A few changes in my professional profile at UBC in recent weeks… My old Office of Learning Technology has merged with the former Centre for Teaching and Academic Growth to become the Centre for Teaching, Learning, and Technology." So maybe we're just following UBCs lead?

"It's a product of Microsoft Office Labs that addresses some key shortcomings in the static, linear nature of everyone's favorite presentation tool... If all this sounds familiar, it's because this is not entirely unlike Prezi"

Plug-in for Moodle that allows for viewing of Word documents (2003 or 2007), Excel files, PowerPoints, PDFs and Open Office without the viewer needing the relevant program (eg Word) on their computer.

Have just found Microsofts version of Google Labs! Check out the sections under Projects to find them. Some interesting stuff.

Idea Paint - make everything a whiteboard. Stop being limited by the whiteboard shape and size.

No doubt you guys will have caught this news.... "Google is developing a tool to help teachers manage classroom tasks, a move that should have education app vendors trembling as if they'd been sent to the principal's office. The software, called Classroom , will become part of Apps for Education, Google's cloud email and collaboration suite for schools and universities, Google said Tuesday"