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An online course on mobile ministry opportunities.  Freely accessible links to helpful course resources including PowerPoints (Week 1).

Learned about the Crash Course World History video series from free technology for Teachers - http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2012/10/37-crash-course-history-videos.html

3-week free course on Google Analytics beginning October 8

I'm intrigued by the use of something like this for continuing education for teachers.  Anybody use or have experienced something similar?

Bookmark or download owner's manuals. Lots of alternatives of course, such as any bookmarking tool, but if you want a dedicated web app for owner's manuals, this one would work.

Thomas Frey provides insights on the direction learning and institutions of learning need to go given the emergence of online learning and billions needing education. Be sure to ready his paper hyperlinked to the article.

An interesting site which discusses illustrating the Bible along with providing links to sites which may provide some good Biblical graphics which might, depending on the copyright permissions of course, be useful for pastors, teachers, churches and church schools. (Check out the 2008 interview with one of my favorite modern Bible illustrators, Annie Vallotton.)

ESU 13 Moodle site - lots of free tutorials and courses in the teacher resources and technology sections

Link shared by Julia Wagenknecht - GCFLearnFree.org® creates and provides quality, innovative online learning opportunities to anyone who wants to improve the technology, literacy and math skills needed to be successful in both work and life. By delivering over 750 different lessons to millions of people in over 200 countries and territories ABSOLUTELY FREE, GCFLearnFree.org is a worldwide leader in online education.

c/o Lifehacker - Photoshop Elements for $50.

Thanks for the alert on this Tom! I saw in the Lifehacker post that Sam's Club has the same price so I snagged a copy from there since I have a membership there and not at Costco. I've been wanting to get this and up my photo editing skills a bit. Plus I found two Lynda.com courses about it, so I'm off to 7 hours of video class!

Has anyone ever used something like this in his classroom?  I have students that greatly enjoy having some music playing in the background (I limit it to classical piano, mostly).  Anyone know of a study that demonstrates if this helps students learn?

I've used Simply Noise in my classroom of 5th graders and I have had mixed results. Some kids really like it and some hate it. I tend to prefer the brown noise as opposed to white or pink noise. I think I might make less of a deal of it with my next class next year and just use it for a little longer period of time to get a better read on its effectiveness. I took my students to on a field trip to Environmental Systems Inc in Brookfield, WI and they use brown noise generators throughout their office/cubicle area to mask ambient noise. I found it very soothing. They used to have it timed to go off at 4pm and they found that their employees subconsciously sensed it was time to leave for the day. Not wanting to encourage them to leave early, they decided to gradually bring the volume of the noise down over the course of 30 minutes and that took care of their issue. Not necessarily applicable to what you were asking about, but kind of interesting.

FAQ - https://creatoracademy.withgoogle.com/faq

Courtesy of Lifehacker, thought Sallie and her boys might be interested in this one.  Could probably find some "educational" games to play on here as well... maybe not :).

Guess what Ben's Forensics demo speech is on?? RPi, of course. Gotta spread the love. :-D

Recommendation from Clarence Chapman via G+ - If anyone is looking for a relatively in expensive video editing program that has a lot of ability and runs very simular Final Cut Pro try Cyberlink Power Director. We have been using it for a couple of years now and it is pretty powerful software.

This is very good software at an extremely good price for only a short while more. A good training course on udemy.com https://www.udemy.com/powerdirector/