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If you ever have a need to transfer an audio recording into text format, you’ll likely love this little Chrome Web app. http://thenextweb.com/apps/2012/08/04/transcribe-an-awesome-audio-transcription-web-app-for-chrome/

Transcribe: An Awesome Chrome App for Transcribing Audio

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. There’s a new dilemma in today’s training world: Is it prudent to allow technology devices in the classroom?

5 Social Media Activities for Your Next HR Training Session

http://mashable.com/2012/05/05/social-media-training-2/
http://9to5google.com/2012/05/03/learn-a-new-language-with-googles-language-immersion-chrome-extension/ There are more than a few tools online to help you learn a new language, but none are as effective as immersing yourself in another country’s language by actually traveling there.

Learn a new language with Google’s Language Immersion Chrome extension

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450 Free Online Courses from Top Universities

Get free online courses from the world’s leading universities. This collection includes over 700 free courses in the liberal arts and sciences. Download these audio & video courses straight to your computer or mp3 player. Note: you can find a new collection of certificate-bearing courses here .
Teachers are known for their organizational skills, so chances are they'll love Pinterest 's intuitive and logical design. The social network's user experience has helped it earn a top spot among today's most popular social networks. Therefore, we predict that teachers will give it a gold star, too. http://mashable.com/2012/04/10/pinterest-teachers/

16 Ways Educators Can Use Pinterest [INFOGRAPHIC]

70 BYOT/BYOD Resources for Use in the Classroom

Our district has just finished its first year of a BYOT (Bring Your Own Technology) technician. (Sometimes, this is referred to as BYOD or Bring Your Own Device.) http://myweb4ed.com/2012/07/04/52-byotbyod-resources-for-use-in-the-classroom/

Vineet Madan: The Digital Transformation of Education: A 21st Century Imperative

Over the past several years, the education debate in America has increasingly become a conversation about technology. As we've seen the benefit of having tablets and smartphones in our lives, we've started to pin to it our hopes for our nation's education system, as well. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/vineet-madan/the-digital-transformatio_b_1457125.html
Twitter may have started off as a fun social media site for keeping up with friends and sharing updates about daily life, but it’s become much more than that for many users over the past few years as the site has evolved and grown.

100 Ways To Use Twitter In Education, By Degree Of Difficulty

http://edudemic.com/2012/04/100-ways-to-use-twitter-in-education-by-degree-of-difficulty/
Yesterday, Microsoft unleashed a desktop sync app for SkyDrive . Today, Google followed by finally launching Google Drive — after a series of early appearances hinted that it was going to be arriving very, very soon.

Google Drive vs. SkyDrive vs. Dropbox

http://www.geek.com/articles/geek-pick/google-drive-vs-skydrive-vs-dropbox-20120424/
Web & Democracy

I know a lot of people view curation as a buzz word devoid of meaning, but I like the metaphor!

Teaching Students to Become Curators of Ideas: The Curation Project

Rich-text editors , also known as online rich-text editors , are web components that allow users to edit and enter text within a web browser. Rich-text editors are used in numerous ways such as in enhancing your comment input form or as part of a web application that allows entry of user-generated and formatted content. Rich-text editors are essentially web-based WYSIWYG (“what you see is what you get”) editors. There are many rich-text editors out there. What’s even better than a lot of choices? Many of the best rich-text editors currently in the market are free .

20 Excellent Free Rich-Text Editors

Yesterday, I finalised the Top 100 Tools for Learning 2011 list.

» 2011 Top 100 Tools List and Presentation finalised Learning in the Social Workplace

L'avvento dei libri in formato elettronico offre ai lettori nuove possibilità di interazione, condivisione e scambio di idee.

Il futuro della lettura è social ma l'Europa è ancora indietro

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A Taxonomy of Social Reading: a proposal