creation tools
Get flash to fully experience Pearltrees
The following is an annotated list of online repositories containing images which can be used without cost or restriction for educational purposes. There are sometimes conditions on using images, which should be consulted prior to use - for example, attribution. Many of these repositories licence their contents under Creative Commons as Open Educational Resources OER).
CALL@Hull: Media repositories
It’s really time to put the age old arguments about online classes being dull, cold, and alienating to bed and accept that these problems are only effects of the choices made by those who design, develop, and teach the course.
Humanizing Online Learning with VoiceThread
Yesterday, I had the privilege of giving a keynote talk to a great group of school administrators and teachers in Westchester County, New York. The topic of my talk was using technology to create collaborative learning experiences. Many people asked for the slides so I uploaded them to Slideshare and I have embedded them into this post.
Making Learning Collaborative
Whether you are a photographer, a graphic designer, an internet marketer or a personal hobby blogger, you would probably won’t like someone stealing your copyright images without any due permission and credit! Right?
Image Plagiarism – Track Duplicate Images Using Google
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JISC Advance :: news
Henshaws College has launched an accessible version of YouTube, which was funded by Jisc through Jisc Advance. It allows people with learning difficulties and disabilities to use this mainstream technology independently. ACCESS: YouTube simplifies the standard You Tube site making it easier to search and play videos, and allows the use of assistive technologies.
There are a number of tools are available to test pages for accessibility. These can be useful, especially to people who have not handled the more technical aspects of coding and to those who have a large number of pages to check.
Automated testing
Elgan: How I publish from Google+
Computerworld - Technology broadcaster Leo Laporte had me on his show, This Week in Tech (TWiT), recently.
Rajen Sheth noted in his Jan. 25th FETC keynote that Google’s Chromebooks are rapidly gaining momentum in the schools of the nation.
Chromebooks Gaining Popularity in Schools | Chromebook Blog
While perusing the headlines and posts detailing today's release of Google Drive, Google's cloud-based storage service, many compare the service the another popular cloud storage service, Dropbox.
Understanding the Minor Differences Between Google Drive and Dropbox
Copyright, Plagiarism, and Digital Literacy (by Sue Lyon-Jones
image credit: PugnoM on FlickrThe LMS as a mixing panel for social learning
Photo by Sergiu Bacioiu, cc licensed on Flickr (This post is cross-posted from a guest blog post I wrote for Hazel Owen at Ethos Consultancy NZ community site ) I have a hard truth to share with you.TAGSExplorer: Interactive archive of twitter conversations from a Google Spreadsheet for
TAGSExplorer is an interface to TAGS based Google Spreadsheets of archived tweets.Many have referred to Path as the "anti-Facebook" for its attempts to make social networking more personal . CNN social media savant Victor Hernandez offers his biannual list of 50 new tech tools These apps can help you shoot better smartphone photos or catalog your bottle-cap collection
50 new tech tools you should know about
Get Out – ESMA | Les Courts Métrages
Fiche du Court métrageOrganising your learning