Isolationist no more: The Internet goes to Washington Monday’s launch of a new think tank called DisCo that wants to educate Congress about disruptive technologies is just one of several new efforts proposed by the Internet and startup community to get their voices heard. No longer will the conversation between Silicon Valley and D.C. rely solely on big tech firms like Amazon, Google, Facebook and others. The Internet upstarts are hoping they can disrupt politics too. The Disruptive Competition Project. DisCo (short for Disruptive Competition) debuted Monday morning with a Web page and some blog posts that help outline its mission. The site, and the concept of a think tank to discuss companies that are changing established industries, are part of the CCIA, the association for the computing industry.
Popular web tools that can be embedded into posts, pages or added to text widgets in sidebars -Edublogs Help and Support There’s a gazillion cool online tools nowadays and many provide code that you can use to embed what you’ve found or created into your blog posts, pages or added to text widgets in your blog sidebar. Refer to the following instructions to embed: Below’s a list of tools to get you started: Audio Hosting Websites Here’s some of the popular site used by educators who want to embed their audio within embedded players rather than uploading them directly to posts as links: iPad App Guide #1: Evernote What it does Evernote for iPad is a cross-platform app for recalling / remembering information. You can use this app to save website screenshots, notes, pictures, and audio comments; which are instantly synchronised between your computer, mobile device, and web Evernote account. (It is also available for Android devices). For: Teachers, Administrators, Students ( Upper Primary / Secondary)
Developers and Testers « Scaled Agile Framework All code is tested code.If you can’t keep up with test, then you either have a) too many developers, or b) too many developers who are unwilling to test. Developers & testers make up the majority of an Agile Team. Developers write the code for the User Stories and conduct research, design, and prototyping with Spike or Refactor stories. They work collaboratively and may pair program with another developer or may pair with a tester. The developer’s responsibilities include collaborating with the Product Owner and testers to make sure the right code is being developed; writing the code, unit tests, and automated acceptance tests; and checking new code into the shared repository every day. Polling tools event Introduction In this recorded session we took a look at if, and how, we use/have used e-polling or surveys. The idea for this session was triggered when I used a poll in the overview for last week’s Serendipity and wondered about the different polling and survey tools that people use. The Session We started with a look at whether we had used polling/surveys either as a respondent or as an information gatherer.
- dougscripts.com June 9 2017 - 7:06 am Kirk and I go deep on playlists in iTunes in this week’s episode of The Next Track podcast. Real deep. This episode is sponsored by Audio Hijack from Rogue Amoeba. Diagrams « Digital Tools for Students Mind Maps can help you organise your thoughts, on JCU Study Skills Online you can read about mind maps and watch a video by Tony Buzan who has published many books on the subject. The University of Hull has produced this very impressive collection of diagrams on learning. To create mind maps one of the simplest tools to use is Bubbl.us. This training video shows you how to use Bubbl.us #24. A Summary of ‘Thinking, Fast and Slow’ by Daniel Kahneman ‘Thinking, Fast and Slow’ by Daniel Kahneman (Farrar, Straus and Giroux; October 25, 2011) Table of Contents: i. Introduction/Synopsis Section 1: An Introduction to Thought, Fast and Slow 1.
Beyond Share Pro 2.1 - Beyond Share is a handy information sharing application! July 9, 2012This giveaway is not available any more. Beyond Share is a very handy application when you want to share music and photos with your families, copy things back and forth between your multiple computers or communicate with your colleagues in an office easily. Beyond Share is an information sharing application that allows you: Copy and paste simple text, URL between computers;Copy and paste complex tables, sheets, image… etc, without losing original format;Drag and drop files and folders from one computer to another. This software was available as a giveaway on July 9, 2012, this giveaway is not available any more.
100 Amazing How-To Sites to Teach Yourself Anything Posted by Site Administrator in Online Learning May 7th, 2009 Learning new skills and expanding your knowledge doesn’t have to cost you an arm and a leg. There are loads of free resources on the Web that can help you find instructional videos, tutorials and classes to learn a wide variety of skills from fixing basic car problems to speaking another language. With 100 sites to choose from, you’re bound to find something here that will help you learn just about anything you could want.
Recommended by a colleague I trust as a preferred web 2.0 concept mapping tool. Looks good from what I saw. Try it. by shellyw39 Feb 1