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Your 'How to Get Started' Guide to Tech

Your 'How to Get Started' Guide to Tech

Microsoft Virtual Academy - Cursos online gratuitos para desenvolvedores e profissionais de TI Successful technologists never stop learning and great technology never stops evolving. Microsoft Virtual Academy (MVA) offers online Microsoft training delivered by experts to help technologists continually learn, with hundreds of courses, in 11 different languages. Our mission is to help developers, knowledgeable IT professionals and advanced students learn the latest technology, build their skills, and advance their careers. MVA is free of charge, and the entire service is hosted on Windows Azure. Become an MVA member so that you can earn points for your learning, achieve different levels of badges and status relative to others in your country or around the world, and get certificates when you complete an entire course. Your personal dashboard helps you track your progress against your personal learning plans. MVA learning opportunities combine on-demand courses and live events: On-demand courses help you learn at your own pace, and when the time is right for your busy schedule.

UoPeople - The world's first tuition-free Accredited Online University Why Technology Alone Can’t Fix the Education Problem For more than a decade now, I’ve internally cringed whenever someone talks about the promise of technology in education. Often, discussions of iPads, video games, laptops for all focus on the potential of access to the software, device, or app rather than how it’s used. In 1999, my department at UC Santa Barbara decided that all lecturers would hold classes in campus computer labs to demonstrate our progressiveness. We received no training. But globally, many thought technology would revolutionize education. No matter how many laptops we put in classrooms or wi-fi networks we set up, if kids are in a district where schools are closing and class time is reduced due to budget shortfalls, learning is going to suffer. Challenges outside the classroom affect learning within. Facing these societal challenges, clearly technology can level the playing field, but cannot be the only leveller. And if we’re honest, the story of long-term change isn’t as engaging as the story of tech fixes.

DuxGP - Soluções em Ti Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León La Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León ofrece cursos gratuitos en línea dirigidos a la comunidad en general, a través de una plataforma multimedia de acceso libre, en un portal con diversas posibilidades tecnológicas de vanguardia y abierto al mundo. Y el conocimiento está a un sólo "click" en la Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, luego de que se puso en marcha una plataforma tecnológica donde se puede acceder a cursos en línea de manera gratuita: Alere. Este proyecto, auspiciado por la Secretaría Académica y la Secretaría de Asuntos Universitarios, fue presentado el 26 de noviembre por el Rector Jesús Ancer Rodríguez en el Teatro Espacio de la Facultad de Artes Escénicas e involucra a maestros, investigadores y estudiantes de la Máxima Casa de Estudios. Vive UANL revolución tecnológica Por Esperanza Armendáriz Fecha Noviembre 26 de 2014 Fotografía José Luis Macías Nicanor

Hidden Common Core skills students need to learn…and how to learn them School experts say these Common Core tools can teach students the digital skills they need to learn As schools across the country begin to implement Common Core, assessments are asking students to use digital skills that many still need to learn. According to one school district, it’s knowing what these skills are, the online tools available, and in what grades to implement them, that will make students Common Core-ready. “If you look at the Common Core requirements closely, there are minimal technology requirements for every student,” said Tamra Hogue, supervisor of instructional technology and media services for Bay District Schools in Panama City, Fl., during the FETC 2014 presentation “Common Core: Cool Tools for Your School.” Beyond knowing how to respond to an online prompt during computer assessments, prompts that often use Microsoft Word icons without instructions, students also need to complete Common Core requirements by creating “brochures” or “video presentations.”

Panarea Digital: solutions and apps for mobile interaction and digital publishing Busca UANL imponer su sello con clases por internet Se trata de "Alere", un proyecto auspiciado por la Secretaría Académica y la Secretaría de Asuntos Universitarios, que presentó el rector Jesús Áncer Rodríguez. "Alere es una plataforma muy cómoda que utiliza la multimedia para que la comunidad tenga información especializada sobre temas de actualidad. "Se podrá utilizar de manera gratuita, es descargable para dispositivos móviles y es un trabajo que se integra a la política de open access a nivel nacional y con carácter social", explicó el rector. Los interesados podrán ingresar al portal www.uanl.mx para obtener contenidos de alta calidad informativa y visual, y de manera gratis, sin la necesidad de un registro. Por ahora se ofrecen 10 cursos, pero con el tiempo irán agregando más, explicó Juan Adame, el director de Educación Continua. Adame informó que desde el lanzamiento de Alere este miércoles, hasta ayer, algunos cursos han sido visitados por alrededor de 1,500 usuarios.

TICAL - Technology Information Center for Administrative Leadership Here Come the Google+ Client Applications It is inconceivable that Twitter would be as popular as it is today without its robust Application Programming Interface, which allows client applications like TweetDeck and the original Tweetie (since bought by Twitter and re-branded as its official client app) to both display a user’s stream of tweets and manipulate his or her account in all the ways he or she would on Twitter.com itself. So depending on your perspective, it’s either surprising that Google+ did not launch with a developer API, or it’s surprising that they have come out with one relatively quickly, given the amount of testing and tweaking an entirely new social network no doubt involves. Either way, Google+ finally has an API, although it’s read-only, and it only shows the Google+ posts that a user has made public. In the coming days and weeks, we’re going to see a handful of uses of this API, which, in the abstract, at this point is little more than an RSS or XML feed for a user’s public posts.

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