Academic social-media site to integrate with Facebook Skip to main content Browse All Briefs by Topic Academic social-media site to integrate with Facebook Forward to a friend 09/2/2010 | eCampus News (free registration) A social-media website for college students called CampusLive will integrate with Facebook in an effort to blend social networking with education, CampusLive CEO Boris Revsin said. View Full Article in: eCampus News (free registration) Education | K-12 | Tech | Software & IT Services Published in Brief: SmartBrief on EdTech SmartBrief Job Listings for Education View More Job Openings ©2014 SmartBrief
separated by a common language 7 Brilliant iPhone Apps for Teachers and Bloggers | Johannes Ahrenfelt Keeping your blog up-to-date, stylish and packed with interesting content have become much easier with the advent of smart phones like the Android and iPhone. The apps noted below build on my previous posts 11 iPhone and iPod Touch Apps for Enhanced Productivity and Top iPhone Apps for Teachers and Students, and will show you more useful and effective tools that will help updating and tweak blog posts much easier and also show you specific examples of how some of these applications can be used successfully for both teachers and students. 1. Ego If you’re looking for a quick way of finding out how many readers that visit your blog, Vimeo, Tumblr, Twitter and others, be sure to download the Ego App for the iPhone. [adsenseyu1] 2. This claims to work like a scanner for your iPhone and I hesitated a little before deciding to buy this app as I questioned how it could improve the overall quality of a photo I’d taken of a book page, poster etc. 3. [adsenseyu2] 4. 5. [adsenseyu3] 6. iBlogger: 7.
Analyst: Android To Get 50% of Mobile Market, iOS Only 20% 7 September '10, 05:34pm Follow A new report from analyst firm Piper Jaffray says that in the long run, Android is going to be the OS running on around half of the smartphone market. iOS will shrink down to somewhere between twenty and thirty percent market share. The predicted OS breakdown says that the last twenty or thirty percent of the market will be fought over by RIM and Nokia. Despite their current dominance, the analysts are citing the importance of software and how both companies are so behind Google and Apple. But what I’m sure you want to know is how Android will beat the iPhone, and the answer has two parts. The other much more important factor is that Android gives higher profits to the carriers. Does this mean Apple’s bottom line will suffer? As smartphones become the standard (and they will be the only sort of phone anyone has in a few years), this means that Google will be heavily integrated into peoples’ mobile lives.
untitled HOUSTON – While Apple’s I-Pad is known for its convenience and high-tech capabilities, it’s also being used to help change the lives of autistic children. Kyle and Tina Carkhuff’s 5-year-old son, Evan, was diagnosed with autism last year. Like many autistic children, he cannot talk. But in the last two months, Evan has shown astonishing progress. "He started to play more with his brother, he is more interactive with us," said Tina Carkhuff. The couple purchased an I-Pad and soon realized the device provided learning apps that helped give their son a voice. "We started using the I-Pad to put pictures of the food on the I-Pad, then Evan can tap or scroll and tells us exactly what he is looking for," Tina Carkhuff said. Tom Theriot, 10, has a similar story. "It’s a way that I am going to get to know my child, he is a joker and loves to laugh," said his mother Laura Theriot. Autism is a developmental disorder that affects the brain. Pediatric Neurologist Dr.
The Augmented Reality Library Featured Post What it is: Ideas to Inspire has been a favorite of mine for years, it recently got a design boost that makes it even more useable! Ideas to Inspire comes to us from @markw29, Mark invites teachers from around the world to share their inspiring ideas for using technology in the classroom. How Are Adults Using Mobile Phones? This post was written by Jenny Urbano, our Social Media Manager. Here at Demandforce, we love seeing and celebrating your ideas! And more than that, we love to hear from YOU. We want to bridge the gap between us and you, so that’s why we’re offering a once in a lifetime opportunity to win a trip to San Francisco, sightsee in this amazing city, visit Demandforce headquarters and share your ideas with us! 6 winners, and a guest of their choice will be flown out to San Francisco, California on March 12-14th, 2014, where they will stay in Union Square, spend a day at Demandforce, have dinner with the team, and explore the lovely City by the Bay! For contest rules, and how to enter, please visit our post in the Generation Demandforce Community here. Good luck!
Glass: Turning the Internet into your collaborative sharing website. TNW Quick Hit Glass turns the Internet into your collaborative message center. Love It: Personalized groups. Hate It: Firefox and Chrome only, for now. Overall: 3/5 The Details We’ve all done the thing where you’re browsing a website, you find something interesting and then send it out in a tweet or email to your friends. While I could tell you loads about it, the video really does it more justice than I can in words. What you end up with is a way to share information, while retaining context. Glass can be hugely useful, once you’ve gotten enough people connected to make it so. Glass understands, though, that keeping track of your notes on various sites around the Internet can be somewhat difficult. While Glass is in beta, it is available by invitation only. Give it a run, and let us know what you think.
Glass: A New Annotation and Collaboration Platform I discovered Glass after reading this article by Brad McCarty on The Next Web and thought I would kick the tires. The technology (or what are my powers?) Right now access to Glass is by invitation, and you can use the code provided in The Next Web article. Clicking on the add-on when you’re on a Web page, gives you access to these Glass tools. As shown in the video below, you use the “New Slide” tool to add notes on “slides” you post to a Web page you’re viewing. Select people will be able to see your notes and share their own comments and information. The Feed tool allows you to control your view of slides relating to any particular Web page. Glass also allows you to manage contacts. Contact tutorial Additionally, you can create “lists” of contacts so that you can share your notes with people you consistently collaborate with (e.g., teams for specific projects or classmates). List tutorial New spiffy features coming Glass is evolving and continually adding new features. Like this:
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Free Mobile Internet for Educators - In YOUR U.S. City! Thanks to a colleague for sharing this bit of exciting news! An organization known as The Source for Learning (SFL) is offering educators Clear 4G wireless accounts FREE to educators in various locations, including my home city of San Antonio, Texas ! The free accounts will include a user device to enable reception. User devices might be stationary modems for a room or USB modems (i.e. “sticks”) for a laptop (see www.clear.com/shop/devices/mobile). Users will also have free access to SFLMedia which is a combination of TeachersFirst and an assortment of streaming video clips covering selective topics. This pilot program is part of the commitment of SFL to support education in all forms. Other Texas towns included in the offer: Fort WorthNolanvilleSan AntonioWaco Below is the official press release: Free mobile Internet - a pilot project for teachers in certain locations The Source for Learning, Inc.
University Learning = OCW + OER = FREE! ZaidLearn is back from another non-blogging vacation (Who cares!)! Excellent point! Anyway, before I get back to my wacky 5-part learning series (in 2 weeks time!) Interestingly, this post will be a dynamic one, meaning that I will continue to update (and revamp!) STARTING POINTS But before we get bogged down by tons of free learning repositories, here are few good starting points to find and know more about OER and OCW: OCW - Master List Updated master list of all Open Courseware (OCW) projects around the world. WikiEducator An evolving community intended for the collaborative planning of education projects linked with the development of OER. development of free content on Wikieducator for e-learning; work on building open education resources (OERs) on how to create OERs.Wikiversity Wikibooks, Collection of open-content textbooks. OER Blogs An initiative from MIT's OpenCourseWare project to aggregate and stimulate discussion about open educational resources. AMAZING COLLECTIONS!