Hundreds of tutorials for Moodle use. An official site for Moodle.
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Moodle and Mahara: e-Portfolio Tools
e-Portfolios: A Primer
ePortfolios and information literacyhttp://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=eportfoliosysl2-090629111836-phpapp01&stripped_title=eportfolios-information-literacy-and-web-20View more documents from Pru Mitchell.
AbeBooks.com Summer Reading Lists 2009
How I love the sound of summer reading lists! Here's AbeBooks.com list of summer reading lists from: Oprah, Stephen King, Wall Street Journal, and NRP.
Paul Robeson Library Videos
VOICETHREAD
Voicethread is a great way to share an image or a video clip or an audio track, and have class discussions and conversations. It's a pretty powerful piece of technology that attempts to enhance classroom connectivity. Check out my first attempt at making a voicethread:http://voicethread.com/book.swf?b=541020To try out Voicethread, leave a comment or check out the … Continue reading VOICETHREAD
WORDNIK
In what's predicted to become the Google of digital dictionaries, a new website marries the definitions of 1.7 million words with relevant information, images and multimedia plumbed from Web 2.0. Wordnik contains over 1.7 million words and 130 million examples of using the words including a dictionary, theasaurus, etymology, audio pronunciations, and related words. A … Continue reading WORDNIK
BING is here!
Check out Microsoft's new search engine, Bing. I mean, I'm not sure why even bothering to put forward the money and time into this thing with Google and even the new computational knowledge engine, Wolframalpha, has taken a different tact with its usage so its not even competing with the big guy.
Texting Causing Further Troubles for Teens
Teens and text messaging:anxiety, distraction in school, falling grades, repetitive stress injury and sleep deprivation--and that's only half the problem. Check out a recent article in today's New York Times that says texting is complicating the lives of teens. Any surprise?
So, what’s Google up to?
Google is always experimenting with new features aimed at improving the search experience. Check out the features in the works: a timeline machine, short cuts, preferred sites capability, wiki searches--all in the experimental (or beta) stages. Note: you can only try one out at a time.
