links for 2010-08-28
Schoology – Your Digital Classroom (tags: education collaboration socialnetworking lms VLE free)
Samsung Galaxy Tab
Back in July, just as the IPad sales were impressing the stockmarket, I speculated that tablet devices might find their way into education by 2015 replacing netbooks as the preferred learning device. Cost and durability the most obvious stalling concerns. …
Lie to Me, EI and Leadership
On “primal leadership” Great leaders move us. They ignite our passion and inspire the best in us. When we try to explain why they are so effective, we speak of strategy, vision, or powerful ideas. But the reality is …
Opportunity
If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door. Milton Berle Learn to listen. Opportunity sometimes knocks very softly.
The Game Layer on Top of the World
I have been interested in SCVNGR (a web platform for building mobile device-enabled scavenger hunts) for some time now but the need for students players to use smart phones is currently prohibitive to my educational use. Listening to Seth’s TED …
Giving Live Writer Another Bash
At #MSCamp I had a brief conversation over the virtures of Live Writer. After loading it as part of the Live Essentials suite, I didn’t feel it offered me much more than the WordPress WYSIWYG with Apture, perhaps I should have …
#MSCamp Day 2
Look, I am late to the party. With such a passionate group of educators, bloggers and Tweeters there is no point re-writing what has already been written. Both Graeme Eyre and Nicki Maddams provide comprehensive lists of the tools, #MSCamp has …
Changing Faces of Hamlet? Romeo?
Listening to This Week in Google or TWIG I was reminded about Google’s photo editing software update 3.8. In addition to the ability to batch upload multiple albums, edit those albums online and metadata options, we get a new feature, ‘Face Movies.’ The …