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Portraits of Learning 2008: Deadline Extended

Tech & Learning invites K-12 students to participate in Portraits of Learning, the seventh annual digital photography contest. The competition challenges the K-12 students to capture - and share - their unique vision of the world. The best digitally enhanced photo wins a special prize from Adobe. Other prizes include a digital camera, Adobe Photoshop read more..

Scriblink: A Free Digital Whiteboard

Scriblink - Your Online Whiteboard. ‘Scriblink is a free digital whiteboard that users can share online in real-time. Sorta like pen and paper, minus the dead trees, plastic, and the inconvenience of being at the same place at the same time. We are all about collaboration. Whether you’re here for pure artistic enjoyment or more practical read more..

Learning Content Development System (LCDS) from Microsoft

The Learning Content Development System (LCDS) is a tool that enables you to create high quality, interactive, online courses. Virtually anyone can publish e-learning courses by completing the easy-to-use LCDS forms that seamlessly generate highly customized content, interactivities, quizzes, games, and assessments—as well as Silverlight-based animations, demos, and other multimedia. Note that a free registration is read more..

Online Colleges Degrees Review

Online Colleges, part of the huge College Scholarships, Colleges, and Online Degrees portal, main goal is helping students to choose suitable online colleges, degrees and courses. The all site is designed like a notebook page making use of a user-friendly right navigational toolbar where we can find several links to other site’s pages. My main purpose visiting read more..

2nd Pan-American and Francophone ePortfolio Conference: ePortfolio and Digital Identity

ePortfolio and Digital Identity Conference, Montreal, 5-7 May 2008. The 2nd Pan-American and Francophone ePortfolio conference is being organised by EIfEL in partnership with the Centre for the Study of Learning and Performance (CSLP) at Concordia University, the Centre de Recherche en Informatique de Montréal (CRIM) and HR-XML. It will take place at Concordia University read more..

How to Keep Students Motivated and Attentive

ICT Results: Attention please! Next-generation e-learning is here. ‘Take an e-learning platform, mix in a large dose of social networking, sprinkle liberally with intelligent software agents to stimulate users and, according to a team of European researchers, you have a recipe to keep students’ attention even during the most testing training courses. Recent trials of two read more..

Innovation 2008: The Real and The Ideal

ICT Results: Attention please! Next-generation e-learning is here. ‘Take an e-learning platform, mix in a large dose of social networking, sprinkle liberally with intelligent software agents to stimulate users and, according to a team of European researchers, you have a recipe to keep students’ attention even during the most testing training courses. Recent trials of two read more..

Open Education: The Cape Town Declaration

Unlocking the promise of open educational resources: The Cape Town Open Education Declaration. ‘The Cape Town Open Education Declaration arises from a small but lively meeting convened in Cape Town in September 2007. The aim of this meeting was to accelerate efforts to promote open resources, technology and teaching practices in education. Convened by the Open read more..

Big Think: YouTube for Ideas

Big Think. ‘bigthink.com is a new and growing website, currently in its private beta version, with a simple mission: This is a digital age, one in which a wealth of accessible information empowers you, the citizen-consumer. But where is the information coming from? How accurate and unprocessed is it, really? Ask yourself this: how empowered do read more..

The Open Research and Open Knowledge Society

The Open Research and Open Knowledge Society (ORS Acronym) is a Non Governmental Organization (NGO) based on Athens Greece and is operating all over the world. It is not depending on any government, political party, political or religious organization or entities representing financial interests. Given the significance of the knowledge society as a new context of read more..

Multiply Your e-Portfolio

Multiply. ‘Multiply gives you an easy way to share all kinds of digital media, including photos, blogs, videos, music and more, all in one convenient place: your own personal web site. With Multiply, you can share and discuss your stuff with everyone in your “social network,” and also be alerted whenever they have something new.’ a Multiply read more..

Knowing Knowledge Wiki: An Online Book by George Siemens

Knowing Knowledge Wiki. From the Preface: Why does so much of our society look as it did in the past? Our schools, our government, our religious organizations, our media—while more complex, have maintained their general structure and shape. Classroom structure today, with the exception of a computer or an LCD projector, looks remarkably unchanged—teacher at read more..

Wikia Search Alpha Just Launched

Wikia Search Alpha Launched. ‘Wikia is working to develop and popularize a freely licensed (open source) search engine. Wikia’s search engine concept is that of trusted user feedback from a community of users acting together in an open, transparent, public way. Of course, before we start, we have no user feedback data. So the results are read more..

Innovate: Collecting, Organizing, and Managing Resources for Teaching Educational Games the Wiki Way

Collecting, Organizing, and Managing Resources for Teaching Educational Games the Wiki Way, Shelley Henson Johnson, Brett Shelton, and David Wiley, Innovate, Vol. 4, December 2007/January 2008. Synopsis: Recognizing the pedagogical value of gaming, academics along with game designers and educational content developers have begun producing resources to improve educational game design and make instructional games read more..

TechLearning 2007 Leaders of the Year and Awards of Excellence

Leaders of theYear 2007: For the 20th year, T&L is proud to honor outstanding educators. In the following pages we bring you profiles of innovation, of courage, of determination, and most important, of dedication to the future of students. You will read about: a superintendent who turned around a “failing community” through the use of read more..