August 26, 2009
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Flashcards, Tests, and Trivia
·Flashcard and trivia applications with study, quiz, and multiple choice modes
·Randomizes cardsets and focuses on missed cards in subsequent passes
·Includes the ability for you to both download our gWhiz Catalog flashcards and more importantly, create your own through Google’s free Google Documents product
·Load cardsets from our content partners; StudyStack and the FlashcardExchange
(Link: iPhone flashcard application)
August 11, 2009
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A New Approach to College Textbooks. Finally.
We preserve the best of the old – books by leading experts, rigorously reviewed and developed to the highest standards. Then we flip it all on its head.
Our peer-reviewed book are written by experts, professionally developed, & supported by supplements. There the similarity to traditional books ends. Our books are free online, purchasable in multiple formats (softcover, audio, self-print versions) & open-source so you can modify them to fit your course. Hit our catalog or read on.
Our books are free online. We offer convenient, low-cost choices for students – softcovers for under $30, audio books and chapters, self-print options, and more. Our books are open for instructors to modify and make their own (for their own course – not for anybody else’s). Our books are the hub of a social learning network where students learn from the book and each other.
(Link: Flat World Knowledge – remixable textbooks by expert authors, free online and affordable off.)
August 11, 2009
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“The Internet disrupts any industry whose core product can be reduced to ones and zeros,” says Jose Ferreira, founder and CEO of education startup Knewton.
(Link: How Web-Savvy Edupunks Are Transforming American Higher Education | Fast Company)
August 9, 2009
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LiveText’s flexible Accreditation Management System™ provides institutions with the most advanced, complete, and user-friendly web-based tools for developing, assessing, and measuring student learning and more. With LiveText’s Accreditation Management System, institutions can provide its students, faculty, administration, and stakeholders the best assurance of its commitment to accountability, continuous improvement, and excellence in education.
(Link: LiveText – Learning Assessment Accreditation Solutions)
July 27, 2009
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“Knowledge is, as the economists say, a non-rival good,” wrote venture capitalist Brad Burnham in May. “If I eat an apple, you cannot also eat that same apple; but if I learn something, there is no reason you cannot also learn that thing. Information goods lend themselves to being created, distributed and consumed on the web. It is not so different from music, or classified advertising, or news.”
So in the future, the cost of education might be free, or nearly free, which could just level the playing field.
(Link: In the Future, the Cost of Education will be Zero – mashable)
July 9, 2009
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For example, the Blackboard family of learning management system products are often seen as creepy treehouses, as they provide e-learning tools in a very rigid, closed environment that is institutionally controlled in an attempt to “engage” students through technological novelty or mimicry of existing Web-based tools for social engagement. Increasingly, learning management systems are incorporating what educators assess as being potentially valuable learning tools such as blogs, wikis, social bookmarking, instant messaging, etc., not recognizing that these tools may be seen as artificial, meaningless, tiresome, temporary, or simply another aspect of The Man by the institution’s target participant group: the students.
(Link: “Creepy Treehouse” – Jared Stein on Education and Technology)
July 8, 2009
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Free Online English Video Activities for Preschool Children
(Link: Free English Word Games For Kids – Kindersay)
July 6, 2009
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With Scratch, people can easily construct a wide variety of interactive projects. From community narratives to role-playing games to mathematical simulations to consciousness-raising presentations, the potential for creative production with Scratch is boundless. However, for those who are primarily concerned with assisting others’ Scratch learning, there is a disconnect between what individuals want to be able to do and the tools that are presently available to them
(Link: ScratchEd – easily construct a wide variety of interactive projects)
July 6, 2009
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The best way to explain this is to use an actual school wiki. For that I pulled from a few examples to demonstrate how a school can use a wiki to change the way they do business in impactful ways. In this post you will discover how schools can get started using wikis in the following ways.
(Link: The Innovative Educator: Using A School Wiki to Increase Communication, Collaboration, and Enrich Instruction)
July 1, 2009
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Play DreamBox Learning, the online math learning game kids love
DreamBox offers engaging kindergarten, 1st grade, and 2nd grade math games that provide an in-depth math curriculum and completely individualized learning. Our online math games are full of math adventures. DreamBox is serious learning that’s seriously fun.
(Link: DreamBox Learning – Online math learning game for Kindergarten, 1st & 2nd grade kids)
