Meg H's Blog – July 2009 Archive (7)

Reposted from Meg's Notebook



A number of educators are starting to use video technology to capture everything from class drama projects, to school activities and outings, or to make available supplementary notes or how-to instructions for assignments and projects. These video-taped items are typically made available to students via classroom computer(s) or the library's computers, however, many teachers are now taking advantage of… Continue

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Consortium of School Networking (CoSN)

Founded in 1992, the Consortium of School Networking (CoSN) is the premier professional association for school district technology leaders. If you check… Continue

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Wikis have become the tool of choice for many teachers, it provides an easy way to create web pages and to link them up, and allows one to do all this using a wysiwyg editor. And with the number of free wiki products available on the web, many of which now integrate social or widget elements to entice users and… Continue

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Open Atrium

New Drupal-based… Continue

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Zoho is an Indian web office applications development firm that is taking on the big guns, Google and Microsoft, and actually giving them a run for their money. Zoho's range of products is an immense, fulsome collection of personal collaboration and productivity apps, consisting of ten products, and an at cost business apps service comprised of nine products. It's a very… Continue

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I've tried out Microsoft's Office Live Workspace, a component of the Office Live platform which includes the ability to create a professional web presence, have an online storage and sharing space, and real-time online collaboration. Office Live Workspace is Microsoft's response to… Continue

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Google Apps Education Edition is a free suite of hosted communication & collaboration applications specifically geared at schools (universities and K-12).



If a school board does not want to, or is unwilling to, invest in Google apps for education, a teacher can… Continue