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: Getting Students to Read Online
“Come fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame” William Butler Yeats It’s time to let your students harness the wild winds of the web and immerse themselves in the extensive reading opportunities available online.… Read the rest…
Udemy: Office 2013 Review: Is it worth making the switch? Compelling Features You May Not Know About
As the most popular business software on the planet, Microsoft Office has been used by literally billions of users. With any software, whenever a new version appears, the inevitable “Should I make the switch” questions appears and with good reason. Some software updates seem like nothing more than superficial changes while others seem to take a step back. Office 2013 does just the opposite by making real improvements while moving the Office suite forward. When taken as a whole, the... Continue reading »…
Udemy: Web Application Security: The 5 Most Common Security Vulnerabilities That Can Kill Your Startup
While creating a startup – either a website or a rich web application – you must observe some basic rules to ensure your users are adequately protected. To prevent a potential attack, you need to focus on the quality of the created code already at the programming stage. Here are only five of the dozens of possible attack scenarios: 1. SQL Injection SQL Injection is the best-known type of attack, originating in the validation of input. It is most commonly... Continue reading »…
Khan Academy: School Implementations: Spring into action: Testing season
School Implementations: Spring into action: Testing season: ka-implementations: With springtime comes testing time. We recently spoke with a handful of teachers about using Khan Academy to prepare for their upcoming standardized test (the California Standards Test - CST) and thought it’d be nice to share……
Coursera: An Easier Way to Find Yourselves in the Forums
Editor’s Note: Coursera’s Lead Student Team Engineer Pamela Fox shares with us a useful new Coursera feature: Forum Activity Profiles! I have to admit something embarrassing that all of our active forum participants know: before this week, the only way to find your posts or the posts of classmates in the forums was to search by name (or to keep a long list of browser bookmarks). We know that you are all really keen to keep up to date with the threads you’re participating in, and to find interesting posts by your classmates, so we’ve rolled out new functionality this week to make that all easier for you. Forum Activity Profiles For every student that participates in the forums, we’ve created a forum profile with their name, link to Coursera profile (if they’ve made one), and a list of their most recent threads, posts, and comments. There’s also an option to browse back further, for those prolific posters. Here’s what the forum prof…
Saylor.org: Ninja Skills: The Humble Bookmark
Following up on last week’s little treatise on the study skills miracle that is the second notebook (one for mess, the other for success), we’re dipping once again into the Old School’s bag of tricks. To wit: your every-day, plain-vanilla browser bookmark — a student emailed in support of this tool, and I agree: it can [...]…
Saylor.org: Spirit of Innovation Challenge: Vote Now!
Watch and see: young people have great ideas. The Conrad Foundation’s Spirit of Innovation Challenge is driven by this notion. It’s one that we at the Saylor Foundation share, which is why we’ve chosen to be a 2013 partner for SOIC. In this competition, 13-18 year olds design “commercially viable products or services to address issues of [...]…
Learning Solutions Magazine: 16 Performance Support Tips, Strategies, and Tactics by Jennifer Neibert
Most workplace learning happens outside formal training course and classes. To effectively support and improve job performance, learning content must also be available when the learner needs it. Here are some tips from experts to get your learners the content they need when and where they need it. For more tips from these experts and others, sign up for the April 11 Online Forum!
Udemy: Photography Ideas: Easy Projects For A Rainy Weekend
If you’re like most people, when the weather is bad and you’re stuck at home on the weekend you’ll probably find yourself lazing about in front of the TV or computer. It’s okay for a while but it soon gets boring, doesn’t it? Fortunately if you have a camera at hand you’ll be able to find plenty of things to occupy yourself with. You may think there’s nothing interesting that can be photographed at home but if you put a... Continue reading »…
Khan Academy: Free! Art History!
When we started Smarthistory 7 years ago, we thought of it as a replacement for the textbook - mostly for our own students. But along the way, we learned a lot about how we might use the web to think about teaching art history. We opened our classrooms, and opened Smarthistory to art historians, hoping in the process that together we could create a free, open resource for the teaching and learning of our discipline. We learned we could teach… 1) more experientially (why not make videos from audios recorded INSIDE the Arena Chapel or the Contarelli Chapel?) 2) more personally than the impersonal voice of the textbook 3) using lots more images than were ever available to us in the slide library (Flickr!) and tourist videos too (why not show students what’s it like to climb to the top of the Brunelleschi’s dome?) Today, Smarthistory.khanacademy.org has 250 essays and 500 videos (and all our videos and a few text pages are also on khanacademy.org).
ALISON: Over 250,000 Study Notes in first month on ALISON free learning & workplace learning website!
ALISON’s newest online learning feature receives a huge reception as tool helps a quarter of a million students perfect their study skills and learn more effectively online.
Udacity: Course Pods: A New Way to Connect With Classmates
Udacity! What do you love about online learning? Udacity students have gotten in touch with us to rave about two things: flexibility and community. Our classes are awesome because you can learn at your own pace (we’re lookin’ at you, back button) and from anywhere you want (no one knows you took that quiz from the bathroom)! Now, while learning at your own pace and from your own place, you might be wondering about your classmates. Our passionate students love connecting for study sessions, helping each other through tough spots in the course, collaborating on group projects, and having fun along the way. Our study groups are a cornerstone of our student community, and they just got a little bigger! You can already start your own study group through the course forums and Meetup.com. We are delighted to introduce...Course Pods! Course Pods is an educational experiment from a Udacity student who is passionate about teaching and broadening access to education. Course Po…
: Be the Change you Want to See in Education
Schools Must Change Teachers are seeking early retirement because they cannot take the school system any longer. This is happening around the globe. Teachers need students like 18-year old, Nikhil Goyal to tell it like it is. The school system needs to change and fast.… Read the rest…
Saylor.org: Course o
So, your boss asks you to write a memo on your most recent business trip to a conference. But you haven’t written one before. (Or maybe you have, but you want a little bit more practice?) Then relax, because PRDV002: Professional Writing is our iTunes U course o’ the week. In just 3.5 hours, learn [...]…
Udemy: DJ Tips: 6 Ways to Increase Studio Productivity
Everyone has a unique way of creating his or her tracks. But should you be spending 3 hours tweaking drum sounds and fiddling with minor details? How do you know when to stop tweaking and move on? With a project that contains over 30 tracks, 14 auxs and, in my case, 24 outputs to summing amps and outboard gear, your internal workflow becomes complex to manage. Majority of your studio time can be spent on tasks that don’t produce tangible... Continue reading »…
Udemy: You are what you think, so mind what you
From the moment we wake up, the inner chatter of our mind starts up. It gets a bit quieter when we get fully absorbed with a creative task or mildly hypnotized with a TV programme, film or computer game. Only when we fall asleep, does it go fully silent again perhaps only to bubble below the surface of our awareness in the form of dreams. The rest of the time our mind gets involved with internal commentary about the world... Continue reading »…
Learning Solutions Magazine: Brainshark Launches SlideShark Broadcasting and SlideShark Pro by News Editor
BrainShark continues to expand the capabilities of its SlideShark offering with new features. Mobile presenters can now invite remote meeting attendees to view live presentations over the web. SlideShark app users can now also get data on audience activity and draw on and annotate slides while presenting from iOS devices.
: What Can An Online School Look Like
The possibilities are endless, and some of them are surprising and quirky. Let’s toss aside your old fashioned notions of “school” and see if we can imagine new possibilities for the wor(l)d. For the sake of this post, we are going to use the term “school” in a general way.… Read the rest…
Learning Solutions Magazine: Go and Animate with Go!Animate by Joe Ganci
Go!Animate is cloud-based software that creates animated videos. These can be very effective for eLearning applications and much less expensive than live action shoots. Here’s a thorough review of everything that Go!Animate offers.
Saylor.org: MMD: The Need For Reform?
Good Morning and Happy Monday! Sometimes, change can be a good thing. And in other places people believe a change still needs to happen. For this week we look at reforms and changes in U.S. Federal Aid for students in higher ed., the needs for: international accrediting offices, reform in certain U.S. states, and the [...]…