"If you haven’t taken a look in a while, you will be amazed by the goodies Google offers to support learning across grades and content areas. They are spread across a variety of platforms, among the major portals are..."
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Tech tools that assist all students to be independent learners & teachers to become better teachers
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"Connexions is a dynamic digital educational ecosystem consisting of an educational content repository and a content management system optimized for the delivery of educational content. Connexions is one of the most popular open education sites in the world. Its more than 17,000 learning objects or modules in its repository and over 1000 collections (textbooks, journal articles, etc.) are used by over 2 million people per month. Its content services the educational needs of learners of all ages, in nearly every discipline, from math and science to history and English to psychology and sociology. Connexions delivers content for free over the Internet for schools, educators, students, and parents to access 24/7/365. Materials are easily downloadable to almost any mobile device for use anywhere, anytime. Schools can also order low cost hard copy sets of the materials (textbooks)." 
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"Schools are moving from creamy to chunky — but not in relation to cafeteria peanut butter. The change in texture is happening with content. Instruction that was structured linearly, captured in books that were all-inclusive monoliths with a predetermined progression for a uniform, somewhat “creamy” consistency, is shifting to newer forms of instructional content that are more “chunky,” beginning as a scattered landscape of digital pieces that are then assembled to support full courses." And the Open Educational Resources (OER) is a key component of this change. Four core factors are explored in this post: Price, Availability, Discoverability and Flexibility. Read on for more information.
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Search, links, media sharing, social media, Wikipedia, games, open source etc. are ground breaking shifts in the way we learn, says Donald Clark. Unfortunate...
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It’s innovation in education. And the time is right. OpenStax College offers students free textbooks that meet scope and sequence requirements for most courses. These are peer-reviewed texts written by professional content developers. Adopt a book today for a turnkey classroom solution or modify it to suit your teaching approach. Free online and low-cost in print, OpenStax College books are built for today’s student budgets.
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LibreOffice is the free power-packed Open Source personal productivity suite for Windows, Macintosh and Linux, that gives you six feature-rich applications for all your document production and data processing needs: Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw Math and Base. Version 3.5 just released with many new features.
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Canvas is the new, open-source learning management system that's revolutionizing the way we educate. Easy to learn, easy to use. Sign up for a free trial today!
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The U.S. Departments of Education and Defense has launched the “Learning Registry,”an open source community and technology designed to improve the quality and availability of learning resources in education. Currently in beta you may search a wide variety of resources from one site.
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Where are we when you look at open source textbooks? This infographic explores the situation and the solution, as well as sharing locations where you may find open source materials. (You might also do a search on OER in this Scoop.it for locations). Given finances of schools I think that open education resouces (that's the OER referred to above) will become more common...but that is my personal opinion.
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"The enemy of innovation and growth is routine. These auspicious weeks before the school year commences are the perfect time to create a new routine that will ensure innovation in your instruction and growth as an instructor. Here are some idea for those who want to take advantage of these next few weeks to guarantee the best year they’ve ever had." Below is the list of the five ideas. Read the full post to get additional information as well as links to resources. 1. Move Beyond the Textbook 2. Become an Expert in One Tool 3. Read About all Things Education 4. Revisit Your Homework Strategy 5. Make a Professional Development Schedule
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edX is a 'transformational partnership in online education'…Harvard and MIT ‘will collaborate to enhance campus-based teaching and learning and build a global community of online learners…(edX) courses (will) feature video lesson segments, embedded quizzes, immediate feedback, student-ranked questions and answers, online laboratories, and student paced learning’ and it will be open source.
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Storytelling Timeline built in Javascript. This new tool allows you to pull in media from different sources. You can create a Timeline by filling in a Google spreadsheet, or use JSON (which provides a more detailed timeline). It is an open source project, free to download, and provides best practice to use (as in keep it short, pick stories with a strong chronological narrative, and include events that build up to major occurences). There are also many examples to view.
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Flat World Knowledge was created to provide better textbook options to students and faculty, who are frustrated with the limitations and costs of traditional textbooks. We kept what works: expert authors, editorial development, peer review and teaching supplements. And changed everything else to give choices and control back to students and educators.
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Through a combination of text, videos and images Ira Socol explores the issue of how we might envision a world that moves beyond textbooks, asking "are there better way to do things than textbooks, like free ways for teachers, or better, students to assemble information. And these should be allowing us to fundamentally consider new ways to assembel infomation, rahter than a pre-cooked, pre-arranged text." Ira Socol posts always challenge me to think, to scratch my brain...perhaps he will do the same for you.
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Scribus is an Open Source program that brings professional page layout to Linux/UNIX, Mac OS X, OS/2 Warp 4/eComStation and Windows desktops with a combination of press-ready output and new approaches to page design.
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Joyce Valenza provides a brief look at many of the amazing goodies provided by Google. A partial list is below, but when you click through to the post all of the sites are hot-linked, so you click and arrive quickly at the site. Have fun exploring!
* Build with Chrome (think LEGOs)
* Google Earth Tour Builder
* Zygote Body
* Google Cultural Institute, that now includes Google Art Project, Historic Moments and World Wonders
* Google Ideas Projects - Valenza states that these projects "seeds technology-driven initiatives by connecting users, experts and engineers around critical issues that people face in times of conflict, instability or repression."