[Translate] Image by lrargerich via Flickr In Jez’ e-Rambler blog, he meditates on the importance of reflection in education. Researchers have long known that reflection is an excellent way to stimulate critical thinking. By comparing new learnings with what you already know, you are[...]
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February 22nd, 2010 - 12:51 pm § in Blogging, EdTech, Featured Posts, TeacherHax, Ted Curran, Web 2.0
Reflecting on Reflection in Ed.
GRUML: Google Reader on your Desktop
[Translate] Image by Sue Waters via Flickr As you may have gathered from my defense of desktop email clients, I prefer desktop apps to webapps any day of the week. Even if the app is powered by a web data service (like Gmail), desktop applications can take advantage of the massive computin[...]
Finding copyright-friendly Images: A blogger’s guide
[Translate] Image via Wikipedia Flickr.com, Yahoo.com, and Google (and now Bing.com) can be great places to find images of just about anything under the sun. Unfortunately, many of the images you find are the intellectual property of someone else– so you can’t include them with[...]
October 26th, 2009 - 2:00 pm § in TeacherHax, Web 2.0
Smart Dumb Phones: Cool Uses for Low Tech Cell Phones (NO iPhone REQUIRED!)
[Translate] Image by Ninja M. via Flickr There’s no denying that the iPhone has become an amazing tool for taking your internet connected life mobile. However, many of its functions are available to even the lowest tech “dumb phones” on the market. This post will show y[...]
September 22nd, 2009 - 1:03 pm § in Web 2.0
Broke free of my iPhone/AT&T Bondage!: Road Test for the Palm Pre on Sprint
[Translate] Image by zoovroo via Flickr Since its debut in 2007, I’ve been a fanatical iPhone jailbreaker and general enthusiast of the device. As more and more iPhones have begun bogging down the 3G network in the Bay Area, Apple/AT&T seem to be taking their customers for grante[...]
Opera Unite: A Web/Chat/FileSharing/etc. server IN YOUR BROWSER!
[Translate] Image by Glztt via Flickr Opera Unite is an amazing service that allows you to run a web server right out of your own browser! What does that mean? It means that you can share photos, music, and files without uploading them to some external service. You can even set up a privat[...]
GrooveShark– The BEST of the streaming online music players!
[Translate] Grooveshark is the holy grail of online music players— it has every song you want to hear, it lets you listen to what you want (not what THEY want you to hear) and you can make and save your own playlists. And it’s free. [...]
Evernote– Remember everything!
[Translate] Evernote is a great note-taking application for Mac/PC and iPhone, as well as a powerful webapp. It gives you tons of ways to keep track of all the little bits of information in your life— that cool website you want to remember, your shopping list, a photo of your homework assi[...]
Blackle: Energy Saving Google Search
[Translate] In January 2007 a blog post titled Black Google Would Save 750 Megawatt-hours a Year proposed the theory that a black version of the Google search engine would save a fair bit of energy due to the popularity of the search engine.The idea is that it takes more energy to make a computer[...]
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