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Google Plus Puts the Social in Learning with Google Apps for Education

Posted on October 21, 2011 by Ted Curran

With the news that Google Apps for Education will be integrated with Google+ in a few days, it’s time to start thinking about how social media and collaboration can be a reality for schools.

Posted in EdTech, Featured, Free Apps, Learning Communities, TeacherHax | Tagged classroom 2.0, Edmodo, edtech, education, facebook, google, Google App, Learning, Schoology, social learning, Social media, SocialCast, teaching, Yammer | Leave a comment

Secure Your Social Identity Across All Sites with NameChk.com

Posted on September 28, 2011 by Ted Curran

If you are trying to create a branded online identity, it helps to have a consistent username across all of the major sites. With NameChk.com, you can search once and see if your favorite username is available on 159 different … Continue reading →

Posted in Featured, Free Apps, Learning Communities, TeacherHax, Web 2.0 | Tagged facebook, google, namechk, NameChk.com, Online identity, Social media, Social network, Social network service, Tumblr, twitter, User (computing), youtube | Leave a comment

Free Tools, the Distorted Web, Privacy, and Your Students' Critical Thinking Skills

Posted on June 21, 2011 by Ted Curran

Until I saw this TED talk, I didn’t care much that free Web 2.0 tools like Google and Facebook were collecting massive dossiers of information about my online habits. I thought they were just using it to serve me more … Continue reading →

Posted in EdTech, Featured, TeacherHax, Web 2.0 | Tagged Android, big brother, Bing, Critical thinking, Duck Duck Go, edtech, education, facebook, george orwell, google, Google Search, NPR, privacy, search, Student, teacher, TeacherHax, teaching, web 2.0, Web search engine, webapps | 6 Comments

Chrome OS Netbooks: Can Your School Live in the Cloud?

Posted on June 2, 2011 by Ted Curran

If you haven’t heard of Chrome OS, it’s Google’s attempt to do away with the desktop altogether and have everything that happens on your computer happen inside the browser. This means that instead of opening Outlook for your email, you … Continue reading →

Posted in Free Apps, TeacherHax, Web 2.0 | Tagged Chromebook, cloud, Desktop computer, education, google, Google Chrome, Google Chrome OS, Hotmail, laptop, Linux, mac, netbook, Operating system, school, Wi-Fi, windows | Leave a comment

Cultivate your Personal Learning Network

Posted on May 23, 2011 by Ted Curran

This post discusses how to build your own Personal (or Professional) Learning Network. Instead of starting by telling you which tools to use, I want to talk about why you would do this in the first place…. This … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogging, Featured, TeacherHax, Web 2.0 | Tagged BBC, Clients, edtech, education, google, Google Reader, igoogle, lifehacks, New York Times, Online Communities, Personal Learning Network, Personal Learning Networks, Professional development, rss, Social media, social networking, teacher, technology, twitter, web 2.0, wordpress, WWW | 14 Comments

The Blackboard Buyout and the Wisdom of Open Web Standards

Posted on April 28, 2011 by Ted Curran

As part of our LMS Evaluation, we’ve investigated concerns around Instructure’s viability and longevity as a business. Recent events surrounding Blackboard should lead us to question its viability with equal diligence. First there was last week’s report that Blackboard had … Continue reading →

Posted in EdTech, Featured | Tagged blackboard, Business, google, Higher education, instructure, lms, moodle, Private equity, WebCT | 2 Comments

Search Large Creative Commons Images from the Chrome Omnibar

Posted on April 7, 2011 by Ted Curran

When I’m doing a creative project (or just working on a presentation) I am always looking for large, beautiful photos bearing a Creative Commons license. Works released in the Creative Commons can be reused, remixed, redistributed, and revised for free– … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogging, Featured, TeacherHax | Tagged artists, browser, chrome, Copyright, Creative Commons, education, Flickr, google, Google Chrome, Lifehacker, lifehacks, MakeUseOf, omnibar, search, Search Engines, TeacherHax, teachers, teaching, Web search engine | 3 Comments

The ‘Angry Birds’ Guide to Online Lesson Design

Posted on February 14, 2011 by Ted Curran

(This post is part of a series called “The Connected Class Community”). A popular reason for exploring gamification in online learning is because we want to increase student engagement with the content. Games are nothing if not engaging, and the … Continue reading →

Posted in Featured, Learning Communities | Tagged Android, Angry Birds, AngryBirds, Bird, E-learning, education, Envision Schools, gamification, google, iOS, iPad, iphone, No Child Left Behind Act, Rovio, Rovio Mobile, teacher, Video game, Zone of proximal development | 2 Comments

The Best of Both Worlds– Web Apps with Desktop Clients

Posted on November 2, 2010 by Ted Curran

The recent explosion of great tools that simply run in a web browser has been amazing. From tools like Google Docs, Evernote, Flickr, Twitter, Facebook, Prezi, and Rememberthemilk and the venerable Gmail– you can access powerful tools for free wherever … Continue reading →

Posted in Free Apps, TeacherHax, Web 2.0 | Tagged Apps, Evernote, facebook, Flickr, gmail, google, Google Docs, Linux, mac, Remember the Milk, twitter, Web browser, windows | 2 Comments

Just an Idea: Google Human– Google Earth for the Human Body

Posted on July 21, 2010 by Ted Curran

Update! What began as a pie-in-the-sky idea was actually put into production as Google Body Browser, a 3D WebGL powered app that showed the major features of the anatomy in a browser. As Google has focused their energy around their … Continue reading →

Posted in EdTech, Featured, TeacherHax | Tagged AIDS, DNA, google, Google Earth, Health, Human, Human body, Medicine, Neural network, open source, Programming, Wikipedia | Leave a comment

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Free Tools, the Distorted Web, Privacy, and Your Students' Critical Thinking Skills

The Blackboard Buyout and the Wisdom of Open Web Standards

Search Large Creative Commons Images from the Chrome Omnibar

The ‘Angry Birds’ Guide to Online Lesson Design

The Best of Both Worlds– Web Apps with Desktop Clients

Just an Idea: Google Human– Google Earth for the Human Body

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