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850-644-2725Fall 2007 Technology Newsletter
September 2007
Free Resources for Educational Excellence: Calories and physical activity, the anatomy of hearing, novels, nanoscience, astronomy, photography, and Hawaii are among the topics of new resources at FREE, the website that makes teaching resources from federal agencies easier to find at Free Resources for Educational Excellence.
EdGov Resources: This online system is intended to help you identify and order U.S. Department of Education products. All publications are provided at no cost to the general public by the U.S. Department of Education. You can use the searching options to identify the specific products you are seeking.
AccessMyLibrary and is now providing students and educators with free Web access to almost 30 million online articles from a collection of more than 4,000 publications.
The new Annenberg video catalogue for Fall 2007 is now available! The catalogue includes a number of updates, including video series new in 2007 and options added to existing video series.To receive a new catalogue you may request one online or call 18005327637 or 18005327637).
New Teacher Education Unit will enjoy a new issue of EduHound: tips, advice, hot topics in education, educational roadmap to the web 2007 in many subject areas and much more.
Visit this blog Teaching, Learning, & Technology in Higher Education for best practices and practical tips for the effective use of technology in higher education classrooms.
Screencast-o-matic is a free online tool which lets you create recordings of your desktop with audio and then upload them to share or export them to Quicktime all from your browser for free.
DOC Cop Delivers Free Anti-Plagiarism Tools:
A new service has been launched to help instructors in both higher education and K-12 institutions detect plagiarized work submitted by students. The service, DOC Cop, is an entirely Web-based tool that provides free and automated assistance in locating "source material" (ahem) used in assignments submitted to teachers. Read More:
Please note that FSU uses Turnitin:
New Firefox Campus Edition Web Browser -- free download. A key feature of the new browser is the Zotero citation system developed by George Mason University's Center for History and New Media. The system is designed to help students and scholars mark and manage information on the Web that they want to cite in research papers. The campus edition browser is not all work and no play, though. It also includes a plug-in called FoxyTunes that helps manage the soundtrack to cram sessions, and StumbleUpon, a service to quickly jump among favorite blogs, online videos, and photo Web sites.
News from Google
A beta service called Google Co-op: With a Google login, you can create a custom search URL that focuses the search on areas you (and your colleagues who have expertise in your discipline) find to be most relevant. The URL is then available to anyone you choose (even without a Google login), and can be referenced in your own webpages.
Google just released their Presentation (powerpoint clone) editor on the google docs website. It has the ability to share in real time presentations so that multiple people across the internet can view a presentation and chat about it. Perfect for educational uses. Follow this link for more information.
Free for Education: StarOffice 8 from Sun or Google
Sun's StarOffice 8 productivity suite is free for education. Staff, faculty, and students can download StarOffice 8 at no cost from Google or from Sun.
TeacherTube: Imagine being able to access a free online educational community that shares instructional videos devoted exclusively to teaching and learning. Educator Jason Smith did more than imagine it; he enlisted the help of his younger brother, and together they turned their ideas into a reality called TeacherTube. Launched in March 2007, the overarching goal of TeacherTube is to "fill a need for a more educationally focused, safe venue for teachers, schools, and home learners" and to "provide anytime, anywhere professional development, with teachers teaching teachers." In addition to providing professional development for teachers, TeacherTube provides a place to post "videos designed for students to view in order to learn a concept or skill."
Web 2.0 Technologies
We start a series of resources for those of you who are interested in Web 2.0 technologies. This issue will explore blogs-- (short for weblog, a journal (or newsletter) that is frequently updated and intended for general public consumption. Blogs generally represent the personality of the author or the Web site). More resources
- Blog wikipedia
- Academic blogs
- Using blogs in education
- Comparison guide to blogging platforms
- Photoblog hosting comparison