From the Online Education Database: "Although you're not likely to see schools issuing an iPhone to every faculty and staff member, the fact is that the iPhone is a great tool for education. Whether you're a teacher, librarian, or other educator, there are a number of apps that can help you do your job better. Here, we'll take a look at 50 of these apps and what they can do for you."
Note to readers, the OEDB list was published in December. Since then, there have been hundreds of new apps. Do you have a favorite iPhone/iPod Touch app you might consider "educational"?
Random Thoughts and Examples of Student Dashboards
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This collection of dashboards1 was brought on by a tweet2 from Dan Meyer
but precipitated by the fact that I am struggling to figure out what
matters in te...
Super-Precise Automatic Musical Instrument
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Scroll down for today's pictures & links.
*Super-Precise Automatic Musical Instrument*
You may have seen this fake (3D animated) automated instrume...
Samsung Galaxy Note Smartphone
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These are my initial impressions of the Samsung Galaxy Note Smartphone on
March 3, 2012. Recorded with an iPhone4 at the Best Buy Store in Liberty,
Missour...
Is Minecraft Really That Great? [Opinion]
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Minecraft is quite possibly the most viral and addictive indie game that
we've ever come to see. Who knew that a concept as elementary as playing
with toy ...
App.net Wants To Help Mobile Apps Stand Out At SXSW
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[image: sxsw crowds]Here's one of the great things about South by
Southwest: Everyone wants to launch a cool new product there. Here's one of
the worst thi...
Technology Director Turns Cellphones Into Classrooms
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By Jennifer Howard, Chronicle of Higher Ed For students in South Africa,
mobile phones aren’t just for texting. They’re often the surest route to
the Inter...
do what you love
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I just found this Holstee Manifesto Lifecycle video. So good. The Holstee
Manifesto Lifecycle Video from Holstee on Vimeo. so go out and start
creating. li...
February’s Top 50 Posts on Working Smarter
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Best of Working Smarter Daily February 1-29, 2012 Working smarter draws
upon ideas from design thinking, network optimization, brain science, user
experien...
SnappSchool Connects Parents With Classrooms
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A startup called SnappSchool is compiling a weekly rundown of the
Kindergarten to 6th-grade math curriculum — for parents. The idea is tha…
Distributed research needs collaborative researchers
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Tweet“What Sanofi is doing is reducing its own internal research capacity,”
he said. “The days when we locked all of our scientists up in a building
and pu...
Check if Your Devices Are Compatible With Windows 8
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Before you consider installing a version of Windows 8, you should make sure
that all of your third party devices work fine with the operating system.
Third...
RMWP 21st Century Literacy Conference Session
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Here are the sites I am presenting at the conference: Tools: Resources
http://www.makeuseof.com/ http://www.google.com/edu/teachers/ Conversion
Site http:/...
Cengage Learning: It Gets Better
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By Michael Feldstein
I don’t always agree with my employer’s political stances, but this is one
that makes me proud: Thanks to Jane Snyder for pointing t...
Cartoon: Blinded By The Sun
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This cartoon by Dave Brown from The Independent relates to the latest UK political scandal, which has been dubbed 'Horsegate' by the media (see here for expl...
Connected learning resources and infographic
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Fresh from the Digital Media & Learning conference in San Francisco are two
new web resources, Connected Learning and the Connected Learning Research
Netwo...
Week in Review - The Most Popular Posts
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Good morning from Maine where after months of people complaining about the
lack of snow, we've had almost two feet fall this week with more on the way
(at...
Bogus doctor at maternity ward
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Bogus doctor at maternity ward: Investigations have so far revealed that
the suspect was in the hospital to grab a new born baby fathered by him out
of wed...
2 Movies, 2 Photographers, 2 Murders, 2 Realities
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One of the side benefits of my new working/house-sharing conditions with
Jim Groom is getting a chance to watch some movies together. I have a lot
of backl...
Feds Aim to Spark Fresh Thinking on Schooling
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The U.S. Department of Education is ramping up efforts to spur K-12
innovation—though it's still playing catch-up with the private sector.
Science Fair 911 – What If My Results Are Wrong?
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By Blog Editor Susan Wells We take a lot of calls during science fair
season and throughout the year from students and their parents for help on
projects....
How A Small Nonprofit Effectively Used Facebook Ads
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Placing ads on Facebook provides a targeted advertising strategy because
Facebook knows the demographics and interests of its millions of users.
If you...
Hella Car Reading Lamp
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This is one of my all-time favorite and most-used vehicular tools: a
hard-mounted interior reading light on a flexible stalk. This one is
manufactured b...
James Q. Wilson
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James Q. Wilson has died. Agree with him or not his work contributed to our
understanding of social issues in various ways, but in terms of education
if yo...
Education Buzz Carnival 2/29/12
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[image: carnival2]
Another edition of the Education Buzz Carnival is up and running at
Bellringers! Don’t miss out on all the fun! See what is going on i...
Inside The WordPress Toolbar
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The WordPress Admin Bar, first introduced in version 3.1, debuted to mixed
reactions. A Google search for “wordpress admin bar” returns multiple
articles...
My top 10 favourite resources from February
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In February I added links to over 100 resources in my 2012 Reading List, but these are my 10 favourite. I have listed them in chronological order of their pu...
Why Windows 8 says that your Password is Incorrect?
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Are you trying to log into Windows 8 using your Windows Live ID (or
Microsoft Account) but the system thinks that your password is incorrect?
Here's a poss...
KG4BDNS48SS4
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KG4BDNS48SS4 is a post from: Paul's Tech Talk
[image: 177732_Acronis True Image Home 2012 (2 copies) banner 728x90]
KG4BDNS48SS4 is a post from: Paul's Te...
GDC 2012: Good bad great design talk
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I seem to have neglected to mention that I am speaking at GDC next week!
I’ll be the last session of the Social and Online Games Summit, giving a
quick ha...
Computational thinking ~ really?
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I’m a great fan of ISTE, and love to get updates and information about
things that are happening. In my email today were a few tidbits that made
me stop an...
What a MOOC Does - #Change11
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Clark Quinn is asking where the further developments in MOOCs will come
from, suggesting "he courses really require effective self-learners", and I
see tod...
Restart Education
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Last weekend I had the pleasure to attend the Imaginarium in Romania, an
event organised as part of the Restart Education campaign in that country.
Restart...
Welcoming March Blogger: David Kelly
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David Kelly is a training director and internal learning and performance
consultant. I first met David through Twitter. I was unable to attend last
year’s ...
Global Perspectives on Digital History
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Today, my colleagues Peter Haber, Jan Hodel, and I (along with the
indispensable help of Dan Ludington) are pleased to announce the launch of
Global Perspe...
#LearningStyles Awareness Day review
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I want to support David Kelly’s Learning Styles Awareness Day, but have
written pretty much all I want to say on the matter. In short, yes,
learners differ...
Stranger Than Fiction
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On November 27, 2006, I posted this which said, among other things,
In September of 2015, Google and Apple announce thefirst shipping quantum
computer, the...
Don't be afraid to call yourself a trainer
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The word 'training' is unfashionable, so much so that at one recent
conference it was referred to as 'the T word'. As a result, just about
every self-respe...
Judith Curry interview on climate change
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The IPCC May Have Outlived its Usefulness
Some extracts:
*OP: What are your personal beliefs on climate change? The causes and how
serious a threat clim...
Guest Post: Anne Goiran-Bevelhimer
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Anne Goiran-Bevelhimer has been a pioneer in the online teaching industry
and a role model to students everywhere. Please enjoy her wonderful post on
writi...
Current Events Come to Life on the SMARTBoard
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Finding interactive sites for the Social Studies classroom can be a
challenge, so I popped over to Free Technology for Teachers to see if I
could find some...
Open Mailto: Links Using Gmail in Google Chrome
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A few months after Google Calendar added support for handling webcal: linksin Chrome, Gmail can now become the
default handler for mailto: links. If you ope...
Seeing Data
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Part of what makes what I do so interesting is the interconnectedness of
the moving parts of the organization. My group, Teaching and Learning with
Technol...
Adding an Adult Patron in Koha 3.2
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One of the most basic functions you’ll have to do with your Koha install is
add patron records. This tutorial will walk you through adding an adult
patron....
I’d Rather
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…eat a pizza prepared by Geoffrey Zakarian wielding an Easy Bake oven, than
one prepared by, uhhh… damn near anyone else using a $1000 oven. Just
saying. M...
What I Use Now
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Five years ago I wrote, what for some reason, was the first post for my
blog that got any sort of attention. Basically it was a run down of the
“Top Ten” s...
Scoble: hit man of Silicon Valley?
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Today a “journalist” (Dan Lyons) says I have been hitting up VCs to start
my own fund. Really? I didn’t know that! For the record, I’m not raising a
fund. ...
Just one sentence to make a difference
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There is huge power in short stories used to illustrate a bigger point.
I was in London last November delivering a project for a UK government
department...
It’s the Jobs-to-Be-Done, Stupid!
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I do product management for Spigit. I’ve done product management for other
companies as well. And let me tell you, the easiest thing in the world is
to fal...
EdTech Posse Podcast 8.1 – Bring your own camera
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Rob is working on a iphoneography project with some grade 9 students, for
both photography and videography. How does this integrate with the Bring
Your Own...
This Week in Love: AeroPress Coffee Maker
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This Week in Love is a series of blog posts where Sachi and I share what we
love. Browse the archives and follow @weekinlove on Twitter.
This Week in...
Follow that Conference
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1. Type the conference tag (#otaem12) into the search box and press [Enter]
2. Look for the most prolific, sharing and insightful people and click
them. 3....
Photo Restoration
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[image: Photo Restoration by midgefrazel]
Photo Restoration, a photo by midgefrazel on Flickr.
Yellowed Photos?
For some reason, many of the snapshot photo...
Sasktel’s Great Bait & Switch
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Last year, I terminated my mobile phone contract with Rogers, and signed a
three-year contract with Sasktel Mobility. I chose Sasktel at the time for
two r...
Big data .. big trend
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[I spoke at the Lita Top Technology Trends at Dallas. I had a trend in reserve - big data - but did not use it. Here is something along the lines of what I m...
A Very “Animated” Friday
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Yesterday we only had 7 students in our class! Several of our classmates
got to go to a special First Nations performance in Fort Rupert and so we
decided ...
ALA Diversity Research Grants
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CHICAGO - The American Library Association (ALA) Office for Diversity seeks
proposals for its Diversity Research Grant program. Applications
may address...
One Month in the Cloud
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It’s been a month with the Samsung Series 5 Chromebook. In late December,
I made the move away from my Macbook and decided I’d test out whether or
not I c...
90.03
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Shift & Reset by Brian Reich “There are lots of excuses for not making
real, demonstrable changes in the way we live, work, and how we interact as
individu...
Hands-On With iBooks Author
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Check out what it is like to author textbooks using iBooks Author.
Everything feels very fluid and it’s obvious that the same team that worked
on iWork w...
Kirkpatrick's Revised Four Level Evaluation Model
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I had an interesting discussion with Clark Quinn on using Kirkpatrick's
model in learning processes other than courses. Clark argues that use of
Kirkpatr...
Learning2gether Visit with MachineEVO 2012
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Learning2gether Visit with MachineEVO
An update on Week#1 of the EVO2012's MachineEVO Session
Hosted Inworld by Heike Philp
January 15, 2012
Download Au...
eLearning Learning Adds Personalized Subscriptions
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Aggregage, the platform that powers eLearning Learning has added a powerful
personalization engine. That means that eLearning Learning now allows
users ...
QR Codes, Part Two
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so, the kids were pretty rapt with the qr code; even my juniors, when they saw it, wanted to scan it and see what it did as well. i was thrilled to have them...
From self-belief to self-direction
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In a sense, leaders are in the empowerment business. If you lead a team,
you should spend a great deal of your time doing things that empower them.
Why? B...
Google’s Buzz Kill
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I’ve only just run across this news, but in reading several different tech
publications today, most notably the Official Google Blog, I see that
Google has...
Nature Scitable Bloggers Update
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We’re busy working on our presentation for the Science Online conference in
January! We had a wonderful meeting on Columbus Day to talk about how we
can i...
More than a tip o’ the hat
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Steve Jobs saw ways to connect people and realized that that was the best
thing he could do with his time and his intellect . . . find ways to
connect us t...
Thanks Steve
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Not that I will have anything to add to the news that Steve Jobs has passed
away, but I will say that I certainly admired his passion from afar. Many
tim...
Feeling Chatty?
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Live Chat is now…, well live in the Discovery Education Science Techbook.
Look for more details to come soon, but for now check out the video below
to see...
The Emperor's Garden
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The Emperor instructed the gardener to set up the new court's garden. "I
want you to plant five trees growing the Crataan fruit," the Emperor said,
"Becaus...
Partner for More
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I was cleaning my office to head off on vacation and ran across the article
I wrote last year for the Continuing Higher Education Review about the work
UC ...
Wikipedia losing contributors, to streamline editing
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Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales says the user-generated encyclopedia is
losing volunteer contributors, and must simplify its editing procedures.
Originally ...
Unlearning 101: Secret Beliefs of Networked Teachers
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This Thursday, July 14th, I’ll be presenting, “Unlearning 101: Secret
Beliefs of Networked Teachers,” which is part of the 2011 Community College
Master Te...
10 Years of Blogging: Time for a Change and a Book
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So last week it marked 10 years since my first blog post, a full decade of
writing and sharing online. As I’ve said many times before, it’s been an
amazing...
What is Innovation?
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When I posted last month about Innovation in Education, I was starting to
work on my application for the Google Teacher Academy in Seattle this
summer. Wel...
Habits
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The groups in the virtual campus I’m using at school are environments to
interact with students. For every update, you can get an email notification
provid...
Transition
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You’ve likely noticed that Open Education News has been on a brief hiatus.
We’re currently working on a new model and structure for how we bring you
Open E...
Visiting Melbourne…Want to catch up?
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I’m going to be in Melbourne from May 11 to May 18. My mum’s attending a
conference from May12-13 and asked me to join her as she doesn’t get much
opportun...
Big Changes at eLearn Magazine
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What's new and different at eLearn Magazine? I am very excited to announce that we have a new site. Not only is it more modern and attractive, we believe, bu...
The Knowledge Tree has turned 21!
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Since 2002, The Knowledge Tree has been sharing the latest research and
innovation in global e-learning practice with Australian vocational
education and t...
strength is its own kind of power
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For a variety of reasons, some closer to home than others, I’ve been trying
to pay attention to the dynamics and politics of power, especially in the
arena...
MOVING to a NEW LOCATION
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I've been blogging at Blogger since 2006, it is hard to believe that I have
been blogging for so long. I've met great people through blogging,
increased m...
Hate Trial Software? Try The Dell Vostro Line
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One of the most annoying things about buying a new computer is all of the
trial software you will have to deal with. You know all of those, “Try our
securi...
InfoGrab } January 21, 2010
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40 Percentage of video gamers that are female 18 Average number of hours
spent per week by gamers playing video games 23.7 Percentage of console
failure wi...
We’ve moved to www.chrisbetcher.com
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OK, I actually did it. If you read the previous post, you’ll know that I
was thinking of moving this blog to a self-hosted server and doing a bit of
a blog...
DiscoverEd
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This Creative Commons site provides a starting point to search for open
educational resources. Search results are given a brief description and
identified ...
Life is complicated
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To make things even more complicated, this week I announced the OFFICIAL
launch of Collin Kromke Photography, serving Sun Prairie and Madison, WI.
http://c...
Moving to new website..
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I’ve been playing with a new website design and have been intending to move
everything over to the http://fleeptuque.com domain for some time, but I
was wo...
Charges Against Henry Louis Gates Jr. to Be Dropped
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Authorities in Cambridge, Mass., agreed not to prosecute the Harvard
scholar for disorderly conduct for alleged statements to the police
investigating a ...
home
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The aim of this site is to help you gain the skills to build your own
personal learning network (PLN)!
This is a demonstration of how to write on a wiki!
{...
Super EPhone M8
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I am a enthusiastic e-electronics fan just like many young people nowadays.
I like to share ideas and opinions with my friends on e-items. Days before,
one...
Milestones or millstones?
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... the 'how' of eLearning development is being stymied by a corporate
addiction to project management methodology. You know the deal - "start
here, hit th...
Connectivism course starts Monday...
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As mentioned in June, we are offering an open online course on Connectivism. The course begins on Monday and is freely available to anyone with an interest i...
Eclipse JSF Tools Turns 1.0
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I would like to congratulate Raghu Srinivasan from Oracle (Eclipse JSF
Tools Project Lead) and his team for helping the community produce its
first officia...