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30 Jul 2010
MoodleMayhem (Yvonne Murtagh bookmarked this item)
The Moodle Mayhem Group is a community of Moodle-using educators who have joined together to pool their creative innovations regarding the use of Moodle with K-12, as well as adult learners.
29 Jul 2010
Details of 100m Facebook users collected and published (Yvonne Murtagh bookmarked this item)
Personal details of 100m Facebook users have been collected and published on the net by a security consultant. Ron Bowles used a piece of code to scan Facebook profiles, collecting data not hidden by the users privacy settings. The list, which has been shared as a downloadable file, contains the URL of every searchable Facebook users profile, their name and unique ID. He published the data to highlight privacy issues, but Facebook said it was already public information. The file has spread rapid[..]
New Kindle is lighter, faster, smaller, cheaper and built for mass market - even better single-purpose device for less than the cost of an iPod.
The iPod Touch Educator: iPod Educational Apps (Yvonne Murtagh bookmarked this item)
Pod Educational Apps - collection of recommended apps to buy for iPod touch: Grade 3 classroom (Evaluate carefully)
Read2Me iPhone app (Yvonne Murtagh bookmarked this item)
Read2Me app that can take any .txt document and, on the fly, convert it into spoken word. It can quickly access site like the Gutenberg Project and download a variety of books that are of the type: Plain Text / us-ascii / none (compression). You can also navigate to any UTF-8 Plain text *.txt file on the web, and grab them so long as they are accessable via a URL. The app offers a variety of different voices. Read2Me -iPhone App that allows full speech synthesis for an entire library of texts;[..]
Browse through the most popular titles, recommendations, or recent reviews; Special collections,. More than 28,000 eBooks available - all free!
28 Jul 2010
USA - It's no longer illegal under the DMCA to jailbreak your iPhone or bypass a DVD's CSS in order to obtain fair use footage for educational purposes or criticism
AUB - various levels of tutorial resources and documentation on Moodle
Plan for the best - South Australia's Strategic Plan (Yvonne Murtagh bookmarked this item)
South Australia's Strategic Plan - what we want to achieve and how we are going to get there - plan for a better future. So its important for everyone to have the chance to join the conversation to make South Australia the best it can be in 2020 and beyond.
Mobiles and our starting place for learning interactions (Yvonne Murtagh bookmarked this item)
Twitter is becoming a common communication tool for young Africans and many seem to use mobiles to tweet. If this trend is real, should educational institutions put more effort into expanding the ways to use mobiles and social networking tools for teaching and learning?

Yvonne Murtagh

South Australian Educator interested in emerging technologies, Web2.0 in education, social media, including Twitter and the ability of such tools to f...

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