Free Moodle Hosting With e-Socrates

e-Socrates aims to create "the best free Moodle hosting service for everyone who wants to do e-learning activities".

You can create a course and "have the full moodle power in your hands, without restrictions of any kind!" including being able to track your students subscriptions and setting a password for the course enrolment.

In order to use the site you must "always allow website visitors the right to read your contents, you can prevent them from subscribing as students but you can't prevent them from accessing the material".

This is the only "fee" required by e-Socrates in exchange for the free hosting service.

Currently there are over 500 courses available in different languages including Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Croatian, French, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Vietnamese and Sanskrit.

Lots of sharing going on here :)

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Forthcoming WebEx Webinar and Archives

The upcoming Cisco WebEx webinar on Beyond the Classroom: Making Mobile and Social Learning Work in Schools, which will be held on 30th March, sounds very interesting.

The webinar promises to provide:
* Inspiring ideas for embracing collaborative learning and mobility
* Best-practice advice for keeping mobile and social learning safe
* Real-world suggestions and cautions
* Technical tips for ensuring that your network is prepared
* Ideas for engaging students, teachers, administrators and boards

To date, Cisco WebEx have archived 32 of their previous education related webinars recorded from 2009 to the present.

A wide range of interesting educational topics have already been covered such as:

• Launching a Mobile Learning Program: What Every School Leader Should Know
• Blending Traditional and Online Learning 101: Best Practices to Get Your School Started
• Is Your Internet Use Policy Social Media Proof?
• New Perspectives for Balancing Network Access and Security within Higher Education
• How to Deliver Relevant, Engaging Multimedia Content to 21st Century Campuses
• Unleash the Power of Student Engagement with Mobile Technologies

Well worth checking out the Cisco WebEx Archive!

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TED-ED Brain Trust Coming Soon

TED is a small nonprofit devoted to "Ideas Worth Spreading" and brings together people from the worlds of Technology, Entertainment and Design.

Now the TED-ED Brain Trust is forming and is looking for the expertise of "visionary educators, students, organizations, filmmakers & other creative professionals".

Every minute, three hundred new learners are born into this world. How can TED play a role in enriching the education of these individuals? How can TED enrich the education of the billions of learners around the globe?

TED-ED needs your help to answer these questions.

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Google Docs Viewer Gets Even Better

I have already posted about the delights of Google Docs Viewer and now it has just got even better!

12 new file formats have now been added, which can be viewed online without having the specific software. Also, in Gmail, these types of attachments will show a “View” link, which will bring up the Google Docs Viewer.

New formats available:
* Microsoft Excel (.XLS and .XLSX)
* Microsoft PowerPoint 2007/2010 (.PPTX)
* Apple Pages (.PAGES)
* Adobe Illustrator (.AI)
* Adobe Photoshop (.PSD)
* Autodesk AutoCad (.DXF)
* Scalable Vector Graphics (.SVG)
* PostScript (.EPS, .PS)
* TrueType (.TTF)
* XML Paper Specification (.XPS)

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Enhancing the YouTube Experience

EmbedPlus enhances your viewing experience of embedded YouTube videos by adding some useful interactions. These include:

• Realtime Reactions: Show viewers the latest online reactions, right inside the player. Currently, YouTube comments and Twitter feeds are featured.
• Scene Skipping: Chapter buttons that let you skip to marked times. You can also use the wizard to mark notable parts or mark multiple events and then simply reference scene numbers in discussions.
• Movable Zoom: Dynamically magnifies the area you point over. Get a close look at moving objects or writing.
• Slow Motion: Instantly watch videos at a slower rate.
• Instant Replay: Replay an event soon after it happens.
• Third Party Annotations: Add your own timed annotations to any video. Use it to display titles, captions, scene labels, and side comments during playback. The text is displayed on the control bar to avoid blocking the video screen.

I can see this being quite useful in the classroom particularly the zoom and slow motion options! Here's one I made earlier!!

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Training Material for IT Certification

The Mobile Classroom, by James Messer, is a great ICT resource providing videos to help you with some of your most common questions about personal computer technology. The content is aimed at anyone who has a connection to the Internet.



James also provides specialized video training material for some IT industry certifications including CompTIA A+, CompTIA Network+, Microsoft 70-680 and Nmap at his Professor Messer website.

These videos run approximately from ten to twenty minutes and are all hosted on Professor Messer'sYoutube Channel.

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Enjoying Apture Highlights

Apture Highlights is a browser extension that lets you experience the power of Google search, and the richness of YouTube, Flickr, Twitter, and Wikipedia without leaving the webpage you are on.

You simply highlight a phrase on any webpage to reveal search results without ever leaving the page.

I agree with Apture when they say it is "fast, powerful, and fun". Oh, and so easy to use as well. Brilliant!!

Apture Highlights Extension Welcome Video from Tristan Harris on Vimeo.

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