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Show your Twitter friends on a map that can be easily added to your blog's sidebar. There's more information at http://www.mmmeeja.com/blog/social-networking/twitter-followers-map.html
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Good discussion about QR Codes – what they are and potentially where they may be used.
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It is a common-known fact that teaching is a labor of love for most educators. They are overworked and under-appreciated and many of them spend their own money, time and energy to improve their students’ education. With all of the new mobile tools on the market today, teachers can more easily work from satellite locations, share educational resources and access school-related data directly from their cell phones. Here are 100 mobile tools for teachers that make the grade.
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Websites that support education are limitless. Locating the sites that meet your classroom or student needs can be time-consuming.
Using refined searching with google can provide sites to meet your needs, but try some of these resources as well. -
Ever wish you could easily receive big files from anyone? Now you can!
Together with Dropbox you can setup an unique upload address with password protection.
DROPitTOme is your one stop solution when an email is just not enough. -
Mac OS X security flaw publicized after Apple fails to patch
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If your blog needs a face lift, the creative types who power the web are here to help. Sometimes a few well-designed, tastefully placed icons can add a little class or creativity to an otherwise neutral theme.
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Use our bookmarklet to save any video, and watch it later. It is incredibly quick
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Use these free music tracks
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18 Iconic Products That America Doesn't Make Anymore
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His topics spanned what he calls “app phones” (not Smartphones), Twitter, advertising and include plugs for the apps he loves best.
Here is what I learned captured using Conversion Sciences InstaGraph infograph technology. -
Unlike the United States (data.gov) and Britain (data.gov.uk), Canada has no open data strategy. This must change. Canadians paid for the information gathered about our country, ourselves and our government. Free access to it could help stimulate our economy and enhance our democracy.
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Turn conversation into knowledge
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Google feature lets people see pictures of websites before clicking
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Games are inherently social — we like to post our high scores, compete against our friends, or simply share our digital exploits. But “social gaming” is a relatively new genre of games that is all about interacting, sharing, and connecting with friends.
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U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan today released the U.S. Department of Education's plan for transforming American education through technology, a process that would create an engaging state-of-the-art, cradle-to-college school system nationwide.
The content of this blog is generated by whatever strikes my fancy at any given point. It might be computers, weather, political, or something else in nature. I experiment and comment a lot on things so don't take anything here too seriously; I might change my mind a day later but what you read is my thought and opinion at the time I wrote it! My formal education includes a Bachelor of Mathematics degree from the University of Waterloo and a Bachelor of Education degree from the University of Toronto. Ontario Ministry of Education and Training qualifications are in Data Processing, Computer Science, Accounting, and Mathematics. My personal website is at: http://www.dougpeterson.ca Follow me on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/dougpete I'm bookmarking things at: http://www.delicious.com/dougpete
