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“UNESCO believes that universal access to high quality education is key to the building of peace, sustainable social and economic development, and intercultural dialogue. Open Educational Resources (OER) provide a strategic opportunity to improve the quality of education as well as facilitate policy dialogue, knowledge sharing and capacity building.”
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K12EdCom | K12 Educational Commons
“The mission of K12EdCom.org is to promote and publish OpenCourseWare for K12 schools. OpenCourseWare is curriculum and learning material published under the Creative Commons License. Everything published on this web site is free to use and redistribute.”
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“Our goals for The Privacy Projects are to enhance the practice of privacy by developing and promoting privacy standards, improve trusted management of personal information in the networked environment through research and education, and increase the quality of privacy policies, practices and technologies through collaboration and outreach. We recognize that many other nonprofit organizations are engaged in good and productive work in these areas and we are delighted to work with other in constructive collaboration toward achieving mutual goals. We believe that information privacy is essential to free societies and to free economies. As information about people, things and services increasingly become the resource upon which our economic engines run, securing personal information to protect personal and commercial interests and managing that information in ways that respect the dignity of the individual are no longer optional – they are required to advance.”
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Thoughts On Dreams, A Book That Uses Actual Threads As Hyperlinks
“Maria Fischer, a designer from Germany, created a book named named “Traumgedanken” (“Thoughts on dreams”) that contains theories, ideas and insight into the world of dreaming. With the use of thread sewn throughout the book, she connects words and underlines keywords (hyperlinks) to guide the reader through the beautiful chaos.”
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Edudemic » 15 Terrific Educational Web Apps
“The education technology space has seen an explosion of new offerings in the past few years. What has been missing is a centralized platform for schools and universities to easily evaluate and utilize web apps. Today Google launched an education category in the Google Apps Marketplace designed specifically to help schools and universities easily discover and deploy new web applications that integrate with their existing Google Apps accounts. The new education category includes over 20 applications from 19 vendors ranging from learning management systems (LMS) to student tools and teaching aids – all of which integrate with Google Apps for Education. Each app can be accessed through single sign-on and the Google universal navigation bar and many offer deeper integrations that synchronize with Google Calendar and Documents. This new education category will make it easier for schools to have more web apps at their fingertips, including popular existing apps such as Aviary, Grockit, and LearnBoost as well as the new apps launching today.”
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Edudemic » The History of Social Media
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“This wiki is a place for the members of the Horizon Project Advisory Board to manage the selection process for the topics included in the 2011 Horizon Report, which is published by the New Media Consortium (NMC).”
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Topicmarks – summarize your text documents in minutes
“Topicmarks is a web service that creates smart, interactive synopses from electronic documents in minutes. We use the most advanced natural-language processing technology available to understand the true meaning of your text, summarize it for you and retain all its facts forever. Upload multiple texts and Topicmarks becomes your knowledge base: finding links between texts, grouping texts around topics, and containing all the facts from all documents you ever read. Understand the essence and retain every single fact – without reading anything yourself.”
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UnCollege | self-directed higher education
“UnCollege offers a project-based curriculum for independent learners and supports a community of like-minded individuals to complement traditional higher education.”
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“The problem: Creative Commons licensed content is awesome, but attributing it properly can be difficult and confusing. The first rule for re-using openly licensed content is that you have to properly attribute the creator. There are specific requirements for what needs to go into that attribution, but those requirements can be confusing and hard to find. The solution: A simple tool everyone can use to do the right thing with the click of a button. That’s why we’re building Open Attribute, a suite of tools that makes it ridiculously simple for anyone to copy and paste the correct attribution for any CC licensed work.”
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Follow not working | Diigo Groups
The max you can follow=the number of your followers +30
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“”Discovering the Civil War,” a new exhibit opening on April 30 at the National Archives in Washington, D.C., takes a fresh look at the conflict through the records left by the participants themselves—letters, orders, maps, telegrams, photographs, and broadsides—that are preserved in the National Archives. The exhibit invites visitors to consider and ask questions about the evidence found in the records, listen to a wide variety of voices from the Civil War era, and make up their own minds about the struggle that tore apart these United States.”
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Teachers’ Resources – National Archives
“Docs Teach: Find and create interactive learning activities with primary source documents that promote historical thinking skills.”
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David Rumsey Historical Map Collection | 19th Century Maps by Children
“In the 18th and 19th centuries, children were taught geography by making their own maps, usually copies of maps available to them in books and atlases at their schools or homes. Below is a group of maps and geographical diagrams made by children in the 19th century; and some of the school atlases, geographies, and wall maps that may have been their sources. These old maps made by children were hand drawn and colored, one-of-a-kind productions, and it is amazing that any have survived down to our time. That they have is due to luck and the efforts of families to preserve the history of their children. These maps have a special poignancy today in the way that they reflect the optimism of youth from another time.”
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Once Upon a Cybercrime… | ESET ThreatBlog
“57% of Mac users feel it is safe to use their computers without antivirus software where only 27% of PC users feel it is safe to do so. Much of the losses associated with cybercrime are related to phishing attacks. Phishing attacks are just as effective on Macs, Linux, Windows, Solaris, and any operating system since they rely on tricking the user and not upon malicious software or any software vulnerabilities. The Mac offers no immunity to phishing attacks and so we see a virtually equal percentage of victim representation across the board. A significant part of the phishing problem is ignorance. The survey found that less than 50% of Americans even know what phishing is. It is difficult to defend against something one is not aware of.”
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Google Apps for Education Guide to Going Google
“This site contains tools and guidelines to use as a starting point to getting your students, faculty, alumni, and community ready and excited about bringing Google Apps for Education to campus.”
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Now an essential online medium, video is a useful way for teachers to supplement classroom learning and engage students in content they can’t access on field trips or through books alone. However, finding and sharing videos can be a challenge due to safety and compliance concerns. That’s why M86 Security created VuSafe—the secure, simple way to share Internet videos. Through VuSafe, teachers can easily manage and share approved videos and other streaming content, while safeguarding students from inappropriate advertising, comments, links and other content present on sites such as YouTube.
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The Best Free Science Games for Kids Online: Educational Fun for Everyone
“Are your kids inquiring young scientists who are always curious about the world around them? If so, the following websites are just what you need. They contain some of the best science games for kids online. Each of them are fun to explore and play with, but they also have a sound educational base.”
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Facebook Privacy: 10 Settings Every User Needs to Know
“Facebook’s privacy settings are extremely detailed, giving you the ability to fine-tune the privacy aspects of almost every little part of your Facebook account. Unfortunately, for most users, this level of micromanagement makes Facebook’s privacy settings a convoluted mess. Even worse, these settings change often; you may think you know everything there is about them, only to be greeted with a completely different layout and a bunch of new options the next time you visit the dreaded Facebook Privacy Settings page.”
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DataPortability.org – Share and remix data using open standards
“Data portability is the ability for people to reuse their data across interoperable applications. The DataPortability Project works to advance this vision by identifying, contextualizing and promoting efforts in the space.”
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