myHomework Helps Students Keep Track of Assignments

myHomework is a free app that students can use on the web on iPads, on  iPhones, on Android devices, and on Windows 8 devices to keep track of their school schedules and assignment due dates. myHomework syncs students' schedules and assignments across all of the devices that they use.

On myHomework students can enter their course schedules in day and time format (example: History meets at 10am Monday) or in a block schedule format (example: History meets during block 1 every other day).  Assignments that students enter into myHomework can be assigned a level of priority in addition to the due date and the assignment description.

Create Your Own iPad Games on TinyTap

TinyTap is a free iPad app that allows you to create simple games based on pictures that you take. The purpose of the games you build is to help young students (pre-K through grade 4) practice identifying objects and patterns.

To create a game on TinyTap you upload pictures or take new pictures and arrange them into a set. Then select each image to create questions about it. To create your question press the record button and start talking. When you have finished talking select a portion of your picture to serve as the answer. I created a small game about objects in my house. I took four pictures of things in my house. Each question asked players to identify the objects in my house. For example, when a player sees a picture of my kitchen he or she has to identify the tea pot by touching it.

If you don't have time to create your own games or you just want to see what others have done, you can browse the TinyTap Market. In the Market you can find a mix of free and paid games. A few of the free games that your students can play include "Dress for Winter," "Match It," and "Who Is Bigger?"

Applications for Education
TinyTap could be a great app for creating games that are tailored specifically to your students. You could create a game based on pictures of things in your school. Then your students can play the game to practice recognizing things like the school nurse's office and the names of people in the school office.

How Public Art Engages Communities & Neglected Spaces

Public art, especially murals, are being commissioned throughout Chicago in several innovative ways beyond the traditional Percent for Art program. 

Artists at Work Forum
November 19, 2012  
6:00 - 7:30 pm
Alternative Public Art Initiatives
Chicago Cultural Center, Claudia Cassidy Theater 
Admission FREE 

More info http://www.chicagoartistsresource.org/visual-arts/node/46369 

Did you Know ?

Watch the serie of videos "Did you know?" realise how the world change.

Did you know 2.0

Did you know 3.0

Did you know 4.0(It is about the boom of technology)

My E-book

My Ebook is a new service for creating rich multimedia ebooks. My Ebook allows users to create ebooks that contain text, images, and videos on each page. My Ebook users can create ebooks from scratch or upload their existing PDF files to display in a book format. When starting an ebook from scratch on My Ebook, users can import images from their Flickr, Facebook, Picasa, and Photobucket accounts or upload new images directly to My Ebook. If you don't have any digital images you can select some from My Ebook's gallery. Videos can also be embedded into the pages of My Ebook. My Ebook provides a good variety of themes and templates to give each ebook a different look and feel. Ebooks created using My Ebook can be embedded into blogs and websites or shared via email.

Flip Snack - Add Page Turning Effects to Your PDFs

Flip Snack is a free tool for turning your PDFs into ebooks with page turning effects. To use Flip Snack you have to create an account. Once your account to create a page turning display of your ebook you simply need to upload your PDF and select the color, style, and size of display that you desire. The free version of Flip Snack allows you to embed your document anywhere you like, Tweet it, email it, and post it on Facebook. The premium version of Flip Snack allows you give people the option to download your document. You can see my Flip Snack document below.


Applications for Education
Flip Snack doesn't change the way students write or that teachers teach. What Flip Snack does do is provide a nice way for students to show-off their work in a visually appealing format.

Online safty_ Own Your Space

Free download from:
http://www.ownyourspace.net

The book for teens that every parent should read!

You have been immersed in the technology since preschool. You download music, Google your homework, and constantly IM your friends. You check your email before dinner, tweak your MySpace page, and bypass that hardcopy diary for your own 31337 space in the blogosphere. While you’re doing that, you also need to protect yourself. This book is about keeping safe—protecting your data, your identity, and yourself without giving up all the great stuff the Net puts at your fingertips.

Learn how to 

• Kill viruses, worms, Trojans, and spyware
• Give Spam the curb and smash web bugs
• Understand just how public your “private” blogs are
• Keep wireless freeloaders off your network
• Safeguard your parents’ credit card and financial data
• Understand what tools you need and how to tweak them

Linda McCarthy is a Security Architect in the office of the CTO at Symantec. Linda has been in the security field for over a decade, and has broken into systems around the world to show executives how easy it is to break into their networks. Linda has published seven books on computer security, and is the author of IT Security: Risking the Corporation. Linda also received the Woman of Influence Award in 2004 for computer security, a prestigious award given annually to only four women in the world.

A portion of the proceeds from this book have been designated by the author for nonprofit work to educate teens about Internet security.

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Preface

Chapter 1: Know Your Villains

Chapter 2: Drive-By Malicious Code

Chapter 3: Data Grabbers and Dumpers

Chapter 4: Spy vs. Spy

Chapter 5: Giving Spam the Curb

Chapter 6: Pretenders and Pirates

Chapter 7: Phishing for Dollars

Chapter 8: Taming the Cookie Monster

Chapter 9: Safe Cyber-Shopping

Chapter 10: Private Blogs and Public Places

Chapter 11: Any Port in a Storm

Chapter 12: Look Pa, No Strings!

Chapter 13: Protective Tools

Chapter 14: Tweaks

Appendix A: A Check List for Mom and Dad

Index

How to Create Self-Graded Quizzes in Google Docs

Applications for Education

Grading quizzes can be a tedious task if you have many students on your roster. Creating and administering quizzes through Google Documents forms can save you time and save paper at the same time. By saving time on grading you can give students feedback quicker than before.

Video Explanations of Why We Change Our Clocks This Weekend

Many of us will be moving our clocks back by one hour before we go to bed this evening. We'll get an "extra" hour of sleep because of the change. Unfortunately, sunset will also be coming earlier as a result of the clock change too. Here are three videos that explain why we change our clocks.