Schoology Aims to Fix One of the Greatest Pain Points of Education

This is a write-up about what looks like a promising combination of moodle, blackboard, text specific learning management systems with a little school appropriate social networking thrown in.

Best part is that it's free! I will be spending some time looking into this one and passing it along to my district tech department.

Link to Article --> Schoology Aims to Fix One of the Greatest Pain Points of Education
Link to Schoology Web Site --> Schoology

30 Reasons to Jailbreak your iPhone

I don't actually have an iPhone yet. I'm waiting for Apple to make a deal with Verizon since I am not and AT&T fan. In any event, I do have an iPod Touch which for all practical purposes is an iPhone without the ability to actually place a call or take a picture. Some of my 7th graders were showing me some apps on their iPods and I noticed that they had folders with way more than 12 apps in them. I asked them how they did that and they told he they used a "jail break" program. I went home and looked up how to "jail break" my iPod and quickly found out that Apple had made the available jail break apps unusable with updated iTunes software. I am still on the hunt for a jail break software that I can use but I came across this article and thought it was worth sharing. If you have an iPhone I would check it out. :)

--> 30 Reasons to Jailbreak your iPhone

Firesheep

I read the article on social networking hacking on readwriteweb.com this evening and was more than a little bit disturbed. I had no idea that there were programs like "firesheep" out there that make it so easy for people to gain access to your online identity. It pretty much gives people instant access you whatever social network you are connected to over a public wifi source.

This article made mention of setting up a Virtual Private Network to prevent this kind of online identity theft. I will be looking into the details of this before connecting at the local coffee shop for sure.

Smokin' Apps

Great site for finding the latest and greatest apps around powered by a global community that loves mobile apps. Case in point. . . they featured "Doodle Jump" this week which is one of my families favorite apps for my iPod.

http://smokinapps.com/

I can't find my phone.com

I found this website to be a little funny but also useful I suppose. When I misplace my cell phone I generally just call it from a land line or from a friend's cell phone but if I ever find myself with a lost cell phone and access to the internet I could try this out.

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/lost_your_phone_try_icantfindmyphonecom.php

I tried this out and it was pretty funny. I called my phone from the site. . . it rang and when I answered it a computer voice said, "It looks like you found your phone. Have a great rest of the day." lol

Google Chrome

If you use Google you really want to get this free download. Google Chrome is great! LOVE IT!!!!

Faster and easier surfing. Gives you access to open tabs all at once as thumbnails the same way Safari does on an iPod.

http://www.google.com/chrome/

Best of the Web 2010

Slideshare presentation from the ACTEM's (Association of Computer Technology Educators of Maine)annual conference.

Very cool stuff. Worth checking out. The author points out in his introduction that he only included sites that he discovered in the last 12 months. :) Enjoy!

Best of the web 2010

View more presentations from Richard Byrne.

"More Like This" feature in Google Reader

If you like treasure hunting try using the "More Like This" feature in Google Reader. You just click on the triangle to the right of your feed and hover over "More Like This" then a list of related feeds appears. If you have time to look you just might find a read/write web jackpot.

Testmoz - Free Online Test Generator

This morning I found a free online test generator called Testmoz. I checked out the site, ran through the demo and created my own quiz in a matter of minutes. If you have ever considered using an online quiz site I think this one is worth checking out.
The one downside is that it is only for multiple choice quizzes. If you are looking for open ended or matching capabilities you would need to use something else.
<--- Click the picture to go to the Testmoz site

As a side note. . . I found this site through my RSS feed for "Free Technology for Teachers" http://www.freetech4teachers.com/ It is a great resource and I highly recommend adding it to your RSS feed list. :)