Dropbox as a Hand-in Folder Dropbox is a terrific utility for storing files online. It’s accessible with any computer that can connect to the internet. (Don’t ignore the fact that your portable device is also a computer…) If you’re interested in cloud storage, this is the real deal. Just upload to your Dropbox account and access it from anywhere. It should come as no surprise that you can share those files with others as well. But, that’s not the story here. 1) A student is using her own personal device and is attached to a guest network at school; 2) A student is using her own personal device and is attached to the wireless at her favourite restaurant or her network at home. Old school logic says to email it to the teacher (which means giving out your email address to students) or put it on a memory key, remember to put it in her backpack, plug the memory key into a computer at school and then submit it. DROPITTO.METhis is one sweet working web application. 1) Create a Dropbox account. 3) Connect the two accounts.
Wiki CMS Groupware The Tiki Community is proud to announce the release of , the latest version of Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware. This release, with more than 1,000 code contributions by dozens of Tiki Community members, includes many new features, some architectural enhancements, and many bug fixes. Some of these new features include: Improved batch actions based on a URL with a token access. Extensive improvements to the Maps, Slideshow, Calendar, File Gallery and Drawings New plugins and modules Introduction of Timesheet functionality The Smarty template engine was updated to 3.1.x and much more! Refer to and the Tiki 9.0 Release Notes for details. As is the tradition in the Tiki community, most of the *.tiki.org sites have been upgraded to 9.x it was officially released. The release of Tiki 9.0 marks the close of the Tiki 8.x branch. The Tiki community has also decided to extend long term support (LTS) for Tiki 6.x support until May 2014. Please see: Version Lifecycle
Content Curation and Aggregation How does MediaWiki work? You probably know Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, and may possibly be a little bit confused by similar, but different, words such as Wiki, Wikimedia or MediaWiki. To avoid a possible confusion between the words you may first want to read the article about the names where the differences are explained. General Overview MediaWiki can be used in large enterprise server farms as in the Wikimedia Foundation cluster. MediaWiki is free server-based software which is licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). It's designed to be run on a large server farm for a website that gets millions of hits per day. MediaWiki is an extremely powerful, scalable software and a feature-rich wiki implementation that uses PHP to process and display data stored in a database, such as MySQL. Pages use MediaWiki's wikitext format, so that users without knowledge of XHTML or CSS can edit them easily. What MediaWiki is... MediaWiki is wiki software. MediaWiki is server software. MediaWiki is free software.
Re-envisioning Modern Pedagogy: Educators as Curators the free dictionary Curation in the Age of Abundance “A curator is an information chemist. He or she mix atoms together in a way to build an info-molecule. Then adds value to that molecule.” – Scoble One of some buzzwords from SXSWEDU 2012 is “educators as curators”. In this age of information abundance, curation is to leaverage this abundance effectively, we think there are many purposes of curation, here are some situations: - collecting relevant resources or tools for later use, from infinite abundance (sometimes you can’t find a link anymore after leaving it) - organizing texts and resources for learning, educational courses offering is the typical case, while well-crafted curation led by teachers could be valuable, but without having students becoming part of the curating process, the most important part is missed - investigation around an event or a topic/question, with or without personal narratives, most of time we digest and abstract from the information to gain meaningful answers
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