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Sky - Digital Learning Environment meets Content Management System Custom Curriculum Publishing is a tool used with the Learning.com platform that allows you to organize your district’s digital content into ready-to-assign lessons, units, or courses. These curriculum assets can be easily shared across your entire district or with a select number of schools. Easily Organize and Share By sharing your own digital curriculum assets, you can help support your district’s instructional goals, such as supporting new standards, preparing students for online assessments, integrating technology into core instruction, or implementing project-based learning. Custom Curriculum Publishing helps districts increase the availability of digital content and makes it simpler for teachers to implement in the classroom. To help you get started, Custom Curriculum Publishing includes templates, sample course, units, and lessons containing standards-aligned items, as well as training videos and user guides.

Collaborize Classroom | Online Education Technology for Teachers and Students Gifts for User Experience Geeks 2011 Gifts for User Experience Geeks 2011Nov 28th, 2011 It is time for another installment of Gifts for User Experience Geeks! Just in time for the 2011 holiday season. Be sure to check out the last three years (2008, 2009, and 2010). This list is a collection of items I have come across over the last year that would make the ideal gifts for UX geeks like Information Architects, Usability Specialists, Interaction Designers, and even Web Designers. User Experience Software Diagramming Sketching Ideate for iPad ($3.99)Autodesk SketchBook Mobile for iPhone, iPad, or Android ($1.99)Adobe Ideas for iPad ($5.99)Penultimate for iPad ($0.99) Prototyping Adobe Proto for Android ($9.99)Invision Web-Based App ($8+/month)ProtoShare Web-Based App ($49+/month)Axure RP Pro 6 for Mac & Windows ($589)iRise Professional for Windows ($6,995/seat)UX Pin App Web-Based App (coming soon!) User Research Usability Evaluation Screen Sharing and Meeting Screen Capture Information Architecture and Content Document Share & Review

Free Technology for Teachers Online Course Support Hosting Developing TheWeb.com offers you the chance to provide a stable online support for your language students. Among many possibilities, you will be able to offer the following: support for group classes - support for one-to-one classes - support for telephone classes - whole online courses Your virtual learning environment is based on Moodle, an open source programme, that has been tried & tested by many educationalists all over the world. Entry to all of your courses is through the front page of your site. There is no limit on the number of courses you can run. To visit our own Developing Courses.com please click on the image. Please feel free to contact us through the contact form or if you would like to sign up for this hosting plan, please contact us through the Sign Up form. Payment is only accepted through PayPal. To view videos of Moodle 2.0 >>>>>>>>> Developing TheWeb.com provides the following: (1) Moodle is free open source software, and we do not charge for the Moodle system.

How Khan Academy is using Machine Learning to Assess Student Mastery | David Hu See discussion on Hacker News and Reddit. The Khan Academy is well known for its extensive library of over 2600 video lessons. It should also be known for its rapidly-growing set of now 225 exercises — outnumbering stitches on a baseball — with close to 2 million problems done each day. To determine when a student has finished a certain exercise, we award proficiency to a user who has answered at least 10 problems in a row correctly — known as a streak. It turns out that the streak model has serious flaws. First, if we define proficiency as your chance of getting the next problem correct being above a certain threshold, then the streak becomes a poor binary classifier. False positives is not our only problem, but also false negatives. In Search of a Better Model These findings, presented by one of our full-time volunteers Jace, led us to investigate whether we could construct a better proficiency model. to this: and when full: % likely to get the next problem correct, for some threshold . .

Eliademy.com Formatting ebooks - EPUB Straight to the Point When Apple presented iBooks on the iPad on January 27, 2010, I was very excited to see that they had adopted the standard EPUB format. But I especially wanted to know how they had created the beautiful EPUB format of Winnie the Pooh, and how they made it look so lovely on that gorgeous iPad. I decided to write a book on how to create EPUB format ebooks. My book about creating ebooks in EPUB format has garnered rave reviews. EPUB Straight to the Point explains how to create ebooks in the standard EPUB format, starting with tools you may already be familiar with: Microsoft Word and Adobe InDesign, and how to use either one (not to mention the documents you may already have in those formats) to generate the files necessary for creating an EPUB format ebook. In the last chapter, the book explains how to take full advantage of the formatting strengths of EPUB, while taking into account the quirks of the iBooks ereader app on the iPad.

Tech the Plunge What was Your First Tweet March 22, 2014 Yesterday I celebrated Twitter’s eighth birthday. Since a day seems to short to celebrate birthdays anymore, here’s one more Twitter present. Read the full article → Happy Birthday Twitter! March 21, 2014 Today is Twitter’s eighth birthday and Mashable posted a nice video outlining the history of Twitter. Read the full article → High School Diploma Online, Accredited courses, GED & SAT Prep Reed Hastings And John Doerr Put $11M In Adaptive Online Math Learning Platform DreamBox DreamBox Learning, an adaptive e-learning platform for students, has raised $11 million in new funding led by Netflix CEO Reed Hastings (who is investing through the Charter School Growth Fund), and Kleiner Perkins partner John Doerr (this is a personal investment for Doerr). GSV Capital Corp. and Deborah Quazzo also participated round. This brings DreamBox’s total funding to $18 million. Launched in 2008, DreamBox Learning offers more than 500 online math lessons, puzzles, games and curriculums for schools and home schools, targeting young students in kindergarten through fifth grade. DreamBox assesses each student’s mathematical understanding on an ongoing basis, providing the most suitable hints and encouragement at the right pace for that child, and offers the next personally appropriate activities as subsequent choices. The company also offers assessment tools for teachers to understand a student’s comprehension and proficiency.

Enterprise Learning Management System | Free LMS With Schoology's simple tools, websites and webpages can be created, saved, shared, and adapted. A variety of tools make the creation process simple, from defining an online homework assignment with a homework submission area to creating a set of rich-text or HTML pages that can be sequenced and played in a desired navigational order. For almost every content type, an easy-to-use WYSIWYG allows the user to spend less time learning HTML and CSS, and more time building high-quality, interactive content. With Schoology's simple tools, websites and webpages can be created, saved, shared, and adapted. For almost every content type, an easy-to-use WYSIWYG allows the user to spend less time learning HTML and CSS, and more time building high-quality, interactive content.

Taking Screenshots with Kindle Fire Renumbered at 4:02pm; Updated 3:47pm, thanks to corrections made by Wangen. (The mistakes were mine, not Erica’s.) Thanks, Wangen! I just got off the phone with Erica Sadun, geek girl extraordinaire, who had posted instructions yesterday on how to take screenshots on a Kindle Fire but who kindly walked me through the process today. Let me preface this with the fact that I've never used Android before today. 1First, connect your Kindle Fire to your Mac. 2Next, download the Android SDK. 3Unzip the folder and place it wherever you would like it to be on your computer. 4Next, open Terminal. 5When you open a Terminal window it defaults to your home directory. cd Documents/android (The cd stands for change directory.) 6Next type this: . The Android SDK Manager should appear. Erica told me to choose the "Android SDK Platform-tools" box and deselect everything else. Next, you'll get the "Choose Packages to Install" window. Once the package is installed, the ADB will have to be restarted. ln -s .. . .

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