What I Learned Today…

Today I found the following resources and bookmarked them on Delicious. Boundless – Free Textbooks Boundless helps students learn better by connecting them with the wealth of high quality, openly licensed, free educational content, as well as the tools they need to succeed. Digest powered by RSS Digest

Today I found the following resources and bookmarked them on Delicious. Hotel Tonight Last-minute hotel deals. Tonight. App and Website Digest powered by RSS Digest

Today I found the following resources and bookmarked them on Delicious. Free Education Software A directory of free educational software for kids. Educational games, student information systems, learning management and course management. There are several kinds of software needed in a educational environment: network security and monitoring to keep the school networked and safe, grade and timetable tracking software for teachers, educational software for classes, general network clients for email  [ Read More ]

I wrote a little while back about a plugin for Chrome that lets you find out what WordPress theme a site is using, now I have one to find plugins! Thanks to WordPress Jedi for pointing out SpyBar for Chrome and Firefox. It helps you find out what WordPress plugins and themes a site is using. Once you install SpyBar, you will be able to analyze websites and find each  [ Read More ]

Today I found the following resources and bookmarked them on Delicious. LORLS – Loughborough Online Reading List System Loughborough Online Reading List System (LORLS) is a reading/resource list management system developed by the Systems Team at Loughborough University Library and made available as open source. Canvas Canvas is a new, open-source LMS by Instructure Inc. It is released under the AGPLv3 license for use by anyone interested in learning more  [ Read More ]

Today I found the following resources and bookmarked them on Delicious. Cybera Cybera is a cyber cafe management system designed for Windows XP Pro and Windows 2000. It works on the client-server model where one computer, the server controls a group of other computers: the client workstations. Digest powered by RSS Digest

I’m not sure why you’d want to do use a content management system as a wiki – but I’m such a fan of WordPress that I thought this article on WordPress Jedi looked interesting. Many webmasters use solutions such as MediaWiki to add a Wiki section to their website. There is nothing wrong with that approach. But integrating MediaWiki with WordPress could be challenging. Besides, having to deal with a  [ Read More ]

Today I found the following resources and bookmarked them on Delicious. Trip Tern Trip Tern is a revolutionary new way to plan your trip. Choose your city, dates and interests. And Trip Tern gives you most awesome itinerary tailor-made for you. Quizlet Simple free learning tools for students and teachers Diipo Diipo connects you the teacher with your students by making it easy to communicate with your class. Diipo also  [ Read More ]

Today I found the following resources and bookmarked them on Delicious. Sunrise Sunrise combines Facebook, Google Calendar, LinkedIn and more into a nicely designed daily email. Digest powered by RSS Digest

I am always setting up new WordPress sites and the first thing I do – the first thing we all do – is install a set of the same plugins. Now there is a plugin to make it easier to bulk install those favorites! Bulk Plugin Installation is a new plugin that allows you to install one or more plugins simply by typing their names or download URLs in a  [ Read More ]