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

I just learned that Drexel’s Hagerty Library is not only lending out Macbook Pros to those on campus, but is doing so via a vending machine type interface. Drexel University introduced a 24-hour, self-service vending machine located in the W. W. Hagerty Library that will dispense MacBooks for use by students, faculty and staff. Drexel is the third university on the East Coast to introduce the kiosk, which holds up  [ Read More ]

OSS Watch has published a list of open source options for education that I think might be helpful to many of you. This document presents options for open source software for use in the education sector. Some of these may have uses outside of education, but they are presented here in the context of their specific benefits to educational establishments, or their use in the course of teaching and learning.  [ Read More ]

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

I got some very cool news this week – I’ve been nominated for a People’s Choice Award on opensource.com! It’s for my piece about open source needing to be developed in the open which I also posted here. If you liked that post or agreed with what I said or just like me feel free to show your support by voting.

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 ]

Join me for one of these free Koha introductory webinars!! Date: Thursday, January 10, 2013 Time: 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM EST Register: https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/616892390 Date: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 Time: 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM EST Register: https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/188146022 Date: Wednesday, February 6, 2013 Time: 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM EST Register: https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/783336894 Learn more about Koha on ByWater’s What is Koha? page.

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