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Tag: online

  • ALISON— A Trove of 400 Free Online Job Training Courses

    ALISON— A Trove of 400 Free Online Job Training Courses in Education, Online Courses, Technology How many of us have taken an online course to learn a new language? My guess is, a lot. How many have used the web to find a recipe? Even more. But as handy as those skills are, will they…

  • Lino It: The Great Online Stickies Tool

    Yes scrumblr and wallwisher are nice, but they aren’t good enough for today.  Wallwisher is way too slow and scrumblr is nice enough.  Lino It  @ en.linoit.com rocks.  Youtube videos, larger boards, iPhone, sync with Google Calendar, Chrome app, and more.  Embedded one with Moodle today and looking forward to using it with Podcasting class…

  • Free College Courses Online

    MIT OpenCourseware Massachusetts Institute of Technology was a pioneer in offering online college courses and they still have the most diverse and in-depth collection of classes available anywhere. Their online offering is an archived version of real courses that have been taught at MIT, and you may need to purchase the textbook to follow along…

  • Try Open Source Software Before You Install It

    Recently I found myself wanting someplace I could point users to test software without me installing it.  Not that I mind a great deal, but sometimes it is just useful to practice or kick the tires.  I ran across click2try a “Community site where it’s easy to try Open Source software–for free.”  This solved my…

  • TeachStreet for Teachers

    TeachStreet, a Yelp-like service for real world classes (cooking, dog obedience, music lessons, ballroom dance, foreign language, golf, yoga, etc.), is launching a marketplace feature for teachers to be able to coordinate payments from students. TeachStreet, which serves seven metropolitan areas in the U.S. including New York City, Silicon Valley/San Francisco and Seattle, allows instructors…