Links of interest 11/08/2011

• Social media savvy: The new digital divide? | eSchool News

  tags: socialmedia angelamaiers

• Saint Squad Help Desk - home

  Student help desk

  tags: helpdesk students web2.0tools highschool

• 10 Open Education Resources You May Not Know About (But Should) | MindShift

  here’s a list of 10 cool OER and OCW resources that you might not know about, but should know:

  tags: opencourseware openeducation opensource textbooks Curriculum:SocialStudies

• Cell Phones as Classroom Tools | Teachinghistory.org

  Cell phones are in our schools and classrooms. According to data recently gathered by the Pew Research Center, 88% of teen cell phone users text message. While schools have taken various approaches towards student cell phones, from banning and storing in lockers, to lunchtime use, there are free online resources available that can transform cell phones into handheld classroom response systems.

  tags: cellphone Curriculum:SocialStudies web2.0ttools

• CogDog Guide to Nicecasting - CogDogBlog

  tags: nicecast podcasting Edtechtalk

• Free ePub Converter - PDF To ePub - Convert Books to ePub Format

  2EPUB allows you to convert PDF, doc and other types of documents & books to ePub format, the standard format for ebooks, supported by almost every reading device including iPad, iPhone, iPod, Sony Reader, BeBook, Nook, Kobo (for Kindle use .mobi).
  Input formats: doc, docx, epub, fb2, html, lit, lrf, mobi, odt, pdb, pdf, prc, rtf, txt.
  Output formats: epub, fb2, lit, lrf, mobi

  tags: epub ebook web2.0tools publishing

• dig.ccmixter “You already have permission…”

  tags: creativecommons free music

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