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February 5, 2013
Bookmarks for February 5, 2013
Today I found the following resources and bookmarked them on Delicious.
theLearnia
theLearnia is a free social educational network that allows millions of online students around the world to gain equal opportunity for education, learn while communicating together and share their knowledge.
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February 4, 2013
Bookmarks for February 4, 2013
Today I found the following resources and bookmarked them on Delicious.
Put articles, videos or pretty much anything into Pocket to read later. Save directly from your browser or from apps like Twitter, Flipboard, Pulse and Zite.
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February 3, 2013
Bookmarks for February 3, 2013
Today I found the following resources and bookmarked them on Delicious.
ProjectLibre
ProjectLibre is an open source alternative to Microsoft Project.
gpapers
gPapers is an open-sourced, Gnome based digital library manager and scientific paper organizer.
FET
FET is open source free software for automatically scheduling the timetable of a school, high-school or university.
F-Spot
F-Spot is a cross platform application for organizing thousands of photos.
Elgg
Elgg is an award-winning open source social networking engine that provides a robust framework on which to build all kinds of social environments, from a campus wide social network for your university, school or college or an internal collaborative platform for your organization through to a brand-building communications tool for your company and its clients.
Claroline
Claroline is an open source platform for collaborative e-learning and working online. Available in a wide number of different languages, Claroline can be downloaded for free and freely installed.
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January 28, 2013
Private Lists in Koha 3.6
Another tutorial video for your patrons to help them learn how to use your OPAC. This video will walk then through creating private lists in your OPAC.
As always, if you have an idea for a video, please just let me know and I’ll add it to my list of things to record.
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January 25, 2013
Bookmarks for January 25, 2013
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.
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Macbook Vending Machine
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 to 12 MacBooks that could be checked out free by anyone with a Drexel ID for five hours.
The kiosk provides a 24-hour solution to students who want to work on projects and assignments or study at the library late into the night.
Found via Gizmodo that pointed me to Drexel’s official release.
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January 24, 2013
Open Source Options for Education
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.
The list includes proprietary software that the open source is an alternative to. Check out the entire list and learn about new open source applications that might be of use at your library.
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January 23, 2013
Bookmarks for January 23, 2013
Today I found the following resources and bookmarked them on Delicious.
Hotel Tonight
Last-minute hotel deals. Tonight. App and Website
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Opensource.com People’s Choice Awards
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.
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January 22, 2013
Bookmarks for January 22, 2013
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 and web access.
ScoolForge
SchoolForge’s mission is to unify independent organizations that advocate, use, and develop open educational resources. We advocate the use of open texts and lessons, open curricula, free software and open source in education.
Sensei
Teaching coursework has never been easier, all within WordPress. With the Sensei plugin you can create courses, write lessons, and add quizzes. Set lesson and course pre-requisites, allow user registration and even charge for your course content using WooCommerce if you want.
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