One of the key content areas where technology is making such a tremendous contribution is in the teaching of music. There are now a wide variety of web tools and mobile apps that teachers can use in their class to instruct their students on the various musical concepts from composition to distribution. Most of these tools are free and easy to use.
2014-09-27
Learning initiative for entrepreneurs - Online And Distance Learning
This free, HP Life online training program helps you gain the real-life IT and business skills needed to start or grow your business, in your own time, at your own pace. The courses are interactive and full of information and practical exercises that will give you the skills to meet the business challenges you face.
2014-09-26
Carbon map – which countries are responsible for climate change?
As heads of state from David Cameron to Barack Obama meet in New York for a UN climate summit hosted by Ban Ki-moon, expectations are high for bold commitments on cutting greenhouse gas emissions. Use this interactive, in-depth map to find out who the big polluters are internationally, how China’s emissions have grown stratospherically and see who is most vulnerable to global warming’s impacts.
22 maps and charts that will surprise you
A good visualization helps you see what the data is telling you. The best visualizations help you you see things you never thought the data would tell you. These 22 charts and maps are in that category: all of them tell you something surprising...
Richard Byrne's Free Technology for Teachers: Google Tutorials
Google Tutorials
This page contains tutorials for using Google tools. The tutorials that I've created you are welcome to use in your own blog, website, or professional development session. Before using the tutorials created by others, please contact their creators.
"Dear Matafele Peinem" - A climate change poem
On 23 September 2014, 26 year old poet Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner, from the Marshall Islands, addressed the Opening Ceremony of the UN Secretary-General's Climate Summit. Kathy performed a new poem entitled "Dear Matafele Peinem", written to her daughter. The poem received a standing ovation.
Click below to see Kathy's beautiful and incredibly moving performance of that poem set to images depicting the impact of climate change and also the people’s movement against the agents of that change.
2014-09-25
25 Killer Sites For Free Online Education - Online And Distance Learning
Whether you’re five or ninety five, the internet has a lot to offer. Particularly when the topic is education, the resources on the internet are endless. Best of all, many high quality sites are completely free. From history to coding, excellent free education awaits on the following 25 sites...
Marks and Spencer moves into online courses - Online And Distance Learning
Marks and Spencer is entering the online education market, launching a business course with Leeds University.
The massive open online course, or Mooc, is a free course on business innovation. It uses case studies, video from the company’s archive and support from university academics.
Alison Houston, head of the M&S archive, says the course teaches how “creative concepts are balanced with commercial thinking”.
2014-09-24
MDG Countdown 2014: Innovating for Impact - YouTube
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have accelerated progress in beating poverty worldwide. With just 15 months to go before we reach the 2015 due date, the MDG Countdown event will demonstrate how innovation is helping to achieve the goals and galvanise renewed commitments. Find out more at: http://ift.tt/Y3iB0P
2014-09-22
Expanding Africa’s Digital Frontier: Farmers Show the Way
Agricultural transformation is a priority for Africa. Across the continent, the significant information needs of farmers—accurate local weather forecasts, relevant advice on agricultural practices and input use, real time price information and market logistics—remain largely unmet. To the extent that rural regions are typically sparsely populated with limited infrastructure and dispersed markets, the use of innovative information and communication technologies (ICTs) overcome some of these information asymmetries and connect farmers to opportunities that weren't necessarily available to them earlier. Harnessing the rapid growth of digital technologies holds hope for transformative agricultural development.
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