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Top Learning, Technology & Media Links: Weekly Digest – 2

Upside Learning

What Makes Good Teaching? In its new Education White Paper, the government says the key to improving standards in England’s schools is ‘good teaching’. Google Docs Connects With Microsoft Office. Teaching For America. This article on the Brandon Hall blog mentions new statistics on this new technology. Read it here.

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Great Women of Web 2.0 Talk

Kapp Notes

Hot Potatoes is not freeware, but it is free of charge for those working for publicly-funded non-profit-making educational institutions, who make their pages available on the web. Alice is a teaching tool for introductory computing. Other users must pay for a license. Twilight Software Adventure Game Engine.

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11 Free Game Creation Software Programs (At least for 30 Days)

Kapp Notes

Scratch is developed by the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab, with financial support from the National Science Foundation, Microsoft, Intel Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, Google, Iomega and MIT Media Lab research consortia. Game Maker comes preloaded with a collection of freeware images and sounds to get you started.