Bill Brown's List: MY OPENSOURCE TOOLS

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Create and publish interactive maps
Use maps for analysis and presentations
Unlimited markers per map.
3-level access control for each map: Viewer, Member and Admin
Input from: Location(Search), Crowd Source, Google Spreadsheets, Microsoft Excel, CSV, KML, GeoRSS feed or Copy-and Paste-Paste.
Create a Free Map"

Educators from all around the world are beginning and continuing to see Twitter as a valuable piece in their professional growth toolbox. As professional development continues to evolve and transform, we will need new ways to encourage teachers to embrace new opportunities. Here is a "How to Twitter Guide" to share with new and veteran teachers on ways to utilize Twitter. Also, check out my '10 ways Twitter makes me a better educator' post.

In recent years, the USAID community has been exploring and implementing approaches to intentionally embed learning throughout the Program Cycle. To support those efforts, this Program Cycle Learning Guide was developed to build on and improve the ways that USAID learns, and to address a set of challenges and opportunities that confront most development organizations. This knowledge will continue to grow in the coming years as development practitioners further integrate collaborating, learning, and adapting (CLA) into their work. The Program Cycle Learning Guide will serve as a living resource to document and share this collective learning.
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Padlet is a digital canvas to create beautiful projects that are easy to share and collaborate on.It works like a piece of paper. We give you an empty page - a padlet - and you can put whatever you like on it. Drag in a video, record an interview, snap a selfie, write your own text posts or upload some documents, and voilà! A padlet is born. Make it even more beautiful by choosing custom wallpapers and themes.Padlet is different from other blogging tools and inspiration boards because it's flexible. Padlets can be selectively shared and edited among multiple contributors, in real time. Collaborative creation, made simplhttp://padlet.com/wall/billbrown
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In 2004, Vimeo was founded by a group of filmmakers who wanted to share their creative work and personal moments from their lives. As time went on, like-minded people discovered Vimeo and helped build a supportive community of individuals with a wide range of passions. Today, millions of people from all around the world enjoy Vimeo, and we’re growing bigger every day. We hope this fun and friendly environment fuels your own creativity and inspires you to contribute to Vimeo in the ways that mean the most to you.make and edit videos

startup competition

a project sharing tool

"Guide to Open Access Journals

Traditionally, college students have spent long nights in campus libraries thumbing through leatherbound volumes of academic journals and research reports. The importance of these publications has remained intact over the years, but most of today’s tech-savvy students opt to access this information using online databases.
These sites generally fall into two categories. Some databases require a paid subscription in order to access materials. In many cases, students who enroll at brick-and-mortar institutions are granted complimentary access to these sites while enrolled. Other sites, known as “open-access” databases, allow users to delve into journal entries free-of-charge. These sites are ideal for online students who would otherwise be required to foot the subscription bill themselves.
This guide looks at some of the most reputable open-access journal websites, as well as paid subscription databases that are still widely used by traditional college students."

"Knowledge brokers are persons/organizations that facilitate the creation, sharing, and use of knowledge. They establish and maintain links between researchers and research users. Their efforts are expected to result in the production of brokered knowledge and in the transformation of this knowledge in to a usable form. Knowledge blockers do just the opposite. Let’s see the key differences between what knowledge brokers and knowledge blockers do (advise us to do) at different stages of knowledge creation and application."

"7 CRITICAL MISTAKES YOU'RE (ALMOST CERTAINLY) MAKING ON SOCIAL MEDIA
IF YOU ARE MARKETING ON SOCIAL MEDIA (AND YOU SHOULD BE) YOU ARE PROBABLY MAKING SOME OF THESE MISTAKES. HERE'S HOW TO RECOGNIZE AND FIX THEM--FROM THE GOSPEL OF GARY VAYNERCHUK.
BY ALEX BANAYAN
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"YOUR-PROFILE"