This post was written by Adam Heward, a member of the BuddyPress community and ICT Manager at Newham Bridge Primary School.
Facebook is an endemic problem for UK schools. 
Here's how to use free TED-Ed tools to turn any YouTube video into a flipped lesson. Via Donna Browne 
| Distance learning from Brighton School of Business & Management... ... Via Ana Cristina Pratas, Evdokia Roka 
Surprisingly, according to research by Educause, only 78% of students feel that wifi is extremely valuable for their academic success, while 60% of students said they wouldn’t attend a college all if it didn’t offer free wifi. The study also finds that 47% of students believe technology makes professors better at their jobs, yet over 30% of students found their instructors to be incapable of getting technology working without student aid. Via Nik Peachey, Juergen Wagner 
"This could be a good option if you would like people to be able to save parts of your blog or website as a PDF file, including having students do it as an archive of material for their notes." Via Shona Whyte, Juergen Wagner 
RT @lenasterg: Just released version 0.4.3.2 of Buddypress Group Documents... 
This tutorial will show you how to use custom taxonomies for knowledge base sections and custom posts for knowledge base articles. 
Description. A nice subtle child theme for BuddyPress. You can upload a custom header (or download a blank one at: http://angelicaflorine.net/goodies/wordpress-goodies/my-buddypress-theme/). Widgets can be used with ...
Want a fun way to get members interacting more on your BuddyPress site? BuddyPress MyMood is a new plugin that lets members post moods and smileys with status updates on profiles and group pages.
WordPress + BuddyPress = Experiment. Thursday, April 26, 2012. I've developed an online learning space that is powered by WordPress, BuddyPress, and a number of plug ins. I'm about halfway through a free, 3 week ...
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Big day. After more than a year of planning and dreaming, we're finally launching our new TED-Ed website, whose goal is to offer teachers a thrilling new way to use video.
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Location check-ins are an exciting part of social networks that let members keep track of their friends doing fun things in fun places. 
Without the help of plugins and/or custom theming, there’s not a lot of flexibility with WordPress sidebars. When you’re working with BuddyPress, a set sidebar may not always be the best choice for use sitewide with your various components. |
BuddyPress Portfolio is an exciting new plugin that allows members to create their own simple portfolios within your community. Right now each project includes a title, a description, a url and a screenshot of the project. The size of the description can be defined in the admin panel, as the template to be used. 
Go way beyond Internet safety. Turn students into great digital citizens.
Every day, your students are tested with each post, search, chat, text message, file download, and profile update. Will they connect with like minds or spill TMI to the wrong people?
Will they behave creatively or borrow ideas recklessly? Will they do the right thing or take shortcuts?
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Via Gust MEES 
Numbers don't lie, but a bad chart decision makes it extremely difficult to understand what those numbers mean. Via Donna Browne, Evdokia Roka 
This is a collection of usefull web . and social media applications for anyone in education. I have tried them all and I have seen the potential in them. Now it is up to you and your imagination to use them in your teaching or when studying! Via Frédéric DEBAILLEUL, Laurent Blanquer, Juergen Wagner 
The center of our digital lives soon will no longer be the personal computer, but the personal cloud. Via Mark Mayhew, Juergen Wagner 
When used effectively, technology plays an important role in enhancing the learning process. Teachers can use digital devices to present supplemental material for lessons or to encourage students to take a more hands-on role in their education. Via Nik Peachey, Ricard Garcia, Juergen Wagner SUPERCHARGING WORDPRESSWITH BUDDYPRESS! Take an existing theme that is designed for responsive design
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BuddyPress Group-O-Matic automatically adds members to groups based on extended profile field responses. 
The former developer of the BuddyPress Gifts Plugin abandoned it some time ago. This is always sad but understandable when a developer doesn’t have time to commit to his plugin anymore.
A JavaScript library that provides Gmail-like client-side drafts with automatically saved form fields.
Search competency is a form of literacy, like learning a language or subject. Like any literacy, it requires having discrete skills as well as accumulating experience in how and when to use them. But this kind of intuition can’t be taught in a day or even in a unit – it has to be built up through exercise and with the guidance of instructors while students take on researching challenges. Via Nik Peachey 
BuddyPress is a collection of social networking components that are heavily dependent on the theme of your WordPress.org powered site. |
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