September 17th, 2008
20:32
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One of the best things about Moodle is that it is not a one-trick pony. You can produce podcasts with it, include videos in online events, or deliver online presentations. If you’re a web worker interested in new media methods for reaching audiences, check Moodle out.
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“Some of the new features in HTML 5 are functions for embedding audio, video, graphics, client-side data storage, and interactive documents. HTML 5 also contains new elements like <nav>, <header>, <footer>, and <figure>.”
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Connexions is:
a place to view and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks called modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports, etc. Anyone may view or contribute:
authors create and collaborate
instructors rapidly build and share custom collections
learners find and explore content
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…to fight back, he's foregone the potential six-figure advance traditional publishing would have granted, and published his textbook online for free…
Popularity: 6% [?]
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September 17th, 2008
03:05
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This survey provides the first nationally representative study of teen video game play and of teen video gaming and civic engagement. The survey looks at which teens are playing games, the games and equipment they are using, the social context of their play, and the role of parents and parental monitoring.
Popularity: 6% [?]
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September 12th, 2008
18:14
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Some 69% of online Americans use webmail services, store data online, or use software programs such as word processing applications whose functionality is located on the web. In doing so, these users are making use of "cloud computing," an emerging architecture by which data and applications reside in cyberspace, allowing users to access them through any web-connected device.
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Schools need to wake up and realize that distance education is not just a novelty anymore…
Popularity: 11% [?]
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September 6th, 2008
05:01
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Starting in November, Amazon will sell the One Laptop Per Child XO laptop, a marvel of engineering and pedagogy, on a "give one, get one" basis: every XO you buy will also pay for one to be given to a kid in the developing world…
Popularity: 8% [?]
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September 3rd, 2008
18:31
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He has begun publishing copies of federal, state and county codes online — in direct violation of claimed copyright.
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…School of Everything, a new web service that acts as a kind of eBay for people who have something to teach. Potential teachers list their areas of expertise (anything from knitting to programming to driving to yoga to TIG-welding to whatever) and potential students find teachers with a simple search…
Popularity: 8% [?]
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September 2nd, 2008
19:00
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Popularity: 9% [?]
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August 29th, 2008
23:36
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Amazon confirmed our speculation that they are planning to target colleges and universities with a new version of the Kindle…
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The internet is changing the way Americans engage with information, whether they are choosing a president or making health care decisions. Two major drivers for this change are broadband adoption and personal motivation.
The Pew Internet & American Life Project estimates that between 75% and 80% of internet users have looked online for health information. Slightly different results exist for the size of the e-patient population depending on survey strategy, but these results are close enough to be confident about the right contours of this group. The estimate is also in line with Harris Interactive's latest data on health information seekers (81% of internet users; 66% of all adults).
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As gadgets with digital audio capability proliferate, podcast downloading continues to increase. Currently, 19% of all internet users say they have downloaded a podcast so they could listen to it or view it later. This most recent percentage is up from 12% of internet users who reported downloading podcasts in our August 2006 survey and 7% in our February-April 2006 survey.
Popularity: 12% [?]
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August 27th, 2008
09:00
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September's less than a week away, and students everywhere are heading back to campus to pick up their new class schedule–and face frightening prices at the university bookstore…
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It’s a tall order, but it is important to have a consistent policy governing everything from Internet Protocol regulations to intellectual property on the Web…
Popularity: 11% [?]
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August 25th, 2008
18:33
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For more than a decade, the audiences for most traditional news sources have steadily declined, as the number of people getting news online has surged. However, today it is not a choice between traditional sources and the internet for the core elements of today's news audiences…
Popularity: 10% [?]
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August 19th, 2008
23:06
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Popularity: 11% [?]
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