June 20th, 2008
18:34
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For many kids, computers are indeed more of a distraction than a learning opportunity…
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tweetup n. A real world meeting between two or more people who know each other through the online Twitter service…
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In total, 46% of all adults are using the internet, email or phone text messaging for political purposes in this election…
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June 19th, 2008
18:36
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WallStats.com is here to serve the publics need to have complex and elusive information synthesized into palatable and enjoyable visual pieces.
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The photos you see here are a sample of the more than 13 million images in some seven hundred collections in our museums, archives, and research centers…
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Improbable TV is a web-based series of three-minute videos. It’s all about research that makes people laugh, then makes them think.
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…you’ll assemble a network of Times readers. Then you’ll be able to share interesting things on NYTimes.com with others in the network…
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Totlol is a child-friendly frontend to YouTube, with clips fit for kids from the age of six months old to six years old…
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…it will help if you just need to unlock copy/paste and editing restrictions on a PDF…
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Feedbook, a free RSS aggregator, takes in RSS feeds and spits out compiled PDFs in formats for pretty much any e-reader under the sun…
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Think of it as a My First Comparison Chart for non-spreadsheet hackers who still like to organize their thoughts into rows and columns…
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…lets you keep an eye on all the major video-sharing sites for any keyword you’re interested in popping up. Simply enter your search terms and you’ll get either an RSS feed, or a simple web page, that updates when those words appear…
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You can’t edit them yet, but Google Docs users can now upload PDF documents and view, copy text from, print, and share them…
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…icons you can drag and drop onto road or satellite maps, along with scribbling, line tracing (great for giving custom directions when Google’s aren’t convenient), text labels, and other tools…
Popularity: 8% [?]
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June 18th, 2008
18:38
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The latest spectacle is an Ivy League professor threatening to sue her students because, she claims, their “anti-intellectualism” violated her civil rights…
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I love this question. It first requires you to define what a “thinker” is, and also raises the question of what incentives exist in the modern world to be a thinker. Also, is someone a great thinker if they’re never able to communicate their thought
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What I do not like however, is the way tag clouds traditionally look. Enlarging the font for often-used tags causes all sorts of line height weirdness, which bugs me. This why I started experimenting with Flash to see if I could come up with something bet
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Accurately simulating the physics of the real world has been the domain of supercomputers for decades. The simulation of even “simple” physical phenomena like fire, smoke, and water requires a staggering amount of math. Now that we almost have multicore s
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June 14th, 2008
12:33
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If you’ve ever grown sincerely sick of the “Save Page As” prompt in your browser, iBreadCrumbs might be just the tool to gather your disconnected web research together…
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SmallWorlds is a 3D virtual world that runs inside your web browser. It enables you to build your own room, house, or even your own world, and fill it with a wide variety of items and fun activities…
Popularity: 9% [?]
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June 13th, 2008
12:34
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Facebook fanatics who have covered their profiles on the popular social networking site with silly games and quirky trivia quizzes may be unknowingly giving a host of strangers an intimate peek at their lives…
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Here are some great tools that you can use to cater to your individual learning style, no matter what that is…
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When comparing online office applications such as Google Docs or Zoho with the desktop standard Microsoft Office… Microsoft advocates usually point to the feature disparity between online and desktop applications….
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Hundreds of papers you can download and print for free. We’ve got graph paper, lined paper, financial paper, music paper, and more…
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Think this site needs to be redesigned? Please cast your vote above now…
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what if you need to resize a graphic or do some other digital image manipulation and you don’t have your regular setup on the road with you, or some other such issue has left you high and dry as far as image processing is concerned?
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Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide…
Popularity: 9% [?]
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June 11th, 2008
12:36
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Instructify is where teachers can stock their toolboxes with practical, time-saving classroom ideas and cutting edge methods of instruction…
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Web site Boolify makes advanced web searches easy through a simple drag-and-drop interface. Intended as an educational tool, Boolify teaches users how to create boolean searches…
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Many of these tutorials are free, and in this post, I’ll round up several that I’ve found worth paying attention to…
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When you need a word’s definition, translation, pronunciation, synonym, or antonym, you don’t have to haul an enormous tome from the bookshelf, dust it off, and ruffle through its delicate pages…
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Thanks to the ubiquity of text on the Internet, not to mention the popularity of text-messaging on cell phones, we may well be reading more today […] a different kind of reading, and behind it lies a different kind of thinking…
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Revoluminary helps connect instructors and students by providing a directory of available classes, easy scheduling and payment collection, clear instructor ratings, and an easy to use online classroom with interactive video…
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How relevant is it to declare oneself to be “for” or “against” copyright? Neither the stabilization nor the abolition of the copyright system seems within reach…
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I have to admit, after getting my Palm Centro, I’ve been becoming increasingly annoyed by sites without a mobile version. Pages take too long to load, break formatting, or are too data-heavy to load at all. As I rely more and more on mobile information, I’m seeing the value and importance of mobile websites.
So, without further ado, here’s the mobile version of Ed Tech Hacks!
If you want to type it directly into your mobile browser, here’s the link: [http://edtechhacks.mofuse.mobi]
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June 10th, 2008
11:35
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YouTomb is a research project by MIT Free Culture that tracks videos taken down from YouTube for alleged copyright violation…
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Convert boring units to real objects as you type!
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The extensive library of courses span over 35 languages, from Arabic to Yiddish. Each course comes as a convenient podcast which you can subscribe and put on your iPod or iPhone…
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This raises a major question: What, if anything, connects the formal writing teens do and the informal e-communication they exchange on digital screens?
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So here are 16 things I wish they had taught me in school (or I just would like to have known about earlier)…
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list of twittering libraries (for those of you thoroughly confused by that, check out twitter)
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I’ve decided that I will not be finishing our my Master’s degree at the University of Missouri - but the dilemma has presented itself: I don’t know where I actually want to finish my degree.
Long story short with Mizzou: I am unsatisfied enough with the courses provided, (some) instructors who teach them, and their general level of service to their students that I don’t want another dime of mine to go to them. (If you’d like more detail, I’d be happy to elaborate, but this post has another purpose.)
I’ve started looking at several programs, but I have strict criteria. I’m looking for an educational technology/instructional design Master’s degree, from an accredited college/university. The program has to be completely online, or within very reasonable driving distance (I’m in the northern Chicago suburbs - so anything downtown is out - that’s a 2h drive each way). It has to have some repuatation - either well-known or by word-of-mouth - for good rapport with students. Transferring credits I already have is nice, but not mandatory.
Here’s where I’m considering:
The last 2 have the benefit of being online/blended, with a resource center/library/advisers/etc. not far from where I live. WGU sends me email once or twice a week, which is starting to really annoy me. Other than that, I’m still up in the air.
Anyone have any experience, anecdotes, or the like about any of these schools?
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I’ve been hearing that one wiki service in my list of “Best Wikis” has closed its doors - StikiPad. Here’s the news:
Also, StikiPad’s support page appears to be down, and this “moving data centers” message has been on their intro page for a few weeks month at least.
Anyone using StikiPad have any information? Anyone have a better solution, to replace StikiPad in the list?
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