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Will Richardson, author of 'Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts and other Powerful Tools for the Classroom', uses this site to assemble useful links for educators, publish articles as well as more informal opinions and information about what he he calls the read/write web.
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invites students and professors nationwide to upload their class lecture notes, making them available to anyone with a free Knetwit account.
Every time a student's notes are downloaded, they are awarded "Koins," or Knetwit currency. Every "Koin" is equivalent to four cents. When a student reaches the $10 mark, he or she can cash in or buy a product
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Creativity often involves integrating two (or more) familiar entities in some felicitous way. As the internet becomes an operating system, mashups promise to be an important locus of creative development.
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Mashups move from consumer space into business. “Mashup tools will morph into DIY Web application development tools for business users.â€
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Skype's president said that the company was largely unaware of a major security breach affecting Skype users in China.
In a blog published Thursday, Josh Silverman, Skype's president, explained he did not realize that TOM-Skype, Skype's partner in China, was logging and storing users' instant messages that were deemed offensive by the Chinese government.
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You don't need to be a technology whiz to bring the power of wikis to your classroom, says Punxsutawney Area High School teacher Louise Maine. In a year and a half since discovering the educational potential of this Web tool, she has learned enough to use a wiki as the hub for almost everything she and her science students do. (Read here about how she uses it.)
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Reports on research that shows that teachers use web 2.0 tools, kids use web 2.0 tools... just not in class.
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Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. It lives right where you do your work — in the web browser itself.
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The Opencast project actively engages the community to research and share best practices, develop case studies, and define user requirements for lecture/event capture, processing, archiving, distribution, and effective use of podcasting? for teaching and learning.
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With REPLAY, the Multimedia Services of ETH Zurich are developing a system for the holistic processing of audiovisual content. From the recording of lectures and events, indexing, archiving and searching, to the distribution of content in different formats, REPLAY covers the complete life cycle of an audiovisual production.
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Will Richardson, author of 'Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts and other Powerful Tools for the Classroom', uses this site to assemble useful links for educators, publish articles as well as more informal opinions and information about what he he calls the read/write web.
invites students and professors nationwide to upload their class lecture notes, making them available to anyone with a free Knetwit account. Every time a student's notes are downloaded, they are awarded "Koins," or Knetwit currency. Every "Koin" is equivalent to four cents. When a student reaches the $10 mark, he or she can cash in or buy a product
Creativity often involves integrating two (or more) familiar entities in some felicitous way. As the internet becomes an operating system, mashups promise to be an important locus of creative development.
Skype's president said that the company was largely unaware of a major security breach affecting Skype users in China. In a blog published Thursday, Josh Silverman, Skype's president, explained he did not realize that TOM-Skype, Skype's partner in China, was logging and storing users' instant messages that were deemed offensive by the Chinese government.
Reports on research that shows that teachers use web 2.0 tools, kids use web 2.0 tools... just not in class.
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