Monday, February 28, 2011

A. Kipta's Blog 03/01/2011 (a.m.)

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A. Kipta's Blog 02/28/2011 (p.m.)

  • CPI Inflation Calculator

    "The CPI inflation calculator uses the average Consumer Price Index for a given calendar year. This data represents changes in prices of all goods and services purchased for consumption by urban households. This index value has been calculated every year since 1913. For the current year, the latest monthly index value is used."

    tags: calculator

  • UH Research Archive: Collaborative learning: using technology for fostering those valued practices inherent in constructive environments in traditional education.

    "This paper presents a rationale for learners to learn through working collaboratively. An overview of the use of a number of different collaborative technologies to support pedagogy in a Blended Learning environment is reported. These technologies are then illustrated using three examples."

    tags: collaborative_learning

  • UH Research Archive: Student diaries: using technology to produce alternative forms of feedback.

    "Students at the University of Hertfordshire are increasingly exposed to e-learning through the extensive use of the Managed Learning Environment (MLE), and the heavy investment in various--technologies for classroom learning. This type of learning is disparate to previous generations and for some may be challenging, therefore it is--important to measure how beneficial it is to students learning. Rather than using conventional methods of evaluating students use of elearning, the university has integrated technology into its evaluation--process through the use of video cameras, voice recorders and web logs (blogs). This study is work in progress but follows on from a project conducted during the previous academic year with video diaries. As the study is exploring issues arising from e-learning and using technology in learning, it was thought appropriate to use different media for students--to express their views. Moreover, the institution wanted to use a type of research method which was open and not constrained quantitatively or by the researcher. In this evaluation project, students participation will--involve producing diaries over seven days, given the choice of three media: video cameras, voice recorders and blogs. Students will be asked to comment on various aspects of e-learning around the university, and also teaching and learning in general. The findings of this study will be analysed to explore students views of e-learning and to ensure that students are learning effectively through such methods. In this paper, the method and findings of this study will be presented, and the value of e-learning that students perceived in their studies will--be discussed."

    tags: blogging learning_journals

  • Canadian Institute for DE Research (CIDER) — CIDER

    "The Canadian Institute of Distance Education Research - CIDER - is a research initiative coordinated from the Centre for Distance Education at Athabasca University - Canada's Open University. The CIDER Website is an online self-managed research community with a shared domain of interest in distance education research. Within this research community, members have the opportunity to engage in debates, explore research areas of interest, and disseminate research related to distance education. In this way CIDER is a forum for online networking – amongst participants - academics, researchers, practitioners and Athabasca University alumni. By providing connections between people, ideas, publications, websites and research resources, CIDER aims to become a dynamic network and a central source for distance education research in Canada, continuously being shaped and re-shaped by its members. CIDER ’s distance education research scope is broad, ranging from learning and teaching application, financial and issues of access, the strategic use of technology in distance education settings, and other factors that influence distance education in Canada."

    tags: distance_education research athabasca.u

  • Center for Instructional Development and Educational Research (CIDER) | Virginia Tech

    "The Center for Instructional Development and Educational Research (CIDER) works with Virginia Tech faculty, administrators and graduate students to design, develop, and implement disciplinary and interdisciplinary learner-centered instruction; promote and recognize excellence in higher education instruction; support and conduct cutting-edge research on the scholarship of teaching and learning; and collaboratively advocate for a campus climate that values educating the whole student through effective, innovative and transformative instruction. "

    tags: distance_education research virginia.tech

  • The Student Portfolio is the New Book: New Practices, Profession, and Scholarship -- Campus Technology

    "It is hard, perhaps, to remember now, but until only a decade ago, knowledge and the information necessary to form knowledge was scarce. The delay between discovery, analysis and description, review, publication, dissemination, consensus, and the final formulation intended for novice learners (i.e., a textbook or standard monograph) was measured in years. We had "great books," classic analyses by recognized thinkers, and courses of study for novices could therefore reasonably settle into an unchanging and unchallenged curriculum and resultant set of syllabi. This description was accurate until just yesterday! We have experienced, in the first decade of this new millennium, a cultural epiphany of unthinkable scale and depth. I find myself constantly checking myself when I say a phrase common in our culture--"an apple a day, keeps the doctor away," for example--and telling myself I can now instantly check to see if there is indeed any truth in this old saying, or any other that I come across."

    tags: eportfolio knowledge_management

  • Hope and despair: managing technological change

    "In a very funny low budget British movie called ‘Clockwise’, John Cleese plays a school principal with an obsession about punctuality who is asked to give a keynote at a conference. By mistake, he gets on the wrong train, and the rest of the film is about him trying to get to the conference on time. With less than an hour to go, and stuck in a field miles from the conference, and with one last chance to get there, he says: ‘It’s not the despair that destroys you, it’s the hope.’"

    tags: technology change

  • Harvard Weblogs: What makes a weblog a weblog?

    "At Berkman we're studying weblogs, how they're used, and what they are. Rather than saying "I know it when I see it" I wanted to list all the known features of weblog software, but more important, get to the heart of what a weblog is, and how a weblog is different from a Wiki, or a news site managed with software like Vignette or Interwoven. I draw from my experience developing and using weblog software (Manila, Radio UserLand) and using competitive products such as Blogger and Movable Type. This piece is being published along with my keynotes at OSCOM and the Jupiter weblogs conference. And a disclaimer: This is a work in progress. There may be subsequent versions as the art and market for weblog software develops. Dave Winer, June 2003, Cambridge MA."

    tags: blogging

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Sunday, February 27, 2011

A. Kipta's Blog 02/28/2011 (a.m.)

  • Online Storage Reviews | Reliable Online Data Storage Solutions

    Online storage services can keep your files from being vulnerable to damage, lost and impossible to access unless from only your computer. Online storage companies are very safe and affordable. The sites listed below are ranked at the top of the online storage industry and are among the most trusted sites available.

    tags: storage

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A. Kipta's Blog 02/27/2011 (p.m.)

  • Core4Women

    "Core4Women is the Collaborative Online Resource Environment for Women. This is a peer networking environment where we can talk about the benefits of online learning! Active Mentors are available to share their experience in online learning, answer questions, and locate education resources for you. Please feel free to contact an active mentor by clicking their linked profile page. You may also post in a discussion forum, join a group, and dialogue with others about the different aspects of learning online. Access Core4Women as many times and for as long as you need to get the information or assistance you need."

    tags: collaboration women

  • Free Online Courses, at a Very High Price - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education

    "Enthusiasts think open courses have the potential to uplift a nation of Zieglers by helping them piece together cheaper degrees from multiple institutions. But some worry that universities' projects may stall, because the recession and disappearing grant money are forcing colleges to confront a difficult question: What business model can support the high cost of giving away your "free" content? "With the economic downturn, I think it will be a couple of years before Yale or other institutions are likely to be able to make substantial investments in building out a digital course catalog," says Linda K. Lorimer, vice president and secretary at Yale, which is publishing a 36-class, greatest-hits-style video set called Open Yale Courses. Over the long term, she argues, such work will flourish."

    tags: open_courseware business_model

  • PC to Phone Calls with Free Softphone

    "Callcentric is a service that lets you make and receive free phone calls to other Callcentric members; and to traditional phones world wide at great rates. Callcentric uses your internet connection and software on your computer or a telephone adapter to place calls using Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP). VoIP means your calls travel from your computer or telephone adapter across the Internet and to their final destination. "

    tags: voip

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Saturday, February 26, 2011

A. Kipta's Blog 02/27/2011 (a.m.)

  • OER Africa

    "OER Africa provides you access to all the information you will need to learn about and benefit from Open Educational Resources (OER). In brief, the concept of OER describes educational resources that are freely available for use by educators and learners, without an accompanying need to pay royalties or license fees."

    tags: oer africa

  • Unit 3: Supporting learning |OER Africa

    "Education and training institutions around the world used to be driven by a belief that teaching simply involved imparting knowledge to learners. This was based on the notion that a learner’s brain is an 'empty vessel', into which knowledge can be poured, and that if you poured in the right information, in the right sequence, the learner would automatically learn whatever you wanted her to learn. Although most educators would now disagree with this notion, it is still the case that most educators/ trainers in higher education and workplace training are appointed on the basis of their subject knowledge and not their ability to teach in a learner-centred way. In recent years, the concept of constructivism has helped many educators to go beyond traditional rote learning techniques, and to engage their learners more fully in the learning process. In this unit, we take a bird's-eye look at the many ways in which you can support distance learners in their learning from a constructivist perspective."

    tags: learner_support

  • Syllabus of CEIT 566: Telecoomunications and  Educational Applications

    "This course is a graduate level course designed to provide the student with the opportunity to critically explore, examine, evaluate, and experience the design, implementation, and the use of distance learning technologies for education. It is designed to discuss how innovations such as the World Wide Web, multi-user virtual environments, computer-supported collaborative learning, and online communities are shaping the evolution of distance education and distributed learning. In this course a general sense on telecommunications in distance education and their applications will be studied. Since a major chunk of our graduate students already work at a school or are eventually planning to work at schools, and are expected to be the key people in implementation and diffusing technology at their schools, this course is of a high value for our graduate students. "

    tags: education ict telecommunications online_learning

  • Yugma: Free Web Collaboration Forever — anytime, anywhere.

    "The Yugma SE (Skype Edition) is a Skype Certified Extra that builds upon Skype's offering by adding instant desktop sharing and collaboration functionality. Skype users can instantly begin sharing their computer screen with anyone, anywhere - regardless of the application, software or operating system - with Yugma SE. Yugma's integrated functionality makes it easy for Skype users to instantly web conference with their Skype contacts or non-Skype contacts. Once Yugma SE is installed, it automatically recognizes your Skype Name and allows you to instantly Host or Join a Yugma Skype meeting. You don’t need to register for a Yugma account to use Yugma Skype Edition. Whether you are hosting or joining a Yugma Skype meeting, you can easily invite a friend or colleague from your existing Skype contact list. Teaming up Skype with Yugma SE (Skype Edition) gives you all the tools needed to accomplish any task required in a traditional, face-to-face meeting. "

    tags: skype conferencing desktop_sharing

  • EDPY 597 - Synchronous Learning Environments

    "This course will expose learners to a group of technologies that provide real-time interaction and communication in distance and distributed learning settings. Learners will receive an overview of key synchronous technologies developed over the past thirty years. A historical examination of concepts and issues surrounding the use of real-time technologies will form a conceptual framework for critically evaluating current and emerging technologies. In addition to surveying key developments in synchronous technologies, the course will explore pedagogical issues and the impact of instructional strategies on learning and learning outcomes. This course will be delivered using a number synchronous technologies including Voice over IP, collaborative tools , desktop video conferencing , room-based videoconference, and Webcasting with interactive chat. We’ll also use some asynchronous tools, since they are more appropriate than synchronous tools for some things. Members of the class will have the opportunity to develop valuable skills both as a participant and as a synchronous presenter/facilitator."

    tags: synchronous learning_environment

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A. Kipta's Blog 02/26/2011 (p.m.)

  • jonlee.ca » How-to: Secure your Google Experience with SSL

    If setting up a proxy server over SSH is too much trouble for you, a quick and easy way to secure certain sites is to use the https protocol instead of http. Not all sites support this but I know that a number of Google applications work with both http:// and https:// protocols. For example, instead of going to http://mail.google.com add an ’s’ and go to https://mail.google.com instead. Now your Gmail session will be encrypted with SSL!

    tags: security ssl

  • Create QR Code

  • Tom's Planner | Gantt Chart Software | Drag & Drop Simplicity

    "Tom's Planner is Gantt chart software that allows anyone to create, collaborate and share Gantt Charts online with drag and drop simplicity. It's web based, extremely intuitive and easy-to-use. Watch the quick tutorial or try Tom's Planner for free (no registration required). Is Gantt chart software like MS Project or Primavera too complex for your planning purpo- ses? Do you find yourself still painstakingly trying to plan your projects in Excel? Tom's Planner is the answer to your needs. It makes project planning easy, fast and even enjoyable. "

    tags: project_management charts

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Friday, February 25, 2011

A. Kipta's Blog 02/26/2011 (a.m.)

  • Convert Word DOC to HTML

    This free online word converter tool will take the contents of a doc or docx file and convert the word text into HTML code. It produces a much cleaner html code than word normally produces. This doc converter strips as many unnecessary styles and extra mark-up code as it can. It does not preserve images but it does preserve html links and other basic html formatting tags like bolding in the conversion process.

    tags: microsoft_word html converter

  • American Museum of Natural History's online learning gets prestigious Science award

    Resources for Learning (RFL), an innovative online catalog of educational content for teachers and students developed by the American Museum of Natural History, has received the Science Prize for Online Resources in Education (SPORE) - the first time a natural history museum has won this coveted honor. The award, sponsored by the journal Science, recognizes outstanding, free online educational materials that enrich science learning.

    tags: history online_learning

  • Ed/ITLib Digital Library → Learning at a Distance through Mobile Devices: A Global Choice of Learners in the Open and Distance Learning (ODL) System

    In the techno-driven world, mobile learning is an indispensable element of teaching-learning activities. It helps distance learners in many ways by providing their required facilities. The paper discusses about these facilities in an eclectic and summary manner. Thus, by implication, it is popularized among distance learners across the globe. Further, it discusses the reasons why learners tempt to go for mobile learning? How it helps them in their study skills and enhancement of their cognitive skills which they badly require in their learning activities?

    tags: distance_learning open_learning mlearning

  • Ed/ITLib Digital Library → Mobile learning. Can students really multitask?

    The advent of mobile learning offers opportunities for students to do two things at once in an educational context. Students can learn while performing another activity. Two experiments were set up to examine the effect of performing a secondary task while learning with a mobile device. In the experimental group, the participants had to combine a learning task (watching movies on an iPod while sitting at a desk) with a secondary task (screwing). The control group only had to perform the learning task. Additionally, participants of the experimental group received different instructions.

    tags: mlearning

  • Metcalfe’s Law and Social Media: Size does matter | Christopher S. Penn's Awaken Your Superhero#

    For those new to the concept, Metcalfe’s Law basically states that the value of a network is proportional to the square of the number of connected users to the network. A lone fax machine is just a copier with a phone line. A lone email account is basically an electronic sticky note system for yourself. As more nodes get added to the network, not only does the network’s value grow, but so does the value of your node, assuming you’re connected in some way to each new node.

    tags: social_networking metcalfe's_law

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Thursday, February 24, 2011

A. Kipta's Blog 02/25/2011 (a.m.)

  • HTTPS Everywhere | Electronic Frontier Foundation

    "HTTPS Everywhere is a Firefox extension produced as a collaboration between The Tor Project and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It encrypts your communications with a number of major websites. Many sites on the web offer some limited support for encryption over HTTPS, but make it difficult to use. For instance, they may default to unencrypted HTTP, or fill encrypted pages with links that go back to the unencrypted site. The HTTPS Everywhere extension fixes these problems by rewriting all requests to these sites to HTTPS."

    tags: security firefox extension

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A. Kipta's Blog 02/24/2011 (p.m.)

  • Barcode Yourself by Scott Blake

    "Barcode Yourself is a complete, interactive experience in the series of barcode art, created using the personalized data of participants. Enter an individual's gender, weight, height, age and location, and the barcode is formed using real-world data."

    tags: qrcode game

  • QR Code Generator? The Best QR Code Generators

    "There are quite a few QR Code generators online. Some of them like Barcode Maker simply cosmeticize the Google Chart API while others like ZXing have full MECARD encoding."

    tags: qrcode generator

  • 8 Free Tools to Visualize Information on Twitter

    "There’s a lot of noise on Twitter. People use a variety of ways to filter through that noise, from following specific lists, finding like-minded people through third party sites, or using a variety of services and websites to find the information that matters to them on Twitter. Another interesting way to filter through what is being said on Twitter, and better yet, analyse it, is to visualize it. This is certainly not a new idea, and we’ve written about some services in the past that will allow you to do just that. With the world around Twitter constantly growing and developing, it’s no surprise that since then there are a ton more services allowing you to visualize your followers, Twitter stream and your own personal Twitter stats."

    tags: visualization twitter

  • 10 Ways to Use QR Codes in Your Classroom | Technology Teacher

    "There are many, many ways you can creatively use QR codes in your classroom. Once you understand how they work and the types of information they can provide, you will be unstoppable! Also, you should know that mobile phone cameras with QR code readers can scan QR codes projected on a screen as well as printed QR codes. However, many of the applications of QR codes work really well when used with print media."

    tags: qrcode education

  • Firefox: Change Address Bar Search Provider

    "When Firefox performs a search from the Address Bar, it queries the search engine string you have setup within Firefox. If it’s using Yahoo, you can switch to Google. Don’t like Google? Use Ask. Here’s how to switch which search engine Firefox searches when you use the address bar to search."

    tags: search_engine configuration

  • Radbox

    "RadBox is a quick way to save online videos, so you can watch them later. Whenever you come across a website with a video that you wish to watch later, just hit the Radbox bookmarklet button on the browser. Later, watch all these videos at Radbox. Radbox supports all popular services including YouTube, Vimeo, Metacafe, DailyMotion, CollegeHumor, Hulu, Blip.tv, Megavideo, TED etc."

    tags: video bookmarking

  • Movements.org

    "Movements.org is a non-profit organization dedicated to identifying, connecting, and supporting grassroots digital activists from around the world. We match members of our global network with necessary resources from the technology, media, private and public sectors as well as with each other in order to foster peer to peer capacity building. Movements.org hosts annual summits, regional training events, and an online hub for best practices, lessons learned, discussion and news about the use of new technologies in social movements. The organization was formed during a December 2008 summit, the Alliance of Youth Movements, that brought together experts in social media with pioneering grassroots movement leaders for the first time in history. Founders of Movements.org include Jared Cohen, Director of Google Ideas at Google, Jason Liebman, CEO and co-founder of Howcast, and Roman Tsunder, co-founder of Access 360 Media."

    tags: grassroots activism technology communication

  • The Guardian Project

    "While smartphones have been heralded as the coming of the next generation of communication and collaboration, they are a step backwards when it comes to personal security, anonymity and privacy."

    tags: privacy security cell_phone

  • How It Works | Springpad

    "Springpad gives you a place to quickly and easily save anything you want to remember. Take a note, create a task, scan a product barcode and look up the book your friend mentioned. The best part is that no matter where you are, Springpad is there with you to make sure you don't forget something worth remembering. Just think it and Spring it, and it'll be there for you when you need it. "

    tags: notebooking online

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Wednesday, February 23, 2011

A. Kipta's Blog 02/23/2011 (p.m.)

  • Let’s Tie the Digital Knot : The Daily Papert

    A mathematician, an early pioneer of artificial intelligence, and an internationally recognized seminal thinker about how computers can change learning, Seymour Papert worked with educational psychologist Jean Piaget at the University of Geneva from 1959 to 1963, a collaboration that led Papert to consider using mathematics in the service of understanding how children think and learn. As more and more students gain access to computers and the Internet, Papert offers his prescriptions for consummating the marriage of education and digitalism. He sees most present uses of computers in schools as mere flirtation.

    tags: papert.seymour computers

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Tuesday, February 22, 2011

A. Kipta's Blog 02/23/2011 (a.m.)

  • How to Create a Great PowerPoint Presentation

    "One thing I like to do is make sure there's a logical story," says Janet Bornemann, the creative director of PowerPoint Studio, based in Acton, Massachusetts. Bornemann, who designs PowerPoint presentations for corporate clients, says that just like any piece of good writing, there needs to be a beginning, middle, and an end to your presentation. Traditionally, in the beginning of the presentation you tell the audience what you plan to cover, in the middle of the presentation you tell them, and in the end, you tell them what you've told them. One clever tip Bornemann recommends is to use five words per line, and five lines per slide.

    tags: powerpoint

  • Responding to Student Writing (audio style) - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education

    "Responding to student writing in an effective and timely manner is important to student success. And we want students to succeed, to be good writers. However, students don’t often expect to receive detailed and intricate feedback on their work; they expect to see the dreaded “red pen” marks. They assume that we don’t really read their writing, that we give each page a cursory glance, and that we are only looking for spelling and grammatical errors. This implies–and the students believe–that “writing” is only “writing correctly.”"

    tags: writing higher_education

  • Avoid 'Grading Jail' through Course Writing Contracts - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education

    "Effectively assessing student writing and mentoring student writers is one of the great challenges of academic life. For many college instructors, helping our students write better is one of our top priorities—in a recent AAC&U survey, more employers said that colleges should play more emphasis on “the ability to effectively communicate orally and in writing” than any other skill."

    tags: writing higher_education

  • Main Page - Digital Library of America Project

    "The Berkman Center will convene a large and diverse group of stakeholders to define the scope, architecture, costs, and administration for a proposed Digital Public Library of America. This initiative was launched in December 2010 with generous support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. "

    tags: harvard digital_artifacts library

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Sunday, February 20, 2011

A. Kipta's Blog 02/21/2011 (a.m.)

  • Free Video Converter: Convert Videos Online

    "Movavi Online is a free online web service that lets you download videos from video-sharing sites and save them to your iPhone, iPod, cellphone, and popular video formats: complete list. With Movavi Online, you can also convert videos already on your computer. There’s no charge for the service, and you don’t need to download any software."

    tags: free online video converter

  • American Sign Museum

    "Come take a walk down Memory Lane and experience the only public sign museum in America. Click through our website, and find a treasure trove of information relative to the rich tradition of sign fabrication and design. You can also find news of sign preservation efforts throughout the country and even visit the Museum's permanent collection."

    tags: museum american signs

  • Xtranormal | February Movie Contest

    "If you can type, you can make movies...with STATE. try our free version at home, on your own PC. with MOVIE MAKER create your movies online and share them with your friends."

    tags: video animation storytelling

  • Zimmer Twins

    "On zimmertwins.com you create your own endings to one of our story starters. You may also create your stories from scratch. So put on your director's hat and you might just be our next featured movie maker!"

    tags: video animation storytelling

  • The Historical Marker Database

    "There are countless thousands of great stories marked by markers—and some boring ones too. Some markers simply recite facts while others are insightful, obscure, cryptic, patriotic, fascinating, sad, funny, or just downright bizarre. Many of those markers are on these pages, others are waiting for you to discover and add them to this database. "

    tags: history database

  • morgueFile free photos for creatives by creatives

    "Free images for your inspiration, reference and use in your creative work, be it commercial or not!"

    tags: free multimedia public_domain

  • Compfight | A Flickr™ Search Tool

    tags: images flickr search_engine

  • PlayOnLoop.com - Royalty Free Music Loops for download

    "Browse plenty of royalty free production music loops within 39 different music genres or find your stock loops by feel using tags. Do not miss free music loops too! Check the music quality by yourself! Preview the entire music loop so you can tell if it fits in your video, game, slideshow, website, flash application and wathever. Just choose the lenght of the loop you just listened to and you're ready to go! Use PayPal for safer and faster payment and download your royalty free music istantly!"

    tags: free audio sounds music

  • PhotoPeach

    "Our idea is to help you tell better stories online using photos. With PhotoPeach you can create a rich slideshow in seconds to engage your friends or family. We also support background music, captions, and comments so you can elaborate on your story further. You have heard again and again: “A picture is worth a thousand words”, but what if you could add a thousand words to your photos, and some music? We think the whole slideshow is greater than the sum of the photos, words, and music."

    tags: slideshow

  • Masher - create free online video, photo and music mashups

    "Masher lets you easily create a video by mixing together video clips, music tracks, and photos all for FREE! "

    tags: video editor mashups

  • Free online Audio Editor - Aviary.com's Myna

    "Use Myna to remix music tracks and audio clips. Apply sound effects and record your own voice or instruments! "

    tags: audio editor

  • Jamendo

    "Jamendo is a community of free, legal and unlimited music published under Creative Commons licenses. Share your music, download your favorite artists!"

    tags: sounds audio music creative_commons

  • Royalty Free Music & Audio: Search Stock Samples, Loops & Tracks | iStockphoto.com

    "Welcome to iStockphoto, the web's original source for royalty-free stock images, media and design elements. For over 10 years artists, designers and photographers from all over the world have come here to create, work and learn. Although iStockphoto started with just a few photos in 2000, we now offer vector illustrations, videos, music and sound effects, Flash and, coming soon, logos. Millions of people depend on iStockphoto for affordable prices and exceptional quality. All iStock files are royalty-free1, which means you only have to pay once to use the file multiple times. We even offer a Legal Guarantee1 - our promise that content used within the terms of the license agreement will not infringe on any copyright, moral right, trademark or other intellectual property right, or violate any right of privacy or publicity."

    tags: sounds audio music royalty_free

  • freesound :: home page

    "The Freesound Project is a collaborative database of Creative Commons licensed sounds. Freesound focusses only on sound, not songs. This is what sets freesound apart from other splendid libraries like ccMixter. New to this site? Read the What is Freesound page to learn more!"

    tags: free sounds audio

  • Free Sound Clips | SoundBible.com

    "SoundBible.com is the encyclopedia of free sound clips and may just be the last sample resource you'll ever need. We offer free and royalty free sounds for video editors, movie scores, game designers, and weekend audio warriors. Bookmark our page now by hitting Ctrl+D. We update daily so be sure to return for one of the best copyright free sound resources on the net."

    tags: free audio sounds sound_effects music royalty_free

  • Free Music Archive

    "The Free Music Archive is an interactive library of high-quality, legal audio downloads. The Free Music Archive is directed by WFMU, the most renowned freeform radio station in America. Radio has always offered the public free access to new music. The Free Music Archive is a continuation of that purpose, designed for the age of the internet."

    tags: free sounds audio

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Saturday, February 19, 2011

A. Kipta's Blog 02/20/2011 (a.m.)

  • NGA | Winslow Homer | 22

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  • NGA | Winslow Homer

    "The National Gallery's Winslow Homer collection ranks as one of the nation's most significant, representing the full scope of his production, with major examples of oil paintings, watercolors, drawings, and a complete set of wood engravings. To enhance the online experience, a slideshow with thirty-five high resolution images is a major component of this Web feature."

    tags: art

  • Child Trends

    "Child Trends is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research center that studies children at all stages of development. Our mission is to improve outcomes for children by providing research, data, and analysis to the people and institutions whose decisions and actions affect children, including program providers, the policy community, researchers and educators, and the media. Founded in 1979, Child Trends helps keep the nation focused on children and their needs by identifying emerging issues; evaluating important programs and policies; and providing data-driven, evidence-based guidance on policy and practice."

    tags: children statistics data

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A. Kipta's Blog 02/19/2011 (p.m.)

  • Earth Science Teaching: Lesson Plans, Classroom Activities

    "Teaching Earth Science: A Collection of Classroom Activities and Lesson Plans. Here is a list of teacher resources that can easily be modified and incorporated into the earth science classroom. Compiled by Christy Pratt."

    tags: science geology

  • Track, Analyze, and Manage Your Time | Chrometa

    "Track Your Time - Without Notes or Timers. Let Chrometa automatically capture and categorize your time for you." $99 software now free.

    tags: time tracking

  • Awesome Library

    "Awesome Library organizes the Web with 37,000 carefully reviewed resources, including the top 5 percent in education."

    tags: education library resources

  • MindShift | How we will learn

    "Technology is revolutionizing the world of education – replacing familiar classroom tools and changing the way we learn. MindShift will explore the future of learning in all its dimensions – covering cultural and technology trends, groundbreaking research, education policy and more. The site is curated by Tina Barseghian, a former editor of Edutopia and the mother of a grade-schooler."

    tags: educational_technology

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Friday, February 18, 2011

A. Kipta's Blog 02/19/2011 (a.m.)

  • Splashup

    "Splashup, formerly Fauxto, is a powerful editing tool and photo manager. With the features professionals use and novices want, it's easy to use, works in real-time and allows you to edit many images at once. Splashup runs in all browsers, integrates seamlessly with top photo-sharing sites, and even has its own file format so you can save your work in progress."

    tags: photography

  • Online-Journals.org

    "Online-Journals.org is a service provided by the non-profit International Association of Online Engineering. Its mission is to contribute to the advancement of science by providing an efficient and cost-effective way for making qualitative scientific results easily accessible to the largest possible audience."

    tags: journals

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Create stories using social media - storify.com

About Storify: "Turn what people post on social media into compelling stories. Collect the best photos, video, tweets and more to publish them as simple, beautiful stories that can be embedded anywhere."

http://storify.com/

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Wednesday, February 16, 2011

How's the Weather? Websites for Students

"Weather has been a hot topic in the news this winter.  The extreme cold temperatures and snow have hit every single state in the United States, including some very cold temperatures for Florida in December.   The snow and cold has had a major effect on travel, school, and even sports.  Outside of the United States, the weather has also been unstable with the tropical cyclone that hit Australia which might have destroyed parts of The Great Barrier Reef.  This timely topic is a great “teachable moment” in all classrooms.  There are many websites for students to learn about weather including news websites."

http://blog.learningtoday.com/blog/bid/53514/How-s-the-Weather-Websites-for-Students?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LearningToday+%28Learning+Today+Blog%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

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A. Kipta's Blog 02/16/2011 (p.m.)

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Working with Zotero Standalone (Alpha) - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education

"Several weeks ago Jason observed in his Weekend Reading that the folks at the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University had released an alpha “standalone” version of Zotero. Zotero has long been a ProfHacker favorite, and many of us here and elsewhere were excited to be able, finally, to use Zotero without using Firefox, the browser for which Zotero was originally designed as an extension. And Zotero Standalone is indeed standalone. It looks exactly like the regular Zotero, but running in a separate, resizable window."

http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/working-with-zotero-standalone-alpha/30593?sid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en

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Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Math Mayem - a multi-player math game

About Math Mayhem: "Are you ready to put your math skills to the ultimate challenge? Here is your chance to compete head-to-head in our exciting, fast-paced, multi-player arena."
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Monday, February 14, 2011

Print Free Graph Paper - print specialty graph paper for free

About Print Free Graph Paper: "Save yourself money and a trip to the store! Print graph paper free from your computer. This site is perfect for science and math homework, craft projects and other graph paper needs. All graph paper files are optimized PDF documents requiring Adobe Reader for viewing.Take advantage of your printing flexibility; print on transparency film for sharp graph paper overheads, or waterproof paper for field data-collecting."

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Thursday, February 10, 2011

A. Kipta's Blog 02/11/2011

  • Open Educational Resources

    "UNESCO believes that universal access to high quality education is key to the building of peace, sustainable social and economic development, and intercultural dialogue. Open Educational Resources (OER) provide a strategic opportunity to improve the quality of education as well as facilitate policy dialogue, knowledge sharing and capacity building."

    tags: unesco oer

  • K12EdCom | K12 Educational Commons

    "The mission of K12EdCom.org is to promote and publish OpenCourseWare for K12 schools. OpenCourseWare is curriculum and learning material published under the Creative Commons License. Everything published on this web site is free to use and redistribute."

    tags: open_courseware k-12

  • The Privacy Projects

    "Our goals for The Privacy Projects are to enhance the practice of privacy by developing and promoting privacy standards, improve trusted management of personal information in the networked environment through research and education, and increase the quality of privacy policies, practices and technologies through collaboration and outreach. We recognize that many other nonprofit organizations are engaged in good and productive work in these areas and we are delighted to work with other in constructive collaboration toward achieving mutual goals. We believe that information privacy is essential to free societies and to free economies. As information about people, things and services increasingly become the resource upon which our economic engines run, securing personal information to protect personal and commercial interests and managing that information in ways that respect the dignity of the individual are no longer optional – they are required to advance."

    tags: privacy

  • Thoughts On Dreams, A Book That Uses Actual Threads As Hyperlinks

    "Maria Fischer, a designer from Germany, created a book named named “Traumgedanken” (“Thoughts on dreams”) that contains theories, ideas and insight into the world of dreaming. With the use of thread sewn throughout the book, she connects words and underlines keywords (hyperlinks) to guide the reader through the beautiful chaos."

    tags: art

  • Edudemic » 15 Terrific Educational Web Apps

    "The education technology space has seen an explosion of new offerings in the past few years. What has been missing is a centralized platform for schools and universities to easily evaluate and utilize web apps. Today Google launched an education category in the Google Apps Marketplace designed specifically to help schools and universities easily discover and deploy new web applications that integrate with their existing Google Apps accounts. The new education category includes over 20 applications from 19 vendors ranging from learning management systems (LMS) to student tools and teaching aids – all of which integrate with Google Apps for Education. Each app can be accessed through single sign-on and the Google universal navigation bar and many offer deeper integrations that synchronize with Google Calendar and Documents. This new education category will make it easier for schools to have more web apps at their fingertips, including popular existing apps such as Aviary, Grockit, and LearnBoost as well as the new apps launching today."

    tags: education web_apps

  • Edudemic » The History of Social Media

  • Horizon Report Wiki - home

    "This wiki is a place for the members of the Horizon Project Advisory Board to manage the selection process for the topics included in the 2011 Horizon Report, which is published by the New Media Consortium (NMC)."

    tags: technology education digital_literacy report

  • Topicmarks - summarize your text documents in minutes

    "Topicmarks is a web service that creates smart, interactive synopses from electronic documents in minutes. We use the most advanced natural-language processing technology available to understand the true meaning of your text, summarize it for you and retain all its facts forever. Upload multiple texts and Topicmarks becomes your knowledge base: finding links between texts, grouping texts around topics, and containing all the facts from all documents you ever read. Understand the essence and retain every single fact - without reading anything yourself."

    tags: semantic language_processing text

  • UnCollege | self-directed higher education

    "UnCollege offers a project-based curriculum for independent learners and supports a community of like-minded individuals to complement traditional higher education."

    tags: education trends

  • OpenAttribute

    "The problem: Creative Commons licensed content is awesome, but attributing it properly can be difficult and confusing. The first rule for re-using openly licensed content is that you have to properly attribute the creator. There are specific requirements for what needs to go into that attribution, but those requirements can be confusing and hard to find. The solution: A simple tool everyone can use to do the right thing with the click of a button. That’s why we’re building Open Attribute, a suite of tools that makes it ridiculously simple for anyone to copy and paste the correct attribution for any CC licensed work."

    tags: creative_commons attribution firefox chrome

  • Follow not working | Diigo Groups

    The max you can follow=the number of your followers +30

    tags: diigo

  • Lawrence F. O’Brien Gallery

    ""Discovering the Civil War," a new exhibit opening on April 30 at the National Archives in Washington, D.C., takes a fresh look at the conflict through the records left by the participants themselves—letters, orders, maps, telegrams, photographs, and broadsides—that are preserved in the National Archives. The exhibit invites visitors to consider and ask questions about the evidence found in the records, listen to a wide variety of voices from the Civil War era, and make up their own minds about the struggle that tore apart these United States."

    tags: history education civil_war

  • Teachers' Resources - National Archives

    "Docs Teach: Find and create interactive learning activities with primary source documents that promote historical thinking skills."

    tags: history education national_archives

  • David Rumsey Historical Map Collection | 19th Century Maps by Children

    "In the 18th and 19th centuries, children were taught geography by making their own maps, usually copies of maps available to them in books and atlases at their schools or homes. Below is a group of maps and geographical diagrams made by children in the 19th century; and some of the school atlases, geographies, and wall maps that may have been their sources. These old maps made by children were hand drawn and colored, one-of-a-kind productions, and it is amazing that any have survived down to our time. That they have is due to luck and the efforts of families to preserve the history of their children. These maps have a special poignancy today in the way that they reflect the optimism of youth from another time."

    tags: historical maps education

  • Once Upon a Cybercrime… | ESET ThreatBlog

    "57% of Mac users feel it is safe to use their computers without antivirus software where only 27% of PC users feel it is safe to do so. Much of the losses associated with cybercrime are related to phishing attacks. Phishing attacks are just as effective on Macs, Linux, Windows, Solaris, and any operating system since they rely on tricking the user and not upon malicious software or any software vulnerabilities. The Mac offers no immunity to phishing attacks and so we see a virtually equal percentage of victim representation across the board. A significant part of the phishing problem is ignorance. The survey found that less than 50% of Americans even know what phishing is. It is difficult to defend against something one is not aware of."

    tags: malware cybersecurity

  • Google Apps for Education Guide to Going Google

    "This site contains tools and guidelines to use as a starting point to getting your students, faculty, alumni, and community ready and excited about bringing Google Apps for Education to campus."

    tags: google apps education

  • M86VuSafe.com

    Now an essential online medium, video is a useful way for teachers to supplement classroom learning and engage students in content they can't access on field trips or through books alone. However, finding and sharing videos can be a challenge due to safety and compliance concerns. That's why M86 Security created VuSafe—the secure, simple way to share Internet videos. Through VuSafe, teachers can easily manage and share approved videos and other streaming content, while safeguarding students from inappropriate advertising, comments, links and other content present on sites such as YouTube.

    tags: video file_sharing education

  • The Best Free Science Games for Kids Online: Educational Fun for Everyone

    "Are your kids inquiring young scientists who are always curious about the world around them? If so, the following websites are just what you need. They contain some of the best science games for kids online. Each of them are fun to explore and play with, but they also have a sound educational base."

    tags: science games education

  • Facebook Privacy: 10 Settings Every User Needs to Know

    "Facebook’s privacy settings are extremely detailed, giving you the ability to fine-tune the privacy aspects of almost every little part of your Facebook account. Unfortunately, for most users, this level of micromanagement makes Facebook’s privacy settings a convoluted mess. Even worse, these settings change often; you may think you know everything there is about them, only to be greeted with a completely different layout and a bunch of new options the next time you visit the dreaded Facebook Privacy Settings page."

    tags: facebook privacy

  • DataPortability.org - Share and remix data using open standards

    "Data portability is the ability for people to reuse their data across interoperable applications. The DataPortability Project works to advance this vision by identifying, contextualizing and promoting efforts in the space."

    tags: data_portability ownership

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