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I discovered 4teachers.org the other day, an online web portal for technology resources. The site seems aimed at k-12, with a focus on the younger half of that group, but I still found it informative to see how primary and secondary ed is using technology. There are a host of resources, quizzes, lesson [...]

if:book has a post about an interesting media studies project at Carelton College. What caught my attention though was the picture that showed the students in New York at the institute.

Notice anything about those laptops?

Thanks to Henry Jenkin’s blog I discovered The Project for New Media Literacy. I have been wondering about something like this. For sometime now there has been the need to think thru how significantly media literacy has changed and just as importantly to provide educators with tools and resources to teach this to [...]

The Voice of the Shuttle is one of the most comprehensive Humanities sites on the web. Started as an individual effort by Alan Liu in 1994 the site has grown to become an excellent portal for disciplinary exploration. The Voice of the Shuttle covers a wide range of topics and formats the information [...]

This is one of those everyone knows, but everyone forgets things: I was buying a program today, and literarily as I was about to hit the accept button, I wondered to myself, “Does this company have an educational discount?” Guess what they did. A $30 program, became $20. Often this is hidden, [...]

Michael Feldstein, the blogger I have come to rely on as my Blackboard Patent source has a write up on what you can do about Blackboards patent threat to higher education. Everyone in higher ed who reads this should take time to check out his posts on this issue and see what they can [...]

In my spare time I have been trying to wrap my head around the power of Devon Think. This program fascinates me, I really do think there are a thousand Oompa Loompas running around inside my computer sorting and retrieving data. The hard part of this application is that there are so many [...]

Teaching Hacks has proposed that those who are teaching using blogs, wikis, online vidoes, photoshare, etc. all start using special tags in Del.icio.us to enable people to find like minded projects easily. If you are interested in any of these web resources in your class you should check out the post at Teaching Hacks, [...]

Devon has posted a new training video to their training section of the website. Like I have said many times here before, Devon is wicked powerful, probably the most higher powered research software made. The problem is it is difficult to get a sense of everything it can do, these videos (this is [...]

A couple people asked me a while back about alternative spreadsheets to Excel. On the PC, Open Office has always been a choice. And while on the Mac one could use Neo Office this program is a bit slow and clearly shows that it is not a native Mac application (even the newest [...]