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Self-grading multiple-choice tests with Google Docs
I don’t have much love for multiple-choice tests — either for administering them or for taking them — but as a teacher, the format was sometimes required by my administration, and was sometimes useful for simple prove-that-you-read-it quizzes. Google Docs
Startups looking to make money by enhancing reality | VentureBeat
Augmented reality (AR) technology, which overlays 3-D graphics or information over a live camera feed, isn’t a brand-new idea. But now that smartphones are penetrating the mass market, AR may be on the cusp of wide adoption.
Imagine traveling to a foreig
sig.ma - Semantic Information MAshup
is a tool to explore and leverage the Web of Data. At any time, information in Sigma is likely to come from multiple, unrelated Web sites – potentially any web site that embeds information in RDF, RDFa or Microformats (standards for the Web of Data).
Translated by humans
It's called collaborative translation. To make it simple, people help each other translate interesting foreign language texts into their native language. It's mostly blog posts, magazine articles, short stories and another materials licensed for free redi
How To Crowdsource Grading | HASTAC
So, this year, when I teach "This Is Your Brain on the Internet," I'm trying out a new point system. Do all the work, you get an A. Don't need an A? Don't have time to do all the work? No problem. You can aim for and earn a B. No gaming the system.
Open Cloud Initiative | To define and protect 'Open Cloud'
The Open Cloud Initiative (OCI) is an community based organisation founded in April 2009.
Its mission is simply "To Define and Protect 'Open Cloud'".
Cloud computing users can now rest assured that offerings bearing the "Open Cloud" brand are indeed "op
CloudStandards
The goal of this wiki is to document the activities of the various SDOs working on Cloud standards.
Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) Cloud Storage TWG
The SNIA is participating in a new group, announced today, that will coordinate cloud standards across Standards Development Organizations (SDOs). SNIA has existing relationships with DMTF and OGF that have recently been expanded to include cloud standard
Intellident smartBlade
Intellident’s smartBlade is an innovative on-shelf reading system that provides real-time inventory at the touch of a button – completely eliminating the need to perform manual or hand-held stock checks. The smartSearch function allows staff and library p
Official Google Blog: Google Latitude on your iPhone
Earlier this year we announced Google Latitude, a service that lets you and your friends share your locations with each other. You control who gets to see your location and where on the map you appear to others. Today, we're releasing Google Latitude for
Geo2Web - Review of gis geo map gps technology
Review of GIS GPS GEO and MAPs technology
Memidex - free online dictionary/thesaurus
Memidex is a free online dictionary and thesaurus with extensive cross-referencing, complete inflections, simple interface, and frequent updates. It's fast too. Use the Find box for exact matching or browse using the complete index.
twtpoll :: a simple survey twitter app.
Twtpoll is a feedback tool that helps you to create and distribute polls on Twitter, Facebook and other social media sites.
Citizentube: Digital activism on YouTube
Every day, people use YouTube to fight for causes, whether they're hunger-striking celebrities like Mia Farrow, or 9-year-olds trying to save the neighborhood kickball lot from destruction. On Citizentube, our YouTube blog that chronicles the way people u
PCalc
PCalc is ideal for scientists, engineers, students, programmers, or indeed anybody looking for a feature-rich calculator for the iPhone or iPod Touch.
It includes an extensive set of unit conversions, a paper tape, an RPN mode, engineering and scientific
The Tweeting House: Twitter + Internet of Things
Stanford-Clark has set up various systems for real-time monitoring of the Internet of Things, many of them using Twitter (he calls the resulting tweets "tweetjects"). One example got a bit of mainstream media coverage lately: a house that uses Twitter to
Why Geocoding Should be a Commodity | Off the Map - Official Blog of FortiusOne
Arguably the largest positive externality to the Web ecosystem that geospatial technologies can provide is creating more linked geo-enabled data. The beauty is the externalities work both ways. Not only does the Web get more useful content we also create
Best Buy Goes All Twitter Crazy With @Twelpforce
consumer electronics retailer Best Buy is encouraging hundreds of employees to handle online customer service and company promotions via Twitter, even airing commercials not mentioning their own website but merely the URL of the profile they created on th
iPhone app has us wondering if radio's future is on demand - Ars Technica
On-demand moves off the laptop and into your pocket as public radio's wonderful new iPhone app lands. Ars explores the new app and thinks about a future where radio is on demand.
Public Radio Player
The goal is to create the Public Radio Player – an application for the iPhone platform using Apple’s recently released software development kit (SDK) and iTunes App Store distribution service. The application will serve end users by initially offering acc
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