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25 Surprising Facts About China’s Education System | Teaching Tips
Julie Lindsay is in China and so I've been looking up information about their system. It is very different, but this is a fascinating listing of items about China and their system of education.
50 Useful Mind-Mapping Tools for College Students | Associate Degree - Facts and Information
Fifty useful mind mapping tools has some cool software and sites I'll peruse. Have you used any of them that I should use? I've used MindMeister, and bubble.us as well as gliffy, but think I should try Mind42 and dabbleboard, perhaps.
Diigo in Education Wiki Preso for NECC
This is the wiki with the information from our session on Diigo in the Open Source Lab at NECC. It has current information on bookmarking.
QuickMark Mobile Barcode - QuickMark for PC
This software turns your webcam into a QR code reader. From Mr. Robbo the PE Geek.
TELEPORT - A 3D Telepresence System
Would love to see us look into 3D learning as well - from an older article in 1997.
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The TELEPORT environment is designed
to overcome disadvantages of desktop videoconferencing and to establish
life-like conference sessions that bring people together as if face-to-face.
The system consists of a real room with one wall entirely covered b a display
surface. Onto that surface a virtual extension of the real room is projected.
As the local participant moves, his location is tracked thus allowing
the synthetic scene to be rendered with the correct perspective.
Newseum | Today's Front Pages | Gallery View
Front pages of newspapers from today from www.newseum.org -- this is a great read on the history of today. (Thanks Will Richardson for the link.)
Tuttle SVC: 2008 Winners: FiveThirtyEight.com
Tom HOffman shares some of the background story of fivethirtyeight.com - a great story of collaboration and work and how "no names" become somebody with hard work, intelligence, persistence, and a commitment to "do it right" sans an agenda.
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If I was someone who gave lots of talks at ed-tech conferences about "Web 2.0" and such, I'd definitely add a piece about the success of FiveThirtyEight.com. Since over three and a half million people visited the site last month (beating out established blogs like Talking Points Memo, for example), there is a pretty good chance you've already seen it.
Tunatic: free music identification software
OK, so you want to figure out what that song is? Download Tunatic and play the song and it will recognize it. This is so cool!!! Search engines aren't just for text any more. This is very useful.
Swedish technology: cell phone vibrations might let us watch soccer games without actually watching » Unwired View
An area of explosive growth that is beginning to emerge is the integration of other senses than sight and sound -- smell, touch, taste, etc. and this is an example of how a company is planning to use the sense of touch to let a person follow a soccer game. Don't know if anyone would do it, but if everybody thinks it is a good idea, as a rule, you're too late.
Thinking Machine wiki / Think Handhelds
Information collected by Karen Montgomery on using cell phones in learning. Some great resources are here.
PC World - 15 Hot New Technologies That Will Change Everything
Great article on the technologies that will change everything. Wonderful for your movies.
Yale Open Courses: The New Lineup | Open Culture
Yale is joining the open bandwagon and now has some more open courses including courses on "The American Novel Since 1945" "introduction to Greek History, Civil War History, France history since 1871, Milton, physics and engineering.
There are great college level resources becoming available. There are also many audio books and online podcasts here.
25 Words of Work / Life Wisdom — Pass It On! - Liz Strauss at Successful Blog - Thinking, writing, business ideas . . . You’re only a stranger once.
Join Liz Strauss by sharing your 25 words of wisdom and linking back to Liz's blog.
Drop.io: Simple Private Sharing
You an use this site to "drop" or share files on the Internet. It only uses up to 100 MB of space but it still looks like a simple way to share. You can drop files by phone, email, web, widget or fax. Very interesting.
IE Tab :: Firefox Add-ons
Matthew Bib tipped me off to this one -- this add on lets you open an IE tab in firefox. Not sure of the security of it and I want to check it out. My bank only lets me use IE. If it is safe as it look s(15 million downloads) - this is a GREAT tool.
Children's Way - Teaching Kids and Parents Internet Safety
I highly recommend that elementary and middle schools at least sign up for a school code for woogi world - this is a great tool suggested by Hoover City schools for teaching digital citizenship. My daughter (my intrepid tester of all kid virtual worlds) loves it and says she thinks it is great for kids.
BLUE MEN - Inconvenient Youth
Interestingly, inconvenient youth is built on the Ning platform. Fascinating use. This video from the blue man group on the environment has been widely viewed around the world. Such videos spark social change -- these are not TV commercials but viral videos that spread from blog to blog and email to email. How information travels has fundamentally changed.
flatclassroomproject » The Changing Shape of Information - PLE's and Social Networking.
Uploading, personal learning networks, and the changing shape of information are affecting our world. This is a page from the 2006 Flat Classroom Project.
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