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Exciting portal to scholars, projects, competitions, blog, news and more about the digital humanities and other interdisciplinary fields.

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Helpful basic description of what the TED conference is and who attends. Also describes how people participate in it and its history.

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Follow up on Cushing Academies choice to go digital. Has follow up interviews and references some of the issues with all digital collections like database providers terms and reading electronically.

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Time article by Adam Rose about the maturing market for e-readers. Sunday October 11.

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New technologies used in teaching featured in USAToday on Oct 05, 2009 by Kathleen Gray and Robin Erb. Includes schools giving out iPods and Kindles.

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General timeline of Internet with reference to book by Michael A. Banks, On the Way to the Web: The Secret History of the Internet and It's Founders".

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Carl Grant, president of Ex Libris North America, writes some critical commentary about the OLE project on his blog:

Grant's commentary is followed by an interesting response from Brad Wheeler, Indiana University's Chief Information Officer and VP for Information Technology.

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Great bibliography of technology and christian librarianship.

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Concrete suggestions and examples of how to use technology to better teach and learn from EDUCAUSE. Top five issues are :
1. Creating learning environments that promote active learning, critical thinking, collaborative learning, and knowledge creation
2. Developing 21st-century literacies (information, digital, and visual) among students and faculty
3. Reaching and engaging today's learners
4. Encouraging faculty adoption and innovation in teaching and learning with IT
5. Advancing innovation in teaching and learning with technology in an era of budget cuts

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Article on the new Kindle DX, its unique features, and how it is succeeding. Presented with FLYPmedia technology that shows rich-media articles. Very interesting.

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TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Distributes best talks given at conference on all sorts of amazing topics.

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Demonstration of device that is a combination of cellphone, webcam, projector that can use any surface, including your hand, to intereact with information. Use hand as telephone, get information on products in the store.

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Video with statistics on digital learners and how to use the Internet to teach. Includes citations of the presented information.

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Clip of David Pogue's review of the Amazon Kindle 2 and its competition with the book.

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Book review of the Supper of the Lamb and Power Failure by Albert Borgmann. Mostly discusses the role of technology in culture and how it competes with God and creation.

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Schuurman, E. (1996, Spring). A Confrontation with Technicism as the Spiritual Climate of the West. Westminster Theological Journal 58(1). 64-84.

Discusses the idea of technicism, ideology of technology, and how it affect culture. Interesting but contains very sweeping conclusions without much evidence.

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TakingITGlobal is a social network where high shcool age youth collaborate and get involved in Global issues. This section has a list of resources on using technology in the classroom.

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Report published by Barna Group about the pace and effect of technology on 4 different age groups. Includes a portion about if people use church websites or podcasts.

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Blog post describing the details of how the Video was made in Michael Wesch's Cultural Anthropology class. Students created the survey questions and answered the survey.

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