June 2010
40 posts
Teacher's 'Worst year in the classroom' →
Teacher: ‘Worst year in the classroom’ in decades
This is just one of the many desperate emails and letters from teachers that education historian Diane Ravitch receives each day as she travels the country talking about the folly of the Obama administration’s $4 billion Race to the Top and overall education vision. It was written by Gary A. Groth, a National Board Certified Teacher...
Education Week's Digital Directions: Social... →
Association of Canadian College and University... →
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It is difficult to know how to begin to unravel this tight knot of tangled strands: government under-funding, endowment losses, the end of compulsory retirement, the inflation of graduate school enrolments, university administrators’ favouring of medical, business, scientific and professional school faculties over the humanities… the list...
The true value of social media? / we are social →
Canada's Digital Economy Consultancy: Please... →
Digital technologies are critical to every aspect of our economy and society. That is why a strategy for the digital economy is needed to ensure that Canada is positioned to benefit from the opportunities that it presents. All Canadians have a role to play in helping shape Canada’s digital future. Your perspectives, suggestions, ideas and submissions will be important inputs in the creation of our...
Grooveshark - Listen to Free Music Online -... →
WatchMen Seeking Women by my old friend Penny Lane
Instant avatars using Text-to-Speech technology... →
Interesting tool. Thanks JP
Book asks: Is Internet ruining our minds? |... →
When author Nicholas Carr began researching his book on whether the Internet is ruining our minds, he restricted his online access and e-mail and turned off his Twitter and Facebook accounts. His new book “The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains” argues the latest technology renders us less capable of deep thinking. Carr found himself so distracted that he...
POLISMedia | Internet and Young People: New... →
media education association →
5 Sources for Free Computer Technology Education... →
HP Microsoft® Word 2007: introduction →
POLISMedia | Information overload and media... →
POLISMedia | Information overload and media... →
Polis and the Media CSR Forum hosted an interactive panel about media literacy on March 18th. Here is a full report on the event by Polis Director Charlie Beckett (also avaible at his weblog). “Stop Reading Stuff!” Information overload and media literacy; By Polis Director Charlie Beckett
5 Sources for 'Free' Computer Technology Education... →
5 Sources for Free Computer Technology Education Online Lacking in computer knowledge? Here are 40 computer technology courses that can be taken for free online.
FRONTLINE: digital nation: watch the full program... →
WatchPBS Frontline’s “digital nation”: Can students multitask? What should we be teaching in the digital age? Why are we wiring schools? Are you driven to distraction?
Historypin →
to the history teacher i was arguing with this past week at #congress10 … this looks like an interesting social resource for history teachers. it has potential.
21st-Century Research Collections: Mostly Digital,... →
Can a new research library be all digital? How much does it cost a library to preserve a codex? What do large-scale text-digitizing projects mean for scholarship in the humanities? Those are driving questions behind a new report, “The Idea of Order: Transforming Research Collections for 21st Century Scholarship,” released today by the Council on Library and Information Resources.
Facebook "clickjacking" spreads across site →
Who is the cutest? →
(via desirefortiger)
Hacking the Academy →
A BOOK CROWDSOURCED IN ONE WEEK
MAY 21-28, 2010
What This Is, and How to Contribute
Next Steps
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Lectures, Classrooms, and the Curriculum
Educational Technology
Scholarly…
Hacking the Academy →
A BOOK CROWDSOURCED IN ONE WEEK
MAY 21-28, 2010
What This Is, and How to Contribute
Next Steps
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Lectures, Classrooms, and the Curriculum
Educational Technology
Scholarly Societies and Conferences
Scholarship and Scholarly Communication
Academic Employment, Tenure, and Scholarly Identity
Departments and Disciplines
Libraries
More Hacking
Criticisms of this Book
News
Home
Hacking...
psiphon.ca · delivering the net #cca #congress10 →
Psiphon - web proxy →
Psiphon is a web proxy designed to help Internet users securely bypass the content-filtering systems used to censor the internet. Psiphon was developed by the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto, building upon previous generations of web proxy software systems, such as the “SafeWeb“ [1] and “Anonymizer” systems.
Tor: anonymity online →
Tor is free software and an open network that helps you defend against a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security known as traffic analysis.
Jon Stewart Slams Obama Over Feckless Response To... →
AP Stylebook Adds 42 New Guidelines for Social... →
Coltan →
what is coltan? look up
if you fear something, you'll see something... →
Breaking the Silence →
CloudCourse: An Enterprise Application in the... →
We developed CloudCourse to: • provide a course scheduling system fully integrated with Google services • demonstrate what it takes to built an application using App Engine By releasing CloudCourse as open source we hope to help developers who want to port or build enterprise applications on App Engine. Digging into the source code, you will find many examples of how we addressed challenges like...
Google Voice for Students: Google takes over .edu →
Google Voice for Students
Google Voice gives you more control over your communications with transcribed voicemail sent via email, free SMS and more. Enter your .edu email address below and we’ll send you an invite soon.
f u l a n a : a latina video + satire collective... →
if you fear something, you'll see something... →
