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- National School Reform Faculty
- Zimbra Heads To The Cloud For Academic InstitutionsZimbra, the collaborative webmail and calendar company that was acquired by Yahoo in 2007, has launched a new product for academic institutions called Zimbra Hosted that will allow schools to run their webmail portals from the “cloud”. Previously schools would have to run Zimbra’s service onsite or through third party hosting companies; now Zimbra will also give them the hassle-free option of letting Zimbra and Yahoo maintain the servers.
- 2008/9 Wikipedia Selection for schoolsThis 2008/9 Wikipedia DVD Selection is a free, hand-checked, non-commercial selection from Wikipedia, targeted around the UK National Curriculum and useful for much of the English speaking world. It has about 5500 articles (as much as can be fitted on a DVD with good size images) and is about the size of a twenty volume encyclopaedia (34,000 images and 20 million words). Articles were chosen from a list ranked by importance and quality generated by project members. This list of articles was then manually sorted for relevance to children, and adult topics were removed.
- Revisiting “A Vision of Students Today”We love learning. We hate school. What’s worse is that many of us hate school because we love learning.
- Powerful Learning PracticeThis networked landscape of learning challenges us to re-envision what we do in our schools and classrooms or risk a growing irrelevance in our students’ lives. And at the core of this challenge is how well we realize the potentials of these technologies in our own professional and personal learning practice as educators.
- Electricity shortage of 1956 - Bandwidth ParallelsGreat little article from 1956 about getting electrical capacity in line with usage. Feels familiar.
- Seth's Blog: Nine steps to Powerpoint magic
- Writing Our Future: Letters to the Next PresidentLetters to the Next President: Writing Our Future is an online writing and publishing project for students, ages 13 - 18, co-sponsored by Google and the National Writing Project.
- Study: College students prefer classes with online learning (Sept. 23, 2008)What do today's undergraduate students expect from their educational experience? Online lectures are moving to the top of the list, according to a new study released by the University of Wisconsin-Madison E-Business Institute, a campuswide initiative conducting multidisciplinary research on e-business strategies, emerging information technologies and innovative business practices.
August 22nd, 2008 at 10:59 am
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