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A Brief Introduction to Omeka - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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shared by fleschnerj on 10 May 12 - No Cached
  • fleschnerj on 10 May 12
     
    If we ever get into the archive and/or Institutional repository business, this would be a killer app. Yup, it would all live in the cloud.
  • Sara Thompson on 11 May 12
     
    Yep, some of the examples from other ProfHacker posts about class assignments where students curate their own courses = way cool.
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instaGrok: The Search Engine Made Just For Education | Edudemic - 0 views

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shared by Sara Thompson on 18 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • The killer feature to me is not the fun interactive ‘related terms’ web or the websites and images that pop up with each search. It’s the ‘Quizzes’ tool that gives you classroom-ready quiz questions on your search term. It’s downright amazing.
  • Quick Tip:You can use the little slider at the top of the search results screen to adjust how detailed your results are. You can go from the ABC chalkboard to the Einstein-y looking fella.
  • Sara Thompson on 18 Apr 12
     
    Without going into too much detail, instaGrok basically lets you punch in any search term (I'd recommend using a subject matter or item you're learning about) and get a neatly formatted and interactive experience as search results
Sara Thompson

EXTRA ETHER: eBooks Gone in 5 Years? | Jane Friedman - 0 views

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shared by Sara Thompson on 13 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • He co-edited with Brian O’Leary the seminal Book: A Futurist’s Manifesto, which has enough meaningful, thought-provoking essays in it to keep you muttering to yourself from the tiki bar back to the pool for the rest of the summer. Have a look if you haven’t seen its free online version.
  • McGuire points out that both Amazon’s Kindle and Apple’s iPhone arrived in 2007.
  • Publishers are deathly afraid of the Internet. And they have very good reason to be, because the Internet is famous for gobbling up business models and spitting out total chaos.
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  • It’s a problem because in order to get this similarity with the past, we’ve ended up constraining ebooks and making them look a lot more like print books and a lot less like the Internet.
  • He offers a couple of strong examples of deeply interactive projects. One is the YouVersion interactive Bible site. Another is one he describes as an extensively structured online rendering of the 1912 journal of Robert Scott’s expedition to the South Pole, “a beautiful web experience,” each element of the journey tied to Google Maps.
  • For some time now, Virginia Quarterly Review’s Jane Friedman has been trying to wean readers away from the standard idea of “The Book” as the inevitable goal. Here she is, in a piece from October, asking “What is your killer medium?”: The book is often assumed to be the most authoritative and important medium, but that’s only because we’ve all been led to believe that (through a culture that has created The Myth about the author as authority). It’s a Myth, neither good nor bad. Just a belief system that, increasingly, we’re all moving away from.
  • Sara Thompson on 13 Jul 12
     
    Hugh McGuire: "The distinction between "the Internet" and "books" is arbitrary, and will disappear in 5 years. Start adjusting now."
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