Group items tagged

"For those who are blind, dyslexic or have diseases like multiple sclerosis and have difficulty turning book pages, reading the latest best seller just got easier. Brewster Kahle, a digital librarian and founder of a virtual library called the Internet Archive, has launched a worldwide campaign to double the number of books available for print-disabled people."

INternet TV: the streamy awards official nominations for 2010 - get good streaming content and Internet Culture HERE

Internet Search Challenge: Demonstrates techniques to improve search results and find credible information & provides opportunities to practice

Internet Search Challenge: Demonstrates techniques to improve search results and find credible information & provides opportunities to practice

Internet Culture everyone should have seen (not all are appropriate for kids or class)

Internet Culture everyone should have seen (not all are appropriate for kids or class)

samples the Internet, looking for blogs with "feel" in their posts & creates a visualization on the fly of "how the Internet feels"

Imagining the Internet: a history and forecast maintained by Elon University

Know Your Meme: RocketBoom's documentation of Internet phenomena: viral videos, image macros, catchphrases, web celebrities, etc.

We believe university-level education can be both high quality and low cost. Using the economics of the Internet, we've connected some of the greatest teachers to hundreds of thousands of students all over the world.

science education: Chickscope - Using computers in the classroom with access to the Internet, students and teachers are able to access data generated from the latest scientific instruments. The goals include an increased understanding of the process of gathering scientific data and the opportunity to interact with scientists from several disciplines and students in other classrooms The access to unique scientific resources and expertise provides motivation for learning science and mathematics and stimulates interest in the scientific world.

List of Internet TV Channels

Digital_Culture: 1st Internet Addiction center opens (Seattle)

Seven Things That Could Make Your Gadgets Obsolete: (1) HDMI 1.4 - new standard for moving media from source to display will include 3DTV & ethernet for transfer of data up to 100 Mb/sec (2) USB 3.0 - new USB format at up to 400 Mb / sec is ten times faster than USB 2.0 (3) 3DTV - you'll need glasses - to appear latter half of 2010 (4) DLNA - Digital Living Network - around since 2004 is now getting integrated into lots of digital appliances. Get ready for the promised "connected house" (5) Mobile ATSC - to allow us to get t.v. broadcast signal to mobile devices (6) Ambient Light Sensors and other eco-friendly tv features (7) Internet-enable TV sets

Technology, Entertainment, Design: riveting talks by remarkable people, free to to the world. Some of the most amazing video presentations on the Internet on a variety of current topics. Excellent stuff for inspiring class and putting things in perspective.

YouTube: The Evolution of Remix Culture: this is a great analysis of remix as a phenomenon and how it alters the relationships and products of cultural use of the Internet.

Intel announces "mind-reading" brain-scan software, augmented reality innovation, "dispute finder" tech that monitors conversations & warns them when they find contested info, holographic shopping displays, & a TV set-top box that indexes your Internet video

A single example - and this is ALL you need - as to why the "Digital Natives" metaphor is a dangerous fallacy. We NEED teachers to learn critical thinking.

using proxy servers to be anonymous in internet communications