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Chemistry news, forums, blogs, and activities. Includes an interactive periodic table.

Technologies to Watch section.

Technologies to Watch section.

MyAlltop enables you to create a "personal, online magazine rack" of your favorite websites and blogs. You can create a personal collection from over 32,000 information sources-if you're interested in something, we probably have it covered. We provide a custom URL so that you can share your masterpiece with others. The starting point is this tutorial that steps you through the process of creating your MyAlltop page. Everything is point-and-click, so you'll be up and running in a few minutes.

drop.io has rich phone functionality. simply hit the 'drop it' button to setup a free conference call line (not recorded) and a voicemail line (recorded). use them as you please. you can even have your voicemail automatically forwarded to email addresses, twitter accounts, itunes (for podcasting), or your blog.

alternative to gabcasting?

When we teach math we are helping our students establish a framework for interpreting the world. One of the worst ways I know to help them establish that framework is to print an illustration of a real-world scene in a textbook, write in only the relevant measurements, and tell the students in the text of the problem which formula or strategy to apply. This leaves a student helpless and unprepared (in the mathematical, analytical sense) should she ever encounter the world that exists outside the pages of her textbook. So we instead bring digital media from the world into the classroom, simulations of the world as students experience it, artifacts which students can discuss and to which they can apply frameworks of their choice. In order to leave students capable and prepared for their encounters with the world, this media must be captured and presented very intentionally.

This is a blog post of how Dr. Wesch sets up his Digital Ethnography class. The fascinating combination of Netvibes, yahoo pipes, blogger, wet paint, and other free tools to make a very compelling course hub is wonderful. This is exactly how I would have done it too! ;)

Yodio offers an integrated, one-stop digital publishing service where anyone can go to self-record, produce, and share audio recordings (podcasts) and personal broadcasts (audio synchronized with digital photos). Using Yodio's free production system, most anyone can combine digital photos with their recorded audio to create rich media presentations. What is a rich-media presentation? Think voice narrated power point presentations or photo albums. Now think of them being shared in a player similar to YouTube, so they can be streamed throughout the internet or the player can be embedded in other websites, blogs, etc. This is personal broadcast with the sharing part operating on steroids! You can link, e-mail, embed, and in many cases download as an MP3 file. It's made to share memories and photos that are made more interesting and informative by adding your own voice.

Thanks Tapp!

Part of the New York Times website.Based on the book Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner.

Here you will find all (currently 21) one page guides - including a new Blogging with Wordpress introduction and a guide to registering a domain name.

Lessons covering blogs, wikis, podcasts, RSS, and other Web 2.0 tools.

The Social Media Classroom (we'll call it SMC) includes a free and open-source (Drupal-based) web service that provides teachers and learners with an integrated set of social media that each course can use for its own purposes-integrated forum, blog, comment, wiki, chat, social bookmarking, RSS, microblogging, widgets , and video commenting are the first set of tools. The Classroom also includes curricular material: syllabi, lesson plans, resource repositories, screencasts and videos. The Collaboratory (or Colab), is what we call just the web service part of it. Educators are encouraged to use the Colab and SMB materials freely, and we host your Colab communities if you don't want to install your own.

Private micro-blogging

Teaching tips, lessons, and ideas for using Google Earth resources in the classroom.

authorSTREAM is a platform for sharing PowerPoint presentations on the Internet. authorSTREAM makes it easier to share your PowerPoint slideshows through blogs, websites, on YouTube and even via iPOD. What's best is that it's all FREE! Just sign-up, uploa

A blog that provides interesting and relevant posts related to current economic trends and happenings. The links on the left side of the page are incredibly diverse and particularly useful.

A GREAT tip! I hadn't paid attention to this before. See your diigo bookmarks on the right side. VERY NICE!

VERY NICE!