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UK study involving roughly 400 students, mostly aged 8-10 years, and a new generation of multi-touch, multi-user, computerized desktop surfaces is showing that over the last three years the technology has appreciably boosted students' math skills compared to peers learning the same material via the conventional paper-and-pencil method.

UK study involving roughly 400 students, mostly aged 8-10 years, and a new generation of multi-touch, multi-user, computerized desktop surfaces is showing that over the last three years the technology has appreciably boosted students' math skills compared to peers learning the same material via the conventional paper-and-pencil method.

Here's a List of Over 160 Free Online Courses/MOOCs Starting in January 2014

Bonjour is an open protocol for zero-configuration networking over IP that Apple has submitted to the IETF as part of the ongoing standards-creation process. This section describes the problems that Bonjour solves and how it solves them.

No registration, no email required. Just put in what you want the link to be and a password of your choice. It takes you over to a page where you can enter in a title and your text. Click save.

If you're interested in learning something new, this article is for you.  Broken down by subject and/or category, here are several top-notch self-education resources the author has bookmarked online over the past few years.

In H+: The Digital Series, a post-apocalyptic techno-thriller that debuts today from producer Bryan Singer (The Usual Suspects, X2, House), a consumer device that allows people to stay connected 24-hours a day directly results in the demise of one-third of the Earth's population. That's a scary vision for any epoch, but perhaps especially one currently salivating at the prospect of new iThings. The culprit in H+, which is shorthand for a real-world movement called transhumanism, is a wonder chip that we implant in our brains, thereby eliminating the need to hunch over physical electronics forever. But the price paid for this technological leap is a steep--when a global virus strikes the implants, the system failure is fatal.

TinEye is the first image search engine on the web to use image identification technology. Given an image to search for, TinEye tells you where and how that image appears all over the web-even if it has been modified.

I've been mulling over doing a screencast so I made a small survey looking for the best choices for Mac screencast apps. This is not a review since I haven't had time to actually try them all out. But if you're looking for what's available and some links to useful reviews, this is a good starting point. Screenflow and Snapz Pro seem to be excellent choices although I had people recommend iShowU and Zing to me as well. I tried iShowU and wasn't too impressed. I tried Screenflow and thought it was pretty amazing.

Studio 4 Learning is one of three networks run by Studio 4 Networks, Inc. (http://www.studio4networks.com), an independent media company based on Los Angeles, California. Studio 4 Networks provides award-winning lifestyle and educational programming delivered on-demand over cable television, satellite, and the Internet. Launched in 2003, Studio 4 produces and distributes targeted programming environments to consumers in the U.S. and Canada through three video networks - Studio 4 Kids (http://www.studio4kids.tv), Studio 4 Learning (http://www.studio4learning.tv), and Studio 4 Fitness (http://www.studio4fitness.tv).

I met with a representative from Turning Technologies today. While many of you may have had the opportunity to use interactive response systems (so-called "clickers"), we're finally moving into the 21st century; now that we have reasonable computing facilities at all of our schools, our goal is to fully utilize them and add interactivity. Thus, these interactive response systems that allow students to answer questions and take surveys in class with their aggregated responses displayed within a PowerPoint presentation or on a standalone unit. The real beauty of Turning's system is its direct integration with PowerPoint (sorry, no OpenOffice integration, although the software can be superimposed over any Mac or Windows software). It includes a dedicated toolbar and a series of macros for automating the creation of interactive slides.

social networking all over the web using little avatars

Nice interactive fraction site.

Tutorial over Fractions. Includes identifying, renaming, comparing, adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing. Great way to reinforce what is taught in the classroom.

a series of nine maps that display the current front page of major newspapers around the world. Little orange colored dots on each map correspond to the publishing location of each newspaper. Placing your mouse pointer on one of the dots generates a preview of that newspaper's current front page. Click on the preview and you can read that front page or click through to the newspaper's website. The screenshot below is of the US Newseum map.

Cool Newseum tool: hover mouse over a map shows daily front pages of newspapers from around the world.

The short version, A tone outside the audible range of hearing for most people over the age of 30. This means that you can get phone calls and receive text messages in class or school without teachers hearing it. For more in-depth information on how the mosquito ringtone works, please see he Mosquito RingTone FAQ. For information on how to get the ringtone on to your phone, see our Mosquito Ringtone how-to Guide.

some good e-mags..

good info, news and practices... over some online mag... there ...: about webdesign... and web2 and dev...

"One of the main reasons I started using Blogs with students was so their work had permanence, and wasn't just shoved in a box in the back of an attic, but published in an authentic venue, where people could continue to interact with it. For years to come. I still have people leaving comments on the first Blog that I set up for students over 5 years ago. It remains a living, breathing organism. The students can still go back and see their previous work."

FirstClass is both a powerful content management system and a fully functional web server.  With RWD, Site Managers can quickly and easily set up and manage website layout and content. Web pages are part of a centralized command and control system that presents a consistent look and feel while still enabling non-technical users to create and contribute content. For those tasked with the design of the website, RWD provides an excellent level of control over the geography and layout of all pages, including extensive graphical and web object support, enabling webmasters and designers to easily support the organization's visual brand. RWD surrounds standard FirstClass web pages with a feature rich 'wrapper' that contains a number of highly configurable objects that enhance the web page. Knowledge of HTML is not required, and no other web development software needs to be purchased to develop a framework for professional looking web sites.

Say you're an investor and you want to see how two companies are faring against each other on the market. You could type in "IBM versus Apple" and Wolfram|Alpha will generate graphs and tables to compare the stocks over time. It also give you the Web-based sources used to generate the data, so you know where the numbers are coming from. The site also solves equations and shows the steps it took to do so, which will be of interest to high school students and math majors. Not into number crunching? If you live near the coast, you could type in "tides in ____" and find charts of tidal and lunar information. You could also graph that against other cities, which would be cool if you're a surfer. The site is also interesting for academic queries. Type in "Internet users in Africa" and you'll get the total number of Web users there - 51 million - as well as lists of the number of users by country plus graphs of this information. If you're in the fisheries business, or if you're an environmentalist, you could type in "fish produced in Italy versus France" to get an idea of how that sector is faring. The answer includes specifics, like how much of the fish crop was farmed versus what was captured. Such data could be used to argue policy points or to debate whether or not certain industries are sustainable.

Pixelpipe is a media gateway that allows users to publish text and upload photos, video and audio files once through Pixelpipe and have the content distributed across over 95 social networks, photo/video sites and blogs, and other online destinations. We provide free mobile & desktop applications, liberate your media and share your life.

Over 1 billion charts, maps, plots and diagrams are found in print publications each year - but only 40 million online. This huge discrepancy is a reflection of the complexity to create & publish charts online. Chartle.net tears down the complexity of online visualizations - offers simplicity, ubiquity and interactivity instead.