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EarSketch - 45 views

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    EarSketch teaches computer science through music composition and remixing! No prior knowledge of either computer science or music is needed. See "More About EarSketch" below to learn more about the software. I'm a student, how do I get started? Access the latest version of EarSketch here.
Doug Henry

Tips for Teaching What You Don't Know - Harvard University Press Blog - 4 views

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    Faculty often have to teach courses in areas that they don't know very well. Therese Huston shares some strategies for teaching new material.
Doug Henry

WolframTones: An Experiment in a New Kind of Music - 1 views

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    WolframTones: A New Kind of Music -- Unique cellphone ringtones and music created by simple programs from renowned scientist Stephen Wolfram's computational universe
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CDs Are Not Forever: The Truth About CD/DVD Longevity, "Mold" & "Rot" - 39 views

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    Information about the lifespan of CDs and DVDs - checking your own and prolonging their lives (MakeUseOf)
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DarwinTunes | Survival of the funkiest - 42 views

shared by Doug Henry on 21 Jun 12 - Cached
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    Listen to music as it evolves on the computer
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: Pi-ku Poetry - a Pi Day Activity Uniting Haiku, Pi, and Graphic Art : Mr. L's Math - 4 views

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    A sure-fire winner for Pi Day (Mar 14): create Haiku poems about pi, called Pi-ku's. This is a great way to bring language arts, graphic arts, and mathematics together in one place!
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Chemorphesis - 6 views

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    Anthropomorphizing chemical concepts to make them understandable to everybody - puts atoms, molecules, and even generic concepts into human terms, using comic book graphics
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Best Portable Apps - 6 views

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    Handy collection of "portable" apps (not mobile) that you should have on the go - you can carry them on a thumb drive, for instance.
Doug Henry

Guilia Forsythe talks Sketchnoting | bavatuesdays - 4 views

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    Visual note-taking. Features a video overview of what visual sketchnoting entails, the method, as well as some tips and ideas of how students might experiment with the form. From Stephen Downes OLDaily Blog (http://www.downes.ca/news/OLDaily.htm)
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15 Awesome iPhone-controlled Robots - 42 views

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    Videos showing several kinds of robots, including Lego Mindstorms, controlled by smart phones.
Doug Henry

Dramatically Bringing Down the Cost of Education with OER - 48 views

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    Originally posted on Steven Downes OLDAILY blog http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/archive.cgi
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Sign petition to put Pluto on a USPS stamp - 0 views

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    Honor the flyby and reconnaissance of the Pluto system by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft - and help restore some dignity to poor Pluto
Doug Henry

Top 10 Free Online Tutoring Tools for 2012 | Edudemic - 194 views

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    Free tools to help you interact with your student(s) sans the confines of the classroom.
Doug Henry

Udacity | Free Online Courses. Advance your College Education & Career - 8 views

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    Online learning from former Stanford profs - build a search engine, or a robotic car
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Embed videos in Moodle 2.2 - 60 views

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    Steps to embed a variety of video types into Moodle 2.2
Doug Henry

Wiggle 3D: How To Make Animated 3D Images - 133 views

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    A poor-mans 3D display, "wiggle" 3D grew out of old stereoscopy images, and became possible with the use of animated gifs on the Internet.
Doug Henry

Open source webinar software - 87 views

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    Updated list of webinar, meeting, and desktop sharing solutions ranging from Moodle to various online and downloadable programs.
Doug Henry

Build your own slide rule - 2 views

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    This quaint old technology is great for teaching logs, powers, and scales - includes a bit of history and a pdf template for a paper slide rule.
Doug Henry

QRVoice - audio in a QR code - 110 views

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    QR voice encodes a given text message into QR code that once scanned by a QR scanner smartphone application reproduces the message with a synthesized voice.
Doug Henry

Best free screen capture tools - 215 views

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    Ever need to capture a scrolling window entirely? This link has tools that can.
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