Wikiwand is a sleek new interface for Wikipedia, offering a significantly better reading experience. It is a free browser extension.

A curated list of awesome C/C++ frameworks, libraAwesome C/C++ Standard Libraries Frameworks Artificial Intelligence Asynchronous Event Loop Audio Biology Compression Concurrency Containers Cryptography

This is my latest blog post about why educators should try using the Google Drive Add-On MailChimp.

We need the participation of 10-12 Creative Writing/Digital Writing Professors and their classes in Fall 2014 to create a generative, digital, gamified, online novel. Application Deadline: June 15

A practical approach to technology integration in the classroom including how to build a PLN (Yes, I mention Diigo in Education!) :)

An essay that presents the difficulty of technology integration in the classroom and why we should do it anyway.

BioMed Central is an STM (Science, Technology and Medicine) publisher which has pioneered the open access publishing model, and was acquired by Springer Verlag in 2008. All original research articles published by BioMed Central are made freely and permanently accessible online immediately upon publication. BioMed Central views open access to research as essential in order to ensure the rapid and efficient communication of research findings.

Video How To on the Creative Commons Licensing Process.

Welcome to Webmaker - a Mozilla project dedicated to helping you create something amazing on the web. Our tools, events and learning guides allow webmakers to not only create the content that makes the web great, but - perhaps more importantly - understand how the web works.

Public Library of Science (PLOS) is a nonprofit publisher, membership, and advocacy organization with a mission to accelerate progress in science and medicine by leading a transformation in research communication. Our core objectives are to: Provide ways to overcome unnecessary barriers to immediate availability, access, and use of research Pursue a publishing strategy that optimizes the openness, quality, and integrity of the publication process Develop innovative approaches to the assessment, organization, and reuse of ideas and data

Software Carpentry helps researchers be more productive by teaching them basic computing skills.

OpenSimulator is an open source multi-platform, multi-user 3D application server. It can be used to create a virtual environment (or world) which can be accessed through a variety of clients, on multiple protocols. It also has an optional facility (the Hypergrid) to allow users to visit other OpenSimulator installations across the web from an account on a 'home' OpenSimulator installation.

The New TED website specifically for educators. Features illustrated videos. In Beta

Syntactic Tree is a designing program that allows you to draw and export tree diagrams with ease. It has been developed in Java platform so that it can be run in any computer that supports Java Virtual Machine. Besides the portability, the entire program is free of charge and its source code is available to public domain under GPL license.

Syntax Tree Editor (Free: Windows Only) a utility for drawing syntax tree diagrams. A syntax tree diagram is a visual representation of the structure of a sentence. The people who most often need to draw these diagrams are linguists, and the Syntax Tree Editor is designed with the needs of linguists in mind. Syntax Tree Editor can be freely downloaded and should work on any computer running a reasonably recent version of the Windows operating system (XP, Vista, 7).

I found ONE! :) Still no Apple, though. Searching, searching, searching.

Again ZZZZZZZZZZZZZ. No Web 2.0 to get my students interested? Anyone? . ..

Wow. I'm realizing that Web 2.0 has definitely not reached the world of linguistics. I'm looking into teaching a linguistics class and what I am seeing is pretty disappointing. This is a text-based list. If anyone finds any 2.0 resources, please let me know!Strange, considering most of these high-tech companies need linguistic specialists to make a lot of there stuff work! Maybe it is a case of "the shoemaker's family goes without shoes?)

Twitter will soon roll-out everyone's Twitter Archive. This is how to retrieve it.

Build real-life apps with APIs. Want to write apps and build websites that can text your phone, pull in YouTube videos, or connect to Facebook and Twitter? Start doing all this and more with Application Programming Interfaces (APIs).

Includes some tools that aren't on the usual list, including Xmind that includes a very handy "fishbone" map that can be used as a timeline for projects!

OOPS! Sorry for the strange spelling above--my phone "corrected" me. Sigh.