This group is meant to share bookmarks promoting technology usage in the classroom, articles supporting technology usage, and ideas of technology usage.
The goal of HippoCampus is to provide high-quality, multimedia content on general education subjects to high school and college students free of charge. HippoCampus was designed as part of Open Education Resources (OER), a worldwide effort to improve access to quality education for everyone.
While people attend presentations, panels, and lectures to learn something from the people at the front of the room, there's a lot of potential for creating spaces where audience members can interact with each other and the people presenting. backchan.nl does this by providing a web-based interface for audience members to identify themselves, post questions, and vote on other people's questions.
Twurdy stands for "Too Wordy?" Twurdy uses text analysis software to "read" each page before it is displayed in the results. Then Twurdy gives each page a readability level.
