Today's Wolfram|Alpha is the first step in an ambitious, long-term project to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable by anyone. You enter your question or calculation, and Wolfram|Alpha uses its built-in algorithms and growing collection of data to compute the answer

View mountain removal multimedia in Google Earth

A multimedia authoring tool released under a creative commons license that holds a great deal of promise for digital storytelling in education. A free download is required to create and read Sophie projects. The idea of the book is the central concept. The creator can simply drag and drop components (text fields, comment fields, etc.) or resources (images, audio, video, etc.) onto a page. Objects and pages can all be resized.

I'd like to use this group to collect bookmarks that are useful for academics at Dickinson. Add tags to the bookmarks that you post to the group so we can make accessible lists later.

Specifically we need to tag what department the link might be useful for:

political science, history, english, biology, etc

and then the general tags for the link:

gaming, blogs, wikis, podcasting, digital storytelling, gis, visualization, collaboration, video, etc

The newest version of Google Earth allows you to explore the ocean