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Engineering Education in the Age of Web 2.0—Explorations Through iMechanica.org Teng Li, Department of Mechanical Engineering Web 2.0 refers to a collection of second generation Web services, such as blogs, social bookmarking, wikis, podcasts, and Really Simple Syndicates (RSS) feeds. While the first generation Web (Web 1.0) is about linking information available online, Web 2.0 emphasizes online collaboration and sharing among people. These new Web services bring up new opportunities to innovate how we conduct research and education. We report the preliminary explorations of engineering education exploiting Web 2.0 services, through iMechanica (http://imechnica.org).

  Design Technology Add a linkTop of page Introductory Skills for GCSE http://www.teachnetuk.org.uk/projects-des-tech.htm Introductory Skills for GCSE This is a course of six lessons, establishing a basic knowledge of equipment, media, product analysis, presentation and drawing techniques for GCSE Graphics Products and Product Design. The (UK) Open Universitys OpenLearn http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/ The (UK) Open University's OpenLearn Welcome to The Open University's OpenLearn website - free and open educational resources for learners and educators around the world. You are in the LearningSpace where Open University learning materials are freely available for you to study in your own time, away from any formal teaching environment. Visit the LabSpace to share and reuse educational resources. Download some learning materials, adapt to your needs: translate, shorten, extend, add examples... and then of course, place it back for others to benefit! | Arts and History | Business and Management | Education | Health and Lifestyle | IT and Computing | Mathematics and Statistics | Modern Languages | Science and Nature | Society | Study Skills | Technology | TakeItApart http://www.takeitapart.net/ TakeItApart TakeItApart.net is all about, well, taking things apart. This site is a resource to be used by anyone who wishes to see -- for any reason -- how to take apart certain electronic devices. We will try to post a new dissection as often as time permits. We must recommend against, of course, the dismantling of electronic devices. (Doing so could damage them or void their warranties.) Virtual Machine Shop Lesson Plans http://www.jjjtrain.com/vms/library.html Virtual Machine Shop Milling Machines | Engine Lathes | Cutting Tools | CNC/CAM | Measurement | Engineering |

The (UK) Open Universitys OpenLearn http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/ The (UK) Open University's OpenLearn Welcome to The Open University's OpenLearn website - free and open educational resources for learners and educators around the world. You are in the LearningSpace where Open University learning materials are freely available for you to study in your own time, away from any formal teaching environment. Visit the LabSpace to share and reuse educational resources. Download some learning materials, adapt to your needs: translate, shorten, extend, add examples... and then of course, place it back for others to benefit! | Arts and History | Business and Management | Education | Health and Lifestyle | IT and Computing | Mathematics and Statistics | Modern Languages | Science and Nature | Society | Study Skills | Technology |

Mechanisms, strucutures 3D drawing http://www.animatedworksheets.co.uk Site dedicated to visual understanding of difficult concepts. These animated web pages will help pupils to understand the concepts of mechanisms and perspective drawing in an easy to understand format.

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Digital Natives, Generation-D (digital), Nintendo Kids, the MTV generation, whatever term you chose to describe them, today's youth has grown up with an uprecedented access to and appetite for technology and new media.

Digital Natives, Generation-D (digital), Nintendo Kids, the MTV generation, whatever term you chose to describe them, today's youth has grown up with an uprecedented access to and appetite for technology and new media.

The challenge facing educators and trainers is to identify learning strategies that are appropriate for Digital Natives, recognizing the different ways they process information and developing learning tools that maximize the potential of their unique cognitive approach.

Unleashing the Power of Web 2.0

"Web 2.0 assumes a way of being that is social, that doesn't discriminate between formal and informal learning, and that has the future built into the model," Yancey observes. "Historically, most schools haven't shared these values, at least institutionally, though of course individual faculty and staff have.