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A central, open access repository for the scholarly output of faculty and the broader research community at Harvard. Welcome to the DASH 1.0 Beta. This is the just the beginning, so please consider yourself a beta tester of our repository. We welcome your feedback as we continue to develop it

"The Concord Consortium undertakes innovative projects that bridge the gap between research and practice. Some projects are at the level of nuts-and-bolts technology, while others focus on learners. In all cases our projects strive to create new structures for learning and are strategically placed to achieve important long-term goals."

"This conceptual video is a corporate collaborative research project initiated by Bonnier R&D into the experience of reading magazines on handheld digital devices. It illustrates one possible vision for digital magazines in the near future, presented by our design partners at BERG."

Over the past few years, I have been collecting interesting Internet videos that would be appropriate for lessons and presentations, or personal research, related to technological and media literacy. Here are 70+ videos organized into various sub-categories. These videos are of varying quality, cross several genres, and are of varied suitability for classroom use.

TED takes what's already out there - most speakers have published extensive books, written dry research papers, even given long talks at other conferences - and packages it brilliantly and beautifully. Stuffed in a bite-sized 18-minute box, glossed with shiny production value, and placed in the exuberant context of the (as some would argue, "cultish") conference itself, each talk is a premium package that makes the ideas inside all the more appealing. It makes them feel richer and more valuable and more meaningful, and thus, it makes them matter more.

The World Digital Library will make available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from cultures around the world, including manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, architectural drawings, and other significant cultural materials. The objectives of the World Digital Library are to promote international and inter-cultural understanding and awareness, provide resources to educators, expand non-English and non-Western content on the Internet, and to contribute to scholarly research.

This is a site that contains links to web 2.0 tools in various categories: presentation, collaboration, research, video, etc.

"In Project Based Learning (PBL), students go through an extended process of inquiry in response to a complex question, problem, or challenge. While allowing for some degree of student "voice and choice,""

This is a site shared in class that provides an alternative to plain old Google.

Tools don't raise achievement....good teaching does.

"The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning examines the effect of digital media tools on how people learn, network, communicate, and play, and how growing up with these tools may affect a person's sense of self, how they express themselves, and their ability to learn, exercise judgment, and think systematically. "

"Welcome to the MoOM. The galleries are updated continuously, and new exhibitions are hung each quarter. "

The Wizard Tools look interesting - Citation Wizard, Web Site Evaluation Wizard, and Search Wizard

Thousands of lectures from the world's top scholars. Might be a useful resource for upper level high school and beyond.

Welcome to PBL-Online, a one stop solution for Project Based Learning! You'll find all the resources you need to design and manage high quality projects for middle and high school students.

A new study by alum Christine Greenhow finds social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook have more educational potential than you might think.