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Nice and easy writing & an Annotation Tool

PenZen – The distraction free writing enviroment distraction-free writing environment (tags: writingonline) scrible | smarter online research – annotate, organize & collaborate on web pages Receommened via http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/scrible-a-new-tool-for-web-annotation/33240?sid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en (tags: web2.0 research annotation)

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Google’s Art Project

Google’s Art Project is an excellent view of several museums and some extreme close-up view of a few world famous paintings. Art Project, powered by Google museums and individual art (tags: web2.0 reference art)

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The National Jukebox

The Library of Congress announced its online offerings of American music titled “The National Jukebox.”A nice interface into the audio collections at Library of Congress. National Jukebox LOC.gov The National Jukebox (tags: web2.0 reference online free libraryofcongress) The Library of Congress Adds a Jukebox – Wired Campus – The Chronicle of Higher Education announcement and […]

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Icon search engine, analyzing logs, forming groups

Icon Search Engine | Iconfinder Icon search engine (tags: icon icons searchengine) Getting to Know DHAnswers (and Your Visitors) with Google Analytics – ProfHacker – The Chronicle of Higher Education An alternative to analyzing the local logs on your web server web is to integrate a hosted web analytics solution. (tags: websites analysis computers_and_internet) The […]

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Another way to get around censorship

Using Tor and VPN to get around Internet Censorship – ProfHacker – The Chronicle of Higher Education “Internet censorship can stand in the way of, not only political activism, but in many countries the accomplishment of many basic daily tasks in our personal and professional lives. “ (tags: tor vpn censorship)

Free Online Course Materials at MIT, The HigherEd Teaching and Learning Portal, a very nice collection of electronic literature

Here are three very nice resources that may seem disparite, but have lots in common. They all deal with sharing excellent sources that deal with creativity, teaching, and learning. Free Online Course Materials | OCW Scholar | MIT OpenCourseWare “OCW Scholar courses are designed for independent learners who have few additional resources available to them.” […]

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Women as computers

Top Secret Rosies “In 1942, when computers were human and women were underestimated, a group of female mathematicians helped win a war and usher in the modern computer age. Sixty-five years later their story has finally been told. “ (tags: mathematics women history computing computers)

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AI, Gaming, and Adopting New Technologies links for 2011-02-07

What Is Artificial Intelligence? – NYTimes.com “I.B.M.’s groundbreaking question-answering system, running on roughly 2,500 parallel processor cores, each able to perform up to 33 billion operations a second, is playing a pair of “Jeopardy!” matches against the show’s top two living players, to be aired on Feb. 14, 15 and 16. “ (tags: ai ibm […]

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An Agglomeration: How to Study & Wikipedia Turns 10!

Putting this together as two links I gathered on January 18, 2011, it seems that these have little to do with each other. The first si a link to a site that I occasionally point out to my students. it has some good advice, good arguments, and the occasional cartoon to make the case for […]

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Information Fluency, Information Visualization

http://www.edpath.com/images/IFReport1.pdf Information Fluency and Education Reform: Assessment Tools and Across-the-Curriculum Initiative (tags: assessment digital fluency) Information Is Beautiful | Ideas, issues, knowledge, data – visualized! Very nice site. Recommended by Megan Hicks (tags: visualization design information data blog)

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