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embedNGMWidget(“jigsaw”); embedNGMWidget(“jigsaw”); There’s more for widget fans like me to celebrate! Widgets (of course) are little apps that we can easily add to our blogs and wikis and Nings and iGoogle pages and PageFlakes and more. (Learn more about widgets.) National Geographic now offers a lovely variety of widgets. We can use them on our […]
I love the discoveries I make through Gary Price’s Resource Shelf. (Consider subscribing!) My two discoveries today relate to the wonderful world of primary sources. In time for Women’s History Month, check out Middle Tennessee University’s new database: Discovery American Women’s History Online is This database simplifies access to digital collections of primary sources (photos, […]
http://www.jinni.com/ Semantic (or structured) searching for movies. In some ways similar to my dear Pandora, Jinni gets to know your tastes.
LovelyCharts is a new online chart creation tool. Many Eyes is an amazing new tool for visualizing data sets. Why visualize data? In a media-rich universerve, visual information literacy is a critical skill. Students need to be able to share data and concepts in attractive and engaging ways, using the visual shorthand of charting. […]
Amazon’s latest version of the Kindle is due anyday now (Monday?). As I mentioned a couple of days ago, Google’s Book Search went mobile this week. If you are interested in how books are trending, be sure to read Mike Elgan’s article (and the 75+ comments) in Computer World, Here comes the e-book revolution: Six […]
1.5 million books in your pocket? My iPhone just got even better. Free books got even more portable. Today Google Book Search (already love it!) released mobile editions for small screen reading. How does it work? Simple. Open the Web browser on your iPhone, go to Google Books Mobile Search http://books.google.com/googlebooks/mobile/ and explore the library […]
In tight times, the gift of database access is especially welcome. Yesterday, The New York Times announced that its entire online article archive of 2.8 million articles (updated hourly) back to 1981 is searchable. The Times explains the features of the new search tool: With the Article Search API, you can search New York Times […]
TED2009 is happening this week. You can be there live for TED’s 25th anniversary or you can browse the growing archive of talks. You may also choose to follow TED TWEETS or the TED Blog or tune in for the TED Prize tonight. Here’s a taste of a recently posted video on food anthropology: (Jennifer […]
Time again to celebrate the generous world of open source in education! (Plato’s Republic I-II, Steven B. Smith, Open Yale Courses) Thousands of video lectures from the world’s top scholars. That’s Academic Earth. Currently in Beta, the site, in the true spirit of the open source movement, was founded to give everyone on earth access […]
Kevin Jarrett pointed me to another impressive tool for digital storytelling, National Geographic Wildlife Filmmaker. (Happily, these tools are multiplying like bunnies!) Using National Geographic Wildlife Filmmaker, young filmmakers drag clips, sounds, music, and captions to to the timeline area. On the right, they’ll find an Animals A-Z reference tool that provides animal profiles, Fast […]
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