These are from my bookmarks on del.icio.us:
- Software / Technology
- Quick-R is a help site for those using the R statistics tool instead of SPSS/SAS.
- Hippocampus is a homework and study help site with multimedia resources and course materials.
- Road Ready Teens is a program that includes a free driving videogame. See this article.
- First look at Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron – the nest version of Ubuntu due out soon
- A report on open source video editing in Linux.
- Skype 2.0 for Linux has been released.
- New Classroom-Friendly Mini-Notebooks from HP
- Another great video on using and developing 3D educational worlds with Edusim in (Croquet-based) Cobalt. Here is more info on the Croquet-based Cobalt application used, and see also this tutorial for building a simple world in Croquet by Matt Schmidt.
- A video preview of Alice 3.0, the 3D programming environment
- Bionic Arduino – incredible course/workshop on creative uses for the Arduino microcontroller board.
- Adobe Photoshop Express Online – an online version of the image editor. I haven’t tested to see if it is any better than Picnik or other editors.
- More info on the next version of Java (update 10) and the new java plugin. See the article: Are Applets Back?
- OpenOffice.org and MS Excel: What’s the Difference? – There are some little differences that may get you, especially the use of semicolons instead of commas for passing parameters to functions. You get a cryptic “#NAME?” error if you use commas.
- Mahara 1.0 has been released – an open source electronic portfolio tool that integrates with Moodle
- On the quest for better screencasts – an interesting idea to make screencasts searchable and seekable via subtitles
- An overview of the samples that come with the Netbeans Java IDE.
- Amberjack is a free tool for creating guided tours of one or more websites.
- A new pdf book on the Scala programming language that runs on the java platform: Scala by Example
- Yahoo Announces Open Search Platform – Google discontinued their API for using their search engine from 3rd party apps long ago, so this is welcome.
- The Best Tools for Visualization
- DJ NativeSwing: JWebBrowser, JFlashPlayer, JVLCPlayer, JHTMLEditor
- Sites / Articles
- The call for papers for the 2008 Open Education Conference has been released. The submission deadline is May 30th.
- Multimedia Authoring Tools: The Quest for an Educational Package
- Video Research in Education describes a free pdf report from NSF on using video in educational research, which also was the basis for the book video research in the learning sciences.
- Grounded and Transferable Knowledge of Complex Systems Using Computer Simulations with links to the netlogo models used
- States’ Data Obscure How Few Finish High School
- Celebrating Seymour (Papert) – an article by David Shaffer on Seymour Papert’s legacy
- Numbers Guy: Stanislas Dehaene and Number Sense
- So Much for the Information Age – an interesting commentary at chronicle.com
- Educational Technology Magazine (pdf) special issue on open education resources
- The Truth According To Wikipedia – a video commentary on Wikipedia (via Larry Sanger)
- Becta Emerging Technologies for Learning Report
- A MacArthur series on Digital Young, Innovation, and the Unexpected
- An interesting article on Places to intervene in a system
- Multimodal Learning Through Media: What the Research Says – another positive lit review from the metiri group
- Cognitive Phenomenology: Marriage of Phenomenology and Cognitive Science
- Computational Thinking and Thinking About Computing – presentation with interesting examples of computing in everyday life by Jeannette Wing
- Computer Science Enrollment is Going Down
- From Java Platform Improvements to Better Teaching
- Robotic drumstick keeps novices on the beat
- The proceedings of the Tangible and Embedded Interaction Conference have been made available. See also the Symposium on Haptic Interfaces.
- Fritzing – a physical prototyping tool
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