Monthly Archives: September 2011

DMLcentral We are a collective of researchers, practitioners, and policy-shifters working together to reimagine learning and education for the digital age. tags: digital_media education research technology Recommendation Letter Writing Round Up A list of recommendation letter resources, tips, and collections … Continue reading →

Top 10 Sites for Video Editing tags: editing video ProfHacker – The Chronicle of Higher Education You know how Apple stuff just works? It’s totally true. But you’ll still need to spend a surprising amount of time explaining how the … Continue reading →

9 Great Freeware Programs that Should be on Every PC One of the most common questions we get here at Gizmo’s Freeware is “What freeware programs do I really need?” So here are our suggestions for the free programs you should … Continue reading →

A Treasury of World’s Fair Art & Architecture This digital collection represents a sampling of artifacts from the rich and varied World’s Fair Collection at the Architecture Library, University of Maryland (UM). Although limited in size, this collection is unique … Continue reading →

Rebelling Against Blackboard with Posterous and TinyChat “The perverse and ironic issue with Blackboard is despite being a learning management system it rarely encourages learning. I’m not the first to express skepticisms about learning management systems: David Parry wrote a … Continue reading →

Library School at U. of North Carolina Offers Students Lifelong Digital Archive Incoming students at the University of North Carolina’s School of Information and Library Science this year are getting a new kind of welcome-to-campus perk: Free data storage, for … Continue reading →

Virtual tour | Visiting | National Gallery, London Take a virtual tour of 18 rooms at the National Gallery. Get closer to the paintings: choose fullscreen for an even better view. tags: art education Posted from Diigo. The rest of … Continue reading →

DocumentCloud DocumentCloud runs every document you upload through OpenCalais, giving you access to extensive information about the people, places and organizations mentioned in each. tags: file_sharing documents open_access publishing Teaching Students to Search with “Google Search Education Evangelism” With regard … Continue reading →

Alice.org Alice is an innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web. Alice is a teaching tool for introductory computing. … Continue reading →

STEMResources.com – Tennessee STEM classrooms offer a curriculum that is integrated, emphasize questioning and inquiry, and give students frequent opportunities to apply engineering design and problem-solving. At STEMresources.com Tennessee teachers can gain quick and easy access to standards-based instructional tools, … Continue reading →