You may have had some instructors during your school years that seemed like they were simply carrying out pre-programmed, robotic orders, but not quite as literally as these profs. Singularity Hub reports that robot teachers have successfully passed a first …
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Please Rob Me: Fun Website Shows How Social Networks Can Expose You
Everybody loves social networks but not everybody understands the risks associated with it. PleaseRobMe is a great tool that shows you how exposing your location on social networks can make you vulnerable to burglars. It uses actual examples from FourSquare …
EssayRater: Checks Essays for Plagiarism & Helps to Improve
EssayRater is a free web app that reviews, grades and checks essays for plagiarism, and helps you to improve them. This tool goes beyond the usual online proof-reading tools by checking your paper for the quality of word choice, sentence …
3 Ways To Use Google Reader As An Online Archive
Like many of you, for the past few years I’ve been using Google Reader to subscribe to blogs and news feeds. Instead of having to go out and scan each and every one of my favorite blogs for new and …
Lingt: Webtools for Language
Lingt helps people learn the massive number of vocabulary terms required for basic competency in a foreign language. We think the biggest problem with learning a new language is simply giving up, so we’ve built something that we think makes …
Growth of the Internet from 1998 to 2008 (interactive chart)
BBC News has a very cool interactive chart up, showing how Internet had grown from 1998 to 2008 in various parts of the world.
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Imagineering iPad Educational Apps (video)
The video below doesn’t show real working applications, or even prototypes – more they are imaginings of the things we think we might be able to do and perhaps will be doing. Look out for them in an app store …
50 Best Blogs for Education Leaders
Get inspired and discover new ideas through the help of these bloggers and teachers
http://theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/2010/03/50-best-blogs-for-education-leaders.html
…Is Higher Education Evolving?
To survive and thrive, living organisms, industries, and institutions — including higher education — must evolve or adapt to changing environments. The slow evolutionary clock speed and failure to adopt contextualized open interfaces in the higher education ecosystem may threaten …
Learning with Wikis
An interesting approach to engage students on using wikis.
http://deangroom.wordpress.com/2010/03/04/learning-with-wikis/
…Google To Begin Indexing The Internet In Real-Time?
In a move that might rewrite the entire search market, Google is rumored to be creating a system that will let allow web publishers to submit content to Google for search indexing in real-time.
http://thenextweb.com/apps/2010/03/04/google-indexing-internet-realtime/
…How Does Facebook Work? The Nuts and Bolts
Social networking is the art of connecting with those who share common interests. Facebook is a social networking. People have been “facebooking” each other for about 6 years now, making Facebook the most used social network with over 350 million …
Montreal Regional Science Fair: March 21-23 Exhibit: Bridges that Unite: March 7-26
A thought-provoking exhibition exploring Canada’s Global Leadership Role
Visit the Exhibit in Montréal, March 7 to 26, 2010
Concordia University – (J.W. McConnell Building atrium)
1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W
www.concordia.ca
FREE ADMISSION
Google Trends and Yahoo! Buzz Together!
Google Trends and Yahoo! Buzz are great websites to see what’s popular on the web right now. The only thing better than those websites is a tool that would combine Google Trends, Yahoo! Buzz and Twitter Trends, all in one …
Twitter Speeding Towards 10 Billion Tweets
About one year ago Twitter reached a huge milestone: one billion tweets. Four months ago, 5 billion tweets were served. And now, in about one day, Twitter should reach another very important milestone: 10 billion tweets.
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