Nurph is a new exciting site that lets users embed a chat box on any Web site they please.
The service is incredibly simple to use. You go to the Nurph homepage, enter any URL you want into the text …
Arabic websites make history with native script addresses
Internet addresses written in Arabic are making history as the first online domains in non-Latin characters, with Chinese and Thai expected to follow close behind.
3 Audacity Tips To Enhance Any Recorded Interview
One of the nice things about recorded interviews is that they work well as an audio podcast either available for download from your own blog, or distributed as a podcast at any podcast directory. Many avid audio enthusiasts may find …
6 Reasons GTalk is The Best Free Instant Messaging Service
In this post, I’d like to show you 6 very cool ways that you can access your gTalk service no matter where you are.
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/6-reasons-gtalk-free-instant-messagin-service/…
A Single Molecule Computes Thousands of Times Faster than Your PC
A demo of a quantum calculation carried out by Japanese researchers has yielded some pretty mind-blowing results: a single molecule can perform a complex calculation thousands of times faster than a conventional computer.
The Semantic Web (Web 3.0): What It Is and Why It Matters [Video]
If you’ve ever struggled to make sense of terms like “semantic web,” “Web 3.0”, we’ve got a fascinating, entertaining and informative video for you.
Mashpedia: The Real-time Encyclopedia
Mashpedia is an interesting service that matches reference articles from Wikipedia to materials from other sources like YouTube, Flickr, Twitter, Digg, and the web in general. The purpose of drawing materials from multiple sources is to provide users with a …
The Ten No Nos of Teaching with a Projector or Interactive Whiteboard
There are still some educators that don’t seem to know the no nos for teaching with a projector or interactive whiteboard (IWB). Perhaps it’s easier to notice when you’re sitting as an audience member or an observer which is not …
Udemy Launches free Online Teaching Platform
Udemy, a free platform for teaching online has officially launched for public use. Udemy offers a variety of tools for delivering content online. Course creators can publish slideshows, publish videos, and create mash-ups of slideshows and videos synched together. Course …
Technology in the Classroom: Are We Moving Too Fast?
In order to be able to envision the future, we have to be willing to examine the present. It is easy to observe the preponderance of technological growth in today’s society. Children have cellular telephones; we can simultaneously view and …
More Apps Coming to Google Apps for Education
Google has announced that beginning this summer administrators of Google Apps for Education and Google Apps for Enterprise will be able to incorporate Blogger, Picassa, iGoogle and other Google products into their existing roster of applications in Google Apps. Put …
Are e-books good for studying?
Three universities (Princeton, Arizona State University, and Northwest Missouri State) pilot two e-readers (Kindle DX, Sony Reader), to see how well students could use them for studying. The results were at best mixed, and at worst negative. There were problems …
Augmented Reality in Plain English (Video)
Augmented reality is a very new idea for a lot of teachers and therefore a lot teachers may not understand what augmented reality is and what it can be used for. Fortunately, Common Craft has a video to explain augmented …
Open Source Web Conferencing / Videoconference Tools
A list of free open source desktop conferencing tools for online courses.
http://efronters.blogspot.com/2010/05/open-source-web-conferencing-tools.html…
20 Web 2.0 Tools for Teachers
20 Web 2.0 Tools for Teachers is the title of a nice slide presentation created by Simon Ward. Ward’s presentation contains some very familiar sites like Delicious and also includes some lesser-known sites. In fact, there were a few sites …