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.
Forvo – All the Words in the World Pronounced
Forvo can best be described as an audio wiki for word pronunciations. One of the problems with learning to speak a language that is not phonetic is trying to figure out how to pronounce the words. Forvo hosts hundreds of …
Web Squared: Web 2.0 Five Years On (Article)
The Web is no longer a collection of static pages of HTML that describe something in the world. Increasingly, the Web is the world – everything and everyone in the world casts an “information shadow,” an aura of data which, …
FollowUpThen: Free and Easy Email Reminder
Some people respond to emails on time and some don’t. If you’ve a friend or contact in the latter category it’s worth giving FollowUpThen a shot. You don’t need to sign up for an account to use the service, either: …
How Twitter in the Classroom is Boosting Student Engagement
Professors who wish to engage students during large lectures face an uphill battle. Not only is it a logistical impossibility for 200+ students to actively participate in a 90 minute lecture, but the downward sloping cone-shape of a lecture hall …
Teaching and technology: presentations and resources for educators
During the last six or so years I have created a number of ‘how-to’ documents and presentations for a variety of web based and related technologies. They are available from the various workshop web pages however I thought it might …
Hungry? How About An Open Source Restaurant
Ever get a great dish at a restaurant and imagine making it at home? At the world’s first open source restaurant you can.
How To Search Emails In Gmail Efficiently
When Google launched Gmail they revolutionized emailing. Until then, the focus of email clients and services had been on sorting emails. Google is a search engine. Consequently, Google’s email service provides many different ways to search your Gmail emails, while …
Puniz: Listen & Easily Download Free Audio Tracks
There are tons of sites that offer you free music, the problem is that the number of songs available is quite small. Puniz changes that by offering over 500 million audio tracks and claims that all of them are free …
Moodle Cool Courses Competition: Winners
Here you can see the winners of the “Moodle Cool Course Competition”, divided in many categories: Best application of Moodle activities, Best use of media, Primary (ages 6-12), Secondary (ages 12-18) and Tertiary (ages 18+).