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Entries from October 2006

Social Software used at How-To Site

October 25th, 2006 · No Comments

There’s a new site that has just started that creates “how-to” articles and tutorials.  If you write an article, you get the opportunity to rate other articles in that same area.  The rating of the articles is then used when they are listed so you can go to the best rated articles.  The site is called [...]

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Tags: General · Software Tools

Open Source Education

October 17th, 2006 · No Comments

The most recent volume of Innovate is focused on open source software (OSS) in the educational realm.  This journal issue is located at http://www.innovateonline.info/index.php?view=issue&id=16 and there are a number of key articles that are important to read.  In particular the notion of open source knowledge communities  discussed in “Open Source/Open Course Learning: Lessons for Educators from Free and [...]

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Tags: General

Using iPods in the Classroom

October 16th, 2006 · No Comments

Take a look at this article from Apple about how Louisa-Muscatine is using iPods to help students take tests.  The article is located at http://www.apple.com/education/profiles/louisamuscatine/.

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Tags: Hardware Tools · Pedagogy