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Let Them Make Web Comics: Bitstrips Comes to Schools
Written by Jolie O'Dell / September 30, 2009 8:21 PM / 7 Comments
Bitstrips for Schools makes us want to go back to the third grade. Bitstrips is an online tool for quickly and simply creating web comics, and the company has just Continue reading »


Shouldn't Schools Have Embraced Second Life By Now?
Written by Dana Oshiro / September 16, 2009 9:00 PM / 30 Comments
When it first launched, the tech and business worlds were transfixed on Linden Labs' Second Life as a new marketplace. Science fiction fans flocked to the site for its Snow Continue reading »


Open Textbooks Gaining Ground: Flat World in 400 Colleges
Written by Dana Oshiro / August 20, 2009 12:01 AM / 11 Comments
Do you remember college and all those textbooks you couldn't sell back to the bookstore? I do. I own one of the most expensive doorstop collections in existence. For this Continue reading »


CourseSmart Brings College Textbooks to the iPhone
Written by Frederic Lardinois / August 10, 2009 9:38 AM / 4 Comments
CourseSmart, a leading player in the budding eTextbook market, just released its first iPhone application. Thanks to this app, students can now access college textbooks they have leased from the Continue reading »


Seven e-Learning and Teaching Resources
Written by Dana Oshiro / July 21, 2009 2:19 PM / 18 Comments
While the down economy continues to hurt funding to our schools, more and more teachers are looking to web-based services to help educate their students. Whether it's through open resource Continue reading »


Jimmy Wales Joins Open Textbook Organization
Written by Dana Oshiro / July 21, 2009 9:47 AM / 3 Comments
Wikipedia and Wikia co-founder Jimmy Wales has just joined the advisory board of CK-12 Foundation - a nonprofit organization that provides standards-aligned online textbooks to kindergarten to grade 12 students. Continue reading »


Libraries, eBooks, and the Mobile Web: A Long Ways to Go
Written by Frederic Lardinois / June 22, 2009 10:57 AM / 3 Comments
According to a new report from Cambridge University (PDF), students aren't interested in being able to read eBooks and eJournals on their mobile phones. Instead, users are far more interested Continue reading »


How One Teacher Uses Twitter in the Classroom
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / June 1, 2009 4:04 PM / 42 Comments
Teachers are always trying to combat student apathy and University of Texas at Dallas History Professor, Monica Rankin, has found an interesting way to do it using Twitter in the Continue reading »


Thinking of College? Go to YouTube First
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / March 26, 2009 9:46 AM / 9 Comments
YouTube launched a handy new page last night that aggregates all the videos from more than 100 institutions of higher education around the US. YouTube.com/edu now serves up campus tours, Continue reading »


Forget iTunes U: Students Now Getting College Credit via YouTube
Written by Sarah Perez / March 10, 2009 7:37 AM / 10 Comments
A computer science professor at an Australian University is doing something revolutionary with YouTube - he's offering students who can't attend his classes college credit for watching his videos. Richard Continue reading »


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