Video journal gets respect

The Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE) is now indexed in PubMed, the first video-journal to have that acceptance. “This is a major milestone for JoVE and also for new methods …

Conference on Literature in Virtual Worlds

On August 4th, 2008, and again on August 6th, Alliance Library System, in cooperation with LearningTimes, will offer a one-day conference exploring the possibilities of using virtual worlds to teach …

Technology changing the nature of historical research

The Boston Globe’s May 25, 2008 article, Everyone’s a Historian Now, describes how individuals’ contributions of photographs, descriptions and interpretations of historical events, including recent events, are changing the way …

Digital resources about the Civil Rights era

The University of Georgia has produced the Civil Rights Digital Library, with primary sources and educational materials from libraries, archives, museums, public broadcasters, and others. The CRDL features a collection …

Summer instructional technology conferences

Educause 2008 Southeast Regional Conference, June 2-4, 2008 The Educause 2008 Southeast Regional Conference, The Right Stuff, will take place June 2–4 in Jacksonville, Florida. The program covers a range …

News about MIT's OpenCourseWare project

A recent newsletter from the MIT OpenCourseWare project includes this information. As a permanent part of the MIT academic program, OCW continues to publish about 200 courses per year –– …