Top ten favorite tools
Feri Zsuppan in Arts & Sciences passed along this interesting list of Top 10 Favorite Tools of e-Learning professionals at the Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies in the UK. …
Improving science and engineering education
Robert J. Beichner, a professor of physics and director of the STEM Education Initiative at North Carolina State University, discusses ways to improve the teaching of science and engineering to …
Tablet PC, Mobile Computing projects get HP awards
Hewlett-Packard’s Worldwide Higher Education Philanthropy will give about $120,000 in cash and equipment to each of ten campuses receiving a 2007 Higher Education Leadership grant. Supported projects include using tablet …
Teens say e-mail is dead
Teens don’t use email much anymore, according to Stefanie Olsen, writing in CNET News.com, and even Instant Messenger is a dying tool with this age group. Instead, they use social …
Cool Google map mashups with educational potential
Mashable.com offers a list of 13 very cool Google Map mashups, including several which could be useful in education: WikiMapia – a wiki-like map where users can add information about …
Google Books projects adds large Japanese collection
Google and the Keio University Library in Japan will digitize at least 120,000 public domain books so that readers around the world can view, browse, read, and download public domain …
iQuiz tool delivers questions on iPod
Publisher McGraw-Hill is offering college-level content for the iQuiz game application, recently launched by Apple and designed for iPod. iQuiz is available from the iTunes Store [in the Games category] …