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California to fund authoring of lower division textbooks
This piece from the Atlantic indicates that California legislature and gov have signed two laws that will subsidize the cost of textbooks for lower-division courses: The new legislation encompasses two bills: One, a proposal for the state to fund 50 open-source … Continue reading
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Download your YouTube Content
Google offers a way to get content you have from the Google servers. The most recent addition to this service allows a way to download YouTube content. Here is a ReadWriteWeb post on the service. I gave it a try … Continue reading
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Sometimes simple is good
Chromebook advocates will likely enjoy this post of the reliability of the Chromebook in educational settings.
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Data Center
James Glanz from the NYTime tours a data center. Great video on the energy demands of a data center. Time for some more wind farms.
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PEW investigates the popularity of photo and video sites
I tend to pay attention to sites that offer data on trends in technology use. PEW offers new data on the popularity of video and photo sites.
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Adventure Games
This is an interesting resource – web based adventure games (How to Geek). Way back when I was a reading researcher, I conducted several studies on the use of text based adventure games as a useful reading instruction tool. If … Continue reading
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