Now playing on iTunes U: “Ask a Biologist”: “Hosted by Dr. Biology (CJ Kazilek) and brought to us by Arizona State University, ‘Ask a Biologist’ features interviews of prominent scientists who discuss tiger beetles, marine biology, the history of fire, microbes, bird song, arachnology, and a wide range of other life science topics. Whether you [...]

States add K-12 educational content to iTunes U: “
Filed under: Multimedia, Video, Education, iTunes, Apple
Users of iTunes U, the free educational content channel inside iTunes, will have a lot more elementary education material to choose from — the states of Arizona, Florida, Maine, Michigan, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Utah have all added some of their [...]

Now Playing on iTunes U: THE WAR: “THE WAR, the most watched PBS series in the last decade, now serves another tour of duty as an excellent online educational resource. WETA, Washington D.C.’s public broadcasting station, provides film clips, lesson plans, and additional educational resources for students and teachers. Watch — and enjoy — them [...]

Now Playing on iTunes U: “Take me out to the physics game”: “Classical mechanics, fluid dynamics, kinetic energy — if you thought you were just playing a good game of baseball, wait till you watch ‘The Physics of Baseball.’Oone of the highly enjoyable programs brought to us as part of KQED’s QUEST: Science and Nature [...]

Firefox 3 and OS X Server: “
Ed. Note: Perhaps a word of warning? Discuss.‘
Firefox 3 appears to have issues with user accounts not located on the main drive.’ At the very least it cannot deal with a network user account being located on a remote OS X Server.
When I updated to Firefox 3, I immediately [...]

Macs help reveal how dinosaurs ran: “The duck-billed Hadrosaur dubbed Dakota grazed the area now known as the North Dakota badlands some 65 million years ago. Unearthed in 1999, Dakota yielded not only soft tissue (an exceedingly rare find) but also near-complete mummified remains. Using a Mac Pro cluster, University of Manchester scientists are now [...]

A interesting look at using Technology in the classrooms with an overseas perspective. The philosophy of technology choice is relevant regardless of where you hail from.
Creating an environment of personalised technology choice:
“A while ago I decided that it is futile to try and apply some of the structures and practices that US and international schools [...]

UK University Lectures on iTunes: “BBC News reports that University College London, the Open University, and Trinity College Dublin are putting lectures onto iTunes U, which now features content from universities in the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. ‘Our students will be able to revisit materials presented to them in lectures, so they can [...]

Today Google announced the regional winners to its Doodle 4 Google contest. K-12 students in the United States were asked to redesign the Google logo with a “What if?” theme. The results are available online, and are really astounding. Not being an art teacher or parent (yet) myself I was amazed to see the evolution [...]

Apple releases Mac OS X Leopard Security Guide:
“Apple offers sys-admins almost 250 pages of security best-practices and tips to protect Mac OS X Leopard clients.
Released on Monday, the guide document is a 3.4MB PDF. The guide is aimed at experienced users, Apple says, familiar with the Terminal application and its command-line interface.
Some instructions in this [...]