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Educational Technology

• Educational Technology, Macs

  Back to School: new iLearn ezine on using Macs in education

  08.15.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Back to School: new iLearn ezine on using Macs in education: “
  Filed under: Education

  TUAW’s going Back to School! We’ll be bringing you tips and reviews for students, parents and teachers right up until the bell rings in September.
  Reader Kelly T wrote in to give us a heads up about iLearn, a new ezine devoted to [...]

• Educational Technology

  Now Playing on iTunes U: To Live Forever

  08.08.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Now Playing on iTunes U: To Live Forever: “From July 13 to September 7, 2008, the Indianapolis Museum of Art hosts the exhibition To Live Forever: Egyptian Treasures from the Brooklyn Museum. The exhibition — now available on iTunes U — ‘explores the ancient Egyptian belief that death was an enemy that could be beaten [...]

• Educational Technology

  Wyoming district gets 3,000 MacBooks for back to school

  07.30.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Wyoming district gets 3,000 MacBooks for back to school: “
  Natrona County students will have new MacBooks this August, including one for every student and teacher at Kelly Walsh High School.
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  (Via Infinite Loop.)
  

• Educational Technology

  States add K-12 educational content to iTunes U

  07.07.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  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 [...]

• Educational Technology

  Now Playing on iTunes U: THE WAR

  07.01.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  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 [...]

• Educational Technology

  Now Playing on iTunes U: “Take me out to the physics game”

  06.18.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  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 [...]

• Educational Technology

  Macs help reveal how dinosaurs ran

  06.11.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  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 [...]

• Educational Technology

  Creating an environment of personalised technology choice

  06.07.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  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 [...]

• Educational Technology

  UK University Lectures on iTunes

  06.05.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  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 [...]

• Educational Technology

  Doodle 4 Google

  06.05.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  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 [...]

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