The Wiki Way To Plan

More and more places are using social media tools to try to engage citizens. Read More

Mobile phones get cyborg vision

From England - a very cool iPhone app

Excuses, Excuses: An Excerpt from Teacher Man

This is a great article that demonstrates the art of teaching. This would also be a great Twitter exercise!

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Teaching Naked - When Computers Leave Classrooms

José A. Bowen, dean of the Meadows School of the Arts, has challenged his colleagues to "teach naked"—by which he means, sans machines.

http://chronicle.com/article/Teach-Naked-Effort-Strips/47398/

Universities on Twitter

http://twitter.pbworks.com/Universities

Google Preview

Found a great plug-in for Firefox to view thumbnails of pages. GooglePreview

ScreenToaster

Record your screen for free. Unlimited size and duration: http://www.screentoaster.com/

U Penn 2009 Mashup Winners

The annual Mashup Contest celebrates student creativity with video and multimedia. The 2009 Contest was sponsored by Penn Libraries, the Penn Humanities Forum, the Cinema Studies Program, and College Houses and Academic Services.
http://wic.library.upenn.edu/mashup/mashup2009.html

Students say using tech to cheat isn't cheating

New poll reveals students use cell phones, internet to cheat; parents are unaware.
http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/top-news/news-by-subject/research/index.cfm?i=59295

The Wave from Google

Interesting approach to communication. http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/05/28/google-wave-drips-with-ambition-can-it-fulfill-googles-grand-web-vision/

Kuler is Kule!

I have been a big fan of Adobe Kuler for some time. I just discovered that CS4 has a Kuler plug-in under Windows > Extensions > Kuler. I <3 this for Fireworks! I just create at Kuler.com, search for my saved palette in Fireworks, then import the swatches. Magic!

Google Search for Web Pages

My friend Chirag made a great application called Drop Search. He was featured on Google's Code Blog today.

I am using this on many of our sites at Bloustein. It's quick and simple to use. Thanks Chirag!

Educational Games

This site, Games for Change, posts free online educational games:
http://www.gamesforchange.org/newindex

Make your own Jeopardy Game!

You can make your own Jeopardy game online for FREE at this site: http://jeopardylabs.com/

Ideas to Inspire

I found this on Kevin Jarrett's blog. Great for all instructors!

Got Inspiration?

http://ideastoinspire.co.uk/

6th Sense Video

From TED, a prototype of $350 that lets you project anywhere and look up anything.

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/pattie_maes_demos_the_sixth_sense.html