Sunday, 5 October 2008

Cool Red Hat Ad

Stanford School of Engineering


Stanford School of Engineering


"For the first time in its history, Stanford is offering some of its most popular engineering classes free of charge to students and educators around the world. Stanford Engineering Everywhere (SEE) expands the Stanford experience to students and educators online. A computer and an Internet connection are all you need. View lecture videos, access reading lists and other course handouts, take quizzes and tests, and communicate with other SEE students, all at your convenience.

This fall, SEE launches its programming by offering one of Stanford’s most popular sequences: the three-course Introduction to Computer Science taken by the majority of Stanford’s undergraduates and seven more advanced courses in artificial intelligence and electrical engineering.

Stanford Engineering Everywhere offers:

  • Anytime and anywhere access to complete lecture videos via streaming or downloaded media.
  • Full course materials including syllabi, handouts, homework, and exams.
  • Online social networking with fellow SEE students.
  • Support for PCs, Macs and mobile computing devices.

Stanford encourages fellow educators to use Stanford Engineering course materials in their own classrooms। A Creative Commons license allows for free and open use, reuse, adaptation and redistribution of Stanford Engineering Everywhere material." (from Stanford University home page)



Saturday, 13 September 2008

Legislation Could Ban MySpace In Schools - Mashable

Legislation Could Ban MySpace In Schools - Mashable

US Hose of reps has approved DOPA - Deleting Online Predators Act. If it becomes a law it should effectively legislate exclusion of all popular social networking sites from US schools and libraries.

Friday, 25 April 2008

Skimbit - Online Group Decision Making


Skimbit is a free replacement for the usual barrage of emails and messy http links when trying to get organized on line. You can organize web searches into projects, rate your findings, invite others to contribute and vote, and manage the decisions. Could be useful in educational setting for scaffolding and organization of web search and decision making across curriculum.

Wednesday, 23 April 2008

Johnny Lee: Creating tech marvels out of a $40 Wii Remote

If you still haven't seen his YOUTUBE videos and downloaded his software (I think that more that 500 000 people did so far), here is Johnny Lee on TED:

Johnny Lee demos his amazing Wii Remote hacks, which transform the $40 game piece into a digital whiteboard, a touchscreen and a head-mounted 3-D viewer. A multi-ovation demo from TED2008.

http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/245