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Should researchers pay more attention to the Now Web — if we could analyze the “Then Web” against last year’s “Now Web” what would it reveal?
I found this fascinating quote today:
Simply put, it’s the difference between discovery and search, between the “Now Web” and the “Then Web.” Here’s a more specific analogy: In college, most [...]

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Yugma – The goal of the Yugma Education Program is to enhance collaboration and promote advancing technology to students preparing to enter the 21st century workforce. Yugma enables students, faculty and administration to collaborate and share information in real time using our web-based service. Through this program, an accredited higher education [...]

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Wolfram Alpha - Developed by Wolfram Research, Wolfram Alpha was initially designed with academics in mind. The Independent reports that Wolfram Research’s head, Dr. Stephen Wolfram, has said that his goal is to curate, collect and make use of all the information of acquired by researchers over the years. For example, not only can the tool [...]

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Book Glutton – Embeddable book reader – site launched in January 2008 to allow socially-enhanced online book reading, has just launched a nifty little widget. Now, blog and website owners can embed what amounts to a book club just about anywhere. YouTube About Book Glutton
Teleread – Free Ebooks
Feedbooks – “Feedbooks is a universal e-reading platform [...]

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Dr. Robert Marzano addresses the question “What do we know about the effect of technology on student achievement?” at the CUE 2009 Conference on March 6, 2009. Part II.
Travel Bugs – Used for Geocache.
Digital Karnak Project -The Digital Karnak Project aims to make the site of Karnak more accessible to students and instructors in [...]

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CometDocs – Free Online file converter.

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Procaster – the front end, it’s a simple app that offers one-button streaming of video out to the web. But behind its simple exterior, the tool has the ability to stream high definition quality video that isn’t possible when encoding on the fly over its current web-based Flash player. But much more interesting are the [...]

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Stickam – Another live video streaming option.Welcome to Stickam, where you can … Enjoy live interactive entertainment. Host your own live show. Talk with family and friends. Meet people who share your interests
Embed Google Gadget Gadget ~ visit the blog to see

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Online Flashcards – Ediscio – ediscio.com is the place in the web where you can share your flashcards with others and learn cooperatively.
Sriblink – Web collaborative whiteboard. Scriblink is a free digital whiteboard that users can share online in real-time. Sorta like pen and paper, minus the dead trees, plastic, and the inconvenience of being [...]