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A Teacher’s Guide to the Holocaust

An overview of the people and events of the Holocaust through photographs, documents, art, music, movies, and literatureRead the Full Article

The Croquet Consortium

Croquet is a powerful new open source software development environment and software infrastructure for creating and deploying deeply collaborative multi-user online applications and metaverses on and across multiple operating systems and devices. Derived from Squeak, it features a peer-based network architecture that supports communication, collaboration, resource sharing, and synchronous computation between multiple users on multiple […]

25 Awesome Beta Research Tools from Libraries Around the World

If you’re tired of using the same old search box on your local library website for research projects, it might be time to broaden your horizons. Try out one of these in-the-works betas sponsored by world-class libraries around the world. From academic libraries like that at MIT or renowned research centers like the Library of […]

PBS, LOCAL STATIONS LAUNCH ITUNES U CONTENT

ARLINGTON, VA, January 30, 2008 — Teachers, students and lifelong learners now have a new source for free, educational multimedia, as PBS and local PBS stations KQED (San Francisco), WETA (Washington, D.C.), WGBH (Boston) and WNET (New York) begin offering high-quality video clips and other educational resources on iTunes U, a dedicated area of the […]

CurriculumOnline

Here you’ll find ALL the multimedia resources to support teaching and learning that your school can buy with its eLCs and other funds. All resources support the curriculum taught in schools in England from Foundation to KS4. Many are free. Evaluate and compare resources before buying direct from suppliers.Read the Full Article

Google’s Answer to Wikipedia

Google’s Knol project aims to make online information easier to find and more authoritative.Read the Full Article

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Constructing a Tool for Assessing Scholarly Webtexts

As a counterpart to Krause’s text, Allison Warner’s “Constructing a Tool for Assessing Scholarly Webtexts” presents the author’s process of making a tool for assessing the scholarly value of online journal publications. Warner argues that in order to understand more fully how an online text can be recognized and valued for its scholarly legitimacy, it […]