Know a high school student who is deciding where to attend college?
You might want to point him or her to collegeboard.com. This site has a section called College MatchMaker, which allows the student to search nearly 4,000 colleges and universities, based on various criteria, such as location, major, size, cost, sports programs, and several other categories.
Once the student has created a list a prospective schools matching the search criteria, he or she can see if he or she is on-track to be admitted to the school (based on high school classes), and how the student stacks up against other students at the school (based on standardized test scores, grades, and standing in high school.)
Just go to collegeboard.com, and click on Find Your Match to get started.
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Top 10 Web Sites for Students
It is back to school time, and the Internet can be a great place to help your children succeed with their research projects and homework assignments. But, learning where to go and how to appropriately use information on the Internet can be challenging to both parents and students.
Marc Saltzman, a freelance journalist, author, and radio and TV host, has a great article, giving a list of the most comprehensive and reliable educational websites a student can use.
Marc Saltzman, a freelance journalist, author, and radio and TV host, has a great article, giving a list of the most comprehensive and reliable educational websites a student can use.
100 Inspiring and Innovative Blogs for Teachers
Here is a list of the 100 Most Inspiring and Innovative Blogs for Educators by L. Fabry. This list attempts to cover those blogs where teachers share innovations, strategies, trends, insights and emerging technologies. It is organized into four parts:
- General Teaching Blogs
- Specialty Subject Blogs
- Best Podcasts for Teachers
- Best Video Blogs for Teachers
OpenCourseWare Lets You Access University Courses for Free
Spurred by advances in technology and people’s hunger to get an extra edge in a down economy, universities and colleges are posting course materials – including syllabi, class notes, and lectures – online for anyone to access. This movement, known as OpenCourseWare, allows self learners to save money on tuition, gives alumni a link to their alma mater, and enables prospective students to peek into university classrooms.
Already more than 200 colleges and universities offer courses ranging from art history to economics for free on demand. The classes can be watched on YouTube or downloaded to iPods. And the consortium continues to grow…
The OpenCourseWare concept began in 2003. That year, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology decided it couldn’t turn a profit from putting online its hands-on curriculum with an emphasis on laboratory work online. Instead, MIT began providing its syllabi, course notes, and eventually, video and audio lectures online for free. MIT’s OpenCourseWare initiative started by listing 500 courses in 2003. Even that first year the program attracted more than 4 million visits to its web pages.
But today, in less than a decade, the institution has archived 1,897 courses – and in April 2009 alone attracted more than 1 million visits.
[read more at OpenCourseWare: College education, without the student loans, from the Christian Science Monitor]
Already more than 200 colleges and universities offer courses ranging from art history to economics for free on demand. The classes can be watched on YouTube or downloaded to iPods. And the consortium continues to grow…
The OpenCourseWare concept began in 2003. That year, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology decided it couldn’t turn a profit from putting online its hands-on curriculum with an emphasis on laboratory work online. Instead, MIT began providing its syllabi, course notes, and eventually, video and audio lectures online for free. MIT’s OpenCourseWare initiative started by listing 500 courses in 2003. Even that first year the program attracted more than 4 million visits to its web pages.
But today, in less than a decade, the institution has archived 1,897 courses – and in April 2009 alone attracted more than 1 million visits.
[read more at OpenCourseWare: College education, without the student loans, from the Christian Science Monitor]
Amazon Offers Grants for Cloud Computing
Amazon, the online retailing website, is offering educators, researchers, and students the chance to apply for free access to its hosted cloud computing services. Cloud computing stores data away from your computer. This allows you to work with massive amounts of data that would jam a regular desktop computer.
Grant applications are available through Amazon’s Web site. Amazon says its cloud services are already being used at Harvard University and the University of Oxford. For example, Oxford scientists at the Malaria Atlas Project — an effort to map the geography of the disease in order to drive prevention strategies — use Amazon’s services to store, share, and analyze data.
[via The Chronicle of Higher Education]
Grant applications are available through Amazon’s Web site. Amazon says its cloud services are already being used at Harvard University and the University of Oxford. For example, Oxford scientists at the Malaria Atlas Project — an effort to map the geography of the disease in order to drive prevention strategies — use Amazon’s services to store, share, and analyze data.
[via The Chronicle of Higher Education]
14 Universities Receive Grants to Study Cloud Computing
The National Science Foundation announced that it will grant $5 million to 14 universities to work on developing new ways to share and organize data in the clouds.
The grants focus on leveraging the opportunities presented by “cloud computing” — using Web-based services to execute computationally strenuous tasks more easily and cheaply. Experts have been abuzz for some time about how the development of cloud computing stands to benefit higher education, particularly with regard to research and analysis.
Among the schools receiving grants are: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Wisconsin at Madison, Yale University, Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and the University of Maryland at College Park.
[via The Chronicle of Higher Education]
The grants focus on leveraging the opportunities presented by “cloud computing” — using Web-based services to execute computationally strenuous tasks more easily and cheaply. Experts have been abuzz for some time about how the development of cloud computing stands to benefit higher education, particularly with regard to research and analysis.
Among the schools receiving grants are: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Wisconsin at Madison, Yale University, Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and the University of Maryland at College Park.
[via The Chronicle of Higher Education]
UM Online Evaluation System Crashes
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Sometimes technology doesn’t work as well as expected.
According to The Chronicle of Higher Education, U. of Michigan's Online Teaching-Evaluation System Fails, the University of Michigan’s highly-touted online course-evaluation system, crashed on April 20, at the end of the school's winter term, and has been down since.
Last year, the new system was promoted as a major advance. It would save paper, allow for more customized surveys, and speed up results.
After four days, a University e-mail message apologized for the “immense disappointment” to the community. Just under 40% of possible responses had been received by the time the system failed, the message said, and further collection for this term was impossible.
According to The Chronicle of Higher Education, U. of Michigan's Online Teaching-Evaluation System Fails, the University of Michigan’s highly-touted online course-evaluation system, crashed on April 20, at the end of the school's winter term, and has been down since.
Last year, the new system was promoted as a major advance. It would save paper, allow for more customized surveys, and speed up results.
After four days, a University e-mail message apologized for the “immense disappointment” to the community. Just under 40% of possible responses had been received by the time the system failed, the message said, and further collection for this term was impossible.
New Role for Librarian in Today's Schools
In this age of information, the role of the school librarian is very different from what it used to be. Although they still hope to encourage a love of reading in their students, they are now also responsible for introducing them to new technologies and teaching them information literacy skills necessary for today's workplace.
An article in The New York Times, titled "In Web Age, Library Job Gets Update," demonstrates how one school librarian prepares her students for the 21st century.
An article in The New York Times, titled "In Web Age, Library Job Gets Update," demonstrates how one school librarian prepares her students for the 21st century.
Google Announces Scholarship for Students with Disabilities
The Google Blog has announced the Google Lime Scholarship for Students with Disabilities. The company is partnering with Lime to offer scholarships to students with disabilities who are pursuing university degrees in the field of computer science in Canada or the U.S. Lime is a not-for-profit organization that brings together global corporations and people with disabilities, bringing to light an untapped source of talent.
Scholarships will be granted for the 2009–2010 academic year, and recipients will be invited to attend an all-expenses-paid retreat at the Googleplex in Mountain View in 2010. The deadline to apply is June 1.
For details.
Scholarships will be granted for the 2009–2010 academic year, and recipients will be invited to attend an all-expenses-paid retreat at the Googleplex in Mountain View in 2010. The deadline to apply is June 1.
For details.
New MLA Handbook Recognizes the Ascent of Electronic Information
The Modern Language Association has just released the 7th edition of the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. This style manual – now over 50 years old – gives step-by-step advice on writing research papers to millions of college and university students across the United States. A large part of the Handbook focuses on correctly citing your references, so that anyone can find the information that you use in your writing.
This edition of the Handbook has finally been adapted to the electronic age. (The 6th edition was released in 2003.) As such, it is an attempt to really make sense of how we find information on the Internet.
For instance, the MLA no longer recognizes print as the default medium of information, and suggests that the medium of publication should be included in each citation.
In addition, the Association has stopped recommending that URLs be included in citations, saying that URLs have:
The MLA has published an online complement to the paper Handbook. Oddly, you cannot purchase access to the web version without first buying a paper copy. “We still think instructors will want their students to have a physical book,” said Rosemary G. Feal, executive director of the MLA.
I guess some old habits die hard.
The MLA Handbook, 7th edition, is available here.
[via Inside Higher Ed]
This edition of the Handbook has finally been adapted to the electronic age. (The 6th edition was released in 2003.) As such, it is an attempt to really make sense of how we find information on the Internet.
For instance, the MLA no longer recognizes print as the default medium of information, and suggests that the medium of publication should be included in each citation.
In addition, the Association has stopped recommending that URLs be included in citations, saying that URLs have:
“limited value… for they often change, can be specific to a subscriber or a session of use, and can be so long and complex that typing them into a browser is cumbersome and prone to transcription errors. Readers are now more likely to find resources on the Web by searching for titles and authors' names than by typing URLs.
The MLA has published an online complement to the paper Handbook. Oddly, you cannot purchase access to the web version without first buying a paper copy. “We still think instructors will want their students to have a physical book,” said Rosemary G. Feal, executive director of the MLA.
I guess some old habits die hard.
The MLA Handbook, 7th edition, is available here.
[via Inside Higher Ed]
Harvard Stops Printing Catalogs and Handbooks, Puts Everything on the Web
Harvard University will stop printing its course catalogs, faculty and student handbooks, and results of course evaluations after this semester, The Harvard Crimson reports. Starting in the fall, these guides will be published exclusively on the Web.
The move will save “tens of thousands of dollars,” according to The Crimson. In addition, the course catalog “is significantly out-of-date before the first copy rolls off the presses,” admits Barry Kane, registrar of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, in an unusually candid comment.
The online system will be much more dynamic, said Jay M. Harris, Harvard’s dean of undergraduate education, and will give students access to analysis of course evaluations and data not offered in print versions.
[via Chronicle of Higher Education]
The move will save “tens of thousands of dollars,” according to The Crimson. In addition, the course catalog “is significantly out-of-date before the first copy rolls off the presses,” admits Barry Kane, registrar of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, in an unusually candid comment.
The online system will be much more dynamic, said Jay M. Harris, Harvard’s dean of undergraduate education, and will give students access to analysis of course evaluations and data not offered in print versions.
[via Chronicle of Higher Education]
Google Offers Summer Stipends to College Students to Work on Open Source Projecs
Google has just announced its fifth annual Summer of Code. The company will hand out $4,500 stipends to 1,000 college students, to encourage them to spend this summer contributing to open-source projects.
Among the projects that Google has included in the program is NetSurf, a Web browser which is competing with Google’s own browser, Chrome.
Google developed a new open-source scheduling system, called Melange, to help the students manage their open-source work. The company is making that software available to others who want to sponsor similar projects to support open-source development.
Applications for the Summer of Code are due April 3.
[via Chronicle of Higher Education]
Among the projects that Google has included in the program is NetSurf, a Web browser which is competing with Google’s own browser, Chrome.
Google developed a new open-source scheduling system, called Melange, to help the students manage their open-source work. The company is making that software available to others who want to sponsor similar projects to support open-source development.
Applications for the Summer of Code are due April 3.
[via Chronicle of Higher Education]
The End of the College Computer Lab
The University of Virginia has decided to shut down its student computer labs and put the money to more productive uses, since 3,114 of 3,117 incoming students own their own computer.
Of those student-owned computers, 3,058 are laptops, with about 26% being Apples.
Compared to just a decade ago, the numbers are amazing. In 1997, 74% of incoming students owned computers, but only 16% were laptops, and 6.6% Apples.
The University is now trying to figure out how to provide things like community printers and specialized college software.
[via arstechnica]
Of those student-owned computers, 3,058 are laptops, with about 26% being Apples.
Compared to just a decade ago, the numbers are amazing. In 1997, 74% of incoming students owned computers, but only 16% were laptops, and 6.6% Apples.
The University is now trying to figure out how to provide things like community printers and specialized college software.
[via arstechnica]
Sagan's Cosmos Series Online on Hulu
Here is a good resource for teachers, from Bad Astronomy.
Hulu is carrying the entire popular and highly acclaimed Public Broadcasting Service series Cosmos. First broadcast in 1980, Cosmos won an Emmy and a Peabody Award, and popularized astronomy to more than 600 million people in 60 countries. The series made its narrator, astronomer Carl Sagan, a household name.
Hulu is carrying the entire popular and highly acclaimed Public Broadcasting Service series Cosmos. First broadcast in 1980, Cosmos won an Emmy and a Peabody Award, and popularized astronomy to more than 600 million people in 60 countries. The series made its narrator, astronomer Carl Sagan, a household name.
Riding Out the Recession in a Virtual Classroom
As layoffs mount and workers look for ways to boost their resumes or reboot their careers, many are turning to online education to ride out the recession. Schools offering online degrees or professional certifications are thriving.
Read the full report from CNN.com.
Read the full report from CNN.com.
More Information on the Recovery and Reinvestment Act
Following the progress of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 – the stimulus bill? Check out these sites:
view a map with links to each state's recovery web page, that helps explain how they are spending funds allocated by the Act;
the Department of Education's economic stimulus webpage; and
the Department of Labor announced funding for employment and training
programs under ARRA.
view a map with links to each state's recovery web page, that helps explain how they are spending funds allocated by the Act;
the Department of Education's economic stimulus webpage; and
the Department of Labor announced funding for employment and training
programs under ARRA.
Video Lectures from Top Universities Online at Academic Earth
Interested in learning from some of the world’s top scholars? Academic Earth has hundreds of video lectures from professors at Berkeley, Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Stanford, and Yale.
You can subscribe to courses through RSS or add the podcasts to your iTunes library. Users are able to grade both the lectures and the courses, viewable by other users.
Academic Earth is an organization founded with the goal of giving everyone on earth access to a world-class education, by using technology in innovative ways to increase the ease of learning. AE hopes to “bring the best content together in one place and create an environment that in which that content is remarkably easy to use.”
[via metafilter.com]
You can subscribe to courses through RSS or add the podcasts to your iTunes library. Users are able to grade both the lectures and the courses, viewable by other users.
Academic Earth is an organization founded with the goal of giving everyone on earth access to a world-class education, by using technology in innovative ways to increase the ease of learning. AE hopes to “bring the best content together in one place and create an environment that in which that content is remarkably easy to use.”
[via metafilter.com]
Learn to Say It with howjsay.com
Next time you need help pronouncing a word, why not try www.howjsay.com?
I learned about this site a while ago, but was recently reminded of it by LibrarianInBlack. It is quite useful and quite simple.
Just type a word into the search box. Howjsay.com returns an mp3 file with the correct pronunciation of the word. Hover over the word to repeat the audio, as often as you like. The site also displays a listing of words near alphabetically to your search term.
A must site. Use it with your favorite on-line dictionary.
I learned about this site a while ago, but was recently reminded of it by LibrarianInBlack. It is quite useful and quite simple.
Just type a word into the search box. Howjsay.com returns an mp3 file with the correct pronunciation of the word. Hover over the word to repeat the audio, as often as you like. The site also displays a listing of words near alphabetically to your search term.
A must site. Use it with your favorite on-line dictionary.
