Five Ways to Visually Explore Wikipedia Wikipedia is one of the first places that students often go to get some background information on a topic they're researching. Besides just going to Wikipedia.org and entering a search, there are some other ways to explore the content of Wikipedia. Here are five ways that students can visually explore Wikipedia's content. Wiki Mind Map is a resource for visually exploring Wikipedia. Wiki Mind Map is essentially a search engine for Wikipedia articles that uses the Google Wonder Wheel concept. Udutu - sign in Udutu Course Authoring Free Account Why choose the learning software platform before you begin to create your course? With the Udutu authoring tool you can build, test, and extract your courses for free. No need to involve IT. No need to secure a budget. We can host your course, you can export it to any other server, or, you can buy your own server implementation.
British Journal of Educational Technology BJET Policy Infographics Best EdTech Paper Award at BERA Annual Conference, 2016 We are delighted to announce that the winner of the 2016 Best EdTech Paper Award is Dr Louis Major of the University of Cambridge, for his conference paper titled 'Digitalised Dialogues Across the Curriculum (DiDiAC): Introducing TalkWall.' BJET would also like to commend Dr Diane Dalby of the University of Nottingham for her paper 'Enhancing Formative Assessment through Digital Technology'. New Editors for BJET 26 May 2016 America: A Narrative History, 8e: W. W. Norton StudySpace US History Tours powered by Google Earth. This new format traces historical developments across time, touching down on locations vital to our nation's heritage and development. Points of interest in each tour launch primary and multimedia sources. Download Tours:
Introduction to Spectroscopy - SpectraSchool Absorption of infrared radiation brings about changes in molecular vibrations within molecules and 'measurements' of the ways in which bonds vibrate gives rise to infrared spectroscopy. Atom size, bond length and bond strength vary in molecules and so the frequency at which a particular bond absorbs infrared radiation will be different over a range of bonds and modes of vibration. An organic molecule may contain quite a number of different bonds.
Three Ways to Mark-up Webpages and Share Them There are a lot of excellent tools on the web for clipping, annotating, and sharing bookmarks with your friends and colleagues. For a long time I used Google Bookmarks for that purpose. Recently, I became a converted and dedicated user of Evernote. But sometimes you might want to actually capture and draw on a webpage to point out to others specific elements of that webpage. Here are three free tools for doing just that. Awesome Screenshot is a great Chrome and Safari browser extension for capturing, annotating, and sharing screenshots. Sign Up to Create a Free Powtoon Account Sign up to Powtoon Already have an account? Log In Or Sign up with Google Sign up with Facebook more
4 Personal Websites for the Media-Savvy Worker This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. You post to Facebook and Twitter accounts, you blog regularly on Tumblr and you upload the occasional YouTube video. On the other hand, you don't own or operate your own website (partly because johnsmith.com was taken 15 years ago). Plus, why worry about one more thing? Think of a personal website as a public business card — with links. It's a tidy, succinct landing page where you can direct curious employers or business contacts.