WikiSummarizer WikiSummarizer is a Web-based application specializing in automatic summarization of Wikipedia articles. Automatic summarization is the creation of a shortened version of a text by a computer program. The result is a summary that presents the most important points of the original text. A summary is a shorter version of the original information. It highlights the major points from the much longer article. WikiSummarizer automatically summarizes the Wikipedia articles. The blending of visualization with summarization, knowledge browsing, mind mapping provides you with a wide range of means to explore relevant content. All the summaries are stored in the WikiSummarizer knowledge base. In fact when we are summarizing, we are zipping through the whole content, homing in on the important chunks. With the ability to summarize web pages everybody can become an instant speed reader. You instantly see what the web page is about. You get more done in less time. The key benefits are: Yes.
12 Fun Hacks for Getting More Out of YouTube There's no doubt that plain old YouTube can be tons of fun, but when you get bored of watching clips the traditional way, there are a ton of sites that can help enhance the experience. Whether you want to view a video with a far-away friend, compare two clips, or find more interesting ways of browsing and sharing, there are plenty of options out there. The web community is known for creating hacks that improve your surfing experience; now we've dug into some of those tools and hacks built around YouTube. Have a look through our 10 choices and let us know of any other YouTube mashups, hacks, or similar sites and services you've used. We'd love to hear about them in the comments below. 1. This site features a super-simple premise. 2. DragonTape allows you to remix YouTube videos into a seamless mixtape. 3. This "mashup helper" exists "because you have better things to do than work." 4. 5. Enter your choice of keywords into this site and it will create an infinite playlist based on them. 6.
8,200+ Strong, Researchers Band Together To Force Science Journals To Open Access Evolutionary biologist Michael Eisen made this t-shirt design in support of the Elsevier boycott. Academic research is behind bars and an online boycott by 8,209 researchers (and counting) is seeking to set it free…well, more free than it has been. The boycott targets Elsevier, the publisher of popular journals like Cell and The Lancet, for its aggressive business practices, but opposition was electrified by Elsevier’s backing of a Congressional bill titled the Research Works Act (RWA). Though lesser known than the other high-profile, privacy-related bills SOPA and PIPA, the act was slated to reverse the Open Access Policy enacted by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 2008 that granted the public free access to any article derived from NIH-funded research. But the fight for open access is just getting started. Seem dramatic? Paying a high price for academic journals isn’t anything new, but the events that unfolded surrounding the RWA was the straw that broke the camel’s back.
Wikipedia Welcome to WikiFieldTrip Xournal User's manual Xournal User's Manual Version 0.4.8 Xournal is an application for notetaking, sketching, keeping a journal using a stylus. It is free software (GNU GPL) and runs on Linux (recent distributions) and other GTK+/Gnome platforms. It is similar to Microsoft Windows Journal or to other alternatives such as Jarnal and Gournal. Xournal can be downloaded at or Xournal aims to provide superior graphical quality (subpixel resolution) and overall functionality; however various advanced features have not been implemented yet. Table of contents Getting started Xournal's user interface is (hopefully) intuitive, and if you don't run into installation or tablet calibration issues, you'll probably be able to start taking notes without referring to this manual. Refer to the next few sections of this manual for more information about the various functionalities. The drawing and selection tools The pen The eraser The highlighter <? . .
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Let's Get Video on Wikipedia Google Guide Quick Reference: Google Advanced Operators (Cheat Sheet) The following table lists the search operators that work with each Google search service. Click on an operator to jump to its description — or, to read about all of the operators, simply scroll down and read all of this page. The following is an alphabetical list of the search operators. Each entry typically includes the syntax, the capabilities, and an example. allinanchor: If you start your query with allinanchor:, Google restricts results to pages containing all query terms you specify in the anchor text on links to the page. Anchor text is the text on a page that is linked to another web page or a different place on the current page. allintext: If you start your query with allintext:, Google restricts results to those containing all the query terms you specify in the text of the page. allintitle: If you start your query with allintitle:, Google restricts results to those containing all the query terms you specify in the title. allinurl: In URLs, words are often run together. author: ext:
6 Important Wikipedia Tools for Teachers Wkipedia is a great educational resource for both teachers and students. Its articles appear almost always in the first four links of the search results. I know there are some issues with the use of this resource in education such as : plagiarism, trusted content and many more but still instead of excluding it all together we better learn and teach our students the best ways to use it. Everything online has both negative and positive effects and we should always focus on the filled side of the cup. 1- Wikisummarizer WikiSummarizer is an application designed by Context Discovery Inc. 2- The Full Wiki This is a mash-up between Google Maps and Wikipedia articles. 3- Navify This service is a mash-up of Wkipedia, Flickr, and YouTube. 4- Wiki Field Trip This service allows you to explore new places using Wikipedia entries. 5- Video Wikipedia This is an online project to add videos to Wikipedia articles. 6- Wikihood
How I stopped missing Darcs and started loving Git About three years ago, I switched to Darcs as my primary source-code management system. It was simple, intuitive, and powerful, and it made managing my projects more fun and less frustrating than any centralized VCS ever had. That it was written in Haskell, one of my favorite programming languages, made it even better. I was hooked. Since then, the distributed SCM landscape has changed. When I started working for a new company recently, I had to consider whether to advocate Darcs or something else. After researching and playing around with Git and Mercurial, I settled on Git. Missing Darcs When I started using Git on real projects, the one thing I really missed was the ability to easily amend earlier patches, something Darcs made trivial. Checkout copy of upstream code base.Implement feature X.Commit.Implement independent feature Y.Commit.Implement independent feature Z.Commit.Push new features back upstream. That’s it. Learning to love Git The git rebase —interactive command is powerful.
5 Ways You Can Use Wikis Today I had the privilege to participate in Discovery's Beyond the Textbook forum. One of my take-aways from the day's conversation is that most of the technologies that we want to use to make textbooks interactive and meaningful for students already exist, we just need to organize and utilize them in a way that makes sense for teachers and students. I've combined that take-away with a recent request from a reader to delineate some ways that teachers can use Wikispaces to create this list of ideas for using wikis in classrooms. Please feel free to add your suggestions, with links if possible, in the comments below (please note, I'll be on planes for the next 18 hours so there will be a delay between your comment submission and its appearance on the blog). 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. How are you using wikis in your classroom? If you're not quite sure what a wiki is or what makes it different from a traditional website or blog, watch Wikis in Plain English from Common Craft.