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Claroline . NET - Home
Claroline . NET - Home
Claroline is an <strong>Open Source eLearning and eWorking platform</strong> allowing organizations to build effective online courses and to manage learning and collaborative activities on the web. Translated into 35 languages, Claroline has a large worldwide users’ and developers’ community.
·claroline.net·
Claroline . NET - Home
Teaching Discrete Mathematics via Primary Historical Sources
Teaching Discrete Mathematics via Primary Historical Sources
<p><cite><b> WHAT THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS AND OF THE PARTICULAR SUBJECT CAN OFFER US: </b></cite> </p><ul> <li>A human vision of science and of mathematics: not just truths, methods, techniques coming from nowhere, not just facts and skills without soul, without history, but the results of the efforts of persons motivated by deep interest and passion; not as godlike science, but human and so incomplete and fallible; the human side of the great discoveries and discoverers.</li> <p></p><li>A frame in which all elements appear in their right place: not facts centuries apart in their origin presented together in the same bag without a single remark, but explorations in their own context and with their own motivation; past fashions in order to be able to understand present fashions; the deep connections along time of the different leitmotivs of the mathematical symphony.</li> <p></p><li>A dynamical vision of the evolution of mathematics: the motivation and driving forces at the roots of the ideas and methods of the subject; the primordial creativity around each particular subject, its genesis and its progress</li></ul>
·math.nmsu.edu·
Teaching Discrete Mathematics via Primary Historical Sources
How to Search the Invisible Web - Lifehacker
How to Search the Invisible Web - Lifehacker
The term "invisible web" or "deep web" refers to the vast repository of information that search engines and directories don't have direct access to, like databases at university libraries, sites that require passwords to view, or sites that for some reason don't want search engines to crawl them. Unlike pages on the visible Web (that is, the Web that you can access from search engines and directories), information in databases is generally inaccessible to the software spiders and crawlers that create search engine indexes.
·lifehacker.com·
How to Search the Invisible Web - Lifehacker
Using Primary Sources on the Web
Using Primary Sources on the Web
Users of primary sources have always needed to examine their sources critically, but now with the proliferation of electronic resources from a wide variety of web site producers, evaluation is more important than ever before. Users of web resources must now consider the authenticity of documents, what person or organization is the internet provider, and whether the electronic version serves their needs. This brief guide is designed to provide students and researchers with information to help them evaluate the internet sources and the quality of primary materials that can be found online.
·lib.washington.edu·
Using Primary Sources on the Web
"Why I'll never sign up for any Blogger Code of Conduct" from The Intuitive Life Business Blog
"Why I'll never sign up for any Blogger Code of Conduct" from The Intuitive Life Business Blog
I am all for civility, reasoned discourse, and coherent and respectful discussion in the blogosphere, as I am on discussion boards, in email, chat rooms, and even in real life. But I don't control the world, I can't tell you how you should be phrasing your sentences or conveying your thoughts, nor would I want to. Yes, there are certain views that are beyond what I will tolerate in my hosted discussion space, but <b>I still support your right to have those views</b> even if I occasionally click that "delete" button and kick your comment into the ether.
·intuitive.com·
"Why I'll never sign up for any Blogger Code of Conduct" from The Intuitive Life Business Blog
Natalia's Second Life Diary Blog
Natalia's Second Life Diary Blog
Natalia Zelmanov, a girl in the virtual world of Second Life. With pretty clothes, <a href="http://slnatalia.blogspot.com/2006/11/build.html">tutorials</a>, <a href="http://slnatalia.blogspot.com/2006/11/siteseeing-and-exploring.html">cool places to visit</a>, and really bad dating advice.
·slnatalia.blogspot.com·
Natalia's Second Life Diary Blog
Video Tutorials - Second Life Wiki
Video Tutorials - Second Life Wiki
<b>The following's a list of Second Life tutorials.</b> This isn't meant to be a complete compilation, but specifically lists tutorials I've personally viewed and have found helpful. I (<a href="http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/User:Torley_Linden" title="User:Torley Linden">Torley Linden</a>) started this with the intention of providing an easy-access resource for SL vidtuts, because currently (2007-02-27), they're scarce and hard-to-find.
·wiki.secondlife.com·
Video Tutorials - Second Life Wiki
Education Week: Let's Abolish High School
Education Week: Let's Abolish High School
As the brilliant German educator Kurt Hahn (the founder of Outward Bound) said, teaching people who are aren’t ready is like “pouring and pouring into a jug and never looking to see whether the lid is off.”
People have radically different learning styles and abilities, and effective learning—learning that benefits <i>all</i> students—is necessarily individualized and self-paced. This is the elephant in the classroom from which no teacher can hide.
Finally, whereas that first compulsory-education law in Massachusetts was competency-based, the system that grew in its wake requires <i>all</i> young people to attend school, no matter what they know. Even worse, the system provides no incentives for students to master material quickly, and few or no meaningful options for young people who do leave school.
In today’s fast-paced world, education needs to be spread out over a lifetime, and the main thing we need to teach our young people is to love the process of learning.
·edweek.org·
Education Week: Let's Abolish High School
Educational Technology and Life » Blog Archive » Context-Embedded Learning (In A Nutshell)
Educational Technology and Life » Blog Archive » Context-Embedded Learning (In A Nutshell)
<p>Perhaps the most fundamental property of a constructivist learning environment is that it offers a context for student learning. </p> <p>Context-embedded learning has been a cornerstone of the constructivist movement since the early 1900’s. Now, nearly a century later, video games and simulations can offer new contexts for student learning that would not have been available to students in the past.</p>
·edtechlife.com·
Educational Technology and Life » Blog Archive » Context-Embedded Learning (In A Nutshell)
Google Maps: America's Highway: Oral Histories of Route 66
Google Maps: America's Highway: Oral Histories of Route 66
Jay Crim and Shekar Davarya spent the summer of 2002 driving across the country on Route 66, collecting interviews with the people who live, work and travel on the old road. The audio, video and images on this map are the result of that summer, and offer a glimpse into what life was like on the now-decommissioned highway and what remains for those who still travel the road.
·maps.google.com·
Google Maps: America's Highway: Oral Histories of Route 66