Social Bookmarking in Plain English (Common Craft)
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A short introduction to the concept of social bookmarking, using Delicious as the example.
Social Networking in Plain English (Common Craft)
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A short introduction to the concepts behind social networking websites.
Blogs in Plain English (Common Craft)
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A short introduction to blogs - how they work and why they matter.
RSS in Plain English (Common Craft)
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An introduction to RSS as a way to save time reading web sites.
Podcasting in Plain English (Common Craft)
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A short introduction to Podcasting and how it's different from broadcasting.
Twitter in Plain English (Common Craft)
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A short introduction to the micro-blogging service Twitter.
Social Media in Plain English (Common Craft)
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An introduction to Social Media via a story about a small town with many flavors of ice cream.
Using Wikis in Teaching & Learning (NEEDS)
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Unlike a typical web site published by a single person or small group, or even a "blog" (short for Web Log) that usually consists of short, diary-like posts by a few users and comments by many, a Wiki is a ...
Electing a US President in Plain English (Common Craft)
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A short and simple guide to understanding the U.S. election process.
Web Search Strategies in Plain English (Common Craft)
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A short video designed to help you get more out of your web searches.
Online Photo Sharing in Plain English (Common Craft)
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A short introduction to the concept and features of online photo sharing web sites.
Phishing Scams in Plain English (Common Craft)
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A short guide to recognizing and avoiding phishing scams.
Teacher Training Videos: How to Use and Make Wikis (Teacher Training Videos)
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This video was created for teachers to help them to BP Wikis and technology into their teaching.
Researching the North Carolina coastal plain (LEARN)
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This lesson plan will provide students with a more in-depth knowledge of the animals, industry, and land geography of the coastal plain. Students will conduct research on the internet and in other resources to find information on the vital parts ...
Math Bootcamp Wiki (Individuals)
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This wiki page list the activities, student projects and journal reflections from the Math Bootcamp July 6-9, 2010 in Portola Valley, CA. The Boot Camp is an intensive, one-week program focused on accelerating the learning of some of the San ...
WikiHow (Scout)
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WikiHow is an exciting new "collaborative writing project aiming to build the world's largest how-to manual." Applying the wiki model of information collection (see also NSDL Scout Report for Mathematics, Engineering and Technology, November 5, 2004), wikiHow contains instructions on ...
Wayne Mackintosh - Introduction - WikiEducator: Memoirs, Myths, Misrepresentations and the Magic (Connexions)
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Wayne will be writing about his experience with WikiEducator, the freedom culture, and education. I first met Wayne in New Zealand while he served at the University of Auckland. He visited the Open Polytechnic of New Zealand where I was ...
Blogs, Wikis, New Media for Learning (USU OCW)
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Innovation continues to occur on the internet at an extremely lively pace. What was once the realm of email, FTP, Gopher, and the Web is barely recognizable a mere 10 years later. Keeping up with the speed of innovation and ...
Supercomputing in Plain English (Shodor)
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Introduction to HPC, storage hierarchy, instruction-level parallelism, compiler tricks, shared memory multithreading, distributed multiprocessing, math libraries, I/O, and visualization.
Wetlands of the coastal plains (LEARN)
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This Carolina Environmental Diversity Explorations "virtual field trip" explores the various wetlands of North Carolina's coastal plain and the plant communities found there.