CommonCraft has released a new video, “Web Search Results in Plain English“:
The outstanding social bookmarking and annotating application, Diigo, has announced the release of Diigo Education. Designed in collaboration with educators from all grade levels, and with an eye toward the challenges of K-12 teachers gaining Diigo access in their classrooms, Diigo Education joins Edublogs and Voicethread with an education-specific side of an already robust…
Naveed Lalani, a Fall 2004 Web Design student of mine at The University of Texas at Austin, has launched a new company called Pyrix.com, which “offers non-partisan political software that fuses technology and democracy for the masses—empowering the average political entrepreneur.” The first point in their 10 point Philosophy: We Don’t Take Sides. We…
“The Long Run: As a Professor, Obama Enthralled Students and Puzzled Faculty,” is an interesting article by Jodi Kantor that will appear in tomorrow’s print edition of the New York Times. Kantor has some wonderful phrasings, like here when she is yoking together his political successes and the topics of his courses: Before he…