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Microsoft and Yahoo close to alliance:
SAN FRANCISCO - Microsoft appears to have finally locked up rival Yahoo in a long-awaited internet search partnership aimed at narrowing Google's commanding lead in the most lucrative piece of the online advertising market. The details of the Microsoft-Yahoo alliance are expected to be announced…
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The U.N.'s World Intellectual Property Organization says current owner Majid Karimian Ghannad of Yazd, Iran, has to transfer the domain name - facebook.ir - to the U.S.-based site.
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Plans unveiled for world's first super-green superyacht
A super green superyatch was built by a 23 years-old British student. This superyatch runs on solar energy and produces no carbon. The boat uses two sources to run: 600 square meters of solar panels on the exterior of the boat and giant rigid "wings" that function like sails. Both the panels and solarsails -- developed by Australian company Solar Sailor -- on the vessel can fold up or completely stretch out depending on which energy source is in use, changing the yacht's shape. "I wanted to prove that eco-luxury no longer has to be an oxymoron and doesn't have to make a yacht more expensive," designer Alastair Callender, a life-long sailing fanatic, told CNN. http://edition.cnn.com/2009/SPORT/07/24/eco.boat.soliloqui/index.html
Chrome gives Google bookmark sync religion again http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10302091-2.html?tag=newsEditorsPicksArea.0 The company is preparing to build a system to synchronize bookmarks across different versions of Chrome. The Company also wanted to focus on bookmarks and get it right first before we think about other data types. We chose bookmarks both because they are generally the most important to users, but also because they are the hardest data type to sync. According to my opinion I think that it will enables a lot of cool future possibilities. This enables a lot of cool future possibilities: 1. Imagine your ChromeOS office PC dies. IT support brings you a new ChromeOS PC and with a quick sync, you continue working right where you left off. 2. Imagine an office with a pool of cubicles & ChromeOS PCs. When you arrive to work, you pick an Office/PC, log in & your personal environment is immediately configured for you. The more I think about it, the more I see a lot of great potential for ChromeOS.
- Fast boot & runtime. - No data backups & restores. - Low/No software installation & maintenance. - No virus, spyware, etc. scanning. - Portable work environments.
1.http://www.pfeiffer.com/WileyCDA/PfeifferTitle/productCd-0787976237,descCd-authorInfo.html This website is good for instructor who is in financial. However, you have to pay for it if you would like to read whole book or some specific chapters.
2. http://www.coe.uga.edu/epltt/index.htm You can have free e- book from this website. It works to teacher who would like to be more profession in education area. You can lots of information and ideas about teaching strategies and theories, and learning resources. Do not click map. It makes you lost in it.
3. http://cde.athabascau.ca/online_book/ There are only one book in this website, it is suitable for instructor who are going to develop online learning. You can download whole book without penny. It is great! However it will brilliant if there have more books for other educational resources.
4. http://www.elearnmag.org/subpage.cfm?section=tutorials In this website, you may find a lot of information about e-learning project. These resources are good for teachers and students. It had been researched in different aspects; include distance-learning strategies, instructional design, and so on. However, some articles are not new, like wrote in 2001.
A mixed methods study of secondary distance-learning students: Exploring learning styles by Roberts, Jennifer M.,
Public education in the United States has experienced an increase in distance-learning (DL) opportunities. Because research has focused on student achievement in post-secondary DL programs, little is known about secondary students' experiences. The purpose of the current study was to explore DL applicability within secondary education. Specific research questions addressed by the concurrent mixed methods nested study included examining students' opinions and experiences in a secondary DL course and determining whether individual learning styles were addressed. Structured interviews, group discussions, and a survey were used to gather data over 2 months from 14 students in grades 9 through 12 participating in a state wide Alabama DL program. Surveys were used to assess and match DL activities to Gardner's 8 learning styles. Interviews and discussions explored students' opinions about activities and components and perceptions of their academic achievement. Quantitative data indicated that students reported some activities related to all learning styles with the greatest coverage observed for linguistic methods. Qualitative data were open and axial coded within each research question and the coded data was analyzed to define common DL practices used to meet specific styles and emergent themes related to student perceptions. Triangulation of results showed DL students felt successful based on their participation in a spectrum of activities including interactive video, e-mail, online discussion boards and tutoring sessions, and self-directed learning. The study contributes to positive social change by documenting a variety of strategies employed to successfully engage secondary DL students who present a variety learning styles and challenges related to DL curricular content and modes of delivery.
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Microsoft and Yahoo close to alliance:
SAN FRANCISCO - Microsoft appears to have finally locked up rival Yahoo in a long-awaited internet search partnership aimed at narrowing Google's commanding lead in the most lucrative piece of the online advertising market. The details of the Microsoft-Yahoo alliance are expected to be announced…
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ReplyDeleteFacebook wins back its own, blocked, Iran domain
12:44PM Wednesday July 29, 2009
GENEVA - Social networking site Facebook has won control of a web address using its name and the country suffix .ir for Iran.
The U.N.'s World Intellectual Property Organization says current owner Majid Karimian Ghannad of Yazd, Iran, has to transfer the domain name - facebook.ir - to the U.S.-based site.
for more.........
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/ict-news/news/article.cfm?c_id=55&objectid=10587385
Plans unveiled for world's first super-green superyacht
ReplyDeleteA super green superyatch was built by a 23 years-old British student. This superyatch runs on solar energy and produces no carbon. The boat uses two sources to run: 600 square meters of solar panels on the exterior of the boat and giant rigid "wings" that function like sails. Both the panels and solarsails -- developed by Australian company Solar Sailor -- on the vessel can fold up or completely stretch out depending on which energy source is in use, changing the yacht's shape. "I wanted to prove that eco-luxury no longer has to be an oxymoron and doesn't have to make a yacht more expensive," designer Alastair Callender, a life-long sailing fanatic, told CNN.
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/SPORT/07/24/eco.boat.soliloqui/index.html
Chrome gives Google bookmark sync religion again
ReplyDeletehttp://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10302091-2.html?tag=newsEditorsPicksArea.0
The company is preparing to build a system to synchronize bookmarks across different versions of Chrome. The Company also wanted to focus on bookmarks and get it right first before we think about other data types. We chose bookmarks both because they are generally the most important to users, but also because they are the hardest data type to sync.
According to my opinion I think that it will enables a lot of cool future possibilities.
This enables a lot of cool future possibilities:
1. Imagine your ChromeOS office PC dies. IT support brings you a new ChromeOS PC and with a quick sync, you continue working right where you left off.
2. Imagine an office with a pool of cubicles & ChromeOS PCs. When you arrive to work, you pick an Office/PC, log in & your personal environment is immediately configured for you.
The more I think about it, the more I see a lot of great potential for ChromeOS.
- Fast boot & runtime.
- No data backups & restores.
- Low/No software installation & maintenance.
- No virus, spyware, etc. scanning.
- Portable work environments.
1.http://www.pfeiffer.com/WileyCDA/PfeifferTitle/productCd-0787976237,descCd-authorInfo.html
ReplyDeleteThis website is good for instructor who is in financial. However, you have to pay for it if you would like to read whole book or some specific chapters.
2. http://www.coe.uga.edu/epltt/index.htm
You can have free e- book from this website. It works to teacher who would like to be more profession in education area. You can lots of information and ideas about teaching strategies and theories, and learning resources. Do not click map. It makes you lost in it.
3. http://cde.athabascau.ca/online_book/
There are only one book in this website, it is suitable for instructor who are going to develop online learning. You can download whole book without penny. It is great! However it will brilliant if there have more books for other educational resources.
4. http://www.elearnmag.org/subpage.cfm?section=tutorials
In this website, you may find a lot of information about e-learning project. These resources are good for teachers and students. It had been researched in different aspects; include distance-learning strategies, instructional design, and so on. However, some articles are not new, like wrote in 2001.
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ReplyDeleteA mixed methods study of secondary distance-learning students: Exploring learning styles
by Roberts, Jennifer M.,
Public education in the United States has experienced an increase in distance-learning (DL) opportunities. Because research has focused on student achievement in post-secondary DL programs, little is known about secondary students' experiences. The purpose of the current study was to explore DL applicability within secondary education. Specific research questions addressed by the concurrent mixed methods nested study included examining students' opinions and experiences in a secondary DL course and determining whether individual learning styles were addressed. Structured interviews, group discussions, and a survey were used to gather data over 2 months from 14 students in grades 9 through 12 participating in a state wide Alabama DL program. Surveys were used to assess and match DL activities to Gardner's 8 learning styles. Interviews and discussions explored students' opinions about activities and components and perceptions of their academic achievement. Quantitative data indicated that students reported some activities related to all learning styles with the greatest coverage observed for linguistic methods. Qualitative data were open and axial coded within each research question and the coded data was analyzed to define common DL practices used to meet specific styles and emergent themes related to student perceptions. Triangulation of results showed DL students felt successful based on their participation in a spectrum of activities including interactive video, e-mail, online discussion boards and tutoring sessions, and self-directed learning. The study contributes to positive social change by documenting a variety of strategies employed to successfully engage secondary DL students who present a variety learning styles and challenges related to DL curricular content and modes of delivery.