web design made easy, online collaboration, safari on windows, intro genetics podcasts.

We all seem to get stuck with building or helping build sites from time to time and when it happens that we don’t

know something we hit up one of our favorite
sites right? Well hERE is a list of some more that you may or may not have known about: – Found via Digg, sorry for

the cross post.

http://sixrevisions.com/resources/20_websites_better_web_developer/

review, collaborate on, and get feed back on immages and other documents online
http://www.reviewbasics.com/

Hi All, this is something that I think you might be interested in hearing about. I’ve got permission to distribute

to you, but try to keep it on campus
– unless you anonomize and if that is the case, you should be fine – I’ve already blogged it.

http://www.biology.ualberta.ca/people/mike_harrington/biol207/private/b207podcasts.htm

ID: ‘biol207′, password: ‘lacoperon’

 

If you have time you might want to try this. I’m running Safari on Windows
on Paralells and it’s still amazingly fast.

http://www.apple.ca/safari

Laptops, Podcasts, and Hands on learning. It’s a real mixed bag today.

Here are some more resources I’ve collected/been using during my internship

 

Perspectives of Hands-On Science Teaching
David L. Haury and Peter Rillero, 1994
(It’s a book online)
http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/content/cntareas/science/eric/eric-toc.htm

The whys and hows of podcasting, with lots of examples.
http://eduscapes.com/hightech/spaces/blogs/podcast.htm

How to make laptops matter…Hey Science 100, read this.
http://practicaltheory.org/serendipity/index.php?/archives/823-How-to-Make-Laptops-Matter-My-Response-to-the-NY-Times..html

 

Virtual labs that exist currently

Before DigiTLE and Chunyan came along, these are the sorts of labs that were available

 

Chemistry: Software to walk students through reactions via photographs, not simulations.

http://www.capital.net/com/vcl/

 

Chemistry: BYU. (article only with numerous references to other virtual chem labs)

http://chronicle.com/weekly/v49/i21/21a03001.htm

 

Chemistry: Oxford. Numerous interactive tutorials, and lessons

http://neon.chem.ox.ac.uk/vrchemistry/

 

Microbiology: Mount Sinai Hospital

http://microbiology.mtsinai.on.ca/education/multimedia.asp

 

Photosynthesis: Arizona State University

http://photoscience.la.asu.edu/photosyn/education/experiments/virtual.html

 

Thermodynamic Equilibrium: Java based experiments.

http://jersey.uoregon.edu/vlab/Thermodynamics/

Frogger Nooooo!

It would appear that for all intents and purposes, we don’t need to deplete the world’s frog supply anymore. At least not educationally. Now all we need is for restaurants to start serving virtual frogs’ legs and we’re in business.

http://www.physorg.com/news131466415.html

Schools Eyeing Virtual Campuses

Here’s an article about universities playing around with the idea of having virtual campuses online a la Second Life so students can communicate and interact socially, as well as educationally, in real time.

 

http://www.physorg.com/news131343035.html

Artificial intelligence, artificial grading, why not just artificial students?

Here’s an article on a system some computer scientists are making to mark hand written essays entirely with a computer. They are being met with some success, but it look like an interesting first try.

http://www.physorg.com/news119548895.html

Finally, a prof who knows how to teach.

This prof has come up with something of a “cookie” solution to deal with students having difficulties with statistics.

http://www.physorg.com/news118946844.html

teacher resources on a budget.

Tis is a link to an article that has agrigatedd a few, mostly free, web resources for teachers to manage classes or assignments from. It’s good to be aware of them if nothing else.

http://www.topeducationdegrees.com/online-apps-innovative-teachers

CELL PHONE COLLEGE CLASS OPENS IN JAPAN.

(AP) — Japanese already use cell phones to shop, read novels, exchange e-mail, search for restaurants and take video clips. Now, they can take a university course.

Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news115460418.html

Finally, Psychologists have done some useful research.

I’m just putting this link here in hopes that someone will read it, take notice, and possibly pass it along. *wink*

http://www.physorg.com/news114771482.html