Our young medium is still ironing out a few kinks—perhaps the biggest of which is the way budding web professionals are being educated. Schools that teach web design struggle to keep pace with our industry, and those just starting their curricula often set off in the wrong direction because the breadth and depth of our medium can be daunting.
This article shares an interview with John Kuglin on how he uses space, web, infrastructure and media to foster learning environments that will help prepare students for the 21st century.
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Hector Ruiz, the executive chair of AMD, wants to give Internet access to
everyone. In this talk, he shares his extraordinary life story and
describes AMD's 50x15 initiative that calls for connecting 50 percent of
the world by 2015.
Busuu is a language-learning web site that combines traditional language instruction features with a social networking component.
Links to online college programs that don't cost a dime. Free internet based education for students of any level
The purpose of this post is to highlight 10 Semantic Apps. We?re not touting this as a ?Top 10?, because there is no way to rank these apps at this point - many are still non-public apps, e.g. in private beta. It reflects the nascent status of this sector, even though people like Hillis and Spivack have been working on their apps for years now.
you can't do much better than colr.org, a site that loads random Flickr images and intuitively parses the colors out of the photos to give you the best combinations possible.
To be sure, wikis have already caught on among some teachers, who have developed creative ways of using them in their classrooms. But recently, an increasing number of administrators have also been turning to wikis to help them do their jobs.
Link to Adobe software. Creating engaging learning experiences