Mar 18 2012
School 2.0 Bookmarks (weekly)
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WeVideo Now Offers an Android App for Collaborative Video Creation
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10 Recommended YouTube Edu-tainment Channels | Emerging Education Technology
YouTube can be a great technological resource for teachers to use in the classroom. But with so many videos and channels, how can educators find quality content without watching hours of video? Here are ten great channels that are certain to provide educational content worthy to spark student’s minds.
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Welcome to the University of Namibia / UNAM
- This is a great university – post by Maggie Verster
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Mathematics Dump: Famelab our very own science idols competition
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Journalist’s Resource: Research for Reporting, from Harvard Shorenstein Center
“We live in a world of too much information and not enough knowledge. No one feels the strain of that digital-age truism more than journalists, who are asked to ferret out and process information with ever-increasing speed — and often at the expense of providing solid context for the news of the day.
Journalist’s Resource, a new online tool developed at Harvard’s Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, aims to put that background knowledge at the fingertips of reporters, bloggers, or even concerned citizens by making the work of academics less opaque and easier to find.
But the website, which curates scholarship on government, economics, society, and the environment, is more than just a reliable shortcut for deadline-driven journalists.
“There is a real need for deepening journalism with verified, high-quality knowledge that informs the kind of serious journalism that makes our democracy work,” said Alex S. Jones, director of the Shorenstein Center and a lecturer in public policy at HKS.
“It becomes very difficult for journalists, journalism professors, and students to go through and find the key items that would help them. We’re trying to be a useful filter and curator.”….”
