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Blogging and RSS in Education

Stephen Downes has posted his recent talk on blogging and RSS in education. He has the PPT and audio posted at http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/website/research.cgi?item=1103322625
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Exploring Ocean Life and Color on the Internet

To quote this article , “A new NASA Internet tool called “Giovanni” allows high school and college students and researchers to access and analyze satellite-derived ocean color data. Ocean color data provides students with information about ocean biology by looking at phytoplankton through changes in the color of the ocean surface.”
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Outbreak!

From its page , “Outbreak!© is an interactive teaching tool for use by students and science educators. Players must use microbial identification techniques to identify the causative agent of an illness outbreak.”
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Google goes after more books now

This is racing around the blogsphere, google is trying to become a digital library . We can’t forget Google Scholar .
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Virtual laboratory for Earth and planetary studies next door

The U of M is leading a group of institutions in developing an NSF-funded virtual lab. With Internet2 this resource will be essentially at Augsburg.
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