I just found this great little utility that allows you to turn/redirect a relatively long URL link such as this:
http://www.educationaltechnology.ca/opensource/apps.html
almost instantly into a much more manageable sized link, such as this:
The utility can be found at http://www.tinyurl.com, and is very easy to use. It’s especially helpful when pasting those long URLs into email messages (recipients no longer have to splice portions of URLs together again).
Understanding Open Source is a new resource that introduces teachers to the open source movement, provides links to key articles in the field, gives an overview of the open source philosophy and describes some of the most important open source tools that can be used in the classroom.
The resource is a work in progress, but there’s already a lot of useful introductory information (thanks Dan). If anyone would like to contribute to the resource, or believes there are some glaring omissions, please contact me or comment.
Robin Good at MasterNewMedia.org posted this helpful “PowerPoint to Flash Conversion Tools” resource a while back. The site goes over some of the key advantages for taking your existing PowerPoint presentations and converting them into Flash media. As well, the site lists and describes many tools that can facilitate the process. Certainly worth looking into.
You have likely heard of “The Corporation“, a TV-Ontario produced documentary which won critical acclaim at the Toronto International Film Festival as one of “Canada’s Top Ten” films of 2003. The film will air again in Ontario in August 2004, and an excellent website has been developed as a resource for teachers and students.
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I recently came across a good resource for instructors wanting to use blogging with their students. The site includes articles on blogging, sample blogs, blogging tools, aggregators and advanced tools for blogs (blog rolls, blogbacks, etc.).
While the resource is not much more than a hotlist, it’s one hotlist that I don’t have to make myself … and the authors have done a good job of including relevant and useful resources.
See the complete link here:
http://awd.cl.uh.edu/blog/
A recent article from Reuters reports Sun Microsystems’ new business plan which is based on the presumption that hardware will soon be ‘free’. Well, looking closer at the statement, it’s not exactly ‘free’, but hardware will be available as part of a software/hardware subscription plan.
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