Posts Tagged with ‘education’

It is evident that internet and mobile communications have built a strong presence in our everyday lives and help us with tons of activities like monitoring our bank accounts or getting the latest news about sales or special offers from our favorite stores. Yet many feel that some of the most important fields of our real lives get less attention than deserved.
BBC has an interesting story today about parents in the UK willing to get more updates on their children [...]

There's an interesting post on the official Google blog today about the results of Google's program of teaching students all around the world to use Google AdWords (they call it online marketing but still). They claim that the program was launched to give the students skills that they could take directly into the workforce from university.
The program worked with an international panel of professors that brought their students into competition. Every participating team of students was given Google [...]

Too often the scientific community slaves away at solutions to the world's puzzles and problems in near obscurity. Frequently isolated and limited to esoteric academic journals and trade publications, mass amounts of scientific discovery and research never reach the public's eyes. SciVee aims to change all that.
This Web 2.0 application comes fast on the heels of other attempts to make science more accessible and share more knowledge by organizations like the NIH, a recent convert to open access. [...]

Public schools receive funding from state, federal and local governments. Because funding depends on the whim of the public voter, it can fluctuate. While a school may receive enough funding in some years, they may fall short in other years. Catch Tomorrow has set its sights on helping remedy that situation.
Catch Tomorrow isn't the first site to offer funding for education. It is part of the Search Engine Corp network, though, which is the first search engine network [...]

We’ve mentioned several times before the engaging and quite cutting-edge (metaphorically, not literally) device known as the XO Laptop, a project that has developed from MIT experiment to captivating reality now backed by a full-fledged mission-esque organization, called One Laptop Per Child, or OLPC.
Many a question has been raised about the green and white and mostly-waterproof invention since it’s first public showing. Some have challenged the tenacity of the project’s pilot and foremost spokesman, Nicholas Negroponte, for even so much [...]

We all know of Google?s established time limit for user-submitted material to be uploaded to YouTube. Ten minutes. That?s it. No more. Have a good twenty minutes or more of highlights from that Little League baseball game you?ve wanted to share with the extended family via the video host? It ain?t happening. At least not in one whole shot. Long-form podcasts? Nien!
And we all know why the cutoff point was established some time ago. To combat piracy and copyright violations [...]

I’ve been known to rag on Yahoo! here at Profy far more often than praise or glorify the company. But hey, as the saying goes, you gotta call ‘em as you see ‘em, right?
And the media on the whole has rightly pilloried the Web giant for a number of its controversial actions and statements; some more egregious than others, of course. I mean, come on. Divulging sensitive information to Chinese authorities about dissident voices? Despite the threat of [...]

If you?ve been following developments inside the Pennsylvania state legislature in the past, say, 5 years or so, you?ll know that quite a few lawmakers tend to go against the grain of conventional wisdom.
If you recall the absurdity that resulted in the Intelligent Design debacle, in which some in the state seriously contemplated a shift in elementary school curriculum to allow for some measure of non-scientific ?study? in science classes, you?ll know that at least a few higher-ups in the [...]

About 6 months ago an interesting site was launched called SuTree. The initial offering was a simple listing of instructional videos. Since then the site has received good reviews and lots of feedback, both positive and negatively constructive. SuTree is still a fairly early development in perhaps the most important Web 2.0 venue - education. This aspect of the Web has been woefully underdeveloped, and I actually root for any development aimed at tackling the immense task of aggregating knowledge. [...]