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25 March 2012

  • jqMobi

    jqMobi, an HTML5 mobile-optimized rewrite of the popular jQuery framework. jqMobi is open source and is designed solely for use on tablets and smartphones, and it is much faster and smaller, It’s available as open source at http://www.jqmobi.com

    tags: jquery html5

  • The Atavist

    The Atavist is produced using our Atavist custom publishing platform, which makes mobile publishing as easy as blogging. Available for licensing, the system seamlessly weaves together your text, video, audio, photos, and timelines, then exports your content to iPhone/iPad apps, ePub files, and other reading platforms.

    tags: ebooks

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1 January 2012

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18 December 2011

  • Learning with ‘e’s: Content as curriculum?

    So why are teachers wasting their own time, and that of the kids, teaching them facts which in a few years time may be utterly out of date? Should we not instead be maximising school contact time by teaching skills, competencies, literacies? After all, it is the ability to work in a team, problem solve on the fly, and apply creative solutions that will be the common currency in the world of future work. Being able to think critically and create a professional network will be the core competencies of the 21st Century knowledge worker. Knowing how – or procedural knowledge – will be a greater asset for most young people. You see, the world of work is in constant change, and that change is accelerating

    tags: openeducation

  • Schumpeter: University challenge | The Economist

    Ivy League envy leads to an obsession with research. This can be a problem even in the best universities: students feel short-changed by professors fixated on crawling along the frontiers of knowledge with a magnifying glass. At lower-level universities it causes dysfunction. American professors of literature crank out 70,000 scholarly publications a year, compared with 13,757 in 1959. Most of these simply moulder: Mark Bauerlein of Emory University points out that, of the 16 research papers produced in 2004 by the University of Vermont’s literature department, a fairly representative institution, 11 have since received between zero and two citations. The time wasted writing articles that will never be read cannot be spent teaching. In “Academically Adrift” Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa argue that over a third of America’s students show no improvement in critical thinking or analytical reasoning after four years in college.

    tags: openeducation

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11 December 2011

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4 December 2011

  • Microsoft’s Former Virtualization Director To Launch PaperShare, A ‘Social Content Network’ | TechCrunch

    The idea behind PaperShare is to promote the sharing of enterprise-focused content, including technical white papers, videos, case studies and whatnot. More than merely a marketing channel, PaperShare wants to be a place where industry professionals can connect through information.

    tags: socialmedia

  • Google+ Chrome Extension Brings Tweets Into Your Stream

    G+Twitter for Google+, a chrome extension that will turn Google+ into a fast and beautiful Twitter client, that’s probably better than Twitter’s own website.

    tags: google+ twitter

  • Inkscape. Draw Freely.

    An Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format.

    tags: tools

  • Pancake.io – Host a web site from a Dropbox folder

    We’re the easiest way to create and maintain a web page.

    All you need to do is create a text file, and save it into the special Pancake folder in your Dropbox account. We’ll turn that file into a web page for you.

    The best part? Updating your page is as easy as opening the text file up in Notepad, TextEdit or your favorite text editor, making the changes you want, and saving the file. Your website gets updated automatically.

    We’ll even take care of the formatting for you if you follow a few simple rules.

    tags: tools dropbox

  • Mobile Web Apps Get A Dedicated Icon

    Mobile Web apps are starting to make a dent in the developer sphere and are beginning to find space on consumers’ smartphones and tablets. Two British companies believe that Web apps need an icon unto itself to differentiate from native apps and have created differentiator for consumers to know when they are using an app designed for the mobile Web.

    tags: cloud

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27 November 2011

  • wordcampgc’s Presentations on SlideShare

    10 presentations from WordCamp GC

    tags: slides

  • HTML5 tools, Animation tools – Adobe Edge Preview | Adobe Labs

    Adobe® Edge is a new web motion and interaction design tool that allows designers to bring animated content to websites, using web standards like HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS3.

    With this tool you are seeing Adobe transition from Flash to HTML5 – fascinating.

    tags: javascript html5

  • ReadCube | Free Reference Manager – Academic Software For Research

    Yet another repository for academic references in the Mendeley mould. ReadCube seems to suffer from the original Zotero problem of saving its reference data locally on one machine.

    tags: tools

  • ShiftEdit – Online IDE | ShiftEdit

    Create, edit and publish PHP, Ruby, Python, Perl, Java, HTML, CSS and JavaScript
    Access and publish files through FTP/SFTP and Dropbox
    Autocomplete
    Realtime syntax debugging
    Step back in time with revision history
    Code folding, snippets, jump-to-line, bracket closing
    All from the comfort of your web browsers!

    tags: cloudide

  • jQuip – GitHub

    Smaller, Lighter, Faster, more modular jQuery – include only the parts you want! Don’t use it, Don’t include it.

    The core jquip.js is only 4.28KB (minified and gzipped) only 13% of the size of jQuery.

    Has 90% of the good parts of jQuery (rest to be added plugins as needed), small enough to drop-in as source saving an external js reference.

    tags: javascript

  • USB Stick Contains Dual-Core Computer, Turns Any Screen Into an Android Station

    Is that a USB key in your pocket or a dual-core computer? Today, Norwegian company FXI technologies showed off a USB stick-sized portable computer prototype, complete with a dual-core 1.2-GHz Samsung Exynos ARM CPU (same as in the Galaxy S II), 802.11n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, HDMI-out and a microSD card slot for memory. Codenamed Cotton Candy because its 21 gram weight is the same as a bag of the confection, the tiny PC enables what its inventor calls “Any Screen Computing,” the ability to turn any TV, laptop, phone, tablet, or set-top box into a dumb terminal for its Android operating system.

    tags: hardware

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20 November 2011

  • Sencha Launches Mobile HTML5 Cloud, Sencha.io | TechCrunch

    Javascript Web app framework provider Sencha is today announcing the public beta launch of Sencha.io, its new HTML5 mobile cloud service. The service will allow Sencha app developers to build “shared experiences” in the browser, without having to write server code or manage hosting.

    tags: javascript

  • Rackspace CloudU

    CloudU: Grow Your Cloud Knowledge

    Rackspace Cloud University, known as CloudU™, is a Cloud Computing curriculum designed with the help of industry analyst Ben Kepes. You’ll find in depth information about some of the most important topics facing business today, from mixing and matching Public, Private and Hybrid Clouds to understanding the Cloud Computing stack. Read whitepapers and view on-demand webinars about the latest advances in Cloud Computing. You can even earn a certificate from CloudU demonstrating your command of the technology revolution that is changing the way that companies of all sizes do business.

    tags: cloud

  • Twubs

    Twubs are Twitter groups built around content aggregated from #hashtags.
    View the full social landscape of a Twub with tools such as our Live Tweet Feed which pulls in external images, videos and links, and our Tweetups & Events Scheduler.
    Start searching for your favorite topics now and take full advantage of these and many more useful Twub features to connect and share with people of similar interests.

    tags: twitter tools

  • HootCourse

    Educate in a new way.
    HootCourses are held online, using Twitter and Facebook as a virtual classroom space.

    Break through the ice.
    Supplement face-to-face classes with a HootCourse and get to know each other faster.

    Go where students are.
    Lose the boring forum software. HootCourse uses the networks students know and love.

    tags: twitter tools

  • Ahead – combined CMS and presentations

    Ahead is a web application that allows creative people to easily create and publish their visual work as online portfolios, web sites, galleries, and presentations – anyway they want.We are a team of architects, designers, developers, and business people with backgrounds in the creative industry. Ahead originated out of frustration with the shortcomings of current tools for online collaboration and publishing because we don’t think they support rich media and visual creative processes and communication very well.Inspired by the proven zoom and pan user interfaces.

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6 November 2011

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