Top Ten SEO Good Practice Tips
By: Rajeev, Vishva | February 24, 2008
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| 1. Choose good keywords
Time spent researching and selecting the best keywords will be time well spent. Get this step right and you will reap the rewards further down the line. However, if you fail at this stage your future efforts could be in vain. To help you achieve the most effective keywords take a look at these keyword research tools.
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Thinking About Tomorrow
By: Vauhini Vara,Jessica E. Vascellaro, Wall Street Journal | February 7, 2008
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How will technology change the way we shop, learn and entertain ourselves? How will it change the way we get news, protect our privacy, connect with friends? We look ahead 10 years, and imagine a whole different world.
January 28, 2008; Page R1 |
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Gear We Crave Gaming the System
Gaming The System
By: Brian Caulfield, Forbes Magazine | February 7, 2008
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Falcon Northwest Chief Executive Kelt Reeves will admit it. The boutique PC builder's Fragbook DRX isn't always the most practical notebook computer. The 12.1-pound monster, which starts at $4,413.58, can be equipped with as many as four computing cores, two video processing cards and an exotic $1495 hard drive with no moving parts. If you're using this to run spreadsheets, you've just increased the burn-rate of your firm, Reeves suggests with a laugh |
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Tapping the Tools of Teen Culture in the LMC
By: Aaron Schmidt, http://www.mmischools.com | September 7, 2007
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| Cool Tools for Participatory Culure of Teens Explained and Referenced |
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The Big Question:What is the point of sites such as Facebook, and should you join up?
By: Michael Savage, Belfast News | July 27, 2007
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Why are we asking this now?
The runaway success of Facebook and other social networking sites has seen hundreds of thousands of people sign up to them every day. Even though Facebook was launched just three years ago, its creator, Mark Zuckerberg, is in line to become the latest online billionaire. He has recently turned down a bid for the business, thought to be worth more than $1bn, from the internet service provider Yahoo! |
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Wiki Don't Lose That Number
By: Chris O'Neal, GLEF.org | July 27, 2007
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| Several of us have chatted here before about wikis. As an educational-technology person who spends lots of time online, I can tell you it really does take a lot to win me over as far as new technology and its worthiness in education are concerned. Wikis, however, have done just that. What I like best about wikis is that the technology itself isn’t earth shattering, it’s just incredibly easy to use as well and serves some good purposes for teachers. The use of wikis ranges from employing low-level communications tools to creating enriched, collaborative multimedia projects. |
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Huge update 460 academic resources!!!!!
By: David Ram | July 24, 2007
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| New great update of my blog... I have accomplished an academic compilation of digital divide and e-government resources.
more information:
http://davidram.wordpress.com/ligas-interesantes-sobre-e-gob/ |
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Auto Motive
By: by Ginny Phillips, glef.org | July 13, 2007
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The K-1 Attack is not your father’s hybrid car. Burning fuel made from soybeans, boasting gas mileage to die for (55 miles per gallon), and displaying a sporty carbon-fiber body, this vehicle has taken top honors two years in a row in the student division at the Tour de Sol, a competition for environmentally sound cars.
The contest is packed with well-funded university teams that produce ultramodified versions of Honda Insights or Toyota Priuses, but the Attack came from an unlikely source: A team of underfunded students (and their teacher) from an urban high school crafted the car from the ground up. |
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The Sky's the Limit
By: GLEF Staff, edutopia.org | July 13, 2007
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| We asked students, “What tech do YOU want to see in class?” Here’s what the students came up with:
Today's kids are hardwired in a fundamentally different way than most of the adults who teach them. Every child from high school on down grew up immersed in a world of technology. None have known a world without visual computing. Many never saw a day in which broadband Net access wasn't delivered directly to one of the two or three PCs in their house. Other items within easy daily reach include a DVD, various cell phones, and game consoles. ...
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Content-Filtering Tools: An FAQ for Nonprofits
By: Brian Satterfield, TechSoup | June 7, 2007
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| Organizations that operate public computer labs may consider restricting users' access to certain types of online content for a variety of reasons. Some may do so for financial or legal motives: If you work for a library or school and want to receive federal funds to purchase technology equipment, for example, you are required by a federal law called the Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) to implement a content-filtering solution. |
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Digital Diversity,High tech tools shift from special to universal
By: Grace Rubenstein, Edutopia.org | August 24, 2006
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| Access-enhancing technology -- long seen as a tool exclusively for special-needs students -- will become more widely adapted in the coming year as a means of personalizing instruction for all learners. Reenvisioning uses for targeted technology, and the redefinition of what constitutes a special need, already have begun.
This article is also published in Edutopia magazine's September 2006 issue.
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Grids for Kids: Building the Foundation for Innovation
By: Tom Gibbs, www.gridtoday.com | August 7, 2006
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Companies and local economies that need to bootstrap their workers and citizens into the global collaborative world can share their local education grids as a way to share both the wealth and the expense. This opens up a much wider usage model to a much wider set of businesses, and will help with the knotty justification arguments that need to be addressed to kickstart widespread deployment that will be needed if we hope to sustain the continued rise in the standard of living we hope all can come to enjoy.
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Exploring the World of Wikis
By: Brian Satterfield, Tech Soup | June 6, 2006
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| Besides helping your nonprofit organize vital information, wikis can also facilitate collaboration among individuals working remotely, since anyone with an Internet connection can access and update the content within a matter of minutes. And because wikis track and record all changes, you can quickly see the history of any page, determine who added a particular piece of content, and revert a page back to its previous state. |
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Discussion: MySpace and Deleting Online Predators Act (DOPA)
By: Henry Jenkins, Media Center, MIT | May 30, 2006
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| An interesting ideational scaffolding to make us think about the use of public spaces and technologies. |
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Students Find Their Voices Through Multimedia
By: GLEF Staff, The George Lucas Educational Foundation | May 8, 2006
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| Multimedia projects for learning that sticks! These are examples of that kind of learning. |
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Taking Back the Media: Teaching More than Basic Computer Skills at CCTV
By: Nia Ujamaa | November 1, 2005
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| When asked what aspect of Cambridge Community Television (CCTV) he was most proud of, David Zermeno, CCTV Community Technologies Program Manager, said it was the little things that pleased him. He told the story of one student who learned word and photo programs in order to make small poetry booklets. Her hunger for media literacy didn’t stop at computer skills; she eventually produced her own television show, which has now been running for two years. Similar stories can be told of numerous CCTV members, who come from a range of backgrounds. |
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Organizing With Open Source
By: Francis Raven, A Sense Of Place Network | September 13, 2005
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| John Stanton, coordinator of the Nonprofit Open Source Initiative (NOSI), explains why open source is an important tool for economic development. NOSI formed in early 2001 as an informal group of non-profit sector technology assistance providers who were interested in the potential of open source software to benefit the organizations they aided. |
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Geography Matters: GIS
By: Bonnie Bracey Sutton, The Thornburg Center for Professional Development | August 16, 2005
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| With the use of ICTs to explore the world, learning becomes more powerful. GIS technology is one of the hottest new tools in education and research and is one of the fastest growing high-tech careers for students today. GIS training helps students develop computer literacy, analytical approaches to problem solving, and communication and presentation skills. |
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Serious Games
By: Jim Brazell, Consulting Analyst, IC2.org | August 3, 2005
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| Serious games is a movement started in 2002 at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars in Washington, D.C. The movement is cross-appropriating video game technologies, techniques, structures and tools from the video game industry to other fields of human endeavor (outside of entertainment). |
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Why Next-Generation Email Lists Need the Capacity for Metadata
By: Phil Shapiro, A Sense Of Place Network | June 6, 2005
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| The email list is a very effective communication tool, but it can also be chaotic and hard to follow. The chaos arises from the paucity of metadata associated with each message. Without organizational tools to manage today's onslaught of information, next-generation email lists are bound to fail.
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The Stupid Revolution, Open Networks, and the Democratization of Communications
By: Mike Chege, A Sense Of Place Network | April 5, 2005
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| The Internet cultivates new forms of communication which in turn can propogate social change. David Isenberg was the first to conceptualize the Internet as a “stupid network”; it is now becoming clearer that the Internet's core design, coupled with the emerging “open spectrum” movement and new innovative wireless technologies, holds great promise for mitigating the Digital Divide and promoting the democratization of communications.
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Wireless Last-Mile Technologies Help Bridge the Digital Divide
By: Francis Raven, A Sense Of Place Network | April 4, 2005
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| Bridging the digital divide often relies on to the fundamental step of creating actual connections between individuals and the Internet. It has always been the dream of digital divide activists worldwide to wire the rural developing world; with wireless broadband technologies this dream can be realized. |
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The GET A VOICE Project
By: Deborah B. Wolfe, Jericho Elementary School, Middle Country Central School District | April 3, 2005
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| The GET A VOICE Project is a promising school wide practice that allows students and adults to respond consistently and respectfully to name calling and verbal bullying. It is a proactive strategy that encourages bystanders to confront harmful and hurtful language in the school community. |
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Using Skype as a Community Media Production Tool
By: Phil Shapiro, A Sense Of Place Network | April 1, 2005
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| Skype is best known as an innovative Internet phone service. But did you know that it can also be used to produce community media? Learn how Skype can be used to produce high-quality audio interviews that can be put on the web, podcast, or assembled into video and other rich media projects. |
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When Kids Make Content: A Q & A With 'Blogevangelist' Will Richardson
By: Cedar Pruitt, A Sense Of Place Network | March 7, 2005
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| "In my experience, students are very responsible about the content they create...[t]hey know that what they write is out there for real people to consume and interact with, and that motivates them," says Will Richardson. Richardson is the Supervisor of Instructional Technology and Communications at Hunterdon Central Regional High School in Flemington, NJ, and a self-described "blogevangelist" who uses his own blog, Weblogg-ed, to call for new applications of blogs in educational settings. |
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Activists Bring the Digital Frontier to New Communities
By: Michelle Chen, Free Expression Policy Project | March 1, 2005
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| As corporations and local goverments compete or cooperate to control wireless internet access, grassroots activists use emerging technologies to bridge the digital divide and network low-income communities. The second article in a two-part series by Michelle Chen, originally published in The NewStandard. |
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Re-Wiring the Future of Community Organizing
By: Francis Raven, A Sense Of Place Network | February 10, 2005
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| CivicSpace Labs founder Zack Rosen argues that all politicians should write blogs. Rosen knows a thing or two about the democratic role of new media; after all, he was a core part of the Dean campaign when it broke new technological ground in the world of politics. Blogs became bigger than ever during that election cycle, and now Rosen is on to bigger things, too, as he redefines the very act of community organizing.
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Tim Berners-Lee: Weaving a Semantic Web
By: Andy Carvin, A Sense Of Place Network | February 1, 2005
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| At the MIT Technology Review Emerging Technologies Conference in September 2004, World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee gave an animated, rapid-fire presentation about his latest initiative, the Semantic Web. |
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How to Create Your Own Mobile Podcasts and Mobcasts
By: Andy Carvin, A Sense Of Place Network | January 18, 2005
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| Andy Carvin of the Digital Divide Network explains a simple way for people to create their own personal podcasts with a mobile phone. The idea could also be used to create "mobcasts" -- community blogs in which many people are contributing their own audio blogs over the phone. |
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The Blogging Phenomenon: Who? How? Why?
By: Cedar Pruitt, A Sense Of Place Network | January 6, 2005
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| With the release of the Pew Internet & American Life report this week announcing a rapid increase in the number of people reading blogs, not to mention the flurry of media attention around the blogging phenomenon, some people may be scratching their heads and wondering: Just what IS a blog? |
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BitTorrent: Making Bulky Video Files Easier to Share
By: Phil Shapiro, CTCNet | December 10, 2004
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| As a kid, my parents always told me, "If you share, there will be more than enough for everyone." Bram Cohen, creator of new file-sharing software, has freshly illustrated this old adage. He spent a year building BitTorrent, which he now freely shares on the Internet. BitTorrent allows individuals, organizations and companies to distribute large video files over the Internet without encountering unexpected obstacles.
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How to Create Your Own DDN Community
By: Andy Carvin, A Sense Of Place Network | December 10, 2004
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| When you look at the DDN website, you'll see that it's made up of different topical communities. Each community is a clearinghouse and workspace on that particular topic, with its own articles, headlines, shared documents, bulletin board discussions, even blog entries. But DDN isn't limited to these featured communities; in fact, every DDN member may establish their own communities. Here's how to do it. |
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Creating a Digitally Inclusive Hong Kong
By: Nia Ujamaa, Center for Media & Community | December 9, 2004
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| In their efforts to bridge the socio-economic digital gap, KanHan offers instant audio relay for text and information on the Internet through voice playback over the phone or online. HanVoice, HanPhone and HanWEB are cutting-edge technologies being utilized in collaboration with Hong Kong government departments and NGOs to engage elderly, uneducated, and people with visual impairments. |
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How to Create Your Own Blog
By: Andy Carvin, A Sense Of Place Network | December 8, 2004
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| One of the most exciting features of the Digital Divide Network website is the ability for every DDN member to have a personal blog. A blog, or Web log, is a public Internet journal written by one person or a group of people. Blogging has revolutionized Internet publishing in the last several years because it gives everyone with Internet access the opportunity to become an online writer. And now, you too can get started with your very own DDN blog. |
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A Quick and Easy Guide to Creative Commons Licenses
By: Andy Carvin, A Sense Of Place Network | December 8, 2004
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| DDN is organized so that any of our members may publish content on it: articles, news, events listings, even blogs. But when you publish something on DDN, what can you do to protect your ownership of that content, while at the same time encourage others to use it? The answer is an online copyright initiative called Creative Commons. Here's how to make it work for you. |
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What's RSS and Why Should I Care About It?
By: Andy Carvin, A Sense Of Place Network | December 7, 2004
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| You may have noticed recently that lots of websites now contain little graphical buttons with either the words RSS or XML on them. And when you click on them, all you see is a bunch of jumbled text and computer code. What's this all about? What exactly is RSS, and how can it improve the way I use the Internet? |
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Invigorating Science Teaching With a High-Tech, Low-Cost Tool
By: Randy Bell and Lynn Bell, Virginia Unversity's Curry School of Education | March 22, 2002
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| Pre-service teachers at the Curry School of Education, share ideas and strategies about integrating technology into the curriculum in meaningful ways. |
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A Low-Tech, Low-Cost Tool for the Homeless
By: Kevin Taglang, Telecommunications Policy Consultant | December 10, 2001
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| Homeless Americans do not have access to the most basic telecommunication device: a telephone. Using a low-tech, low-cost solution -- voice mail -- organizations are providing an essential tool for people in search of shelter, jobs and services. |
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Is Low Power FM Finally finding its Voice?
By: Rachel Anderson and Kevin Taglang, Benton Foundation | April 16, 2001
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| A popular "low-tech" medium, radio, could become an important information tool for underserved communities. The FCC recently announced that 255 local organizations, municipalities, churches and schools have qualified for licenses to operate 100-watt non-commercial low-power FM (LPFM) radio stations in communities across the country. |
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Evolution in the Technological Revolution: Preparing for 3G Wireless Technology
By: Zoraya E. Lee-Hamlin, National Urban League | March 5, 2001
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| As America's oldest and largest community-based movement devoted to empowering African Americans to enter the economic and social mainstream, the National Urban League views the exponential morphing of wireless technological devices as a phenomenon ripe with opportunities and challenges for our constituents. The opportunities are exciting: not only will 3G Wireless Technology enhance social interaction and business productivity, but it will also create a large number of new opportunities for content and service providers. But there are challenges, too. |
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