101 Free Learning Tools

[Ashok Banerji]

Here is a collection of wonderful resources available on Scribd.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/4781577/101-Free-Learning-Tools

[Ashok Banerji]

Have you seen the amazing knowledge engine named Wolfram Alpha? Please
check and experience it at: http://www.wolframalpha.com/
You may also see a video showing Wolfram Alpha in action at:
http://www.technologyreview.com/video/?vid=362

[Ashok Banerji]

How Wolfram Alpha Could Change Software
InfoWorld (07/30/09) McAllister, Neil

Wolfram Research's Wolfram Alpha software is described as a
computational knowledge engine that employs mathematical methods to
cross-reference various specialized databases and generate unique
results for each query. Furthermore, Wolfram alleges that each page of
results returned by the Wolfram Alpha engine is a unique,
copyrightable work because its terms of use state that "in many cases
the data you are shown never existed before in exactly that way until
you asked for it." Works produced by machines are copyrightable, at
least in theory. But for Wolfram Alpha to claim copyright protection
for its query results, its pages must be such original presentations
of information that they are eligible as novel works of authorship.
Although Wolfram says its knowledge engine is driven by exclusive,
proprietary sources of curated data, many of the data points it works
with are actually commonplace facts. If copyright applies to Wolfram
Alpha's output in certain instances, then by extension the same rules
are relevant to every other information service in similar cases.
Assuming that unique presentations based on software-based
manipulation of mundane data can be copyrighted, the question remains
as to who retains what rights to the resulting works.
http://www.infoworld.com/d/developer-world/how-wolfram-alpha-could-change-software-248

[Ashok Banerji]

63 Design Tools : Powerful web tools to help you find the best parts
and optimize your designs.

Links to the best free designer's tools and online Design Resources:
http://skyje.com/2009/08/design-tools/?goback=.hom

[Ashok Banerji]

Let me share with you two great resources for Web 2.0 Tools in
addition to those I provided earlier.

http://www.diigo.com/list/Kathyschrock/web20tools

http://www.go2web20.net/

[Ashok Banerji]

A few good resources for you to read for this month. Hope you will
enjoy it. I will look forward to hear from you all.

Ten Ways To Get Beyond Powerpoint With Classroom Projectors:
http://techlearning.com/article/17198
Bloom's Taxonomy Blooms Digitally: http://techlearning.com/article/8670
Systems and Conversations: Pask and Laurillard:
http://www.learningandteaching.info/learning/pask.htm
Laurillard’s ‘Conversational Framework’:
http://www2.smumn.edu/deptpages/~instructtech/lol/laurillard/

[Ashok Banerji]

PAST & FUTURE

Rebuilding the IBM 1401
More than 30 retired computer engineers worked together to resurrect
an antique IBM 1401 for the Computer History Museum in Mountain View,
Calif. Unlike today’s computers, this 1960s-era model actually lets
you see all the moving parts that make it work. This photo essay
documents the team’s work with the machine, which was donated to the
museum by computer enthusiasts who bought it for US $21 000 from the
German eBay site.
Read more at: http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/hardware/rebuilding-the-ibm-1401

Push-Button Books
Google’s deal to digitize books may be in legal limbo this week, but a
New York City–based start-up has pressed ahead. On Demand Books' one-
off bookmaking technology is pressing pages in bookstores and
libraries around the world.
Read more at http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/hardware/pushbutton-books

[Ashok Banerji]

Review: 'Disrupting Class' by Clayton M. Christensen,
Michael B. Horn, and Curtis W. Johnson

Review by John Sener

December 23, 2009

It seems like everyone these days wants to "fix" American education—
including the business community, which has produced a steady stream
of books offering business-oriented solutions to the education
"problem." Disrupting Class, by Christensen, Horn, and Johnson, was
last year's star solutions manual, receiving much attention and
acclaim from not only the business community, but also education
leaders, as evidenced by favorable reviews and testimonials found on a
web site related to the book.
ELearning Magazine: http://elearnmag.org/subpage.cfm?section=reviews&article=13-1
Book's website: http://disruptingclass.mhprofessional.com/apps/ab/