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POPSAmazing Academic Podcasting Resource Jeffrey Daniel Fey's blog is a treasure chest of insight and information in the area of academic podcasting. The headlines above are all articles I can't wait to sit down and study. If your institution is considering podcasting for staff or faculty, do yourself a favor and read Jeffrey's blog.
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POPSEducational applications for mobile phones Some campuses are starting to take advantage of the ubiquity of mobile phones among students to develop new ways of communicating and building community. The story presents this as mostly a positive thing, but I wonder how successful it can really be.
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POPSThe Web-Head's List of Lists I was just looking for a simple bookmarklet to "Add Domain" to favourites in Firefox and came across this page during my search and thought maybe the web-heads out there could use this? (I'm not one, so I'm clipping blind here.) Hope someone can use it... Still looking for that bookmarklet...
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POPS12 Popular Wikis that actually ‘WORK’ (6) WikiSummaries - short, quick summaries for thousands of books. (Summaries: Freakonomics, Getting Things Done, …, see other bestsellers) (7) WikiMapia - cool mashup between Google Maps and wiki-style editing. Lets you browse, view, search and add descriptive notes to any location on the globe. (8) Wiktionary - multilingual, comprehensive, user-edited dictionary. Provides word definitions, etymologies, pronunciations, sample quotations, synonyms, antonyms and translations. (9) Uncyclopedia - extremely entertaining wikipedia clone, that is filled with funny and not-necessarily correct articles. Check out: Colonel, Britney Spears, Donald Trump, …or an image pulled from an article about Women. (No offense ladies, it’s just funny…)
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POPS I LOVE IT! Free courses online. No Joke This site is absolutely amazing! It offers free education in any subject from Aerodynamics to Dentistry, from Calculus to History, from Business to Oceanography. All coursework is provided free of charge online. I checked it out and was very surprised by their offering.