Housed within the walls of San Francisco's Palace of Fine Arts, the Exploratorium is a collage of hundreds of science, art, and human perception exhibits. The Exploratorium is a leader in the movement to promote museums as informal education centers.
This unique museum was founded in 1969 by noted physicist and educator Dr. Frank Oppenheimer, who devoted his efforts to it—and was its director—until his death in 1985. From 1991 to 2005, Dr. Goéry Delacôte served as Executive Director. Today, the Exploratorium is led by nationally known science education and policy expert Dr. Dennis M. Bartels.
Online since 1993, the Exploratorium was one of the first science museums to build a site on the World Wide Web. The site now contains over 18 thousand award-winning Web pages exploring hundreds of different topics.
Nov 16, 2009
Nov 8, 2009
Wiki
Wikipedia is written collaboratively by an international group of volunteers. Anyone with internet access can write and make changes to Wikipedia articles. There are no requirements to provide one's real name when contributing; rather, each writer's privacy is protected unless they choose to reveal their identity themselves. Since its creation in 2001, Wikipedia has grown rapidly into one of the largest reference web sites, attracting around 65 million visitors monthly as of 2009. There are more than 75,000 active contributors working on more than 14,000,000 articles in more than 260 languages. As of today, there are 3,088,288 articles in English.
Nov 7, 2009
About.com
About.com is an online neighborhood of hundreds of helpful experts, eager to share their wealth of knowledge with visitors.
Every month, over 60 million people visit this for help with everything from health care and parenting issues to advice on travel, cooking, technology, hobbies and more. And it offer solutions in the form of over two million hand-crafted, original articles, recipes, product reviews, videos, tutorials and more.
All created by the network of expert 'Guides' - real people who, like all good neighbors, help others so that everyone's life gets just a little better.
Founded in 1996, About.com was acquired in March 2005 by The New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT). Today, About.com is recognized as a top 15 content site and one of the largest producers of original content on the Web.
Chinese website : http://www.abang.com/
Every month, over 60 million people visit this for help with everything from health care and parenting issues to advice on travel, cooking, technology, hobbies and more. And it offer solutions in the form of over two million hand-crafted, original articles, recipes, product reviews, videos, tutorials and more.
All created by the network of expert 'Guides' - real people who, like all good neighbors, help others so that everyone's life gets just a little better.
Founded in 1996, About.com was acquired in March 2005 by The New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT). Today, About.com is recognized as a top 15 content site and one of the largest producers of original content on the Web.
Chinese website : http://www.abang.com/
Watch Know
Education Videos are collected and rated and sorted into a giant Directory. Most of them are for school kids.
Nov 4, 2009
How Stuff Works
HowStuffWorks, a wholly owned subsidiary of Discovery Communications, is the award-winning source of credible, unbiased, and easy-to-understand explanations of how the world actually works. Founded by North Carolina State University Professor Marshall Brain in 1998, the site is now an online resource for millions of people of all ages.
On HowStuffWorks, you can also find consumer opinions and exclusive access to independent expert ratings and reviews from the trusted editors at Consumer Guide -- all of the information you need to make a purchasing decisions in just a few clicks.
HowStuffWorks has won multiple Webby awards, was among Time Magazine's "25 Web Sites We Can't Live Without" in 2006 and 2007, and has been one of PC Magazine's "Top 100 Web Sites" four times, including in 2007.
On HowStuffWorks, you can also find consumer opinions and exclusive access to independent expert ratings and reviews from the trusted editors at Consumer Guide -- all of the information you need to make a purchasing decisions in just a few clicks.
HowStuffWorks has won multiple Webby awards, was among Time Magazine's "25 Web Sites We Can't Live Without" in 2006 and 2007, and has been one of PC Magazine's "Top 100 Web Sites" four times, including in 2007.
Brain Pop
Animated educational site for kids !
Celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, BrainPOP creates animated, curriculum-based content that supports educators and engages students. Our award-winning online educational resources include BrainPOP Jr. (K-3), BrainPOP, BrainPOP Español, and the newly launched BrainPOP ESL. All are supported by BrainPOP Educators, which features free lesson plans, video tutorials, professional development tools, graphic organizers, and best practices for teacher community.
Content is aligned to state standards and easily searchable with our online State Standards Tool. Uniquely suited for 21st-century learning, all products are fully compatible with interactive whiteboards, learner response systems, projectors, Macs, and PCs. No downloading, installation, or special hardware is required.
Celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, BrainPOP creates animated, curriculum-based content that supports educators and engages students. Our award-winning online educational resources include BrainPOP Jr. (K-3), BrainPOP, BrainPOP Español, and the newly launched BrainPOP ESL. All are supported by BrainPOP Educators, which features free lesson plans, video tutorials, professional development tools, graphic organizers, and best practices for teacher community.
Content is aligned to state standards and easily searchable with our online State Standards Tool. Uniquely suited for 21st-century learning, all products are fully compatible with interactive whiteboards, learner response systems, projectors, Macs, and PCs. No downloading, installation, or special hardware is required.
Nov 1, 2009
Interning from your sofa becomes virtual reality
LONDON, England (CNN) -- Technologies that let employees work remotely have given rise to a growing phenomenon -- virtual internships.
Virtual interns can work from the comfort of a coffee shop.
Businesses are realizing that commonplace Internet technologies like email, instant messaging -- which can also enable video chats -- and social media can be used to free interns from the confines of the office.
For students, new graduates and career switchers looking to work in a different industry, working as an intern can be a valuable way of gaining work experience, and the flexibility afforded by remote working is opening up a world of new possibilities.
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Virtual interns can work from the comfort of a coffee shop.
Businesses are realizing that commonplace Internet technologies like email, instant messaging -- which can also enable video chats -- and social media can be used to free interns from the confines of the office.
For students, new graduates and career switchers looking to work in a different industry, working as an intern can be a valuable way of gaining work experience, and the flexibility afforded by remote working is opening up a world of new possibilities.
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Oct 27, 2009
Rethinking schools online
Publications on re-thinking schools' goal.
- rethink to ensure that our youth leave school with the skills, confidence, and critical consciousness to be productive and thoughtful participants in the world.
- rethink the strong, visionary leadership that schools should have.
- rethink a light on the possibilities when principals and superintendents buck the trend toward testing and standardization.
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