Saturday, November 20, 2010

Anyone can be a teacher: Udemy.com

This post is an excerpt from Udemy - Academy of You | Find and Create Online Courses - Teach and Learn Online.
Udemy is a website that enables anyone to create an online course. Our goal is to provide our teachers with everything they could possibly need to create a great learning experience over the internet. We've worked hard to build this site and we hope you like it. Everything is completely free, because we believe nobody should have to pay for Udemy unless they are making money themselves.

Friday, November 19, 2010

Open Source Video Editing in your own Cloud

This post is an excerpt from Education Technology Video | Kaltura: Open Source Video Platform.
In the face of the rich-media revolution, educational institutions are using video to power every aspect of campus life. The challenge is finding media infrastructure that is agile, scalable, and cost effective.

Kaltura offers the market's only open source video platform for education--a full-featured framework with live and on demand video apps for teaching and learning, distance education, campus websites, libraries and preservation, digital asset management, clubs and events, and more.

The platform is in use by over 100,000 global publishers, including leading universities and colleges, such as MIT, Cornell, Columbia, University of Southern California, Penn State, University of Virginia, University of Pennsylvania and more.

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Wiffiti publishes cell txts to a graffiti wall

This post is an excerpt from Wiffiti.
Wiffiti publishes real time text messages to screens in thousands of locations from jumbotrons to jukeboxes, bars to bowling alleys and cafes to colleges.

You can interact with Wiffiti from your mobile phone or the web.

Learn more about wiffiti, watch our WIFFITI HOW-TO VIDEO or try making your own screen

Poll Everywhere - realtime feedback using txt from cells FREE

This post is an excerpt from Text Message (SMS) Polls and Voting, Audience Response System | Poll Everywhere.
What is Poll Everywhere?
The fastest way to create stylish real-time experiences for events using mobile devices

Poll Everywhere replaces expensive proprietary audience response hardware with standard web technology. It's the easiest way to gather live responses in any venue: conferences, presentations, classrooms, radio, tv, print — anywhere. It can help you to raise money by letting people pledge via text messaging. And because it works internationally with texting, web, or Twitter, its simplicity and flexibility are earning rave reviews.

Jetman: Flying without a plane

I couldn't believe it was real till I researched him and found it to be authentic.  Watch him fly out of a hot air balloon on Jetman.com.



Click here for more on Jetman.com.

Qwiki: Websearch Information Experience

This post is an excerpt from Qwiki.
Get Invited

Qwiki is launching soon. Want to be the first to have the information experience? Join our invite-only alpha, and help us make Qwiki great.


Qwiki at TechCrunch Disrupt from Qwiki on Vimeo.

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Symantec Demonstrates how a virus can impact Nuclear reactors.

This post is an excerpt from Stuxnet Designed Specifically to Sabotage Iran's Nuclear Facilities.
Stuxnet Designed Specifically to Sabotage Iran's Nuclear Facilities
By Curt Hopkins / November 16, 2010 12:45 PM / 0 Comments
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Iranianflag.jpgStuxnet, the virus aimed at industrial computers, hit Iran's Bushehr nuclear facility in September. Given the virus attacked SCADA computer systems and Iran's first nuclear reactor recently went live, some specialists believed it may have been specifically aimed at Iran. New research bolsters the likelihood of this claim.