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The ELI conference started out yesterday with a fantastic presentation by Rick VanEck of University of North Dakota.  As all great presenters at the beginning of a conference do, he laid out a vision of the conference and why it is important.  As the focus of the conference is immersive learning environments, the title of [...]

I am sitting in another session of the ELI Conference given by Gary Bertoline of Perdue University right now and just had an AMAZING experience with an Haptic device.  I am assuming that since I didn’t know about this before some of you don’t either. 
Haptic devices are basically connecting the virtual world to the [...]

So I am at the ELI Spring Conference on Immersive Learning Environments.  I have been here since yesterday and have all sorts of things I want to post about the event… but perhaps I will post a couple of things at a time.
We just got done listening to Phillip Long, the Associate Director of [...]

I have been absolutely amazed at the way my research habits have changed since I became familiar with the web 2.0, RSS feeds, Google alerts, social bookmarking sites and so forth.  I am learning more, learning it faster, finding it easier, and in most cases, just waiting for it to come to me. 
I have [...]

Imagine a website customized for all the different sites you use to research school related information.  Welcome to schoolr.com. (The ‘r’ stands for research.) 
Granted this site is probably not what teachers want you to use to research, but let’s be honest, this is what everyone is using.  Schoolr includes the following searches right now:

Google
Wikipedia
Dictionary
Thesaurus
Acronym
Ubran [...]

I ran across an article today on kotte.org that made me think a bit.  The article itself is about Web 2.0 and how it became important, but one thing said really stuck out to me in regard to education and technology.
A slightly related way of thinking about how to choose web projects is to [...]

Today I came across Firedoodle, a Firefox extension that allows you mark up ANY webpage with an ink like interface and save multiple placemarks on the webpage.  This article reviews the extension and it’s educational potential.
What it Does
Here is a great video created by the author that shows some of the capabilities:

There are two [...]

Ran across this great blog post today of a student doing research for her dissertation.

I was idly trying a search on “roads” to see what sort of a
literature would turn up for the period of my dissertation research,
1740-1850. I didn’t expect much. I’ve spent the last two years
wandering through the Yale, Harvard, and California libraries, [...]

Yesterday Google Book Search made a fantastic announcement for all those that work with some of the common foreign languages (German, Spanish, French, Italian, Latin).  They have added the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (Bavarian State Library) to the Google Books Library Project. 
As one of Europe’s most important and renowned international research libraries, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek will add [...]