Thanks to Jeremy Boggs for posting a link to this television news piece on a brand new tool in education–the Internet. If you want to spend a few productive minutes revisiting just how cool the Internet once was, check it out.
Funding for Technology and Education
The MacArthur Foundation has just launched a five-year, $50 million grant program to provide support to those investigating the ways that digital media are changing the ways young people live, learn, and interact. The first round of grantees has already been announced. A new grant competition will be announced in early 2007, so warm up…
Darwin and More Darwin
Everyone teaching European history, World history, or biology owes a big thank you to the fine folks at Christ’s College, Cambridge, for aggregating every word Charles Darwin ever wrote into one website. Darwin Online offers visitors an amazing collection of more than 50,000 searchable text pages and 40,000 images. The site’s creators have also put…
Objects of Communism
We’ve started to play with the images of the objects we photographed at the Wende Museum last month–objects we’ll be using in the 1989 project database. Here are just three examples of the sorts of things we’re planning to include: Object 1 This first object is a flashlight. It’s dimensions are approximately 4″ tall by…