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http://venturebeat.com/2011/11/07/codecademy-jquery-scratchpad/
Codecademy has added jQuery lessons and a scratchpad to its fun and engaging tool that teaches people how to code online, the company is announcing today.
The new jQuery lesson is the first to be contributed by a member of the Codecademy community, and the scratchpad tool will let people see what the code they’ve created in action.
Codecademy is a free site where people who are interested in learning programming can take lessons through an interface that makes the whole process like a game.
jQuery is a JavaScript library for creating interactive HTML-based websites more quickly. It is one of the most popular JavaScript libraries, and is used by more than 49 percent of the top 10,000 websites on the Internet.
Codecademy is a great resource for learning the basics of programming. As they incorporate more lessons and tools into the site, it should continue to get better.
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MINNEAPOLIS – The new textbooks in Michael Engelhaupt’s statistics class at Blaine High School are kind of cheap and won’t last long, but he doesn’t mind. After all, he wrote them.
Instead of mass-produced textbooks, the more than 3,100 sophomores in the state’s largest district are learning from an online curriculum developed by their teachers over the summer with free software distributed over the web.
– via The Republic, “Anoka-Hennepin teachers write their own online textbook, save district $175,000”
After being used this school year and tweaked next summer, the resources will be made freely available on the Internet. Teachers recognized that creating own material would allow for easy local customization.
It is the ease of local customization that is going to be the key for Open Education Resources. Once it is fully understood that like any educational resource, OER needs to be tweaked for local uses, then the true value of OER will be realized. The savings in OER comes not only from the adoption of freely available materials, but also in the ease with which the resources can be adopted to local uses.
The same should apply for OER in legal education. Materials for a course in Torts are not intended to replace a professor teaching Torts but rather to provide a freely available foundation that the professor can use to create a unique course of their own.
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http://wplift.com/15-entertaining-informative-wordpress-infographics
Information graphics or infographics are graphic visual representations of information, data or knowledge. These graphics present complex information quickly and clearly, such as in signs, maps, journalism, technical writing, and education. With an information graphic, computer scientists, mathematicians, and statisticians develop and communicate concepts using a single symbol to process information.
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Scott Taylor from emusic.com talking about implementing WordPress as an enterprise CMS, moving much of the site from Adobe Day CRX. Not all of the site is in WordPress. For instance, music information is stored in XML in a catalog system.
Found on ReadWriteWeb.
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http://rt.com/politics/panarin-usa-collapse-economy-905/
This is an interesting thought experiment on what could happen if things go WAY downhill.
The US might collapse into six pieces, according to a theory proposed by Russian political scientist Igor Panarin. And the current economic crisis in the country, amplified by mass protests, might be the beginning.