My Daily Bookmarks 01/12/2012

• Blogging About The Web 2.0 Connected Classroom: Watch, Know and Learn With @WatchKnowLearn

  A few weeks ago You Tube announcedtheir commitment to education by moving a lot of their educational content to a separate domain, http://youtube.com/education. This allows schools and districts to, depending on their filtering, unblock the videos found there for use in the classroom. It's been open for a while now and reaction has been positive. New content gets added daily and the site continues to gro

  tags: YouTube

• I managed to get my name in the Guinness Book of R

  I managed to get my name in the Guinness Book of Records today.
  
  
  I wrote it on the inside cover with a pen.

• 10 Innovative Twitter Tools For The Busy Freelancer | Design daily news

  Twitter is one of the most valuable channels online. Using it to connect with potential clients or simply building a strong network is crucial. Yet, moving forward on Twitter can also be very time consuming. Finding tools which help us to focus more on the work we are doing is key.

  tags: Twitter tools blog

• NASA - NASA's Kepler Mission Finds Three Smallest Exoplanets

  Astronomers using data from NASA's Kepler mission have discovered the three smallest planets yet detected orbiting a star beyond our sun. The planets orbit a single star, called KOI-961, and are 0.78, 0.73 and 0.57 times the radius of Earth. The smallest is about the size of Mars.

  tags: nasa space

• 20 Incredible TED Talks for Math Geeks | Bachelor's Degree

  or some, math education, whether it's in grade school or on the path to getting a bachelor's degree, is just plain dull. Yet math geeks know that the subject can be fascinating, beautiful and even awe-inspiring when it's presented in the right way. These lecturers know how to do just that, making everything from fractals to physics fun, interesting and just plain entertaining to learn to about, whether you're a math geek or a math hater.

  tags: TED Math maths tedtalks edchat

• A Sticking Plaster Mentality to Open Web Access in Schools | edte.ch

  Just before Christmas Google announced the YouTube for Schools platform, which runs through a schools Google Apps for Edu account, allowing students to access selected content. In a week where the focus is on the changes of ICT curriculum I am concerned that the wider debate around open web access in schools will be once again lost.

  tags: Googlestorirs google YouTube

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