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The Role of the Internet in Higher Education

By Guest PostNovember 15, 2010Education, Technologyblog, digital studyhall, dsh, education, Facebook, google scholar, hemlock, higher education, India, internet, linkedIn, second life, Twitter, Wikipedia, YouTube

There are many pros and cons to the issue of the Internet’s influences on education, and experts have called it everything from the hemlock of higher education to an innovative boon. While it’s probably neither of these extremes, there are some high and low points of the Internet’s role in higher education that can be observed on their own. By enabling students to take advantage of the positive elements of the Internet for educational purposes and restricting the detrimental sides of the Web, academic success can become a more widespread reality. (more…)

Microsoft Research Collaborates With Wikipedia to Enhance Multilingual Content

By Guest PostOctober 18, 2010Technologyaachen, beta version, danese cooper, european microsoft innovation centre, extreme computing group, Germany, hindi, machine translation system, mediawiki extension, Microsoft, microsoft research, multilingual content creation tool, multiple languages, p anandan, redmond, sanskrit, wiki, wikibhasha, Wikipedia

*WikiBhasha tool will help simplify and speed up the process of creating multilingual content in Wikipedias.*

REDMOND, Wash. — Oct. 18, 2010 — Microsoft Research today announced the launch of the beta version of WikiBhasha, a multilingual content creation tool for Wikipedia. The WikiBhasha tool enables contributors to Wikipedia to find content from other Wikipedia articles, translate the content into other languages, and then either compose new articles or enhance existing articles in multilingual Wikipedias. (more…)

New Update Makes Kindle for Android Even Better

By Guest PostSeptember 23, 2010TechnologyAmazon, android, android-powered devices, dorothy nicholls, kindle, kindle apps, kindle for android, kindle library, shelfari, Wikipedia

*With new update, Amazon’s free Kindle app for Android adds new features including full text search, the ability to add notes and highlights and have them synchronized with other devices, voice search, Wikipedia lookup, and more*

SEATTLE, Sep 23, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced that Kindle for Android, the free application that lets readers around the world enjoy Kindle books on their Android-powered devices, now includes a number of new features that make it even better.

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Fixing Wiki: Wikipedia Revision Project Teaches Teamwork, Communication, Chemistry

By Guest PostAugust 27, 20102 commentsEducation, Technologyanne gere, anne mcneil's courses, arthur f.ttturnau, brian coppola, chemical reactions, chemistry courses, department of english language and literature, electroactive polymers, famous chemists, halogen bonding, handbook, hyperconjugation, locke, macromolecular science and engineering, medicinal chemistry, mich, online encyclopedia, peer review, physical organic chemistry, rod dunican, san francisco, school of education, sweetland writing center, university of michigan, Wikipedia, writing and rhetoric

ANN ARBOR, Mich.— Halogen bonding, hyperconjugation, electroactive polymers—such subjects are typical fare in graduate-level chemistry courses. But how many classes challenge students to explain the concepts to the whole world?

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Religion: Convergence of Cultures or Clash of Creeds?

By PravdaAugust 15, 2010Cultureabraham, adhan, afghanistan, Bible, bubonic plague, bullet, burqah, christian crusaders, doctrine, god, ground zero, islamic calendar, jesus, jewish, józsef molnár, koran, last supper, moslems, mosque, mother nature, muezzin, new testament, ortega y gasset, Paris, patriarch abraham, pravda, prayer, president barack obama, prophet mohammed, ramadan, talmud, tel aviv, timothy bancroft-hinchey, Wikipedia

With the beginning of Ramadan, the Ninth Month of the Islamic Calendar, come hot debates, as to whether Moslems should be allowed to slit the throats of sheep in public, to make the call to prayer (Adhan) in non-Moslem communities, to build a Mosque near Ground Zero.

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