Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Trends in Ed, 10.13.09

Solar Powered E-book Developed by LG
After the release of the world's first solar powered cell phone (by Sharp), LG has recently unveiled the world's first solar powered e-book reader.


Parallel Archive - A Place for Digital Scholarship


Parallel Archive is a space where scholars and students in the humanities and social sciences can upload, store, study, and share their digitized archival sources. It is designed to facilitate individual scholarly research and publication; cross-border and cross-disciplinary collaboration; and a critical approach to documents. Compared with Mendeley which helps to store and share academic references, Parallel Archive is not only an academic networking site but also envisioned as an alternative space where scholars can store online and make public their digitized copies of material from archives (at this point similar to PocketKnowledge).

Weebly - The Creation of More Personalized Blog Entries

Weebly has recently become the new favorites of a large number of bloggers. One salient feature of it is that users can freely design their interface during blogging without any technical skills required. It also offers a few interesting user-friendly design functions. The following video will give you more details:

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