http://torrentfreak.com/isohunt-tells-court-that-mpaas-filter-is-needless-censorship-100627/
IsoHunt Tells Court That MPAA’s Filter is Needless Censorship
Fung backs up his statement with the argument that keywords such as ’10′, ’21′, ‘Birth’, ‘Cars’, ‘Dad’, ‘Dave’, ‘Firefox’ and ‘Soldier’ would result in significant collateral damage with a keyword filter. It might make movie titles unavailable, but also a lot of public domain, GPL and Creative Commons works.
For my Statistics class. If you do not include cell phones, what are you missing? The demographics of cell phone users vs. landline users are strange to say the least.
http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/024583.html
June 27, 2010
Pew Report: Assessing the Cell Phone Challenge to Survey Research in 2010
Assessing the Cell Phone Challenge to Survey Research in 2010: "One-in-four U.S. households now have no landline telephone, considerably more than in the early 1960s when telephone surveys were considered infeasible because so many households were unreachable by telephone. Unlike the 1960s, however, most of those without a landline today do have telephone service, in the form of one or more cell phones. Very few households, according to government estimates, cannot be reached at all by telephone. Yet pollsters and other survey researchers who use the telephone as the principal means of reaching potential respondents face a difficult decision as to whether to include cell phones in their samples. Doing so adds significantly to the cost and complexity of conducting surveys at a time when respondent cooperation is becoming increasingly difficult to obtain."
Some of my students like these, some find them amateurish, some didn't bother to look. I think they are a brilliant, simple example of what could be done.
Khan Academy Delivers 100,000 Lectures Daily
Posted by kdawson on Monday June 28, @12:23AM
"Working from the comfort of his home, Salman Khan has made available over fifteen hundred mini-lectures to educate the world. Subjects range from math and physics to finance, biology, and current economics. Kahn Academy amounts to little more than a YouTube channel and one very, very devoted man. He is trying to provide education in the way he wished he had been taught. With over 100,000 video views a day, the man is definitely making a measurable difference for many students young and old. In his FAQ he explains how he knows he is being effective. What will probably ensure his popularity (and provide a legacy surpassing that of the most highly-paid educators) is that everything is licensed under Creative Commons 3.0. He only needs his time, a $200 Camtasia Recorder, an $80 Wacom Bamboo Tablet, and a free copy of SmoothDraw3. While the lecturing may not be quite up to the Feynman level, it's a great augmenter for advanced learners, and a lifeline for those without much access to learning resources."
Tools & Techniques. Scanning a document creates an image file. This online tool could save the time it takes to type in the text you can see but your word processor can't handle.
Ocronline
Convert scanned document to text file
Obviously this isn't limited to the classroom... and sometimes having the movie on a thumbdrive is handy.
Downloading Videos for Use In the Classroom
… Here are some tools you can use to download YouTube videos for use on your local hard drive.
If you're not comfortable downloading videos from YouTube, you should try one of these 30+ Alternatives to YouTube. One of my absolute favorites from that list is Next Vista.
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