UK university lectures on iTunes University College London, the Open University and Trinity College Dublin are putting lectures onto iTunes. Educational content is already available in the United States through the non-charging "iTunes U" section of the music downloading service. But European universities are now joining, providing video and audio material for students to use on iPods or computers. The service will include recordings of lectures from leading academics. Santiago's Jagerizer This is a tool to take regular English speech and make it sound as if it is being spoken by a Jägermonster from Phil & Kaja Foglio's must-read Girl Genius comic. It's just a bunch of rules for sed, the Unix stream editor, that replace certain groups of letters with others. You can download it and take a look at how it's implemented and even run it yourself.
Búsquedas en Twitter son tres veces más rápidas Búsquedas en Twitter son tres veces más rápidas El blog oficial de Ingeniería de Twitter informó ayer que las búsquedas en esta red de microblogging son tres veces más rápidas gracias al uso del servidor Blender. “Ahora tenemos la capacidad para atender a 10 veces el número de solicitudes por máquina”, se explicó. En el siguiente gráfico se puede observar el cambio con el término “tsunami” -que aún es utilizado debido al reciente sismo en Japón de 7.1 grados. Según se indicó, “esto significa que puede soportar el mismo número de peticiones con menos servidores, reduciendo los costos de servicio de nuestra parte por adelantado”.
Back to School with the Class of Web 2.0: Part 1 With the start of the new school year, many teachers and students are seeking new products and technologies to help them through their upcoming academics. With the increase of teachers using blogs and wikis, and students networking and utilizing online tools, the demand for easier and more efficient ways of learning is on the rise. To me, the growing interest for web-based learning is amazing, which brought me to thinking; what if I were to consolodate some of the helpful online products and services that can help students, teachers and administrators alike? Well, I convinced myself. The following is a compilation of Web 2.0 products that I’ve personally researched and tested. These services are grouped into two main categories: “Tools”; and “Office Applications”.
TweetChannel.com School of Law News Lithuanian Constitutional Court judge visits Sheffield Law School April 12th, 2014 Professor Gediminas Mesonis, Judge at the Constitutional Court of Lithuania and Professor of Law at Vytautas Magnus University, visited the School of Law in March 2014. On 26 March 2014, Professor Mesonis gave a guest lecture at the Sheffield Centre for International and European Law (SCIEL) to staff, students and members of the Sheffield Lithuanian Society entitled, “The Constitution and the Constitutional Court: Problems of Theory and Practice”. Dr Pablo Castillo-Ortiz April 9th, 2014 GroupTweet Trikir Khaces.com - ¿Qué estás haciendo?