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style="">OPLIN 4Cast #114: <br>
Back to School Edition<br>
</b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">August 20, 2008<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p>1. It's back to school time! Let's all learn something new online!<o:p></o:p></p>
<ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a
href="http://mashable.com/2008/07/30/video-tutorials-for-open-source-applications/"
target="_blank"
mce_href="http://mashable.com/2008/07/30/video-tutorials-for-open-source-applications/">20+
Video Tutorials for Open Source Applications</a><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a
href="http://www.smartteaching.org/blog/2008/08/100-awesome-classroom-videos-to-learn-new-teaching-techniques/"
target="_blank"
mce_href="http://www.smartteaching.org/blog/2008/08/100-awesome-classroom-videos-to-learn-new-teaching-techniques/">100
Awesome Classroom Videos to Learn New Teaching Techniques</a><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a
href="http://www.smartmobs.com/2008/08/19/8-minute-video-on-the-social-media-classroom/"
target="_blank"
mce_href="http://www.smartmobs.com/2008/08/19/8-minute-video-on-the-social-media-classroom/">8
Minute Video on the Social Media Classroom</a><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a
href="http://mashable.com/2008/06/12/web-design-tutorials/"
target="_blank"
mce_href="http://mashable.com/2008/06/12/web-design-tutorials/">10
Video Tutorials for Learning Basic Web Design Skills</a><o:p></o:p></li>
</ul>
<p>2. Information is no longer locked in the pages of books. It's
dispersed widely and freely. So why are schools still using expensive
textbooks?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a
href="http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=3248&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en"
target="_blank"
mce_href="http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=3248&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en">Management
Professor Uses 'Crowdsourcing' to Write Textbook</a><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a
href="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080820-battling-pricy-textbooks-with-open-source-texts-social-media.html"
target="_blank"
mce_href="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080820-battling-pricy-textbooks-with-open-source-texts-social-media.html "><span
style="color: black;">Battling pricy textbooks with open-source texts,
social media</span></a><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a
href="http://www.publicradio.org/columns/marketplace/thereader/2008/08/opensource_textbooks.html"
target="_blank"
mce_href="http://www.publicradio.org/columns/marketplace/thereader/2008/08/opensource_textbooks.html ">Open-source
textbooks</a><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a
href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-textbook18-2008aug18,0,4712858.story"
target="_blank"
mce_href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-textbook18-2008aug18,0,4712858.story ">Free
digital texts begin to challenge costly college textbooks in California</a><o:p></o:p></li>
</ul>
<p>3. Teachers and librarians are in constant competition with Google
to
provide their students with reliable sources. How can you even begin
to
teach the hyper-connected Google Generation?<o:p></o:p></p>
<ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a
href="http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/families/article4295414.ece"
target="_blank"
mce_href="http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/families/article4295414.ece ">How
the Google generation thinks differently</a><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a
href="http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/08/19/mindset"
target="_blank"
mce_href="http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/08/19/mindset">What
Your Frosh Know (and Don’t)</a><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a
href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2006/jun/19/news.highereducation"
target="_blank"
mce_href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2006/jun/19/news.highereducation">Plagiarism
and Google generation under spotlight</a><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a
href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/career_and_jobs/public_sector/article4091351.ece"
target="_blank"
mce_href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/career_and_jobs/public_sector/article4091351.ece">The
Google generation represents a fundamental threat to university
education as we know it.</a><o:p></o:p></li>
</ul>
<p>4. There are <a href="http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/"
target="_blank" mce_href="http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/"><span
class="numbers">14.2 million</span> computers </a>available for
classroom use in
US schools as of the 2005-2006 school year (and that was two years
ago).
That works out to at least one computer for every four students.<o:p></o:p></p>
<ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a
href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2008/08/05/DI2008080502345.html"
target="_blank"
mce_href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2008/08/05/DI2008080502345.html">Back
to School: Technology</a><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a
href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/05/going-back-to-school-picking-up-where-facebook-left-off/"
target="_blank"
mce_href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/05/going-back-to-school-picking-up-where-facebook-left-off/">Going
Back to School: Picking Up Where Facebook Left Off</a><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a
href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10005482-2.html?hhTest=1&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=Webware"
target="_blank"
mce_href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10005482-2.html?hhTest=1&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=Webware">Easy
as ABC: Web apps for students</a><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a
href="http://features.csmonitor.com/innovation/2008/08/18/back-to-school-laptop-report-card/"
target="_blank"
mce_href="http://features.csmonitor.com/innovation/2008/08/18/back-to-school-laptop-report-card/">Back-to-school
laptop report card</a></li>
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