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25 Digital Things All Teachers Should Know – Updated
1) Mozilla Firefox is a “nondenominational” web browser. Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser pushes users toward Microsoft products. Apple’s Safari browser is very light on its use of computer resources, but also light on its features. Mozilla Firefox is superior to both in that it does not push users toward specific products and is so feature rich, Microsoft is starting to fashion it’s browser IE after Firefox.
2) Delicious Social Bookmarking is the best way to manage website links. This links to a page which explains social bookmarking, How to Social Bookmark.
3) Blogs are Internet resources which are great for publishing and managing student work. This links to a page which explains blogs, What’s a Blog.
4) Wikis are Internet resources which allow multiple users to edit documents, make lists, and coordinate information. This links to a page which explains wikis, What’s a Wiki.
5) Twitter is a “micro blogging” site. It is one of the best ways for teaching teams to maintain instant and ongoing communication throughout a busy day. Twitter has the benefits of instant messaging, while maintaining a record of what is communicated so the information can be read whenever a team member has a free moment. Here’s a short video explaining twitter.
6) Tagging is the new way of organizing digital items online. Tagging is a way of putting multiple lables on items such as documents, photos, audio files, etc. One can then pull similarly tagged items. The truly interesting thing is in most online environments tags are not centrally organized. Users choose which labels they place on digital objects. The distributed nature of this organizing tool creates a more social form of organizing large amounts of data. This links to a page which explains tagging, Wikipedia on Tagging.
7) Snagit is a product which can be purchased and downloaded to a user’s computer. SnagIt is a screenshot program that operates under the Windows operating system contains most features needed (scrolling page screenshots and automatic ‘trim edges’ function, for example). SnagIt Accessories extends its features. For example, Flickr Output enables the user to upload screen capture onto one’s own Flickr account. The ease of use, comprehensive features makes it one of the best cut and paste software packages available.
8) Flickr.com online photo storage allows photos to be shared and organized with tags. One can also search thousands of copyright free photos organized by tags. Here’s a link to a page that explains social photosharing. Here’s a link to the flickr site for the National Zoo, www.flickr.com/nationalzoo. Two other important source of photos are Wikimedia Commons and the Morguefile.
9) Audacity is a free program that allows anyone to easily make digital audio recordings. Digital recordings can be rendered in MP3 files (like what are used on iPods). Any digital recording can be called a “podcast” even if it is only stored on a computer or website. Here’s a short video explaining podcasting.
10) PhotoStory3 is a free program that allows anyone to easily make a presentation out of digital photographs. PhotoStory3 allows users to add titles, narration, background music and different focusing and other effects on the photos and transitions between the photos. Digital photo stories can be rendered as windows media video. A wmv digital video file can be posted on a website, inserted in a blog, wiki and/or PowerPoint.
11) Photos can be edited with any number of photo editors. There are rudimentary photo editors within free resources such as Flickr.com, PhotoStory3 and commercial software packages for photo editing such as Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Photoshop Elements and even in some children’s educational software such as Imageblender. There are also some free online options including Picnik (http://www.picnik.com) and Photoshop Express (http://www.photoshop.com/).
12) Windows Movie Maker is a video creating/editing software included in Microsoft Windows. It contains features such as effects, transitions, titles/credits, audio track, timeline narration, and Auto Movie.
13) Discovery Education Streaming is a subscription service which has a)full videos, b)video segments, c)high quality still photos, d)audio clips and other media elements organized by key word and grade level.
14) Gcast.com is a free Internet site for creating and posting podcasts. Podcasts posted on Gcast can be linked to from any web resources (blog, wiki, etc.) and reviewed multiple times from any computer or handheld device with an internet connection.
15) Youtube.com has many useful and educational video resources. They are searchable via keyword.
16) Teachertube.com is an educational resource of videos modeled on youtube but subject specific to education.
17) iTunes is a free product which one can download onto their desktop. It allows digital audio files to be organized and shared with others. Audio files stored on Gcast.com can be lists on iTunes for any iTunes subscriber to download and play on their computers, iPods and/or telephones. iTunes begins to cost users money when they purchase items from the iTunes store.
18) RSS feeds can be found on almost all websites, blogs, wikis, photo sites, and other resources on the web. Users can subscribe to the RSS feeds for Internet resources they wish to regularly track. Updates to those internet resources are sent to the subscribers via the RSS feeds and organized in what are called RSS Readers.
19) Google.com has many features besides gmail and the search engine. Three specific elements are Google Sites, Google Reader and Google Earth. Google Pages allows anyone to create multiple websites as easily as constructing a PowerPoint. Google Reader allows anyone to follow any number of websites, blogs, wikis and other resources on the web by subscribing to their RSS feeds. Information from those RSS feeds are then gathered into the user’s Google Reader page and displayed like email. Google Earth is one of the best mapping tools for education available.
20) Internet safety focuses on four main concerns: 1) Internet bullying, 2) Internet predators, 3) Internet identity theft and 4) Internet negative identity profiles impacting college entry and career opportunities. All four of these aspects of Internet safety can be covered with two safety principles. The first is to keep one’s personal information secret. This includes name, contact information, work and school information, family information and the names of associates. The second is to never meet anyone in real life, who one has only met on the Internet. With these two principles, students (and teachers) can protect themselves from the major Internet safety concerns.
21) Publishing on the Internet can be done professionally while maintaining the safety of students and colleagues by following APA publishing guidelines. By combining the APA ethical guidelines (no student identifiers, no school identifiers) with the Internet safety principles of keeping the author’s identity secret, a great deal of professional practice can be shared in an online professional learning community without fear of breaching our professional ethics. You can review APA Ethic’s Code here. Clairvoy is dedicated to teachers publishing strategy. See more here.
22) Students with different learning styles (visual learners, audio learners, etc.) can better explore Blooms Taxonomy of cognitive objectives by working with the curriculum using the different media available to them in a digital environment.
23) Copyright is important and must be respected at all times. The copyright laws regarding special education do allow for materials being used in class (which have been purchased) to be adapted to meet the needs of student IEPs. This can call for teachers to use all the digital tools at their disposal to adapt standard text, photographic and multimedia resources to meet the needs of student IEPs. Anyone can do this adaptation for the teacher’s needs, including students inside and outside the classroom. Here are a number of online resources on use of copyright in the classroom.
24) Evernote allows you to easily capture information in any environment using whatever device or platform you find most convenient, and makes this information accessible and searchable at any time, from anywhere.
25) Google Earth is a tremendous tool. Hardware such as Flip video cameras (under $100), student digital still cameras, color scanners, document cameras, transferring video from camcorders to computers (Firewire pcmcia card cost around $20 / some analogue to digital video converters cost less than $50), SMARTBoards and iPods are all things with which teachers should familiarize themselves and use in their teaching.
Courtesy: Clairvoy
Thursday, March 17, 2011
EU to help radiation victims
A European bone marrow transplant group on Wednesday offered to treat Japanese emergency workers who may be exposed to dangerous radiation from the crippled nuclear reactors.
“Japan is more competent than any European country when it comes to radiation treatment,” said Ray Powles, chair of the nuclear accident committee for the European Group for Blood and Marrow Transplantation.
“But they are dealing with an awful lot right now and so we made this offer and are ready to help if they blow the whistle.”
Short window period
Doctors say there is a short window of opportunity after people are exposed to radiation when they can assess whether patients will need extensive treatment or a bone marrow transplant.
“After a person has been radiated, you have three to four days before they're on the cusp of severe complications,” Powles said. “At that point, they could be put on a flight to Europe if Japanese facilities are overwhelmed.”
Powles said 500 bone marrow transplant centres across 27 European countries have been put on alert and could treat 200 to 300 patients if necessary.
He said the group made their offer to Japanese officials and the WHO. The European group based in Maastricht, the Netherlands, initially drew up its emergency plans to respond to a radiation threat in the aftermath of terrorist attacks and the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.
Effect on bone marrow
Radiation typically kills many bone marrow cells, which can lead to a compromised immune system in patients, leaving them vulnerable to infections and other health problems.
Powles said European doctors were not offering to perform bone marrow transplants, but to treat Japanese patients with supportive care like antibiotics until a transplant was possible.
He said it was important to find out how much radiation nuclear plant workers are being exposed to as they attempt to cool reactors.
People exposed to a lethal dose as was the case with some workers in the aftermath of Chernobyl will likely die within days. But those who only get a moderate dose could survive much longer even if they ultimately need a bone marrow transplant.
“We do have the luxury of time if workers are not getting increasing doses of radiation as they go into the plants,” Powles said. He said doctors could accurately predict which people would be in trouble 12 to 48 hours after being exposed to radiation and that emergency care could be provided in Europe to keep them alive.
Jim Smith, a physics expert at the University of Portsmouth said the radiation risk to the general public is low, even for people in the immediate vicinity of the problematic nuclear plants.
Courtesy: The Hindu
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Caution !!!!!
Dear all……..
BBC flash news: Japan government confirms radiation leak at Fukushima
nuclear plants. Asian countries should take necessary precautions. If
it rains, remain indoors first 24hours, close doors n windows, swab
neck skin with beta-dine where thyroid area is, radiation hits thyroid
first. Take extra precautions, radiation may hit Philippines starting
4pm (Pinas time) today!
Courtesy: LIS
There was a nuclear blast 4:30pm Sunday in Fukushima Japan. If it
rains today or in the next few days, DO NOT GO UNDER THE RAIN. If you
get caught out, use an umbrella or raincoat, even if it's only a
drizzle. Radioactive particles, which may cause burns, alopecia or
even cancer, may be in the rain.
rains today or in the next few days, DO NOT GO UNDER THE RAIN. If you
get caught out, use an umbrella or raincoat, even if it's only a
drizzle. Radioactive particles, which may cause burns, alopecia or
even cancer, may be in the rain.
nuclear plants. Asian countries should take necessary precautions. If
it rains, remain indoors first 24hours, close doors n windows, swab
neck skin with beta-dine where thyroid area is, radiation hits thyroid
first. Take extra precautions, radiation may hit Philippines starting
4pm (Pinas time) today!
Courtesy: LIS
Monday, March 14, 2011
A Search Engine for the Human Body
Microsoft software recognizes organs and other structures in medical images.
A new search tool developed by researchers at Microsoft indexes medical images of the human body, rather than the Web. On CT scans, it automatically finds organs and other structures, to help doctors navigate in and work with 3-D medical imagery.
CT scans use X-rays to capture many slices through the body that can be combined to create a 3-D representation. This is a powerful tool for diagnosis, but it's far from easy to navigate, says Antonio Criminisi, who leads a group at Microsoft Research Cambridge, U.K., that is attempting to change that. "It is very difficult even for someone very trained to get to the place they need to be to examine the source of a problem," he says.
When a scan is loaded into Criminisi's software, the program indexes the data and lists the organs it finds at the side of the screen, creating a table of hyperlinks for the body. A user can click on, say, the word "heart" and be presented with a clear view of the organ without having to navigate through the imagery manually.
Once an organ of interest has been found, a 2-D and an enhanced 3-D view of structures in the area are shown to the user, who can navigate by touching the screen on which the images are shown. A new scan can also be automatically and precisely matched up alongside a past one from the same patient, making it easy to see how a condition has progressed or regressed.
Criminisi's software uses the pattern of light and dark in the scan to identify particular structures; it was developed by training machine-learning algorithms to recognize features in hundreds of scans in which experts had marked the major organs. Indexing a new scan takes only a couple of seconds, says Criminisi. The system was developed in collaboration with doctors at Addenbrookes Hospital in Cambridge, U.K.
The Microsoft research group is exploring the use of gestures and voice to control the system. They can plug in the Kinect controller, ordinarily used by gamers to control an Xbox with body movements, so that surgeons can refer to imagery in mid-surgery without compromising their sterile gloves by touching a keyboard, mouse, or screen.
Kenji Suzuki an assistant professor at the University of Chicago, whose research group works on similar tools, says the Microsoft software has the potential to improve patient care, providing it really does make scans easier to navigate. "As medical imaging has advanced, so many images are produced that there is a kind of information overload," he explains. "The workload has grown a lot."
Suzuki says Microsoft's approach is a good one, but that medical professionals might be more receptive to the design if it indexed signs of disease, not just organs. His own research group has developed software capable of recognizing potentially cancerous lung nodules; in trials, it made half as many mistakes as a human expert.
Criminisi sticks by the notion of using organs as a kind of navigation system but says that disease-spotting capability is also under development. He says, "We are working to train it to detect differences between different grades of glioma tumor"—a type of brain tumor.
The Microsoft group also intends the tool to be used at large scales. It could automatically index a collection of 3-D scans or other images, making possible new ways of tracking medical records, says Criminisi. Today, records are kept as text that describes scans and other information. A search tool that finds the word "heart", for example, would not know if that meant it appeared in a scan or was mentioned in another context. If a hospital's computer system indexed new scans, the Microsoft software could automatically record what was imaged in a person's records and when.
Courtesy: Source
Can libraries survive in a digital world?
Publishers stand accused of "nonsensical" policies on e-book lending to libraries. So, with nearly $1bn spent on e-books last year in the US alone, what does this mean for the institutions already at risk of closure?
When publishers "declared war on libraries" last October - according to Luton's head of libraries - there was uproar.
The Publishers' Association (PA) in the UK has agreed with the major publishing houses to restrict e-lending by either geographical location or the number of readers using an e-book at any one time.
And when HarperCollins became the first publisher to put its head above the parapet and change its conditions to the libraries, there was further anger.
It believes that e-books should be given a licence for 26 uses and then this must be renewed at further - though reduced - cost.
"We believe this change balances the value libraries get from our titles with the need to protect our authors and ensure a presence in public libraries," read a HarperCollins statement.
The "26-use" model was arrived at because, HarperCollins says, of the average lifespan of a physical copy in a library.
"Our hope is to make the cost per circulation for e-books less than that of the corresponding physical book," says Josh Marshall, president of sales at HarperCollins.
While only a policy in the US at the moment, HarperCollins "weren't ruling out" it happening in the UK and this has angered librarians even further.
"The idea that they've decided on 26 uses doesn't make any sense to me," says librarian Phil Bradley, vice president of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals.
"Any librarian can tell you that a paperback can be loaned at least 40 times and a hardback even more than that."
He had previously described the announcement as "a stupid, backward looking and retrograde step" on his personal blog.
'Price-tag zero'
But if all e-books were available to everyone at any time, why would anyone need to buy a book ever again? And why would anyone need to visit a library if it could be downloaded off-site?
"It's important to remember that libraries are not simply bookstores where the price-tag always reads zero," says Nora Daly, digital curator of the British Library.
"They exist to collect, sometimes create, but always preserve that knowledge, regardless of what format it is in and to help make it grow through advocating and assuring free and fruitful access to it.
"If we understand the role of libraries in that context, then in 10 years' time they will still be providing open and trusted environments - virtually and physically - in which to share, create and grow knowledge."
Amazon, the biggest e-book retailer, is getting in on the e-lending act. It offers the ability, in the US alone and only if the publishers opt in, to allow the "owner" of an e-book to lend it to someone else. Each file is allowed to be loaned only once for 14 days and cannot be read by the original purchaser during that time.
"We've got the balance about right in the [traditional] publishing world," says Richard Mollet, chief executive of the PA.
"If [libraries] had the ability to lend e-books freely... it would have a serious consequence for the commercial model."
Who owns what?
There has always been disagreement about what constitutes ownership in the digital world, and what can be done with the files you purchase.
"When you buy an e-book you are effectively buying a licence to view a file," says Mollet.
"Yes you're buying the manifestation of the work but what you can then do with that file is a separate question."
Not everyone agrees with this sentiment.
The author, journalist and campaigner Cory Doctorow allows his work, wherever possible, to be released from any digital rights management and made freely available on the web.
"The thing that's so offensive about saying you cannot own a book anymore is that ownership of books predates copyright," he says.
"It not only predates printing but it predates commerce. People have been owning books longer than people have been buying and selling things."
And with the paper form having its limits, many see the new possibilities available with digital technology as a great opportunity to allow greater access to libraries, especially for those who traditionally struggle to reach libraries.
"The whole point of having an e-book is that I can get one wherever I am, whenever I want," says Bradley.
"They are not physical items and for the publisher to try and pretend that they are seems, to me, nonsensical."
'Homemade' Harry Potter
But the idea that things should be available instantly to all library users is not one that the PA agrees with. Indeed, Mollet believes that this is where e-tailers should step in.
Libraries are not for those who want something straight away, he says, as "you can jump onto any number of sites and buy them".
"It's not got much to do with the e-lending debate."
A fact that publishers are wary of is that the written word is easier to plagiarise than a movie or film.
A homemade version of Avatar is not going to look as convincing as a home-typed version of Harry Potter. In fact, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - not released as an e-book - was typed out and released online illegally within 24 hours of release.
"In an increasingly digital world, there is no way to coerce someone into paying for something if they want to take it for free," says Doctorow.
"The only mechanism we have for convincing people to do the right thing, the legitimate thing or even the profitable thing is to appeal to their sense of ethics.
"I don't think you start doing that by saying that 'by the way, we don't trust you, we've developed this book that explodes after 26 uses and you can no longer own books anyway'."
But what does this mean for libraries? With hundreds of libraries earmarked for closure, are people just going to stop venturing into libraries at all?
"I get really fed up with the people who believe the entire idea that we're not going to read in libraries," says Bradley.
"I see the exact opposite. Libraries have got a vibrant future.
"Communities need libraries more than they ever have done before and they are in a superb position to help [during difficult economic times].
"People who say 'we don't need libraries because it's all on Google' either don't understand libraries or don't understand the internet at all."
Courtesy: BBC NEWS
Laughter is the best medicine
Laughter is a tonic that speeds up healing by boosting blood circulation in patients, say researchers.
A five-year study of patients with leg ulcers has established that a hearty chuckle stimulates the diaphragm which, in turn, plays a vital part in moving blood around the body, the British Medical Journal reports.
It actually speeds recovery from leg ulcers, said the report by the University of Leeds’ School of Healthcare. Conversely, expensive ultrasound therapy does little to help, contrary to what the researchers had expected to find, according to the Daily Mail.
Traditional nursing care is also effective and this human contact is likely to lead to jokes and banter which is where the laughter therapy comes in.
Andrea Nelson, who led the study, said, “The key to take care of this group of patients is to stimulate blood flow back up the legs to the heart.”
Courtesy: The Hindu
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Anthony Atala: Printing a human kidney
About this talk
Surgeon Anthony Atala demonstrates an early-stage experiment that could someday solve the organ-donor problem: a 3D printer that uses living cells to output a transplantable kidney. Using similar technology, Dr. Atala's young patient Luke Massella received an engineered bladder 10 years ago; we meet him onstage.
Courtesy: TED
ശല്യസന്ദേശങ്ങളെ ഇനി പേടിക്കേണ്ട
മൊബൈല്ഫോണില് നമ്മുടെ സൈ്വര്യംകെടുത്താനെത്തുന്ന ശല്യസന്ദേശങ്ങളെ (ശല്യമെസേജുകളെ) നിയന്ത്രിക്കാന് പുതിയ സോഫ്ട്വേര് പിറവിയെടുത്തു. ഡല്ഹിയില് ഇന്ദ്രപ്രസ്ഥ ഇന്സ്റ്റിറ്റിയൂട്ട് ഓഫ് ഇന്ഫര്േേഷന് ടെക്നോളജിയിലെ (ഐ.ഐ.ഐ.ടി.) വിദഗ്ധരാണ് ഇതു രൂപപ്പെടുത്തിയത്. 'എസ്.എം.എസ്. അസാസിന്' (SMS Assassin) എന്നു പേരിട്ടിരിക്കുന്ന ഈ സോഫ്ട്വേര് മൊബൈലില് ഇന്സ്റ്റാള് ചെയ്താല് നമുക്ക് താത്പര്യമില്ലാത്ത ഒരു ശല്യമെസേജും (spam messages) ഫോണിലേക്ക് വരില്ല.
ശല്യമെസേജുകളില്തന്നെ നമുക്ക് എന്തെങ്കിലും താത്പര്യമുള്ളവ മാത്രം മൊബൈലിലേക്ക് കടത്തിവിടാനുള്ള സൗകര്യവും ഈ സോഫ്ട്വേറിലുണ്ട്. ഐ.ഐ.ഐ.ടി.യിലെ അസിസ്റ്റന്റ് പ്രൊഫസര് പൊന്നുരംഗം കുമാരഗുരു, ഗവേഷകവിദ്യാര്ഥി കുല്ദീപ് യാദവ് എന്നിവര് ചേര്ന്നാണ് പുതിയ സോഫ്ട്വേര് രൂപപ്പെടുത്തിയത്.
പരസ്യ എസ്.എസ്.എം.എസുകളുടെ എണ്ണം അനിയന്ത്രിതമാം വര്ധിക്കുന്നത് ശ്രദ്ധയില് പെട്ടപ്പോഴാണ് ഇത്തരമൊരു സോഫ്ട്വേറിനെക്കുറിച്ച് ആലോചിച്ചതെന്ന് പൊന്നുരംഗം കുമാരഗുരു 'മാതൃഭൂമി'യോടു പറഞ്ഞു. ഒരുദിവസം രാജ്യമൊട്ടാകെ പത്തുകോടി പരസ്യ എസ്.എം.എസുകള് പ്രചരിക്കുന്നുണ്ട്. ഈ രംഗത്തെ കമ്പനികളുടെ കിടമത്സരം കാരണം 3,500 രൂപ മുടക്കിയാല് ഒരുലക്ഷം മെസേജുകള് വരെ അയക്കാന് സാധിക്കുന്ന സ്ഥിതിയാണുള്ളത്.
തിരക്കിനിടയില് നമ്മുടെ വിലപ്പെട്ട സമയം നഷ്ടപ്പെടുത്തുന്നവയാണ് ഇത്തരം മിക്ക മെസേജുകളും. എന്നാല്, ഇവയില് ചിലതെങ്കിലും നമുക്ക് ഉപകാരപ്പെടുന്നവയാകാം. ചിലര്ക്ക് ശല്യമെസേജെന്നുതോന്നുന്നത് മറ്റുചിലര്ക്ക് താത്പര്യമുള്ളതാകാം. അതുകൊണ്ടുതന്നെ എല്ലാ പരസ്യമെസേജുകളും നിയന്ത്രിക്കാനുള്ള ടെലിഫോണ് റെഗുലേറ്ററി അതോറിറ്റി ഓഫ് ഇന്ത്യ (ട്രായ്) യുടെ പദ്ധതി ഫലപ്രദമാകില്ല. വേണ്ട സന്ദേശങ്ങള് മാത്രം തിരഞ്ഞെടുക്കുകയും മറ്റുള്ളവ ഇന്ബോക്സിലെത്തും മുമ്പേ ഡിലീറ്റ് ചെയ്യലുമാണ് എസ്.എം.എസ്. അസാസിന് സോഫ്ട്വേറിന്റെ ധര്മമെന്ന് പൊന്നുരംഗം അറിയിക്കുന്നു.
നിലവില് നോക്കിയയുടെ സിംബിയന് പ്ലാറ്റ്ഫോമില് പ്രവര്ത്തിക്കുന്ന മൊബൈല്ഫോണുകളില് മാത്രമേ 'എസ്.എം.എസ്. അസാസിന്' പ്രവര്ത്തിക്കൂ. താമസിയാതെ ആന്ഡ്രോയിഡ്, വിന്ഡോസ് മൊബൈല് 7 പ്ലാറ്റ്ഫോമുകളിലും പ്രവര്ത്തിക്കുന്ന രീതിയില് പുതിയ സോഫ്ട്വേര് പരിഷ്ക്കരിക്കുമെന്ന് പൊന്നുരംഗം പറയുന്നു. അമേരിക്കയിലെ അരിസോണയില് ഈമാസം നടന്ന ഹോട്ട്മൊബൈല് 2011 അന്താരാഷ്ട്ര മൊബൈല്കോണ്ഫറന്സില് അവതരിപ്പിക്കപ്പെട്ട 'എസ്.എം.എസ്. അസാസിന്' സോഫ്ട്വേറിന്റെ വികസന പരിപാടികള് നടന്നുവരികയാണ്.
തുടര്ഗവേഷണത്തിനായി പരസ്യഎസ്.എം.എസുകള് അയച്ചുതരണമെന്നാവശ്യപ്പെട്ട് പൊന്നുരംഗവും ശിഷ്യന്മാരും ഫെയ്സ്ബുക്കില് പ്രത്യേകപേജ് തുടങ്ങിയിട്ടുണ്ട്. http://en-gb.facebook.com/SMSAssassin?v=info എന്ന േഫസ്ബുക്ക് അക്കൗണ്ടിലേക്കോ +91 8826068429 എന്ന മൊബൈല് നമ്പറിലേക്കോ നമുക്ക് വരുന്ന പരസ്യമെസേജുകള് ഫോര്വേഡ് ചെയ്തുകൊടുത്ത് അവരെ സഹായിക്കാം. പതിനഞ്ചുദിവസത്തിനുള്ളില് ഏറ്റവും കൂടുതല് മെസേജുകള് ഫോര്വേഡ് ചെയ്യുന്നവര്ക്ക് പ്രത്യേക സമ്മാനങ്ങളും വാഗ്ദാനം ചെയ്യുന്നു.
അതിനിടെ, പരസ്യ എസ്.എം.എസുകള് നിയന്ത്രിക്കാന് ട്രായ് പ്രഖ്യാപിച്ച എസ്.എം.എസ്. നിയന്ത്രണപരിപാടി വീണ്ടും നീളുകയാണ്. മാര്ച്ച് ഒന്ന് മുതല് നടപ്പാകുമെന്ന് പറഞ്ഞ പദ്ധതി ഏപ്രില് ഒന്നിലേക്ക് നീട്ടിയിട്ടുണ്ട്. ടെലിമാര്ക്കറ്റിങ് കമ്പനികളും മൊബൈല്ഫോണ് ഉപഭോക്താക്കളും താത്പര്യമെടുക്കാത്തതുതന്നെ പ്രധാനകാരണം. ടെലിമാര്ക്കറ്റിങ് കമ്പനികള് തങ്ങളുടെ കീഴില് രജിസ്റ്റര് ചെയ്യണമെന്നും തങ്ങളനുവദിക്കുന്ന നമ്പറുകളില് നിന്നുമാത്രമേ മെസേജുകള് അയക്കാന് പാടുള്ളൂ എന്നും ട്രായ് നിര്ദേശിച്ചിരുന്നു. എന്നാല് വിരലിലെണ്ണാവുന്ന കമ്പനികള് മാത്രമേ അതനുസരിച്ചുള്ളൂ.
പരസ്യമെസേജുകള് താത്പര്യമില്ലാത്ത ഉപഭോക്താക്കള് അക്കാര്യമറിയിച്ചുകൊണ്ട് എസ്.എം.എസ്. അയക്കണമെന്ന ട്രായ് നിര്ദേശവും സ്വീകരിക്കപ്പെട്ടില്ല. രാജ്യമെങ്ങുമായി പതിനഞ്ചുശതമാനം മൊബൈല്വരിക്കാര് മാത്രമേ ഇതുവരെ ഇങ്ങനെ രജിസ്റ്റര് ചെയ്തിട്ടുള്ളൂ. അങ്ങനെ ചെയ്താല് നമുക്ക് താത്പര്യമുളള ഓഫറുകളുടെ എസ്.എം.എസുകള് പോലും ലഭിക്കാതാകും എന്നതാണ് ട്രായ് പദ്ധതിയുടെ പ്രധാനന്യൂനത. എന്തായാലും ഏപ്രില് ഒന്ന് മുതല് എസ്.എം.എസ്. നിയന്ത്രണപദ്ധതി നടപ്പാക്കുമെന്നാണ് ട്രായ് പ്രഖ്യാപിച്ചിരിക്കുന്നത്.
ശല്യമെസേജുകളില്തന്നെ നമുക്ക് എന്തെങ്കിലും താത്പര്യമുള്ളവ മാത്രം മൊബൈലിലേക്ക് കടത്തിവിടാനുള്ള സൗകര്യവും ഈ സോഫ്ട്വേറിലുണ്ട്. ഐ.ഐ.ഐ.ടി.യിലെ അസിസ്റ്റന്റ് പ്രൊഫസര് പൊന്നുരംഗം കുമാരഗുരു, ഗവേഷകവിദ്യാര്ഥി കുല്ദീപ് യാദവ് എന്നിവര് ചേര്ന്നാണ് പുതിയ സോഫ്ട്വേര് രൂപപ്പെടുത്തിയത്.
പരസ്യ എസ്.എസ്.എം.എസുകളുടെ എണ്ണം അനിയന്ത്രിതമാം വര്ധിക്കുന്നത് ശ്രദ്ധയില് പെട്ടപ്പോഴാണ് ഇത്തരമൊരു സോഫ്ട്വേറിനെക്കുറിച്ച് ആലോചിച്ചതെന്ന് പൊന്നുരംഗം കുമാരഗുരു 'മാതൃഭൂമി'യോടു പറഞ്ഞു. ഒരുദിവസം രാജ്യമൊട്ടാകെ പത്തുകോടി പരസ്യ എസ്.എം.എസുകള് പ്രചരിക്കുന്നുണ്ട്. ഈ രംഗത്തെ കമ്പനികളുടെ കിടമത്സരം കാരണം 3,500 രൂപ മുടക്കിയാല് ഒരുലക്ഷം മെസേജുകള് വരെ അയക്കാന് സാധിക്കുന്ന സ്ഥിതിയാണുള്ളത്.
തിരക്കിനിടയില് നമ്മുടെ വിലപ്പെട്ട സമയം നഷ്ടപ്പെടുത്തുന്നവയാണ് ഇത്തരം മിക്ക മെസേജുകളും. എന്നാല്, ഇവയില് ചിലതെങ്കിലും നമുക്ക് ഉപകാരപ്പെടുന്നവയാകാം. ചിലര്ക്ക് ശല്യമെസേജെന്നുതോന്നുന്നത് മറ്റുചിലര്ക്ക് താത്പര്യമുള്ളതാകാം. അതുകൊണ്ടുതന്നെ എല്ലാ പരസ്യമെസേജുകളും നിയന്ത്രിക്കാനുള്ള ടെലിഫോണ് റെഗുലേറ്ററി അതോറിറ്റി ഓഫ് ഇന്ത്യ (ട്രായ്) യുടെ പദ്ധതി ഫലപ്രദമാകില്ല. വേണ്ട സന്ദേശങ്ങള് മാത്രം തിരഞ്ഞെടുക്കുകയും മറ്റുള്ളവ ഇന്ബോക്സിലെത്തും മുമ്പേ ഡിലീറ്റ് ചെയ്യലുമാണ് എസ്.എം.എസ്. അസാസിന് സോഫ്ട്വേറിന്റെ ധര്മമെന്ന് പൊന്നുരംഗം അറിയിക്കുന്നു.
നിലവില് നോക്കിയയുടെ സിംബിയന് പ്ലാറ്റ്ഫോമില് പ്രവര്ത്തിക്കുന്ന മൊബൈല്ഫോണുകളില് മാത്രമേ 'എസ്.എം.എസ്. അസാസിന്' പ്രവര്ത്തിക്കൂ. താമസിയാതെ ആന്ഡ്രോയിഡ്, വിന്ഡോസ് മൊബൈല് 7 പ്ലാറ്റ്ഫോമുകളിലും പ്രവര്ത്തിക്കുന്ന രീതിയില് പുതിയ സോഫ്ട്വേര് പരിഷ്ക്കരിക്കുമെന്ന് പൊന്നുരംഗം പറയുന്നു. അമേരിക്കയിലെ അരിസോണയില് ഈമാസം നടന്ന ഹോട്ട്മൊബൈല് 2011 അന്താരാഷ്ട്ര മൊബൈല്കോണ്ഫറന്സില് അവതരിപ്പിക്കപ്പെട്ട 'എസ്.എം.എസ്. അസാസിന്' സോഫ്ട്വേറിന്റെ വികസന പരിപാടികള് നടന്നുവരികയാണ്.
തുടര്ഗവേഷണത്തിനായി പരസ്യഎസ്.എം.എസുകള് അയച്ചുതരണമെന്നാവശ്യപ്പെട്ട് പൊന്നുരംഗവും ശിഷ്യന്മാരും ഫെയ്സ്ബുക്കില് പ്രത്യേകപേജ് തുടങ്ങിയിട്ടുണ്ട്. http://en-gb.facebook.com/SMSAssassin?v=info എന്ന േഫസ്ബുക്ക് അക്കൗണ്ടിലേക്കോ +91 8826068429 എന്ന മൊബൈല് നമ്പറിലേക്കോ നമുക്ക് വരുന്ന പരസ്യമെസേജുകള് ഫോര്വേഡ് ചെയ്തുകൊടുത്ത് അവരെ സഹായിക്കാം. പതിനഞ്ചുദിവസത്തിനുള്ളില് ഏറ്റവും കൂടുതല് മെസേജുകള് ഫോര്വേഡ് ചെയ്യുന്നവര്ക്ക് പ്രത്യേക സമ്മാനങ്ങളും വാഗ്ദാനം ചെയ്യുന്നു.
അതിനിടെ, പരസ്യ എസ്.എം.എസുകള് നിയന്ത്രിക്കാന് ട്രായ് പ്രഖ്യാപിച്ച എസ്.എം.എസ്. നിയന്ത്രണപരിപാടി വീണ്ടും നീളുകയാണ്. മാര്ച്ച് ഒന്ന് മുതല് നടപ്പാകുമെന്ന് പറഞ്ഞ പദ്ധതി ഏപ്രില് ഒന്നിലേക്ക് നീട്ടിയിട്ടുണ്ട്. ടെലിമാര്ക്കറ്റിങ് കമ്പനികളും മൊബൈല്ഫോണ് ഉപഭോക്താക്കളും താത്പര്യമെടുക്കാത്തതുതന്നെ പ്രധാനകാരണം. ടെലിമാര്ക്കറ്റിങ് കമ്പനികള് തങ്ങളുടെ കീഴില് രജിസ്റ്റര് ചെയ്യണമെന്നും തങ്ങളനുവദിക്കുന്ന നമ്പറുകളില് നിന്നുമാത്രമേ മെസേജുകള് അയക്കാന് പാടുള്ളൂ എന്നും ട്രായ് നിര്ദേശിച്ചിരുന്നു. എന്നാല് വിരലിലെണ്ണാവുന്ന കമ്പനികള് മാത്രമേ അതനുസരിച്ചുള്ളൂ.
പരസ്യമെസേജുകള് താത്പര്യമില്ലാത്ത ഉപഭോക്താക്കള് അക്കാര്യമറിയിച്ചുകൊണ്ട് എസ്.എം.എസ്. അയക്കണമെന്ന ട്രായ് നിര്ദേശവും സ്വീകരിക്കപ്പെട്ടില്ല. രാജ്യമെങ്ങുമായി പതിനഞ്ചുശതമാനം മൊബൈല്വരിക്കാര് മാത്രമേ ഇതുവരെ ഇങ്ങനെ രജിസ്റ്റര് ചെയ്തിട്ടുള്ളൂ. അങ്ങനെ ചെയ്താല് നമുക്ക് താത്പര്യമുളള ഓഫറുകളുടെ എസ്.എം.എസുകള് പോലും ലഭിക്കാതാകും എന്നതാണ് ട്രായ് പദ്ധതിയുടെ പ്രധാനന്യൂനത. എന്തായാലും ഏപ്രില് ഒന്ന് മുതല് എസ്.എം.എസ്. നിയന്ത്രണപദ്ധതി നടപ്പാക്കുമെന്നാണ് ട്രായ് പ്രഖ്യാപിച്ചിരിക്കുന്നത്.
Courtesy: Mathrubhumi
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
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CHHATTISGARH
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4. Dr. C.V. Raman University
5. MATS University
6. Maharishi University of Management and Technology,
GUJARAT
7. Ahmedabad University, Navrangpura,
8. Charotar University of Science & Technology
9. Shri JagdiDhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information & Communication Technology
10. Nirma University of Science & Technology
11. Ganpat University
12. Kadi Sarva Vishwavidyalaya
13. Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University
14. Calrox Teacher's University
HARYANA
15. O.P. Jindal Global University
16. ITM University
17. AMITY University Haryana
HIMACHAL PRADESH
18. Chitkara University
19. Jaypee University of Information Technology
20. Eternal University
21. Shoolini University of Biotechnology and Management Sciences
22. Indus International University
23. Arni University
24. Manav Bharti University
25. Baddi University of Energing Science & Technology
26. Maharishi Markandeshwar University
JHARKHAND
27. The Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India University
KARNATAKA
28. Alliance University
MADYA PRADESH
29. Jaypee University of Engineering & Technology
MEGHALYA
30. CMJ University
31. Martin Luther Christian University
32. Techno Global University
33. The Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India University
34. University of Science & Technology
MIZORAM
35. The Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India University
36. The Global Open University
NAGALAND
37. The Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India University
ORISSA
38. Centurion University of Technology and Management
PUNJAB
39. Chitkara University
40. Lovely Professional University
RAJASTHAN
41. Amity University
42. Bhagwant University
43. Dr. K.N. Modi University
44. Jagannath University
45. Jaipur National University
46. Jodhpur National University
47. Jyoti Vidyapeeth Women's University
48. Mahatma Jyoti Rao Phoole University
49. Mewar University
50. NIMS University
51. Pacific Academy of Higher Education & Research University (PAHER)sh Prasad Jhabarmal Tibrewala University
53. Sri Padmapat Singhania University
54. Singhania University
55. Suresh Gyan Vihar University
56. Shridhar University
SIKKIM
57. Eastern Institute for Integrated Learning in Management University
58. The Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India University
59. Sikkim Manipal University of Health Medical & Technological Science
60. Vinayaka Missions Sikkim University
TRIPURA
61. The Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India University
UTTAR PRADESH
62. Amity University Uttar Pradesh
63. G.L.A. University
64. Jagadguru Rambhadracharya Handicapped University
65. Integral University
66. Invertis University
67. Mangalayatan University
68. Mohammad Ali Jauhar University
69. Teerthanker Mahaveer University
70. Sharda University
71. Swami Vivekanand Subharti University
72. Institute of Foreign Trade Management University (IFTM)
UTTRAKHAND
73. Dev Sanskrit Vishwavidyalaya
74. Himgiri Nabh Vishwavidyalaya
75. Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India (ICFAI)
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BIHAR
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CHHATTISGARH
3. Ayush and Health Sciences University of Chhattisgarh
4. Dr. C.V. Raman University
5. MATS University
6. Maharishi University of Management and Technology,
GUJARAT
7. Ahmedabad University, Navrangpura,
8. Charotar University of Science & Technology
9. Shri JagdiDhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information & Communication Technology
10. Nirma University of Science & Technology
11. Ganpat University
12. Kadi Sarva Vishwavidyalaya
13. Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University
14. Calrox Teacher's University
HARYANA
15. O.P. Jindal Global University
16. ITM University
17. AMITY University Haryana
HIMACHAL PRADESH
18. Chitkara University
19. Jaypee University of Information Technology
20. Eternal University
21. Shoolini University of Biotechnology and Management Sciences
22. Indus International University
23. Arni University
24. Manav Bharti University
25. Baddi University of Energing Science & Technology
26. Maharishi Markandeshwar University
JHARKHAND
27. The Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India University
KARNATAKA
28. Alliance University
MADYA PRADESH
29. Jaypee University of Engineering & Technology
MEGHALYA
30. CMJ University
31. Martin Luther Christian University
32. Techno Global University
33. The Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India University
34. University of Science & Technology
MIZORAM
35. The Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India University
36. The Global Open University
NAGALAND
37. The Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India University
ORISSA
38. Centurion University of Technology and Management
PUNJAB
39. Chitkara University
40. Lovely Professional University
RAJASTHAN
41. Amity University
42. Bhagwant University
43. Dr. K.N. Modi University
44. Jagannath University
45. Jaipur National University
46. Jodhpur National University
47. Jyoti Vidyapeeth Women's University
48. Mahatma Jyoti Rao Phoole University
49. Mewar University
50. NIMS University
51. Pacific Academy of Higher Education & Research University (PAHER)sh Prasad Jhabarmal Tibrewala University
53. Sri Padmapat Singhania University
54. Singhania University
55. Suresh Gyan Vihar University
56. Shridhar University
SIKKIM
57. Eastern Institute for Integrated Learning in Management University
58. The Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India University
59. Sikkim Manipal University of Health Medical & Technological Science
60. Vinayaka Missions Sikkim University
TRIPURA
61. The Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India University
UTTAR PRADESH
62. Amity University Uttar Pradesh
63. G.L.A. University
64. Jagadguru Rambhadracharya Handicapped University
65. Integral University
66. Invertis University
67. Mangalayatan University
68. Mohammad Ali Jauhar University
69. Teerthanker Mahaveer University
70. Sharda University
71. Swami Vivekanand Subharti University
72. Institute of Foreign Trade Management University (IFTM)
UTTRAKHAND
73. Dev Sanskrit Vishwavidyalaya
74. Himgiri Nabh Vishwavidyalaya
75. Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India (ICFAI)
76. University of Petroleum and Energy Studies
77. University of Patanjali
Monday, March 7, 2011
Get Ready For the Marital Life!
Most of the people are under the misconception that getting ready for the marital life means getting ready for a sexual life. On getting the news that you are going to get engaged, even your friends sometimes sarcastically make a comment upon you that you are going to lose your freedom once and for all; for a few months you may not even have time to meet them since you are going to be preoccupied with your personal life. It is not entirely true. Despite sex being the part of the marital life, it does not pre-dominate the marital life.
Entering into a marital life means that you are entering into a higher plane of relationship.
Whether your marriage is a love marriage or an arranged marriage, you are going to have a partner to share your works, feelings, thoughts and the responsibilities.
Now you are more concerned here about a vital question: how to be prepared for the forthcoming marital life? Some of you may even ask, 'After all life is a learning process; why don't I remain my true self and learn anything new after entering into the marital life and getting adjusted accordingly?'
You know pretty well that planning is very vital in every venture and every part of your life.Your marital life is no exception.
In case of a love marriage, you are blessed and doubly advantageous; you have an opportunity to know about your life partner before hand, his or her income, his or her interests, his or her likes and dislikes, his or her characteristic qualities and so on. You get to know all these things by having frequent interaction with him or her, when you are in love with him or her.
If you are getting a life partner through an arranged marriage, it is always better to have a series of interactions with your fiancee before the marriage so that you can feel at ease when you enter the marital home. Moreover, such interactions will also help you to find out any bogus claims made by your future life partner so that you can be on guard against him or her.
Besides, getting married also means getting a new life partner; besides, you also have to move with a number of other people at the marital home like your future in-laws, your future life partner's brothers, sisters and his other relatives.
If you are well informed about everything about your proposed life partner, you can very well device a scheme or a plan of dealing with them. On the other hand, if you are not well informed and well equipped in your marital home, there is every chance and possibility of having a starting trouble at your marital home, leading to misunderstandings, ill feelings, mental tension, agony and torture; it may even lead to breakdown of of your marriage.
Now coming to the sexual life. If you are inured to a dating culture, perhaps you may not have any problem in your marital life as far as your sex life is concerned. But if you hail from a culture in which premarital sex is a taboo, it is better to equip yourself at least with a rudimentary knowledge of sex than remain a novice at your bed room. Nothing wrong in seeking the advice from your close friends who are already married or from the elders of your home. But sometimes your elders may not be at ease, when they discuss sexual topics or problems with you. Then you have to consult books. You should note that if you are successful in your sex life with your partner, he or she may have more love and affection towards you, which may in turn be very helpful in solving many other problems in the marital life.
Whether you are a male or a female, before embarking upon into your sexual life, please see that you always remain fresh, neat and clean; take care to dress properly; don't forget to use the cosmetics like soap, scent etc that your partner likes most. Always be relaxed and free yourself from any tension. You should fulfill the legitimate sexual desire of your life partner without any inhibition. If your sex life is satisfactory, it will take care of everything at the marital home. Therefore, you should always be prepared for a very good sexual life.
Therefore, before getting married, it is always good to prepare yourself for the forthcoming marital life; it may help you to be at ease at the marital home, besides helping you to solve many other problems so easily that you may encounter there.
Relook at bar on distance PhD
New Delhi, March 2: The University Grants Commission (UGC) has decided to seek legal opinion on its two-year-old ban on MPhil and PhD courses through distance learning following claims by universities that the curbs undermine their autonomy.
Open universities such as Ignou and even regular varsities have protested the restriction on the ground that their respective laws, passed by Parliament or the state legislatures, allowed them to offer such courses.
The UGC had clamped the bar by notifying a rule — the Minimum Standards and Procedure for Awards of MPhil/PhD Degree Regulation — in 2009 saying research courses in the distant mode were of poor quality. The regulations have put a question mark on the future of nearly 10,000 students pursing such courses through universities across the country and the degrees that they will eventually get. Even those who have got such degrees since the regulations were issued face uncertainty.
Some have not enforced the bar, though. Ignou, for instance, still offers such courses. “The UGC regulations do not apply to us as we have been allowed to offer such courses under our act. That is why we did not stop our PhD and MPhil programmes,” vice-chancellor Rajasekharan Pillai said.
Faced with the protests, the UGC discussed the matter at its last meeting on February 3 and decided to seek legal opinion on whether its regulations can override powers conferred on the universities by their acts to offer such courses, a source said.
But R.K. Chauhan, a former UGC Secretary, suggested the ban was justified. “The quality of research programmes like PhD and MPhil is poor in the distant-learning mode. Large numbers of students pursued such courses, which were treated equivalent to the National Eligibility Test (NET) held to appoint lecturers.”
Chauhan contrasted the distance-learning programmes with the relatively tougher UGC rules that apply to the regular PhD and MPhil courses, under which students are to be given admission through an entrance test and must do a course before start working on their thesis.
But Ignou vice-chancellor Pillai claimed the UGC had no authority to debar universities from offering any course. “Our university is an autonomous organisation under the Ignou Act and is allowed to offer MPhil and PhD courses. We have been offering such courses since the 1990s. How can the UGC take away that power?” Officials of the central varsity have met a UGC panel and demanded that the ban be lifted.
Pillai said Ignou’s MPhil and PhD were more rigorous programmes. Students have to do a course work and get their research published in a varsity-prescribed journal.
But A.N. Mishra, president of the Federation of the Central University Teachers’ Association, argued that as the statutory body regulating higher education, the UGC could set standards to maintain quality in research programmes.
Friday, March 4, 2011
KEY TO 1 Billion items in 10,000 Libraries
WorldCat connects you to the collections and services of more than 10,000 libraries worldwide
The Online Books Page Listing over 1 million free books on the Web
Welcome to the Library of Congress Page for gateway access to LC's catalog and those at many other institutions.
Thursday, March 3, 2011
ACADEMIC JOURNALS
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ACADEMIC JOURNALS provides free access to research information to the international community without financial, legal or technical barriers. All the journals from this organization will be freely distributed and available from multiple websites.....ACADEMIC JOURNALS, breaking new frontiers in the world of journals
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Monday, February 28, 2011
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Thursday, February 24, 2011
Must-have freeware for Windows users
What’s better than free software? How about free software that’s as good as most commercial applications and fills a void that free-based software doesn’t? That’s what it takes to make it onto any respectable list of must-have freeware. Read on to see if some of these battle-tested free applications can make your computing life easier.
System tools
What do you use when you need to find duplicate files on your computer, clean your internet tracks, optimise the start-up of your PC for maximum speed, shred or encrypt files, or remove spyware? You could turn to a lot of small add-on tools, or you could just use Glary Utilities (http://www.glaryutilities.com/). This free utility pack beats the massive all-in-one utility suites of yesteryear because it contains efficient tools that are useful to most computer users but consumes a mere 19 megabytes of disk space. Tools are organized neatly into the categories such as “clean up and repair,” “optimize and improve,” and “privacy.” If all you need to do from time to time is clean the junk files that inevitably clog a Windows computer, CCleaner (http://www.piriform.com) is the one essential free tool that many swear by.
Image viewers
A rudimentary thumbnail viewer is built in to Windows. But the moment you need to view images in the RAW format of your digital camera — or another less common format — you run into trouble. That’s where dedicated image viewers come in, and most computer users need one. Unfortunately, commercial image viewers have become unwieldy and slow, piling on features that most never use.
XnView (http://www.xnview.com) is a refreshing, free change. It’s fast, simple, and ties in nicely with your image editor of choice.
With a drive tree on the left and the image thumbnail viewer on the right, it’s compatible with most image formats today, and there’s even a version that ties in with Windows Explorer to replace Windows’ anaemic thumbnail viewer.
Windows key automation
Windows 7 uses the Windows key better than any previous version of the operating system. But there’s still much more that can be done with it. That’s where the free Hotkeyz (http://www.skynergy.com/hotkeyz.html) comes in. With it, you can supercharge your underused Windows key. How about Windows key+I to open Internet Explorer? Windows key+W for Word? Windows key+C to open the Control Panel? The Hotkeyz functionality should be built into Windows. Since it’s not, this tiny free application is the next best thing.
Media player
When you get tired of Windows Media Player crashing or failing to play some media file that you’ve downloaded from the internet, it might be time to turn to the free VLC Media Player (http://www.videolan.org/vlc/).
VLC plays both audio and video and does so more reliably and quickly than Windows Media Player. Best of all, it can be used side-by-side with Media Player or another of your favourite media tools.
Zip and archive tools
For a simple and reliable archival tool that both reads and creates compressed archives in the Zip format, it’s hard to beat 7-Zip (http://www.7-zip.org).
But if you need something even more robust — a tool that reads a number of other archive formats — then the free IZArc (http://www.izarc.org) is worth adding to your toolkit. Not only will IZArc handle popular archive formats such as ZIP and RAR, but it will also tackle less common formats, including IMG and ACE. Even better, the tool will also give your system the ability to open CD image files, including ISO and BIN.
Antivirus
There are so many capable, free antivirus tools on the market these days that it’s a wonder why anyone still pays annual subscription fees to the former all-stars of system protection.
Microsoft’s free Security Essentials (http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials) is rated highly in most recent tests of antivirus tools, and for Windows users, it’s an obvious first choice. Others rely on AVG Anti-Virus (http://free.avg.com/us—en/homepage). If you want a separate spyware utility, Malwarebytes (http://www.malwarebytes.org) makes many people’s best-of list. It protects your PC from spyware, keylogging programs, and other types of malicious software that some regular antivirus tools ignore.
Installing freeware
While the tools on this must-have freeware list are proven winners, always be careful when installing free applications.
Increasingly, during installation, developers are including tie-ins to add-on toolbars or home page changers. These extraneous programs are usually offered to you on a screen or two during installation, and to refuse installation, you’ll have to deselect check boxes or specifically say “no” to the add-on applications. Read the installation screens closely so that you don’t end up installing something that you don’t want.
Courtesy: The Hindu
Knowledge Discovery Resources 2011 - An Internet MiniGuide Annotated Link Compilation
This Internet MiniGuide Annotated Link Compilation is dedicated to the latest and most reliable resources for knowledge discovery available on the Internet. With the constant addition of new and pertinent information coming online it is very easy to experience frequent bouts of information overload. The key is to balance this is guide to find the important knowledge discovery resources and sites both in the visible and invisible World Wide Web. The following selected knowledge discovery resources and sites offer a wide range of dependable, expert knowledge and information discovery sources to help you accomplish your research goals!
ACM SIGKDD: Current Explorations Issue
http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigkdd/explorations/issue.php?issue=current Explorations is published twice yearly, in June/July and in December/January each year. The newsletter is distributed in hardcopy form to all members of the ACM SIGKDD. It is also sent to ACM's network of libraries. Online versions are available on the web free to the general public. Their goal is to make the SIGKDD Newsletter an informative, rapid means of publication and dynamic forum for communication with the Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining community.
http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigkdd/explorations/issue.php?issue=current Explorations is published twice yearly, in June/July and in December/January each year. The newsletter is distributed in hardcopy form to all members of the ACM SIGKDD. It is also sent to ACM's network of libraries. Online versions are available on the web free to the general public. Their goal is to make the SIGKDD Newsletter an informative, rapid means of publication and dynamic forum for communication with the Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining community.
Advanced Knowledge Technologies
http://www.aktors.org/ The Advanced Knowledge Technologies (AKT) project aims to develop and extend a range of technologies providing integrated methods and services for the capture, modelling, publishing, reuse and management of knowledge. AKT is a multi-million pound , six year collaboration between internationally recognized research groups at the Universities of Aberdeen, Edinburgh, the Open University, Sheffield and South Hampton.
http://www.aktors.org/ The Advanced Knowledge Technologies (AKT) project aims to develop and extend a range of technologies providing integrated methods and services for the capture, modelling, publishing, reuse and management of knowledge. AKT is a multi-million pound , six year collaboration between internationally recognized research groups at the Universities of Aberdeen, Edinburgh, the Open University, Sheffield and South Hampton.
APECKS: a Tool to Support Living Ontologies
http://ksi.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/KAW/KAW98/tennison/index.html Ontology servers are currently under-developed in terms of the support they provide for collaborative activities on their content. This paper presents the APECKS (Adaptive Presentation Environment for Collaborative Knowledge Structuring) system, an ontology server which supports collaboration by allowing individuals to create personal ontologies. These ontologies can be compared with others' to prompt discussion about the sources of their differences and similarities.
http://ksi.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/KAW/KAW98/tennison/index.html Ontology servers are currently under-developed in terms of the support they provide for collaborative activities on their content. This paper presents the APECKS (Adaptive Presentation Environment for Collaborative Knowledge Structuring) system, an ontology server which supports collaboration by allowing individuals to create personal ontologies. These ontologies can be compared with others' to prompt discussion about the sources of their differences and similarities.
Association of KnowledgeWork (AOK)
http://www.kwork.org/ At the Association of Knowledgework, people from every specialty cross professional, geographic, cultural, economic and hierarchical barriers to learn together. Not just another website, this is a virtual home for those who work with knowledge.
http://www.kwork.org/ At the Association of Knowledgework, people from every specialty cross professional, geographic, cultural, economic and hierarchical barriers to learn together. Not just another website, this is a virtual home for those who work with knowledge.
BAYESIA: Bayesian Networks and Data Mining Tool
http://www.bayesia.com/ The Bayesian Network approach merges and supersedes existing approaches coming from Artificial Intelligence and Data Mining, both symbolic and statistical ones. Bayesian Networks are rigorously justified, provide a distributed knowledge representation, and are as understandable as a rule base. They deal particularly well with uncertainty, and they can be manually generated by consultation of an expert, or inductively built by machine learning.
http://www.bayesia.com/ The Bayesian Network approach merges and supersedes existing approaches coming from Artificial Intelligence and Data Mining, both symbolic and statistical ones. Bayesian Networks are rigorously justified, provide a distributed knowledge representation, and are as understandable as a rule base. They deal particularly well with uncertainty, and they can be manually generated by consultation of an expert, or inductively built by machine learning.
Bibliomining Information Center - Data Mining for Libraries
http://www.bibliomining.com/ The basic definition is "data mining for libraries." For years, bibliometrics has been used to track patterns in authorship, citation, etc. Today, there are many more tools available for discovering similar patterns in complex datasets from data mining and statistics. In addition, tools from management science such as Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) can be used to explore the data for patterns. Therefore, a more complex definition is: Bibliomining is the combination of data mining, bibliometrics, statistics, and reporting tools used to extract patterns of behavior-based artifacts from library systems
http://www.bibliomining.com/ The basic definition is "data mining for libraries." For years, bibliometrics has been used to track patterns in authorship, citation, etc. Today, there are many more tools available for discovering similar patterns in complex datasets from data mining and statistics. In addition, tools from management science such as Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) can be used to explore the data for patterns. Therefore, a more complex definition is: Bibliomining is the combination of data mining, bibliometrics, statistics, and reporting tools used to extract patterns of behavior-based artifacts from library systems
Brint.com - Business Technology - Information Economy - Knowledge Management
http://km.brint.com/
KMNetwork and the WWW Virtual Library of Knowledge Management combined to bring together an excellent resource for research papers and portals on knowledge management and discovery. In depth research articles and research portals from over the entire global Internet discuss the business, technologies, processes, systems, sociology, creativity, psychology and philosophy of Knowledge Management.
http://km.brint.com/
KMNetwork and the WWW Virtual Library of Knowledge Management combined to bring together an excellent resource for research papers and portals on knowledge management and discovery. In depth research articles and research portals from over the entire global Internet discuss the business, technologies, processes, systems, sociology, creativity, psychology and philosophy of Knowledge Management.
Creative Commons RDF-Enhanced Search
http://search.creativecommons.org/ This search engine will help you find photos, music, text, books, educational material, and more that is free to share or build upon. Copyright applies fully and automatically to any work. a photograph, a song, a web page, an article, pretty much any form of expression, the moment it is created. This means that if you want to copy and re-use a creative work you find online, you usually have to ask the author's permission. This "all rights reserved" protection is good thing for many authors and artists. But what about those who want you to use their work freely without permission -- but on certain conditions? This search engine helps you quickly find those authors and the work they have marked as free to use with only "some rights reserved." If you respect the rights they have reserved (which will be clearly marked, as you'll see) then you can use the work without having to contact them and ask. In some cases, you may even find work in the public domain -- that is, free for any use with "no rights reserved."
http://search.creativecommons.org/ This search engine will help you find photos, music, text, books, educational material, and more that is free to share or build upon. Copyright applies fully and automatically to any work. a photograph, a song, a web page, an article, pretty much any form of expression, the moment it is created. This means that if you want to copy and re-use a creative work you find online, you usually have to ask the author's permission. This "all rights reserved" protection is good thing for many authors and artists. But what about those who want you to use their work freely without permission -- but on certain conditions? This search engine helps you quickly find those authors and the work they have marked as free to use with only "some rights reserved." If you respect the rights they have reserved (which will be clearly marked, as you'll see) then you can use the work without having to contact them and ask. In some cases, you may even find work in the public domain -- that is, free for any use with "no rights reserved."
Conceptual Graphs
http://conceptualgraphs.org/ Conceptual graphs (CGs) are a system of logic based on the existential graphs of Charles Sanders Peirce and the semantic networks of artificial intelligence. They express meaning in a form that is logically precise, humanly readable, and computationally tractable. With their direct mapping to language, conceptual graphs serve as an intermediate language for translating computer-oriented formalisms to and from natural languages. With their graphic representation, they serve as a readable, but formal design and specification language. CGs have been implemented in a variety of projects for information retrieval, database design, expert systems, and natural language processing.
http://conceptualgraphs.org/ Conceptual graphs (CGs) are a system of logic based on the existential graphs of Charles Sanders Peirce and the semantic networks of artificial intelligence. They express meaning in a form that is logically precise, humanly readable, and computationally tractable. With their direct mapping to language, conceptual graphs serve as an intermediate language for translating computer-oriented formalisms to and from natural languages. With their graphic representation, they serve as a readable, but formal design and specification language. CGs have been implemented in a variety of projects for information retrieval, database design, expert systems, and natural language processing.
Data Mining Resources
http://www.DataMiningResources.info/ A Subject Tracer(TM) Information Blog developed and created by Internet expert, author, keynote speaker and consultant Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. for monitoring data mining resources and sites on the Internet.
http://www.DataMiningResources.info/ A Subject Tracer(TM) Information Blog developed and created by Internet expert, author, keynote speaker and consultant Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. for monitoring data mining resources and sites on the Internet.
Data Mining : White Papers, Webcasts and Product Information
http://www.bitpipe.com/data/rlist?t=itmgmt_10_40_96 Research the latest Data Mining technologies, tools and techniques. Read white papers, case studies, webcasts and product information from multiple vendors .
http://www.bitpipe.com/data/rlist?t=itmgmt_10_40_96 Research the latest Data Mining technologies, tools and techniques. Read white papers, case studies, webcasts and product information from multiple vendors .
Deep Web Research 2011
http://DeepWeb.us/ Web search guru Marcus P. Zillman's guide extensively documents resources that include articles, books, websites, presentations, search engines, and technology applications that facilitate the challenging task of accessing information, published in many formats, that encompass the hundreds of millions of pages comprising the "deep web."
http://DeepWeb.us/ Web search guru Marcus P. Zillman's guide extensively documents resources that include articles, books, websites, presentations, search engines, and technology applications that facilitate the challenging task of accessing information, published in many formats, that encompass the hundreds of millions of pages comprising the "deep web."
Explore Open Archives
http://opcit.eprints.org/explorearchives.shtml This site lists and comments on other lists of individual open archives. This list and its categorisation gives a broad overview of the structure, size and progress of full-text open access eprint archives. This list will be maintained and updated as far as is possible, and is intended to assist further quantitative research on the open access eprint phenomenon for those who want to measure the growth and quality of open access eprint archives.
http://opcit.eprints.org/explorearchives.shtml This site lists and comments on other lists of individual open archives. This list and its categorisation gives a broad overview of the structure, size and progress of full-text open access eprint archives. This list will be maintained and updated as far as is possible, and is intended to assist further quantitative research on the open access eprint phenomenon for those who want to measure the growth and quality of open access eprint archives.
Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP)
http://www.globalknowledge.org/ The Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP) is a worldwide network committed to harnessing the potential of information and communication technologies (ICTs)* for sustainable and equitable development. GKP's vision is a world of equal opportunities where all people can access and use knowledge and information to improve their lives. The network enables the sharing of information, experiences and resources to help reduce poverty and empower people.
http://www.globalknowledge.org/ The Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP) is a worldwide network committed to harnessing the potential of information and communication technologies (ICTs)* for sustainable and equitable development. GKP's vision is a world of equal opportunities where all people can access and use knowledge and information to improve their lives. The network enables the sharing of information, experiences and resources to help reduce poverty and empower people.
GMDH - Group Method of Data Handling
http://come.to/GMDH Group Method of Data Handling was applied in a great variety of areas for data mining and knowledge discovery, forecasting and systems modeling, optimization and pattern recognition. Inductive GMDH algorithms give possibility to find automatically interrelations in data, to select optimal structure of model or network and to increase the accuracy of existing algorithms. This original self-organizing approach is substantially different from deductive methods used commonly for modeling. It has inductive nature - it finds the best solution by sorting-out of possible variants.
http://come.to/GMDH Group Method of Data Handling was applied in a great variety of areas for data mining and knowledge discovery, forecasting and systems modeling, optimization and pattern recognition. Inductive GMDH algorithms give possibility to find automatically interrelations in data, to select optimal structure of model or network and to increase the accuracy of existing algorithms. This original self-organizing approach is substantially different from deductive methods used commonly for modeling. It has inductive nature - it finds the best solution by sorting-out of possible variants.
Gurteen Knowledge Website
http://www.gurteen.com/ This site acts as a gateway Knowledge Management, Learning, Thinking, Creativity, Personal Mastery; Personal Knowledge Management and the effective use of Technology. The site has been created by and maintained by David Gurteen an UK-based knowledge consultant.
http://www.gurteen.com/ This site acts as a gateway Knowledge Management, Learning, Thinking, Creativity, Personal Mastery; Personal Knowledge Management and the effective use of Technology. The site has been created by and maintained by David Gurteen an UK-based knowledge consultant.
Google(TM) Directory – Knowledge Discovery http://directory.google.com/Top/Reference/Knowledge_Management/Knowledge_Discovery/ Google's directory of Knowledge Discovery resources on the world wide web in the following categories: 1) Books, 2) Business and Companies, 3) Data Mining, 4) Information Visualization, 5) Magazines and eZines, 6) OLAP, 7) Organizations, 8) Software, and 9) Test Mining.
IBM Research - Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining (KDD)
http://www.research.ibm.com/compsci/kdd/ IBM Research has been at the forefront of the exciting new area of Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining (KDD) from the very beginning. Key advances in robust and scalable data mining, methods for fast pattern detection from very large databases, text and web mining, and innovative business intelligence applications have come from our research laboratories. Links to their current projects as well as KDD links are available from this site.
http://www.research.ibm.com/compsci/kdd/ IBM Research has been at the forefront of the exciting new area of Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining (KDD) from the very beginning. Key advances in robust and scalable data mining, methods for fast pattern detection from very large databases, text and web mining, and innovative business intelligence applications have come from our research laboratories. Links to their current projects as well as KDD links are available from this site.
International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Knowledge Management (P2PKM)
http://www.p2pkm.org/ The P2PKM workshop is intended to serve as an active forum for researchers and practitioners, where they will have the possibility to exchange and discuss novel ideas, research results and experiences, laying in the intersection of the P2P, Knowledge Management (KM), Semantic Web, databases, pervasive computing, agents, as well as other related fields.
http://www.p2pkm.org/ The P2PKM workshop is intended to serve as an active forum for researchers and practitioners, where they will have the possibility to exchange and discuss novel ideas, research results and experiences, laying in the intersection of the P2P, Knowledge Management (KM), Semantic Web, databases, pervasive computing, agents, as well as other related fields.
ITtoolbox Knowledge Management – Knowledge Management Information and Tools
http://knowledgemanagement.ittoolbox.com/ A comprehensive site for Knowledge Management and Discovery Resources including browse by type of content: Blogs, FAQs, Groups, Jobs, News, Peer Publishing, PR, Research and White Papers. Also available browse by Knowledge Management Topic: Business Intelligence, Business Strategy/Planning, Communication/Collaboration, Data Warehousing, Document/Content Management, e-Learning, Enterprise Portals, General Knowledge management, KM Career, Knowledge Transfer, and Packaged KM Suites.
http://knowledgemanagement.ittoolbox.com/ A comprehensive site for Knowledge Management and Discovery Resources including browse by type of content: Blogs, FAQs, Groups, Jobs, News, Peer Publishing, PR, Research and White Papers. Also available browse by Knowledge Management Topic: Business Intelligence, Business Strategy/Planning, Communication/Collaboration, Data Warehousing, Document/Content Management, e-Learning, Enterprise Portals, General Knowledge management, KM Career, Knowledge Transfer, and Packaged KM Suites.
KBL(sm): A Registry of Library Knowledge Bases
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/KBL.htm Library-created or library-related Knowledge Bases. A Knowledge Base / Knowledgebase may be defined as a database with a focus on empirical or practical knowledge. In recent years, Knowledge bases have become common components for many businesses and services.
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/KBL.htm Library-created or library-related Knowledge Bases. A Knowledge Base / Knowledgebase may be defined as a database with a focus on empirical or practical knowledge. In recent years, Knowledge bases have become common components for many businesses and services.
K-CAP2005 - Third International Conference on Knowledge Capture
http://www.kcap05.org/ Areas covered: Knowledge engineering and modeling methodologies, Mixed-initiative planning and decision-support tools, Acquisition of problem-solving knowledge, Programming-by-demonstration systems, Knowledge management environments, Knowledge-based markup techniques, Knowledge extraction systems, Knowledge acquisition tools, Advice taking systems, and Learning apprentice.
http://www.kcap05.org/ Areas covered: Knowledge engineering and modeling methodologies, Mixed-initiative planning and decision-support tools, Acquisition of problem-solving knowledge, Programming-by-demonstration systems, Knowledge management environments, Knowledge-based markup techniques, Knowledge extraction systems, Knowledge acquisition tools, Advice taking systems, and Learning apprentice.
k-collector – Enterprise Knowledge Aggregator http://www.evectors.it/itideatools/story$data=ideatools&num=142&sec=5 k-collector is an enterprise knowledge aggregator that leverages the power of social software, weblogs and shared topics to present new ways of finding and combining the real knowledge in your organization.
KDD-2011 - The 17th Annual ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigkdd/kdd2011/ The annual ACM SIGKDD conference is the premier international forum for data mining researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and government to share their ideas, research results and experiences. KDD-2011 will feature keynote presentations, oral paper presentations, poster sessions, workshops, tutorials, panels, exhibits, demonstrations, and the KDD Cup competition. KDD-2011 will run from August 21-24 in San Diego, CA and will feature hundreds of practitioners and academic data miners converging on the one location.
http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigkdd/kdd2011/ The annual ACM SIGKDD conference is the premier international forum for data mining researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and government to share their ideas, research results and experiences. KDD-2011 will feature keynote presentations, oral paper presentations, poster sessions, workshops, tutorials, panels, exhibits, demonstrations, and the KDD Cup competition. KDD-2011 will run from August 21-24 in San Diego, CA and will feature hundreds of practitioners and academic data miners converging on the one location.
KDnuggets: Data Mining, Web Mining, and Knowledge Discovery Guide
http://www.kdnuggets.com/ KDnuggets.com (KD stands for Knowledge Discovery) is the leading source of information on Data Mining, Web Mining, Knowledge Discovery, and Decision Support Topics, including News, Software, Solutions, Companies, Jobs, Courses, Meetings, Publications, and more. KDnuggets News has been widely recognized as the leading newsletter on Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery.
http://www.kdnuggets.com/ KDnuggets.com (KD stands for Knowledge Discovery) is the leading source of information on Data Mining, Web Mining, Knowledge Discovery, and Decision Support Topics, including News, Software, Solutions, Companies, Jobs, Courses, Meetings, Publications, and more. KDnuggets News has been widely recognized as the leading newsletter on Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery.
KmBlogger
http://kmwiki.wikispaces.com/ A resource covering site, resources, communities and related information about the relationship between blogs and knowledge management and knowledge discovery.
http://kmwiki.wikispaces.com/ A resource covering site, resources, communities and related information about the relationship between blogs and knowledge management and knowledge discovery.
Know-Center - Austria's Competence Center for Knowledge Management
http://www.know-center.at The Know-Center is Austria's Competence Center for knowledge-based Applications and Systems. The Know-Center has its core competences in the fields of information technology as enabling technologies for knowledge management and in human-oriented knowledge management.
http://www.know-center.at The Know-Center is Austria's Competence Center for knowledge-based Applications and Systems. The Know-Center has its core competences in the fields of information technology as enabling technologies for knowledge management and in human-oriented knowledge management.
Knowledge Discovery
http://www.KnowledgeDiscovery.info/ A Subject Tracer(TM) Information Blog developed and created by Internet expert, author, keynote speaker and consultant Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. for monitoring knowledge discovery resources and sites on the Internet.
http://www.KnowledgeDiscovery.info/ A Subject Tracer(TM) Information Blog developed and created by Internet expert, author, keynote speaker and consultant Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. for monitoring knowledge discovery resources and sites on the Internet.
Knowledge Harvesting
http://www.KnowledgeHarvesting.org/ Knowledge Harvesting is used to rapidly convert top-performer expertise into knowledge assets that enhance corporate valuation and protect the organization from knowledge degradation. The purpose of this site is to offer an extensive introduction to Knowledge Harvesting.
http://www.KnowledgeHarvesting.org/ Knowledge Harvesting is used to rapidly convert top-performer expertise into knowledge assets that enhance corporate valuation and protect the organization from knowledge degradation. The purpose of this site is to offer an extensive introduction to Knowledge Harvesting.
Knowledge Management Cluster Web
http://www.kmcluster.com/ KMCluster focus is knowledge management (KM). Focus is also on the key KM techniques of enterprise collaboration (EC), organizational learning (OL), communities of practice (CP), social networks (SN), intellectual capital (IC), complexity science (CS), content management (CM), measurement & metrics (MM), policy & procedures (PP), innovation & invention (II) and analytics & taxonomies (AT).
http://www.kmcluster.com/ KMCluster focus is knowledge management (KM). Focus is also on the key KM techniques of enterprise collaboration (EC), organizational learning (OL), communities of practice (CP), social networks (SN), intellectual capital (IC), complexity science (CS), content management (CM), measurement & metrics (MM), policy & procedures (PP), innovation & invention (II) and analytics & taxonomies (AT).
Knowledge Management Magazine – Inside Knowledge
http://www.kmmagazine.com/ The original knowledge management publication. The knowledge that exists within your organization is your only sustainable source of competitive advantage. They believe this makes knowledge management a strategic imperative for you. Each issue of Inside Knowledge is designed to provide you with the information you require to: 1) Learn from the mistakes and success stories of others, 2) Lower business costs and increase productivity across your organization, 3) Ensure the ongoing professional development of yourself and your colleagues, and 4) Keep on top of industry developments, new techniques and tools for knowledge management and knowledge discovery.
http://www.kmmagazine.com/ The original knowledge management publication. The knowledge that exists within your organization is your only sustainable source of competitive advantage. They believe this makes knowledge management a strategic imperative for you. Each issue of Inside Knowledge is designed to provide you with the information you require to: 1) Learn from the mistakes and success stories of others, 2) Lower business costs and increase productivity across your organization, 3) Ensure the ongoing professional development of yourself and your colleagues, and 4) Keep on top of industry developments, new techniques and tools for knowledge management and knowledge discovery.
Knowledge Management Research Center - CIO http://www.cio.com/topic/1467/Knowledge_Management Making the most of intellectual capital. Topics in the Knowledge Management Research Center include: 1) Overview, 2) Strategy, 3) Process, 4) Measurement, 5) Technology, 6) Portal and Collaboration, 7) In the Know, 8) Case Studies, 9) Metrics, 10) CIO Radio, 11) Q&A, 12) Books, 13) Events, and 14) Newsletters. A comprehensive research center presented and updated by CIO.
Knowledge Management Resource Center
http://www.kmresource.com/ Knowledge Management Resource Center is a gateway to the world of Knowledge Management (KM). On this site you'll find a comprehensive collection of KM resources, each reviewed and described to help you quickly locate what you're looking for. You can explore knowledge management in their 17 departments, browse their bookstore, or search the site by keyword.
http://www.kmresource.com/ Knowledge Management Resource Center is a gateway to the world of Knowledge Management (KM). On this site you'll find a comprehensive collection of KM resources, each reviewed and described to help you quickly locate what you're looking for. You can explore knowledge management in their 17 departments, browse their bookstore, or search the site by keyword.
Linguistic Tools for Knowledge Discovery
http://www.montague.com/abstracts/discovery.htm The gaps between subject and functional boundaries are one of the best sources of breakthrough innovation. Yet for a variety of reasons — managerial, technical, and editorial — it's often difficult to exploit them. In this article they use an example from their own research and experience to show how linguistic tools such as thesauri, glossaries, and navigation schemes can promote knowledge discovery by exposing potential linkages between seemingly unrelated subjects.
http://www.montague.com/abstracts/discovery.htm The gaps between subject and functional boundaries are one of the best sources of breakthrough innovation. Yet for a variety of reasons — managerial, technical, and editorial — it's often difficult to exploit them. In this article they use an example from their own research and experience to show how linguistic tools such as thesauri, glossaries, and navigation schemes can promote knowledge discovery by exposing potential linkages between seemingly unrelated subjects.
my Knowledge Explorer (mKE) and the mKR Language
http://mKRmKE.org/ my Knowledge Explorer (MKE) is an interactive tool for organizing knowledge. It helps the user to record, change and search knowledge, and provides extensive error checking to ensure the internal consistency of the knowledge. Interaction with mKE uses the mKR language. mKR is a very-high-level knowledge representation language with simple English-like statements, questions and commands, plus UNIX-shell-like variables, methods and control structures.
http://mKRmKE.org/ my Knowledge Explorer (MKE) is an interactive tool for organizing knowledge. It helps the user to record, change and search knowledge, and provides extensive error checking to ensure the internal consistency of the knowledge. Interaction with mKE uses the mKR language. mKR is a very-high-level knowledge representation language with simple English-like statements, questions and commands, plus UNIX-shell-like variables, methods and control structures.
Megaputer Intelligence
http://www.megaputer.com/ Megaputer Intelligence Inc., a Delaware corporation established in May of 1997, is a leading developer and distributor of advanced software tools for data mining, text mining, and intelligent e-commerce personalization. Their tools help reveal knowledge hidden in data. They add intelligence and insight to every step of the business decision-making process. The mission of Megaputer is to provide customers around the world with top quality software tools for transforming raw data into knowledge and facilitating better business decisions.
http://www.megaputer.com/ Megaputer Intelligence Inc., a Delaware corporation established in May of 1997, is a leading developer and distributor of advanced software tools for data mining, text mining, and intelligent e-commerce personalization. Their tools help reveal knowledge hidden in data. They add intelligence and insight to every step of the business decision-making process. The mission of Megaputer is to provide customers around the world with top quality software tools for transforming raw data into knowledge and facilitating better business decisions.
Open Directory – Knowledge Discovery http://dmoz.org/Reference/Knowledge_Management/Knowledge_Discovery/ A listing pf knowledge discovery resources broken into the following categories: 1) Books, 2) Business and Companies, 3) Magazine and eZines, 4) Organizations, 5) Software, 6) Data Mining, 7) Information Visualization, 8) OLAP, and 9) Text Mining.
PEPITe S.A.
http://www.pepite.be/ PEPITe is a company specialized in intelligent data exploration and knowledge extraction techniques. PEPITe sells Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD) solutions. These solutions combine software modules and services. PEPITe offers a complete range of services and products dedicated to industrial Data Mining (DM) applications.
http://www.pepite.be/ PEPITe is a company specialized in intelligent data exploration and knowledge extraction techniques. PEPITe sells Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD) solutions. These solutions combine software modules and services. PEPITe offers a complete range of services and products dedicated to industrial Data Mining (DM) applications.
STATISTICA - Data Mining, Data Analysis, Quality Control, and Web Analytics Software
http://www.statsoft.com/ StatSoft's flagship product line is the STATISTICA suite of analytics software products. STATISTICA provides the most comprehensive array of data analysis, data management, data visualization and data mining procedures. Its techniques include the widest selection of predictive modeling, clustering, classification and exploratory techniques in one software platform. Ideal for the knowledge discovery starter kit ....
http://www.statsoft.com/ StatSoft's flagship product line is the STATISTICA suite of analytics software products. STATISTICA provides the most comprehensive array of data analysis, data management, data visualization and data mining procedures. Its techniques include the widest selection of predictive modeling, clustering, classification and exploratory techniques in one software platform. Ideal for the knowledge discovery starter kit ....
Telemakus - Mining and Mapping Research Findings to Promote Knowledge Discovery
http://www.telemakus.net/ The goal of the Telemakus System is to enhance the knowledge discovery process by developing retrieval, visual and interaction tools to mine and map research findings from the research literature. The objective of the research is to create, test and validate an infrastructure to permit the automation of the creation and maintenance of a searchable database that generates knowledge maps via query tools and concept mapping algorithms. We will also be applying natural language processing models and information analysis methods to ultimately speed up the scientific discovery process.
http://www.telemakus.net/ The goal of the Telemakus System is to enhance the knowledge discovery process by developing retrieval, visual and interaction tools to mine and map research findings from the research literature. The objective of the research is to create, test and validate an infrastructure to permit the automation of the creation and maintenance of a searchable database that generates knowledge maps via query tools and concept mapping algorithms. We will also be applying natural language processing models and information analysis methods to ultimately speed up the scientific discovery process.
The Data Mine
http://www.the-data-mine.com/ The Data Mine was launched in April 1994, to provide information about DataMining (AKA KnowledgeDiscoveryInDatabases or KDD). There are 6 seperate DataMining topic areas (known as "webs"), each with an index. You could also start with the IntroductionToDataMining. Popular pages include: OnLine Analytical Processing (OLAP) , Data Mining Journals, Data Mining Tutorials, Data Sources. Topic areas include: Data Mining Software, Data Mining Index, Data Mining General/Misc, People Working in Data Mining, and Data Mining Companies and Organizations.
http://www.the-data-mine.com/ The Data Mine was launched in April 1994, to provide information about DataMining (AKA KnowledgeDiscoveryInDatabases or KDD). There are 6 seperate DataMining topic areas (known as "webs"), each with an index. You could also start with the IntroductionToDataMining. Popular pages include: OnLine Analytical Processing (OLAP) , Data Mining Journals, Data Mining Tutorials, Data Sources. Topic areas include: Data Mining Software, Data Mining Index, Data Mining General/Misc, People Working in Data Mining, and Data Mining Companies and Organizations.
The Protege Project
http://protege.stanford.edu/ Protege is an ontology editor and a knowledge-base editor. Protege is also an open-source, Java tool that provides an extensible architecture for the creation of customized knowledge-based applications. Protege's OWL Plug-in now provides support for editing Semantic Web ontologies.
http://protege.stanford.edu/ Protege is an ontology editor and a knowledge-base editor. Protege is also an open-source, Java tool that provides an extensible architecture for the creation of customized knowledge-based applications. Protege's OWL Plug-in now provides support for editing Semantic Web ontologies.
Visual Analytics - VisuaLinks, Link Analysis, Data Mining Software
http://www.visualanalytics.com/ VisuaLinks(R) is a platform-independent, graphical analysis tool used to discover patterns, trends, associations and hidden networks in any number and type of data sources. VisuaLinks presents data graphically uncovering underlying relationships and patterns. VisuaLinks addresses the entire analytical process – from access and integration to presentation and reporting – providing a single and complete solution to a broad range of data analysis needs.
http://www.visualanalytics.com/ VisuaLinks(R) is a platform-independent, graphical analysis tool used to discover patterns, trends, associations and hidden networks in any number and type of data sources. VisuaLinks presents data graphically uncovering underlying relationships and patterns. VisuaLinks addresses the entire analytical process – from access and integration to presentation and reporting – providing a single and complete solution to a broad range of data analysis needs.
UCI Knowledge Discovery in Databases Archive
http://kdd.ics.uci.edu/ This is an online repository of large data sets which encompasses a wide variety of data types, analysis tasks, and application areas. The primary role of this repository is to enable researchers in knowledge discovery and data mining to scale existing and future data analysis algorithms to very large and complex data sets. The archive is intended to serve as a permanent repository of publicly-accessible data sets for research in KDD and data mining.
http://kdd.ics.uci.edu/ This is an online repository of large data sets which encompasses a wide variety of data types, analysis tasks, and application areas. The primary role of this repository is to enable researchers in knowledge discovery and data mining to scale existing and future data analysis algorithms to very large and complex data sets. The archive is intended to serve as a permanent repository of publicly-accessible data sets for research in KDD and data mining.
Knowledge Discovery/Management and Data Mining
Academic and Scholar Search Engines and Sources
http://www.ScholarSearchEngines.com/
Academic Earth - Thousands of Video Lectures From the World's Top Scholars
http://academicearth.org/
Academici - Where People Who Know Meet People Who Know
http://www.academici.com/
ACM SIGKDD: Current Explorations Issue
http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigkdd/explorations/issue.php?issue=current
ACM SIGKDD Home Page
http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigkdd/
Advanced Knowledge Technologies
http://www.aktors.org/
Advancing Knowledge and the Knowledge Economy
http://advancingknowledge.com/
Amazon.com: A Glance: Managing Knowledge : A Practical Web-Based Approach
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/020143315X/002-5401737-1036049
Ambient Intelligence: Changing Forms of Human-Computer Interaction and their Social Implications by Mahesh S. Raisinghani*, Ally Benoit, Jianchun Ding, Maria Gomez, Kanak Gupta, Victor Gusila, Daniel Power and Oliver Schmedding
http://journals.tdl.org/jodi/article/viewArticle/149/147
Analyzing the Role of Knowledge Organization in Scholarly Communication
http://www.db.dk/dbi/samling/phd/jackandersen-phd.htm
Association of KnowledgeWork (AOK)
http://www.kwork.org/
BAYESIA: Bayesian Networks and Data Mining Tool
http://www.bayesia.com/
Bibliomining Information Center
http://www.bibliomining.com/
BLIASoft Knowledge Discovery
http://www.bliasoft.com/Eindex.html
Brint.com - Business Technology - Information Economy - Knowledge Management
http://www.brint.com/
Center for Automated Learning and Discovery
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~cald/
ChangeThis - A New Media
http://www.changethis.com/
Community Intelligence labs (CoIL)
http://www.co-i-l.com/coil/knowledge-garden/cop/index.shtml
Conzilla - Concept Browser
http://www.conzilla.org/
Creative Commons RDF-Enhanced Search
http://search.creativecommons.org/
Context Discovery - Text Summarization and Knowledge Discovery Tool
http://www.contextdiscovery.com/
DataFerrett - Data Mining Tool
http://dataferrett.census.gov/
Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery in Databases
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.42.1071
Data Mining Resources
http://www.DataMiningResources.info/
Data Mining : White Papers, Webcasts and Product Information
http://www.bitpipe.com/data/rlist?t=itmgmt_10_40_96
DBpedia Knowledge Base
http://dbpedia.org/
Deep Web Research
http://www.deepwebresearch.info/
Delineal - Next Generation Decision Engines and eDiscovery Applications
http://www.delineal.com/
ePresence Interactive Media
http://epresence.tv/
Excited Utterances - Archived Resource Of All Things Legal KM
http://www.excitedutterances.blogspot.com/
Explore Open Archives
http://opcit.eprints.org/explorearchives.shtml
Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP)
http://www.globalknowledge.org/
GMDH - Group Method of Data Handling
http://come.to/GMDH
GNOSS - Connect Intelligence and Interests
http://www.gnoss.com/
Gurteen Knowledge Website
http://www.gurteen.com/
IBM Research - Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining
http://www.research.ibm.com/compsci/kdd/
IET Discover
http://discover.theiet.org/
Information Retrieval Intelligence
http://www.miislita.com/
Insead Knowledge
http://knowledge.insead.edu/
Intellexer - Custom Built Search Engines, Knowledge Management Tools, Natural Language Processing
http://www.intellexer.com/
Interdisciplinary Journal of Information, Knowledge, and Management
http://ijikm.org/
Interdisciplinary Journal of Knowledge and Learning Objects
http://www.ijklo.org/
International Conference on Knowledge Management (ICKM 2008)
http://www.ickm2008.org/
International Journal of Knowledge and Learning (IJKL)
http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalCODE=ijkl
International Journal of Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Engineering Systems
http://www.kesinternational.org/journal/
International Journal of Knowledge Management (IJKM)
http://www.igi-global.com/journals/details.asp?id=4288
International Journal of Knowledge Management Studies (IJKMS)
http://www.inderscience.com/ijkms/
International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Knowledge Management (P2PKM)
http://www.p2pkm.org/
ITtoolbox Knowledge Management
http://knowledgemanagement.ittoolbox.com/
J.UKM: Universal Journal of Knowledge Management
http://www.jukm.org/
KANA -- Knowledge Management
http://www.kana.com/
KBL(sm): A Registry of Library Knowledge Bases
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/KBL.htm
K-CAP2005 - Third International Conference on Knowledge Capture
http://www.kcap05.org/
KDD-2010: The 16th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigkdd/kdd2010/
http://www.ScholarSearchEngines.com/
Academic Earth - Thousands of Video Lectures From the World's Top Scholars
http://academicearth.org/
Academici - Where People Who Know Meet People Who Know
http://www.academici.com/
ACM SIGKDD: Current Explorations Issue
http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigkdd/explorations/issue.php?issue=current
ACM SIGKDD Home Page
http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigkdd/
Advanced Knowledge Technologies
http://www.aktors.org/
Advancing Knowledge and the Knowledge Economy
http://advancingknowledge.com/
Amazon.com: A Glance: Managing Knowledge : A Practical Web-Based Approach
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/020143315X/002-5401737-1036049
Ambient Intelligence: Changing Forms of Human-Computer Interaction and their Social Implications by Mahesh S. Raisinghani*, Ally Benoit, Jianchun Ding, Maria Gomez, Kanak Gupta, Victor Gusila, Daniel Power and Oliver Schmedding
http://journals.tdl.org/jodi/article/viewArticle/149/147
Analyzing the Role of Knowledge Organization in Scholarly Communication
http://www.db.dk/dbi/samling/phd/jackandersen-phd.htm
Association of KnowledgeWork (AOK)
http://www.kwork.org/
BAYESIA: Bayesian Networks and Data Mining Tool
http://www.bayesia.com/
Bibliomining Information Center
http://www.bibliomining.com/
BLIASoft Knowledge Discovery
http://www.bliasoft.com/Eindex.html
Brint.com - Business Technology - Information Economy - Knowledge Management
http://www.brint.com/
Center for Automated Learning and Discovery
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~cald/
ChangeThis - A New Media
http://www.changethis.com/
Community Intelligence labs (CoIL)
http://www.co-i-l.com/coil/knowledge-garden/cop/index.shtml
Conzilla - Concept Browser
http://www.conzilla.org/
Creative Commons RDF-Enhanced Search
http://search.creativecommons.org/
Context Discovery - Text Summarization and Knowledge Discovery Tool
http://www.contextdiscovery.com/
DataFerrett - Data Mining Tool
http://dataferrett.census.gov/
Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery in Databases
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.42.1071
Data Mining Resources
http://www.DataMiningResources.info/
Data Mining : White Papers, Webcasts and Product Information
http://www.bitpipe.com/data/rlist?t=itmgmt_10_40_96
DBpedia Knowledge Base
http://dbpedia.org/
Deep Web Research
http://www.deepwebresearch.info/
Delineal - Next Generation Decision Engines and eDiscovery Applications
http://www.delineal.com/
ePresence Interactive Media
http://epresence.tv/
Excited Utterances - Archived Resource Of All Things Legal KM
http://www.excitedutterances.blogspot.com/
Explore Open Archives
http://opcit.eprints.org/explorearchives.shtml
Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP)
http://www.globalknowledge.org/
GMDH - Group Method of Data Handling
http://come.to/GMDH
GNOSS - Connect Intelligence and Interests
http://www.gnoss.com/
Gurteen Knowledge Website
http://www.gurteen.com/
IBM Research - Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining
http://www.research.ibm.com/compsci/kdd/
IET Discover
http://discover.theiet.org/
Information Retrieval Intelligence
http://www.miislita.com/
Insead Knowledge
http://knowledge.insead.edu/
Intellexer - Custom Built Search Engines, Knowledge Management Tools, Natural Language Processing
http://www.intellexer.com/
Interdisciplinary Journal of Information, Knowledge, and Management
http://ijikm.org/
Interdisciplinary Journal of Knowledge and Learning Objects
http://www.ijklo.org/
International Conference on Knowledge Management (ICKM 2008)
http://www.ickm2008.org/
International Journal of Knowledge and Learning (IJKL)
http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalCODE=ijkl
International Journal of Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Engineering Systems
http://www.kesinternational.org/journal/
International Journal of Knowledge Management (IJKM)
http://www.igi-global.com/journals/details.asp?id=4288
International Journal of Knowledge Management Studies (IJKMS)
http://www.inderscience.com/ijkms/
International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Knowledge Management (P2PKM)
http://www.p2pkm.org/
ITtoolbox Knowledge Management
http://knowledgemanagement.ittoolbox.com/
J.UKM: Universal Journal of Knowledge Management
http://www.jukm.org/
KANA -- Knowledge Management
http://www.kana.com/
KBL(sm): A Registry of Library Knowledge Bases
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/KBL.htm
K-CAP2005 - Third International Conference on Knowledge Capture
http://www.kcap05.org/
KDD-2010: The 16th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigkdd/kdd2010/
KDD-2011: The 17th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigkdd/kdd2011/
KDnuggets: Data Mining, Web Mining, and Knowledge Discovery Guide
http://www.kdnuggets.com/
KM4d - Open Access, Peer-Reviewed, On Knowledge Management In Development
http://www.km4dev.org/
KmBlogger
http://kmwiki.wikispaces.com/
KMCI - The New Knowledge Management
http://www.kmci.org/
KmForums
http://kmwiki.wikispaces.com/
KMNetwork
http://www.brint.com/km/
KmWiki
http://kmwiki.wikispaces.com/
KMWorld
http://www.kmworld.com/
Know-Center - Austria's Competence Center for Knowledge Management
http://www.know-center.at/
Knowledge and Distributed Intelligence
http://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/news/publicat/nsf9860/start.htm
Knowledge at Wharton
http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/
Knowledge Base - Indiana University
http://kb.indiana.edu/
Knowledge-Based Collaboration Webs
http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/its/
KnowledgeBoard: the European Knowledge Management (KM) Community
http://www.knowledgeboard.com/
Knowledge Connections Website
http://www.skyrme.com/index.htm
Knowledge Ecology International (KEI)
http://www.keionline.org/
KnowledgeForge - Digital Open Knowledge Community
http://www.knowledgeforge.net/
Knowledge Management
http://www.mapnp.org/library/org_perf/know_mng.htm
Knowledge Management for Development (KM4Dev)
http://www.km4dev.org/
Knowledge Management Cluster Web
http://www.kmcluster.com/
Knowledge Management Consortium International - Resource Center
http://www.kmci.org/
Knowledge Management Is a Business Imperative
http://www.llrx.com/features/kmsmarter.htm
Knowledge Management Knowledge Base
http://knowledgemanagement.ittoolbox.com/
Knowledge Management Magazine
http://www.kmmagazine.com/
Knowledge Management Research and Practice (KMRP)
http://www.palgrave-journals.com/kmrp/index.html
Knowledge Management Resource Center
http://www.kmresource.com/
Knowledge Nurture
http://www.knowledge-nurture.com/
KnowledgeTree(TM) - Open Source Document Management System
http://kt-dms.sourceforge.net/
Linguistic Tools for Knowledge Discovery
http://www.montague.com/abstracts/discovery.htm
LLRX: Deep Web Research 2011
http://www.llrx.com/features/deepweb2011.htm
LLRX -- Knowledge Management: A Bibliographic Resource
http://www.llrx.com/features/km_bib.htm
London Knowledge Lab
http://www.lkl.ac.uk/cms/index.php
M2K (Music-to-Knowledge)Toolkit
http://www.music-ir.org/evaluation/m2k/
Megaputer Intelligence
http://www.megaputer.com/
Melcrum's Knowledge Management Newsletter
http://www.melcrum.com/services/topic_alerts/source_km/archive_new.shtml
Meta Knowlege Management Portal
http://www.metakm.com/
MIT Center for Collective Intelligence
http://cci.mit.edu/
NodeXL - Network Overview, Discovery and Exploration for Excel
http://nodexl.codeplex.com/
OpenClinical - Knowledge Management for Healthcare
http://www.openclinical.org/
OpenKM - Knowledge Management
http://www.openkm.com/
Open Knowledge Definition (OKD) - Defining the Open in Open Data, Open Content and Open Information
http://www.opendefinition.org/
Open Knowledge Foundation
http://www.okfn.org/
PEPITe S.A.
http://www.pepite.be/
Perilog
http://ettc.usc.edu/ames/perilog/homepage.html
Public Knowledge Project (PKP)
http://pkp.sfu.ca/
Resource Discovery iKit
http://cdlr.strath.ac.uk/rdinfokit/service/index.cfm
SecondBrain - Organize and Discover Online Content
http://secondbrain.com/
Semantic Knowledge Technologies and Language Computation
http://gate.ac.uk/projects/sekt/
SIGKDD Explorations
http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigkdd/explorations/
Software Suites for Data Mining, Analytics, and Knowledge Discovery
http://www.kdnuggets.com/software/suites.html
SPREE - The Knowledge Exchange Network Project
http://spree.dai-labor.de/
STATISTICA - Data Mining, Data Analysis, Quality Control, and Web Analytics Software
http://www.statsoft.com/
Team Knowledge Management: A Computer-Mediated Approach - A Knowledge Ability White Paper
http://www.knowab.co.uk/wbwteam.html
Telemakus - Mining and Mapping Research Findings to Promote Knowledge Discovery
http://www.telemakus.net/
The Brain - Visual Information Management
http://www.TheBrain.com/
The Data Mine
http://www.the-data-mine.com/
The Gurteen Knowledge Website - Knowledge Management
http://www.gurteen.com/
The Protege Project
http://protege.stanford.edu/
The Nonsense of 'Knowledge Management' by T.D. Wilson
http://www.informationr.net/ir/8-1/paper144.html
The Semantic Indexing Project - Creating Tools To Identify the Latent Knowledge Found in Text
http://www.knowledgesearch.org/
TripleHop Technologies: Knowledge Management
http://www.triplehop.com/solutions/knowledge.htm
UCI Machine Learning Repository Content Summary
http://mlearn.ics.uci.edu/MLSummary.html
Uncovering Epistemological and Ontological Assumptions of Software Designers
http://arxiv.org/ftp/cs/papers/0406/0406022.pdf
wePapers - Creating the World's Biggest Study Group for Knowledge Discovery
http://www.wepapers.com/
http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigkdd/kdd2011/
KDnuggets: Data Mining, Web Mining, and Knowledge Discovery Guide
http://www.kdnuggets.com/
KM4d - Open Access, Peer-Reviewed, On Knowledge Management In Development
http://www.km4dev.org/
KmBlogger
http://kmwiki.wikispaces.com/
KMCI - The New Knowledge Management
http://www.kmci.org/
KmForums
http://kmwiki.wikispaces.com/
KMNetwork
http://www.brint.com/km/
KmWiki
http://kmwiki.wikispaces.com/
KMWorld
http://www.kmworld.com/
Know-Center - Austria's Competence Center for Knowledge Management
http://www.know-center.at/
Knowledge and Distributed Intelligence
http://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/news/publicat/nsf9860/start.htm
Knowledge at Wharton
http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/
Knowledge Base - Indiana University
http://kb.indiana.edu/
Knowledge-Based Collaboration Webs
http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/its/
KnowledgeBoard: the European Knowledge Management (KM) Community
http://www.knowledgeboard.com/
Knowledge Connections Website
http://www.skyrme.com/index.htm
Knowledge Ecology International (KEI)
http://www.keionline.org/
KnowledgeForge - Digital Open Knowledge Community
http://www.knowledgeforge.net/
Knowledge Management
http://www.mapnp.org/library/org_perf/know_mng.htm
Knowledge Management for Development (KM4Dev)
http://www.km4dev.org/
Knowledge Management Cluster Web
http://www.kmcluster.com/
Knowledge Management Consortium International - Resource Center
http://www.kmci.org/
Knowledge Management Is a Business Imperative
http://www.llrx.com/features/kmsmarter.htm
Knowledge Management Knowledge Base
http://knowledgemanagement.ittoolbox.com/
Knowledge Management Magazine
http://www.kmmagazine.com/
Knowledge Management Research and Practice (KMRP)
http://www.palgrave-journals.com/kmrp/index.html
Knowledge Management Resource Center
http://www.kmresource.com/
Knowledge Nurture
http://www.knowledge-nurture.com/
KnowledgeTree(TM) - Open Source Document Management System
http://kt-dms.sourceforge.net/
Linguistic Tools for Knowledge Discovery
http://www.montague.com/abstracts/discovery.htm
LLRX: Deep Web Research 2011
http://www.llrx.com/features/deepweb2011.htm
LLRX -- Knowledge Management: A Bibliographic Resource
http://www.llrx.com/features/km_bib.htm
London Knowledge Lab
http://www.lkl.ac.uk/cms/index.php
M2K (Music-to-Knowledge)Toolkit
http://www.music-ir.org/evaluation/m2k/
Megaputer Intelligence
http://www.megaputer.com/
Melcrum's Knowledge Management Newsletter
http://www.melcrum.com/services/topic_alerts/source_km/archive_new.shtml
Meta Knowlege Management Portal
http://www.metakm.com/
MIT Center for Collective Intelligence
http://cci.mit.edu/
NodeXL - Network Overview, Discovery and Exploration for Excel
http://nodexl.codeplex.com/
OpenClinical - Knowledge Management for Healthcare
http://www.openclinical.org/
OpenKM - Knowledge Management
http://www.openkm.com/
Open Knowledge Definition (OKD) - Defining the Open in Open Data, Open Content and Open Information
http://www.opendefinition.org/
Open Knowledge Foundation
http://www.okfn.org/
PEPITe S.A.
http://www.pepite.be/
Perilog
http://ettc.usc.edu/ames/perilog/homepage.html
Public Knowledge Project (PKP)
http://pkp.sfu.ca/
Resource Discovery iKit
http://cdlr.strath.ac.uk/rdinfokit/service/index.cfm
SecondBrain - Organize and Discover Online Content
http://secondbrain.com/
Semantic Knowledge Technologies and Language Computation
http://gate.ac.uk/projects/sekt/
SIGKDD Explorations
http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigkdd/explorations/
Software Suites for Data Mining, Analytics, and Knowledge Discovery
http://www.kdnuggets.com/software/suites.html
SPREE - The Knowledge Exchange Network Project
http://spree.dai-labor.de/
STATISTICA - Data Mining, Data Analysis, Quality Control, and Web Analytics Software
http://www.statsoft.com/
Team Knowledge Management: A Computer-Mediated Approach - A Knowledge Ability White Paper
http://www.knowab.co.uk/wbwteam.html
Telemakus - Mining and Mapping Research Findings to Promote Knowledge Discovery
http://www.telemakus.net/
The Brain - Visual Information Management
http://www.TheBrain.com/
The Data Mine
http://www.the-data-mine.com/
The Gurteen Knowledge Website - Knowledge Management
http://www.gurteen.com/
The Protege Project
http://protege.stanford.edu/
The Nonsense of 'Knowledge Management' by T.D. Wilson
http://www.informationr.net/ir/8-1/paper144.html
The Semantic Indexing Project - Creating Tools To Identify the Latent Knowledge Found in Text
http://www.knowledgesearch.org/
TripleHop Technologies: Knowledge Management
http://www.triplehop.com/solutions/knowledge.htm
UCI Machine Learning Repository Content Summary
http://mlearn.ics.uci.edu/MLSummary.html
Uncovering Epistemological and Ontological Assumptions of Software Designers
http://arxiv.org/ftp/cs/papers/0406/0406022.pdf
wePapers - Creating the World's Biggest Study Group for Knowledge Discovery
http://www.wepapers.com/
Knowledge Discovery/Retrieval and the World Wide Web
Advanced Knowledge Technologies (AKT)
http://www.aktors.org/akt/
AnkaSearch - Meta Search and Deep Web Search Desktop Tool
http://www.ankasoftware.com/ankasearch.html
APECKS: a Tool to Support Living Ontologies
http://ksi.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/KAW/KAW98/tennison/index.html
Bloomfire - Simplest Way To Spread Knowledge
http://www.bloomfire.com/
CGI: Common Gateway Interface
http://www.w3.org/CGI/
Cirilab Knowledge Generation Engine(TM) (KGE)
http://www.cirilab.com/
Comindwork - Collaboration Mind Work: Online Tools for Project Management, Collaboration and Knowledge Sharing
http://www.comindwork.com/
Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network (CKAN)
http://www.ckan.net/
Controlled Languages in Industry
http://cslu.cse.ogi.edu/HLTsurvey/ch7node8.html
Corporate Memory Through Cooperative Creation of Knowledge Bases and Hyper-Documents
http://ksi.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/KAW/KAW96/euzenat/euzenat96b.html
Creative Commons RDF-Enhanced Search
http://search.creativecommons.org/
CSA - Guide to Discovery
http://www.csa.com/
Database Projects -- WebLog
http://users.encs.concordia.ca/~bibdb/weblog.html
dgCommunities - Knowledge Sharing and Collaboation Worldwide
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/
Eigenfactor.org - Ranking and Mapping Scientific Knowledge
http://www.eigenfactor.org/
Electronic Journal of Knowledge Management (EJKM)
http://www.ejkm.com/
Evri - Search Less Discover More
http://www.evri.com/
Foundations and Trends(R) in Information Retrieval
http://www.nowpublishers.com/ir/
FreshNotes - Why Search? Discover
http://www.freshnotes.com/
Go-Geo! - Geo-Spatial Datasets and Related Resources
http://www.gogeo.ac.uk/
Google Directory - Reference & Knowledge Management & Knowledge Discovery
http://snipurl.com/7f7v
Harvest Information Discovery and Access System
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.21.1842
International Journal of Knowledge and Web Intelligence
http://www.inderscience.com/ijkwi
Knowledge Harvesting
http://www.KnowledgeHarvesting.org/
Knowledge Interchange Format (KIF)
http://logic.stanford.edu/kif/kif.html
Knowledgespeak - STM Publishing News from Scope eKnowledge Center
http://www.knowledgespeak.com/Index.asp
KnowleSys - Web Data Extraction
http://www.knowlesys.com/
Librarians' Resource Centre - SLA Toronto Chapter Toolbox
http://slatoronto.andornot.com/lrc.aspx
OntoBroker and Related Initiatives for the Semantic Web
http://ontobroker.semanticweb.org/
Ontosaurus: Loom Web Browser
http://www.isi.edu/isd/ontosaurus.html
Qitera - Unleashing Collective Knowledge
http://www.qitera.com/
Qlipso - Content Discovery Collectively Tool
http://www.qlipso.com/
RDF: Resource Description Framework
http://www.w3.org/RDF/
Sharein - Share Your Discoveries
http://sharein.com/
Surfulater - Software for Internet Research and Web Information Management
http://www.surfulater.com/
Tadzebao and WebOnto: Discussing, Browsing, and Editing Ontologies on the Web
http://ksi.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/KAW/KAW98/domingue/
The Klearinghouse: An Inventory of Knowledge Technologies
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue25/brett/
The Lemur Toolkit - Language Modeling and Information Retrieval Research
http://www.lemurproject.org/
ThoughtMesh - Publishing and Discovering Scholarly Papers Online
http://thoughtmesh.net/
Universal Data Element Framework (UDEF)
http://xml.coverpages.org/udef.html
Video Lectures - Exchange Ideas and Share Knowledge
http://videolectures.net/
Visual Analytics - VisuaLinks, Link Analysis, Data Mining Software
http://www.visualanalytics.com/
Visual Programming Languages Bibliography: A Branch of the Visual Language Research Bibliography
http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~burnett/vpl.html
Web Information Retrieval/Natural Language Processing Group (WING)
http://wing.comp.nus.edu.sg/portal/
Web IR & IE
http://www.webir.org/
YourVersion - Real Time Discovery Engine of Relevant Content for Your Personal Interests
http://www.yourversion.com/
http://www.aktors.org/akt/
AnkaSearch - Meta Search and Deep Web Search Desktop Tool
http://www.ankasoftware.com/ankasearch.html
APECKS: a Tool to Support Living Ontologies
http://ksi.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/KAW/KAW98/tennison/index.html
Bloomfire - Simplest Way To Spread Knowledge
http://www.bloomfire.com/
CGI: Common Gateway Interface
http://www.w3.org/CGI/
Cirilab Knowledge Generation Engine(TM) (KGE)
http://www.cirilab.com/
Comindwork - Collaboration Mind Work: Online Tools for Project Management, Collaboration and Knowledge Sharing
http://www.comindwork.com/
Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network (CKAN)
http://www.ckan.net/
Controlled Languages in Industry
http://cslu.cse.ogi.edu/HLTsurvey/ch7node8.html
Corporate Memory Through Cooperative Creation of Knowledge Bases and Hyper-Documents
http://ksi.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/KAW/KAW96/euzenat/euzenat96b.html
Creative Commons RDF-Enhanced Search
http://search.creativecommons.org/
CSA - Guide to Discovery
http://www.csa.com/
Database Projects -- WebLog
http://users.encs.concordia.ca/~bibdb/weblog.html
dgCommunities - Knowledge Sharing and Collaboation Worldwide
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/
Eigenfactor.org - Ranking and Mapping Scientific Knowledge
http://www.eigenfactor.org/
Electronic Journal of Knowledge Management (EJKM)
http://www.ejkm.com/
Evri - Search Less Discover More
http://www.evri.com/
Foundations and Trends(R) in Information Retrieval
http://www.nowpublishers.com/ir/
FreshNotes - Why Search? Discover
http://www.freshnotes.com/
Go-Geo! - Geo-Spatial Datasets and Related Resources
http://www.gogeo.ac.uk/
Google Directory - Reference & Knowledge Management & Knowledge Discovery
http://snipurl.com/7f7v
Harvest Information Discovery and Access System
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.21.1842
International Journal of Knowledge and Web Intelligence
http://www.inderscience.com/ijkwi
Knowledge Harvesting
http://www.KnowledgeHarvesting.org/
Knowledge Interchange Format (KIF)
http://logic.stanford.edu/kif/kif.html
Knowledgespeak - STM Publishing News from Scope eKnowledge Center
http://www.knowledgespeak.com/Index.asp
KnowleSys - Web Data Extraction
http://www.knowlesys.com/
Librarians' Resource Centre - SLA Toronto Chapter Toolbox
http://slatoronto.andornot.com/lrc.aspx
OntoBroker and Related Initiatives for the Semantic Web
http://ontobroker.semanticweb.org/
Ontosaurus: Loom Web Browser
http://www.isi.edu/isd/ontosaurus.html
Qitera - Unleashing Collective Knowledge
http://www.qitera.com/
Qlipso - Content Discovery Collectively Tool
http://www.qlipso.com/
RDF: Resource Description Framework
http://www.w3.org/RDF/
Sharein - Share Your Discoveries
http://sharein.com/
Surfulater - Software for Internet Research and Web Information Management
http://www.surfulater.com/
Tadzebao and WebOnto: Discussing, Browsing, and Editing Ontologies on the Web
http://ksi.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/KAW/KAW98/domingue/
The Klearinghouse: An Inventory of Knowledge Technologies
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue25/brett/
The Lemur Toolkit - Language Modeling and Information Retrieval Research
http://www.lemurproject.org/
ThoughtMesh - Publishing and Discovering Scholarly Papers Online
http://thoughtmesh.net/
Universal Data Element Framework (UDEF)
http://xml.coverpages.org/udef.html
Video Lectures - Exchange Ideas and Share Knowledge
http://videolectures.net/
Visual Analytics - VisuaLinks, Link Analysis, Data Mining Software
http://www.visualanalytics.com/
Visual Programming Languages Bibliography: A Branch of the Visual Language Research Bibliography
http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~burnett/vpl.html
Web Information Retrieval/Natural Language Processing Group (WING)
http://wing.comp.nus.edu.sg/portal/
Web IR & IE
http://www.webir.org/
YourVersion - Real Time Discovery Engine of Relevant Content for Your Personal Interests
http://www.yourversion.com/
Courtesy:Source
Your Emails are Too Long
‘If you can’t write your idea on the back of my calling card, you don’t have a clear idea.’ ~David Belasco
One of the worst problems I’ve seen when people send me emails is amazingly common: they’re way too long.
I’m a fairly busy guy, but who isn’t busy? I try to be responsive but when I get an incredibly long email there is no way I’ll answer quickly. If an email is short, I’ll shoot out a reply as soon as I read it.
So why send long emails?
Here’s a rule: a long email is never necessary. Never.
Why am I writing this? Is it a rant against people who’ve emailed me? No, it’s a general problem that I’ve seen with email, and I hope this will help people write more effectively.
How I Use Email
I’ve written before about how I ditched email. That’s only 90% true. I still do email on a limited scope — mostly for people I collaborate with (partners, designers, printers, etc.). I also respond to customer emails (refunds, download problems).
For reader feedback and comments, I use Twitter. For family communication (like my family on Guam and other parts of the world), I use Facebook (I don’t “friend” anyone other than family, and have fewer than 100 friends on FB).
That said, my email problem isn’t unique to my situation. No matter how you use email, no one you’re emailing wants to read a long essay or respond to 10 questions. We are all busy, and we all value our time.
When I do email, I try to get through all of it quickly. I don’t like to be stuck doing email all day, so I get in, read and respond or archive/trash, and get out.
When someone sends me a long email, it’s likely to be archived. If I absolutely have to respond, I probably won’t do it that day.
Please note: this post is not just about me. It’s about anyone who is busy and who values his or her time. If you send that person a long email, you are saying you don’t value his time, and you’re saying you haven’t thought out what’s important. And you’re decreasing your odds of getting a response.
Why Long Emails Suck
A few brief reasons:
- It takes too long to read. I don’t have a lot of time to read, and by sending me an essay you are saying your email is more important than the other things I have to read.
- It doesn’t respect my time. When you send me an email, you’re making a request on my time (to read, process, respond). If you send a long email, you haven’t edited. You haven’t decided what’s most important. You are saying, in effect, that I have to do that instead. You’re sending a message that your time is more important than mine.
- You don’t get to the point. What’s the main point you’re trying to make? What’s your main question? Spit it out, or it will get buried.
- You ask too many questions. I won’t be able to answer all of them without half an hour of my valuable day. So don’t ask so many — just ask one or two.
- I won’t respond. If you’re looking for me to read the email right away, or worse yet, do something for you, good luck with that. I’m not a diva, but I also have things to do and can’t get to every long email. And there are many of them, not just yours.
Rules for Short, Effective Emails
Ignore these rules at your peril:
- Keep it to 5 sentences. No more. I stole this from five.sentenc.es of course, but I’ve used it for years and it works. I usually try to do fewer than 5.
- Figure out your main point. If you think you need more than 5 sentences, you haven’t figured out the key thing you want to say. Take a second to figure it out, and stick to just that.
- Ask one thing. Don’t ask 10 questions, just ask one. Or two at the most. You’re much more likely to get an answer quickly.
- Edit. If you stretched it to 8 sentences, cut out 3.
- Link. If you need to refer to info, include a link to it on the web.
- Post it. If the info you need to share isn’t on the web, put it there. Create a long answer or long background document (then edit it to the essential info) and post it online. Use your blog, or one of the many free tools for posting info. Create an FAQ if it’s useful. Link to it in your email.
This post, by the way, is an example of the last rule.
Courtesy: Zenhabits
Friday, March 18, 2011
25 Digital Things All Teachers Should Know – Updated
1) Mozilla Firefox is a “nondenominational” web browser. Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser pushes users toward Microsoft products. Apple’s Safari browser is very light on its use of computer resources, but also light on its features. Mozilla Firefox is superior to both in that it does not push users toward specific products and is so feature rich, Microsoft is starting to fashion it’s browser IE after Firefox.
2) Delicious Social Bookmarking is the best way to manage website links. This links to a page which explains social bookmarking, How to Social Bookmark.
3) Blogs are Internet resources which are great for publishing and managing student work. This links to a page which explains blogs, What’s a Blog.
4) Wikis are Internet resources which allow multiple users to edit documents, make lists, and coordinate information. This links to a page which explains wikis, What’s a Wiki.
5) Twitter is a “micro blogging” site. It is one of the best ways for teaching teams to maintain instant and ongoing communication throughout a busy day. Twitter has the benefits of instant messaging, while maintaining a record of what is communicated so the information can be read whenever a team member has a free moment. Here’s a short video explaining twitter.
6) Tagging is the new way of organizing digital items online. Tagging is a way of putting multiple lables on items such as documents, photos, audio files, etc. One can then pull similarly tagged items. The truly interesting thing is in most online environments tags are not centrally organized. Users choose which labels they place on digital objects. The distributed nature of this organizing tool creates a more social form of organizing large amounts of data. This links to a page which explains tagging, Wikipedia on Tagging.
7) Snagit is a product which can be purchased and downloaded to a user’s computer. SnagIt is a screenshot program that operates under the Windows operating system contains most features needed (scrolling page screenshots and automatic ‘trim edges’ function, for example). SnagIt Accessories extends its features. For example, Flickr Output enables the user to upload screen capture onto one’s own Flickr account. The ease of use, comprehensive features makes it one of the best cut and paste software packages available.
8) Flickr.com online photo storage allows photos to be shared and organized with tags. One can also search thousands of copyright free photos organized by tags. Here’s a link to a page that explains social photosharing. Here’s a link to the flickr site for the National Zoo, www.flickr.com/nationalzoo. Two other important source of photos are Wikimedia Commons and the Morguefile.
9) Audacity is a free program that allows anyone to easily make digital audio recordings. Digital recordings can be rendered in MP3 files (like what are used on iPods). Any digital recording can be called a “podcast” even if it is only stored on a computer or website. Here’s a short video explaining podcasting.
10) PhotoStory3 is a free program that allows anyone to easily make a presentation out of digital photographs. PhotoStory3 allows users to add titles, narration, background music and different focusing and other effects on the photos and transitions between the photos. Digital photo stories can be rendered as windows media video. A wmv digital video file can be posted on a website, inserted in a blog, wiki and/or PowerPoint.
11) Photos can be edited with any number of photo editors. There are rudimentary photo editors within free resources such as Flickr.com, PhotoStory3 and commercial software packages for photo editing such as Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Photoshop Elements and even in some children’s educational software such as Imageblender. There are also some free online options including Picnik (http://www.picnik.com) and Photoshop Express (http://www.photoshop.com/).
12) Windows Movie Maker is a video creating/editing software included in Microsoft Windows. It contains features such as effects, transitions, titles/credits, audio track, timeline narration, and Auto Movie.
13) Discovery Education Streaming is a subscription service which has a)full videos, b)video segments, c)high quality still photos, d)audio clips and other media elements organized by key word and grade level.
14) Gcast.com is a free Internet site for creating and posting podcasts. Podcasts posted on Gcast can be linked to from any web resources (blog, wiki, etc.) and reviewed multiple times from any computer or handheld device with an internet connection.
15) Youtube.com has many useful and educational video resources. They are searchable via keyword.
16) Teachertube.com is an educational resource of videos modeled on youtube but subject specific to education.
17) iTunes is a free product which one can download onto their desktop. It allows digital audio files to be organized and shared with others. Audio files stored on Gcast.com can be lists on iTunes for any iTunes subscriber to download and play on their computers, iPods and/or telephones. iTunes begins to cost users money when they purchase items from the iTunes store.
18) RSS feeds can be found on almost all websites, blogs, wikis, photo sites, and other resources on the web. Users can subscribe to the RSS feeds for Internet resources they wish to regularly track. Updates to those internet resources are sent to the subscribers via the RSS feeds and organized in what are called RSS Readers.
19) Google.com has many features besides gmail and the search engine. Three specific elements are Google Sites, Google Reader and Google Earth. Google Pages allows anyone to create multiple websites as easily as constructing a PowerPoint. Google Reader allows anyone to follow any number of websites, blogs, wikis and other resources on the web by subscribing to their RSS feeds. Information from those RSS feeds are then gathered into the user’s Google Reader page and displayed like email. Google Earth is one of the best mapping tools for education available.
20) Internet safety focuses on four main concerns: 1) Internet bullying, 2) Internet predators, 3) Internet identity theft and 4) Internet negative identity profiles impacting college entry and career opportunities. All four of these aspects of Internet safety can be covered with two safety principles. The first is to keep one’s personal information secret. This includes name, contact information, work and school information, family information and the names of associates. The second is to never meet anyone in real life, who one has only met on the Internet. With these two principles, students (and teachers) can protect themselves from the major Internet safety concerns.
21) Publishing on the Internet can be done professionally while maintaining the safety of students and colleagues by following APA publishing guidelines. By combining the APA ethical guidelines (no student identifiers, no school identifiers) with the Internet safety principles of keeping the author’s identity secret, a great deal of professional practice can be shared in an online professional learning community without fear of breaching our professional ethics. You can review APA Ethic’s Code here. Clairvoy is dedicated to teachers publishing strategy. See more here.
22) Students with different learning styles (visual learners, audio learners, etc.) can better explore Blooms Taxonomy of cognitive objectives by working with the curriculum using the different media available to them in a digital environment.
23) Copyright is important and must be respected at all times. The copyright laws regarding special education do allow for materials being used in class (which have been purchased) to be adapted to meet the needs of student IEPs. This can call for teachers to use all the digital tools at their disposal to adapt standard text, photographic and multimedia resources to meet the needs of student IEPs. Anyone can do this adaptation for the teacher’s needs, including students inside and outside the classroom. Here are a number of online resources on use of copyright in the classroom.
24) Evernote allows you to easily capture information in any environment using whatever device or platform you find most convenient, and makes this information accessible and searchable at any time, from anywhere.
25) Google Earth is a tremendous tool. Hardware such as Flip video cameras (under $100), student digital still cameras, color scanners, document cameras, transferring video from camcorders to computers (Firewire pcmcia card cost around $20 / some analogue to digital video converters cost less than $50), SMARTBoards and iPods are all things with which teachers should familiarize themselves and use in their teaching.
Courtesy: Clairvoy
Friday, May 6, 2011
GIVE ME ANOTHER CHANCE I WANT TO GROW UP ONCE AGAIN.....
We came to earth bearing the dreams of our parents. We pass each stages of our life and we think it is a normal and ordinary process even though it is not. When we mature their dreams become our dreams. The struggle for existence starts at the age of three and continues for more than one third of our life. As we fed up with this huge struggle the dreams starts diminishing and wishes to fulfil the minimum needs. After the struggle of life the only thing left behind is a bundle of certificates and a deserted mind.
Posted by aji oommen, II MSc
Sunday, May 1, 2011
Say proudly, I AM AN INDIAN
Q. Who is the creator of Pentium chip (needs no introduction as 90% of the
today's computers run on it)?
A. Vinod Dahm
Q. Who is the third richest man on the world?
A. According to the latest report , it is Mittal, the steel tycoon.
Q. Who is the founder and creator of Hotmail (Hotmail is world's No.1 web
based email program)?
A. Sabeer Bhatia
Q. Who is the new MTD (Microsoft Testing Director) of Windows 2000,
responsible to iron out all initial problems?
A. Sanjay Tejwrika
Q. We Indians are the wealthiest among all ethnic groups in America , even
faring better than the whites and the natives.
There are 3.22 millions of Indians in USA (15% of population) . YET,
38% of doctors in USA are Indians.
12% scientists in USA are Indians.
36% of NASA scientists are Indians.
34% of Microsoft employees are Indians.
28% of IBM employees are Indians.
17% of INTEL scientists are Indians.
13% of XEROX employees are! Indians.
Some of the following facts may be known to you. These facts were recently
published in a German magazine, which deals with WORLD HISTORY FACTS ABOUT
INDIA .
1. India never invaded any country in her last 1000 years of history.
2. India invented the Number system. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.
3. The world's first University was established in Takshila in 700BC. More
than 10,500 students from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects.
The University of Nalanda built in the 4 th century BC was one of the
greatest achievements of ancient India in the field of education.
4. According to the Forbes magazine, Sanskrit is the most suitable language
for computer software.
5. Ayurveda is the earliest school of medicine known to humans.
6. Although western media portray modern images of India as poverty striken
and underdeveloped through political corruption, India was once the richest
empire on earth.
7. The art of navigation was born in the river Sindh 5000 years ago. The
very word "Navigation" is derived from the Sanskrit word NAVGATIH.
8. The value of pi was first calculated by Budhayana, and he explained the
concept of what is now known as the Pythagorean Theorem. British scholars
have last year (1999) officially published that Budhayan's works dates to
the 6 th Century which is long before the European mathematicians.
9. Algebra, trigonometry and calculus came from India . Quadratic equations
were by Sridharacharya in the 11 th Century; the largest numbers the Greeks
and the Romans used were 106 whereas Indians used numbers as big as 10 53
10. According to the Gemmological Institute of America , up until 1896,
India was the only source of diamonds to the world.
11. USA based IEEE has proved what has been a century-old suspicion amongst
academics that the pioneer of wireless communication was Professor Jagdeesh
Bose and not Marconi.
12. The earliest reservoir and dam for irrigation was built in Saurashtra.
13. Chess was invented in India
14. Sushruta is the father of surgery. 2600 years ago he and health
scientists of his time conducted surgeries like cesareans, cataract,
fractures and urinary stones. Usage of anaesthesia was well known in
ancient India .
15. When many cultures in the world were only nomadic forest dwellers over
5000 years ago, Indians established Harappan culture in Sindhu Valley (
Indus Valley India in 100 BC.
Quotes about India
We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no
worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.
Albert Einstein.
India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the
mother of history, the grandmother of legend and the great grand mother of
tradition.
Mark Twain.
If there is one place on the face of earth where all dreams of living men
have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of
existence, it is India
French scholar Romain Rolland.
India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without
ever having to send a single soldier across her border.
Hu Shih
(former Chinese ambassador to USA )
ALL OF THE ABOVE IS JUST THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG, THE LIST COULD BE ENDLESS.
BUT, if we don't see even a glimpse of that great India in the India that
we see today, it clearly means that we are not working up to our potential;
and that if we do, we could once again be an evershining and inspiring
country setting a bright path for rest of the world to follow.
I hope you enjoyed it and work towards the welfare of INDIA
Say proudly, I AM AN INDIAN.
today's computers run on it)?
A. Vinod Dahm
Q. Who is the third richest man on the world?
A. According to the latest report , it is Mittal, the steel tycoon.
Q. Who is the founder and creator of Hotmail (Hotmail is world's No.1 web
based email program)?
A. Sabeer Bhatia
Q. Who is the new MTD (Microsoft Testing Director) of Windows 2000,
responsible to iron out all initial problems?
A. Sanjay Tejwrika
Q. We Indians are the wealthiest among all ethnic groups in America , even
faring better than the whites and the natives.
There are 3.22 millions of Indians in USA (15% of population) . YET,
38% of doctors in USA are Indians.
12% scientists in USA are Indians.
36% of NASA scientists are Indians.
34% of Microsoft employees are Indians.
28% of IBM employees are Indians.
17% of INTEL scientists are Indians.
13% of XEROX employees are! Indians.
Some of the following facts may be known to you. These facts were recently
published in a German magazine, which deals with WORLD HISTORY FACTS ABOUT
INDIA .
1. India never invaded any country in her last 1000 years of history.
2. India invented the Number system. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.
3. The world's first University was established in Takshila in 700BC. More
than 10,500 students from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects.
The University of Nalanda built in the 4 th century BC was one of the
greatest achievements of ancient India in the field of education.
4. According to the Forbes magazine, Sanskrit is the most suitable language
for computer software.
5. Ayurveda is the earliest school of medicine known to humans.
6. Although western media portray modern images of India as poverty striken
and underdeveloped through political corruption, India was once the richest
empire on earth.
7. The art of navigation was born in the river Sindh 5000 years ago. The
very word "Navigation" is derived from the Sanskrit word NAVGATIH.
8. The value of pi was first calculated by Budhayana, and he explained the
concept of what is now known as the Pythagorean Theorem. British scholars
have last year (1999) officially published that Budhayan's works dates to
the 6 th Century which is long before the European mathematicians.
9. Algebra, trigonometry and calculus came from India . Quadratic equations
were by Sridharacharya in the 11 th Century; the largest numbers the Greeks
and the Romans used were 106 whereas Indians used numbers as big as 10 53
10. According to the Gemmological Institute of America , up until 1896,
India was the only source of diamonds to the world.
11. USA based IEEE has proved what has been a century-old suspicion amongst
academics that the pioneer of wireless communication was Professor Jagdeesh
Bose and not Marconi.
12. The earliest reservoir and dam for irrigation was built in Saurashtra.
13. Chess was invented in India
14. Sushruta is the father of surgery. 2600 years ago he and health
scientists of his time conducted surgeries like cesareans, cataract,
fractures and urinary stones. Usage of anaesthesia was well known in
ancient India .
15. When many cultures in the world were only nomadic forest dwellers over
5000 years ago, Indians established Harappan culture in Sindhu Valley (
Indus Valley India in 100 BC.
Quotes about India
We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no
worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.
Albert Einstein.
India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the
mother of history, the grandmother of legend and the great grand mother of
tradition.
Mark Twain.
If there is one place on the face of earth where all dreams of living men
have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of
existence, it is India
French scholar Romain Rolland.
India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without
ever having to send a single soldier across her border.
Hu Shih
(former Chinese ambassador to USA )
ALL OF THE ABOVE IS JUST THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG, THE LIST COULD BE ENDLESS.
BUT, if we don't see even a glimpse of that great India in the India that
we see today, it clearly means that we are not working up to our potential;
and that if we do, we could once again be an evershining and inspiring
country setting a bright path for rest of the world to follow.
I hope you enjoyed it and work towards the welfare of INDIA
Say proudly, I AM AN INDIAN.
Monday, April 11, 2011
Anna Hazare?
1. Who is Anna Hazare?
An ex-army man. Fought 1965 Indo-Pak War.
2. What's so special about him?
He built a village Ralegaon Siddhi in Ahamad Nagar district, Maharashtra
3. So what?
This village is a self-sustained model village. Energy is produced in the village itself from solar power, bio fuel and wind mills.
In 1975, it used to be a poverty clad village. Now it is one of the richest villages in India. It has become a model for self-sustained, eco-friendly & harmonic village.
4. Ok,...?
This guy, Anna Hazare was awarded Padma Bhushan and is a known figure for his social activities.
5. Really, what is he fighting for?
He is supporting a cause, the amendment of a law to curb corruption in India.
6. How that can be possible?
He is advocating for a Bill, The Lok Pal Bill (The Citizen Ombudsman Bill), that will form an autonomous authority who will make politicians (ministers), beurocrats (IAS/IPS) accountable for their deeds.
7. It's an entirely new thing right..?
In 1972, the bill was proposed by then Law minister Mr. Shanti Bhushan. Since then it has been neglected by the politicians and some are trying to change the bill to suit their theft (corruption).
8. Oh.. He is going on a hunger strike for that whole thing of passing a Bill! How can that be possible in such a short span of time?
The first thing he is asking for is: the government should come forward and announce that the bill is going to be passed.
Next, they make a joint committee to DRAFT the LOK PAL BILL. 50% government participation and 50% public participation. Because you can’t trust the government entirely for making such a bill which does not suit them
An ex-army man. Fought 1965 Indo-Pak War.
2. What's so special about him?
He built a village Ralegaon Siddhi in Ahamad Nagar district, Maharashtra
3. So what?
This village is a self-sustained model village. Energy is produced in the village itself from solar power, bio fuel and wind mills.
In 1975, it used to be a poverty clad village. Now it is one of the richest villages in India. It has become a model for self-sustained, eco-friendly & harmonic village.
4. Ok,...?
This guy, Anna Hazare was awarded Padma Bhushan and is a known figure for his social activities.
5. Really, what is he fighting for?
He is supporting a cause, the amendment of a law to curb corruption in India.
6. How that can be possible?
He is advocating for a Bill, The Lok Pal Bill (The Citizen Ombudsman Bill), that will form an autonomous authority who will make politicians (ministers), beurocrats (IAS/IPS) accountable for their deeds.
7. It's an entirely new thing right..?
In 1972, the bill was proposed by then Law minister Mr. Shanti Bhushan. Since then it has been neglected by the politicians and some are trying to change the bill to suit their theft (corruption).
8. Oh.. He is going on a hunger strike for that whole thing of passing a Bill! How can that be possible in such a short span of time?
The first thing he is asking for is: the government should come forward and announce that the bill is going to be passed.
Next, they make a joint committee to DRAFT the LOK PAL BILL. 50% government participation and 50% public participation. Because you can’t trust the government entirely for making such a bill which does not suit them
9. Fine, What will happen when this bill is passed?
A LokPal will be appointed at the centre. He will have an autonomous charge, say like the Election Commission of India. In each and every state, Lokayukta will be appointed. The job is to bring all alleged party to trial in case of corruptions within 1 year. Within 2 years, the guilty will be punished. Not like, Bofors scam or Bhopal Gas Tragedy case that has been going for last 25 years without any result.
10. Is he alone? Whoelse is there in the fight with Anna Hazare?
Baba Ramdev, Ex. IPS Kiran Bedi, Social Activist Swami Agnivesh, RTI activist Arvind Kejriwal and many more.
Prominent personalities like Aamir Khan is supporting his cause.
11. Ok, got it. What can I do?
At least we can spread the message. How?
Putting status message, links, video, changing profile pics.
At least we can support Anna Hazare and the cause for uprooting corruption from India.
At least we can hope that his Hunger Strike does not go in vain.
At least we can pray for his good health.
At last but not least
Support Anna Hazare by a call to this toll free (free call) no 02261550789. Automatically cut the call after a ring & you receive a message
I am sending this out to all my contacts. My humble request to all is to do the same and spread the word.
Friday, April 8, 2011
മുഖം മനസ്സിന്റെ കണ്ണാടി???????????????????
പഴഞ്ചൊല്ലുകളുടെ സ്രഷ്ടാകളെ, മാപ്പ് .
എത്ര നാള് നീളും എന്നറിയാത്ത ഈ മഹായാത്രയുടെ ഈ ചെറിയ ഘട്ടം ആരംഭിച്ചത് ഒരു വ്യാഴാഴ്ച ആയിരുന്നു. അത്രയും നാളത്തെ യാത്രയില് വഴിയില് ചുരുക്കം വ്യക്തികളെ മാത്രമേ കണ്ടിരുന്നുള്ളൂ. എങ്കിലും മറുള്ളവരെ മനസിലാക്കാനുള്ള കഴിവുണ്ട് എന്ന ധാരണ ആയിരുന്നു മനസ്സില്. പക്ഷേ ആ ധാരണ തെറ്റായിരുന്നു എന്ന് മനസ്സിലാക്കാന് സമയം ഒരുപാടു വേണ്ടിവന്നു എന്നുള്ളത് തികച്ചും വേദനാജനകമായിരുന്നു. കാരണം ഇത്രയും നാള് ഞാന് എന്നെത്തന്നെ മനസ്സിലാക്കിയില്ലായിരുന്നു.
അപ്രതീക്ഷമായി ആരംഭിച്ച ഈ യാത്ര എനിക്ക് സമ്മാനിച്ചത് വിലമതിക്കാനാകാത്ത അനുഭവങ്ങളായിരുന്നു ജീവിത സത്യങ്ങള് ആയിരുന്നു.ഞെട്ടലോടുകുടി ചിലതൊക്കെ എനിക്ക് വിശ്വസിക്കേണ്ടിവന്നു.വഴിയില് നിന്നവരുടെ മുഖങ്ങള് പ്രസന്നമായിരുന്നു. എന്നാല് അവയില് പലതും മുഖംമൂടികള് ആണെന്ന് മനസിലാക്കിയത് വൈകിയാണ്. പലര്ക്കും പറയാനുണ്ടായിരുന്നത് കണ്ണീര് നനഞ്ഞ കഥകളായിരുന്നു. ഈ കഥകളെല്ലാം അവസാനിച്ചത് ഒരു ചോദ്യത്തില് ആയിരുന്നു.അവയ്ക്ക് മുന്നില് മൗനമായി ഇരിക്കാനേ സാധിച്ചുള്ളൂ.എല്ലാത്തിനും അപ്പുറം സ്നേഹത്തിന്റെ അത്യാഗ്രഹികള് ആയിരുന്നു എല്ലാവരും. ചിരിക്കുന്ന മുഖത്തിന് പിന്നിലെ ജ്വലിക്കുന്ന മനസ്സ് ആരും അറിയില്ല.മറക്കാനും ക്ഷമിക്കാനും ഉള്ള മനസ്സ് എല്ലാവര്ക്കും നഷ്ടപെട്ടുപോയി. മറ്റുള്ളവരുടെ വേദനകള് പലര്ക്കും ഒരു ലഹരിയാണ്.അതിനുവേണ്ടി അവര് എന്തും ചെയ്യും. പല അവസരത്തിലും ചില മുഖങ്ങള് ഉണ്ടാകരുതേ എന്ന് ആഗ്രഹമുണ്ടാകും.പക്ഷെ ആദ്യം കാണുന്നത് ആ മുഖങ്ങള് ആകും.
ക്രൂരമായ ജീവിതത്തെ പഴിച്ചു നടന്നിരുന്ന എന്നോട് ജീവിതമല്ല മനസ്സാണ് ക്രൂരത കാണിക്കുന്നത് എന്ന് തിരുത്തിത്തന്നത് അത്രയും നാള് എവിടെയോ മറഞ്ഞുനിന്ന അല്ല മുന്പില് ഉണ്ടായിട്ടും ഞാന് കാണാതെ പോയ എന്റെ പ്രിയ സുഹൃത്തായിരുന്നു.സത്യമാണ്,മനസ്സിന്റെ ക്രൂരതകള് കൊണ്ട് മുറിവ് സംഭവിക്കുന്നത് ജീവിതത്തിനാണ്.
ക്രൂരമായ ജീവിതത്തെ പഴിച്ചു നടന്നിരുന്ന എന്നോട് ജീവിതമല്ല മനസ്സാണ് ക്രൂരത കാണിക്കുന്നത് എന്ന് തിരുത്തിത്തന്നത് അത്രയും നാള് എവിടെയോ മറഞ്ഞുനിന്ന അല്ല മുന്പില് ഉണ്ടായിട്ടും ഞാന് കാണാതെ പോയ എന്റെ പ്രിയ സുഹൃത്തായിരുന്നു.സത്യമാണ്,മനസ്സിന്റെ ക്രൂരതകള് കൊണ്ട് മുറിവ് സംഭവിക്കുന്നത് ജീവിതത്തിനാണ്.
മനസ്സിലെ വികാരങ്ങള് പ്രകടിപ്പിക്കാന്, പഠിച്ച അക്ഷരങ്ങളും കോര്ത്തുവെച്ച വാക്കുകളും മതിയാകാതെ വന്നപ്പോള് പലതും നഷ്ടപ്പെടുന്നത് നിറകണ്ണുകളോടെ നോക്കിനില്ക്കേണ്ടി വന്നു. മനസ്സിന് വാതിലുകള് ഉണ്ടായിരുന്നെകില് എന്ന് ആശിച്ചുപോയ അവസരങ്ങള് ആയിരുന്നു അത്.
ജീവിതം ഒരിക്കലും ഒരു തമാശ ആയിരുന്നില്ല. പക്ഷെ പലപ്പോഴും ജീവിതത്തില് നാം ഒരു തമാശയായി പോകാറുണ്ട്.അപ്പോഴാണ് ജീവിതം വിഡ്ഢി പറഞ്ഞ കഥയാണെന്ന് നാം സമ്മതിക്കുന്നത്. വര്ഷങ്ങള് ഒഴുക്കിനെതിരെ നീന്തും അവസാനം തളര്ന്നു ഒഴുക്കിനൊപ്പം പോകാന് നിര്ബന്ധിതമാകും.അതൊരു പരാജയമാണ്. എങ്കിലും അടുക്കാന് പോകുന്ന ഒരു തീരം സ്വപ്നം കണ്ട് മുന്പോട്ടു പോകും. കുഴിയില് നിന്നും പടുകുഴിയിലേക്ക് പോകുന്ന ഈ യാത്രയ്ക്കും സന്തോഷത്തിന്റെയും സങ്കടത്തിന്റെയും വിജയത്തിന്റെയും പരാജയത്തിന്റെയും വഞ്ചനയുടെയും ഒക്കെ ഒരുപാടു കഥകള് ഉണ്ടാകും കൂട്ടിന്.
കെട്ടിയ ഒരു വേഷം കൂടി അഴിഞ്ഞു വീഴാന് പോകുന്നു.വിചാരത്തിനും അപ്പുറം ഒരു വലിയ ലോകം ഉണ്ടെന്നു മനസിലാക്കിതന്ന ജീവിതം,ജീവിതം എന്താണെന്നു മനസിലാക്കിതന്ന ഒരു വേഷം.ആടകള് ഓരോന്നായി അഴിക്കുമ്പോള് മനസ്സില് നിറയുന്ന നിര്വികാരതയ്ക്ക് കര്ക്കിട മാസത്തിലെ മഴയുടെ നിറമായിരുന്നു.................
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Don’t Be Afraid to Try
All the population of Earth may be divided into two categories: people who love various experiments and changes and those who don’t like to change anything in their life.
Even the smallest moments build your whole life. Therefore, you should pay more attention to your inner, even the smallest, desires and strive to realize them as often as possible. By doing this you are preparing yourself for big and important changes, undertakings and projects. By realizing your desires, you fill yourself with spiritual satisfaction, joy and optimism.
Try to get more, and then you’ll achieve what you want. Don’t underestimate your abilities, because in this life it’s better to overestimate them, rather than vice versa. Especially when it’s just trying. Because high self-esteem gives strength, confidence and willingness to act.
It is better to try and make sure that this or that doesn’t work and relax rather than later regret the missed opportunity. You should have a good opinion of your own skills because the positive assessment will push you to acquiring new knowledge and making new attempts to succeed.
The fear of anything new is normal. It’s like a child’s fear of the dark room. You must enter and turn on the lights and make sure that nobody and nothing is wrong there. For example, if you want to write poems – write them, and take them to the editor of some magazine. And don’t be afraid! If they like it they’ll print it, if not – no problem. Try again.
Just try and don’t be afraid
Fear is only at the beginning. Napoleon once said: “The main thing is to get involved in a fight, and then we’ll see.” It’s difficult only to start and then everything will be OK!
Don’t listen to bad advisers. Your friends assure you that you have excess weight? And they advise you different diets and wearing special nasty clothes. Throw out those clothes and you’ll immediately feel your attractiveness. Such advice can completely discourage you and you’ll be afraid of any kinds of experiments. After all, everyone in the world has their own standards of beauty.
Develop your self-confidence and don’t be afraid to want too much.
Don’t miss a chance! In order to succeed, you should think over, prepare everything in advance and you shouldn’t miss a moment. Do not let anyone or anything knock you out of the saddle. Being on a horse is a much more pleasant thing. Stay away from everything negative, do not hesitate and do not retreat.
Be sure to get a result whatever it is, because a negative result is also the result of the action. If you suffered a failure don’t stop, find out what went wrong, what is the reason of the failure.
Go ahead and try, change the world around and change yourself, be active and energetic, then you will never have a reason to regret the lost chance, to be sorry of what you could make, but you didn’t…
Source: Optimistic Lifestyle
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Worldometers
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Monday, March 28, 2011
100 Helpful Photography Tutorials for Beginners and Professionals
Photography as both a profession and a hobby is an incredibly expansive topic that covers a remarkably vast range of subjects from science and art. No matter where you lie on the professional spectrum, there is simply always more to learn. We spent countless hours scouring the web for the best content we could find and share with you, and today we’ll help you expand your knowledge with 100 photography related tutorials!
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The world's biggest family: The man with 39 wives, 94 children and 33 grandchildren Read more:
- Ziona Chana lives with all of them in a 100-room mansion
- His wives take it in turns to share his bed
- It takes 30 whole chickens just to make dinner
He is head of the world's biggest family - and says he is 'blessed' to have his 39 wives. Ziona Chana also has 94 children, 14-daughters-in-law and 33 grandchildren. They live in a 100-room, four storey house set amidst the hills of Baktwang village in the Indian state of Mizoram, where the wives sleep in giant communal dormitories.
Sunday, March 27, 2011
10 Strategies for Any Problem
1. Avoid
Doing nothing about something, is doing something. Do something else, clean the kitchen, back-up your data, do errands…(This gives you time to do the other nine strategies.)
2. Think
Sit back and think about the issue, just let your mind go…
3. Research
Look up stuff, go through your old projects, but avoid Google if it takes too long to find anything useful…
4. Collect
We all have lots of stuff; there must be something in there that is waiting to be used…
5. Sketch
Drawing is great, even if you have no talent. Just visualizing the simplest things makes them come alive…
6. De-construct
Take the problem apart, look at the parts and then put them back together…
7. Transcend
What larger thing is the problem a part of…
8. Perspective
What does your perspective on the problem add or detract and the perspectives of others…
9. Connections
What can the nature of the connections between all the parts tell you about the problem…
10. Act
Sitting on your duff never got anything solved…Source : Clairvoy
