Friday, August 15, 2003

Spatial literacy: e-MapScholar. "e-MapScholar, a JISC funded project, is developing tools and learning and teaching materials to enhance and support the use of geo-spatial data currently available within tertiary education in learning and teaching, including digital map data available from the EDINA Digimap... [Information Literacy Weblog] 7:44:15 PM

Helping Hands for Homework. Online technology enables students to exchange work, review papers for writing and comprehension problems and collaborate on solutions. Here are a few networks, Web sites and software programs that were built with peer exchange in mind. By Lisa Guernsey. [New York Times: Technology] 7:40:36 PM

Donors Choose http://www.donorschoose.org/ Teachers in NY City schools post classroom ideas they need funding for, so that donors can choose which ones to support. Case studies show how donors' gifts have been put to use, and a page called "Our Impact" gives a careful financial accounting. A useful idea that libraries might want to pick up on. [Neat New Stuff] 7:39:32 PM