Research Advice August 4, 2007
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Life Hack has published a list of 10 steps toward better research for students. This list does a nice job of breaking down the task of researching. Each step comes with further description. My favorite is to “Have a research question in mind” when you start.
“As you come across new material, ask yourself if it looks like it will help you answer your question.”
$100 Computer Lenovo Style – $199 August 4, 2007
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In the ongoing pursuit of cheap computers, here is a Yahoo! News report from Joe McDonald, an AP Business Writer about Lenovo and their efforts to find a market in rural China. This isn’t a laptop like the One Laptop per Child movement, but cheap anyway.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070803/ap_on_hi_te/china_lenovo_cheap_pc
Tweet Tweet August 4, 2007
Posted by Matthew Woolums in Humor.add a comment
Will Richardson posted a funny look at Twitter. If you haven’t hear of Twitter yet, think of texting mashed together with RSS. That means that anyone can subscribe, or listen in, to your short, momentary messages, called tweets. In fact, you don’t even have to send your text to anyone in particular, so in that respect Twitter is a little like a short blog post. Having spent more time recently texting with my kids, I’m starting to get it. I’m not sure there is a unique educational model here yet, but there may be one in the tweeting medium somewhere.
