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Caring for our smallest pets

February 14, 2007

Caring for our smallest pets

Tufts University offers Opencourseware for a variety of scientific and other subjects. One of the courses, which you can click to is Rodent and Small Mammal Medicine. The webpage that a click will lead you to has valuable information on the diseases and treatment of the smallest animals we humans keep as pets. It also has this quotation from from David L. Graham, D.V.M. PhD.:

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Berners-Lee this week: One Web to work on phones

February 14, 2007

Berners-Lee this week: One Web to work on phones

Speaking at the Mobile Internet World conference in Boston, Tim Berners-Lee described the mobile initiative at W3C, which he heads, had announced a new W3C developer tool for testing website/mobile device compatibility. An article from Technology Review reports Sir Tim’s speech:

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Dare to Dream

February 14, 2007

Yep, I’m still dreaming. Dare to Dream - that’s my motto! I read an article in Classroom Leadership and it ties right in with my post yesterday. The article is Bridging the Gap

by Darrell “Coach D” Andrews. He talks about those “ah-ha” moments when

everything connects and you see true learning taking place. A quote

from his article:

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FreeRice is a glimpse of global open learning

February 14, 2007

FreeRice is a glimpse of global open learning

Here are some awesome numbers from the FreeRice project:

On 8 October 830 grains of rice were donated.
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