Academic Earth is in talks with universities about promoting web-based lectures, while some campuses hesitate

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Whether they are stumped by a classroom dilemma or inspired by a breakthrough moment with students, faculty and instructional staff will now have the opportunity to spark a broader conversation about teaching practices through a new interactive Web resource.

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FREE makes it easier to find teaching and learning resources from the federal government.

More than 1,500 federally supported teaching and learning resources are included from dozens of federal agencies. New sites are added regularly.

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The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation, a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization, launched the Archive of American Television® in 1997.

AAT is committed to ensuring that the stories, visions and insights of those who have made television what it is, and those who continue to contribute to its development, are made available for future generations.

Over the last nine years, the Television Archive staff has created the world's most comprehensive repository of its kind. To date, more than 2,000 hours of videotaped conversations have been completed with over 475 television legends and pioneers.

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The Library of Congress American Memory project and other digital initiatives provide free access through the Internet to the treasures of the Library’s collections that document America’s history, culture, and creativity.

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Microsoft announced this morning at its PDC conference that the next release of Microsoft Office will include browser-based versions of some of its main office software products - Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote.

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Funds For Learning this week launched a new component for its online E-rate application suite, E-rate Manager for Applicants. The new component, called the "Form 470 Wizard," couple with the other tools in the suite, allows users to complete the entire E-rate application process online.

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elcome to the Social Media Classroom and Collaboratory. It’s all free, as in both “freedom of speech” and “almost totally free beer.” We invite you to build on what we’ve started to create more free value. The Social Media Classroom (we’ll call it SMC) includes a free and open-source (Drupal-based) web service that provides teachers and learners with an integrated set of social media that each course can use for its own purposes—integrated forum, blog, comment, wiki, chat, social bookmarking, RSS, microblogging, widgets , and video commenting are the first set of tools.

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Semantinet, a company that hopes to give users more information about topics on web pages without them having to perform a search or leave the site they’re on, is launching a product called Headup into private beta this morning at the Web 3.0 conference in Santa Clara, Calif.

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