Google Earth Plugin Available Now For Mac OS X. The long-anticipated release of the Google Earth Plugin for the Mac has finally arrived! Mickey at Digital Earth Blog was the first to blog about it - after finding a mention of the new arrival in a forum post. The forum post noted that the plugin install requires a 47 MByte…
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Google Earth Plus Discontinued. Google has discontinued the Google Earth Plus version which cost $20/year. This move is not surprising because there were only two primary features in the Plus version not already in the free version: GPS support, and limited spreadsheet input support. Both of these capabilities are possible to do with the free version of Google Earth with…
Online collaboration tools available for VET practitioners. Education Network Australia (edna) has released a suite of free online voice tools to further online collaboration and communication for those working in the education and training sectors. The online voice tools were recently integrated into edna’s online collaborative spaces, edna Groups. This means that all edna Groups now have free access to…
On "Chinese Whispers" in the history of psychology. I've picked this up rather late, but it alludes to a substantial problem represented in professional education programmes, including teacher education. Rarely have lecturers actually read the original, primary sources for much of the research they report, and even where they have done so, they may have chosen to represent them in…
On the devil in the detail of teaching practice. I'm not generally a great fan of over-hyped Malcolm Gladwell, and the overall starting point of this article
Urbanization: 95% Of The World's Population Lives On 10% Of The Land. A new global map measures urbanization from the new perspective of Travel Time to 8,500 Major Cities. The map fills an important gap in our understanding of economic, physical and even social connectivity. [ScienceDaily: Latest Science News]
Coal is the great danger as 'peak oil' approaches, scientist warns.. The most important question about peak oil - and the largest source of uncertainty in climate models - is whether the end of oil will usher in a century of coal. [Environmental Health News]
Chrysler Shutting Down for One Month . Struggling U.S. automakers are launching a round of severe cutbacks as they wait for a government rescue, with Chrysler saying yesterday it will idle all 30 of its U.S. factories for one month. [washingtonpost.com - Business]
What Comes After Minds?. The human mind is the most complex thing we know. We feel this intuitively. But complexity is hard to measure. The total number of cells in a human brain may be no more than those in a watermelon, yet the diversity and functions of those cells in the brain exceed those in a fruit. We can…