Education

EasyBib, a service best known for its auto-generated citations and bibliographies, first started out as a high school hack way back in 2001. It’s since become a standard for students, and if you’ve attended school any time over the past decade, you’ve probably used it at least once before. Now, as EasyBib evolves into a Continue Reading →

[wpaudio url=”https://media.shellypalmer.com/wp-content/images/usrn/121008_SHELLYPALMER_GEN_BED.mp3″ text=”Click to play … ” dl=”0″] YouTube has been on a bit of a roll lately. In addition to streaming the Presidential debates this month and improving their YouTube TV feature, the online video site just announced they have broken the 1,000 educational channels mark, just in time for last week’s World Teachers’ Continue Reading →

October 5 is World Teachers’ Day and Google has some news to share. YouTube has hit a new milestone: the video sharing website now features more than 1,000 educational channels. In celebration of teachers everywhere, Google has put together some new resources to make YouTube even more useful for learning. Oh, and the site also Continue Reading →

Last Sunday on Meet the Press, Chuck Todd said that Chris Christie made an “honest gaffe” by stating that on the morning after the first debate, the game (the upcoming presidential election) would be completely changed. I wondered if the term “honest gaffe” was an oxymoron. In my research, I found that there are indeed Continue Reading →

Google just announced that Google Apps for Business, Education and Government customers can now call and email the company with their questions about Chrome. Google, of course, has always been somewhat notorious for its lack of customer support options, but this is slowly changing. Last November, for example, the company announced that it would start Continue Reading →

When I last spoke with Cody Wilson, Defense Distributed had just met its $20,000 funding goal, and he had taken delivery of his Stratasys uPrint SE 3D printer. Fast forward nine days and the outlook for his 3D printed firearm project looks less positive. As reported here in September, Defense Distributed, a group headed by Continue Reading →

Students rejoice, there is work for you over the holiday season. Anyone who has taken up a seasonal job will likely remember the haul over Christmas and Amazon says that it will be opening 1000 jobs through its UK warehouses to cope with the demand for gift orders. Recruitment for temp positions at the UK’s Continue Reading →

Efforts by higher education institutes to gain Twitter followers, Facebook likes and YouTube views, while connecting with students on blogs and message boards, are paying off. A recent survey of 7,000 high school students by Zinch, an online college resource, reveals university social media accounts are influential to students who are deciding between colleges and Continue Reading →

I’ve recently started to wonder why we don’t run our lives more like a business. In business, nearly everything is accountable and measurable. If a company stops making money, it will go out of business. If a person loses passion and purpose, they will stop making progress toward their own goals. What’s the ROI on Continue Reading →

The story goes that one of the world’s greatest geniuses had a slightly different shaped brain than mere mortals. Now anyone can verify the tale for themselves with a new iPad app. The National Museum of Health and Medicine Chicago launched an interactive app today that has about 350 scanned and digitized slides of Albert Continue Reading →