New book on role of technologies in assisting disabled students — from Computing Education Blog

I’ve always thought that computing educators should be at the cutting edge of the use of technology for all forms of education, including adaptations for students with disabled.  We have the most flexible medium for teaching and for teaching about — we teach about computation using computation.  Richard Ladner is a world-leader in making CS accessible to disabled students, and his NSF BPC Alliance on AccessComputing provides resources to help with that adaptation.  I’d love to see more computer scientists building technologies to help us teach computing to more people and better.

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ITALICS – an e-journal for those involved with Computer Science

Welcome to ITALICS, Innovation in Teaching And Learning in Information and Computer Sciences, the electronic journal of the Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for Information and Computer Sciences (ICS). ITALICS provides a vehicle for members of the ICS communities to disseminate best practice and research on learning and teaching within the subject disciplines.
Scope

ITALICS aims to highlight current issues in learning and teaching Information and Computer Sciences at the Higher Education (HE) level including:

* Innovative approaches to learning and teaching
* Developments in computer-based learning and assessment
* Open, distance, collaborative and independant learning approaches
* The variety of contexts in which students in HE learn -
* Including work-based learning, placements and study visits
* Improving the student experience
* Continuous professional development
* The integration of theory and practice

ITALICS -- an e-journal for those involved with computer science

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What do teachers want in apps for education?

Next Firefox 4 Beta arrives, now with multi-touch – from WebMonkey.com by Michael Calore

Mozilla has released the latest beta version of its Firefox 4 browser. You can grab Firefox 4 beta 3 for all major operating systems and over 30 languages from Mozilla’s beta download site.

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Next Firefox 4 beta arrive -- now with multi-touch

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From DSC:
I post this because when this type of functionality makes its way across all browsers (and operating systems), we will have a very interesting way of interacting with applications via the web browsers.

Microsoft mines web to hone language tool — from online.wsj.com by Owen Fletcher

Also see:

Microsoft Mines Web to Hone Language Tool -- engkoo.com

U Michigan iPhone app grows from student project — from CampusTechnology.com by Dian Schaffhauser

An iPhone app conceived by two students at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, built as a computer science class project, and purchased by the school’s IT organization has made its public debut in the Apple iTunes store. Formerly named iWolverine, now called “University of Michigan,” the app allows users to track buses in real time through the popular Magic Bus Web application, listen to the school’s fight song, check dining hall menus, and search for buildings, among other features.

Emerging Technology: APIs and Mashups and eLearning — from interactyx.com by Jeff Roth

Also see the following API and mashup directories

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