Good morning and happy Monday! As the sun rises on another Monday morning, we look at a world the is so digitally interconnected, and yet human interaction and teamwork are still key to bridging gaps. Can the internet become the medium for this effective interaction to occur? We begin with a look at MIT and […]
Month: April 2013
Spirit of Innovation Challenge Winners Announced
The Saylor Foundation was proud to serve as a Champion Partner for the 2013 Spirit of Innovation Challenge produced by the Conrad Foundation and its partners. The Challenge “invites high school students…to develop innovative products to help solve global and local problems while supporting global sustainability.” From just twenty finalist teams, four winners emerged in […]
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We Love Resources: the Digital Public Library of America
Perhaps you’ve heard of WorldCat, which is, in brief, “the world’s largest network of library content and services” — but to folks like you and me, that means that we can search across many different library collections for a particular holding. It’s fun, it’s convenient, and it helped Yours Truly solve an Advanced Power Searching with […]
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Snapshot: Jen Shoop, Bookworm/Food Connoisseur
Today, in our newest addition to our Staff Snapshots, we catch-up with our Content Development Director, Jen Shoop! Good afternoon, Jen. Hello! So let’s begin; please tell us little bit about yourself. I am a rare D.C. native — you don’t find too many of those! I grew up in a beautiful stone house off […]
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Ninja Skills: Why the Unit Outline Matters.
If you don’t know what a “unit outline” is in the context of our course, I can forgive you. It’s not the first thing you might notice when you go to a course. It’s almost certainly not even in the top ten. Suffice it to say, it’s what I promised to talk about last week, […]