Search in Sports Illustrated's Vaults

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Sports Illustrated has launched their free, online archive database SI Vaults.

With 53 years of free, full text journal issues to browse and search through you might end up spending quite a bit of time here.
You can search for stories, images, covers, video, galleries and more.
Searching works by keywords with the option of refining your search (by date) on the results page. You can also refine by the content type you are looking for: article, image, gallery, video, covers.
You can rank your results by relevancy or by date and SIVault suggests related search topics as well.

And yes, they have the swimsuit collections as well.

Blending teaching and technology

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Have you found EduCause Connect yet? It is part of the bigger EduCause which is a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology.

In EduCause Connect you can find articles and tools to help you use information technology in your everyday teaching.

Most relevant to you might be the topic Teaching and Learning with the categories being:

Assessment and Evaluation(254)
E-Learning(866)
Faculty(217)
Instructional Design(218)
Instructional Technologies(505)
Interaction and Engagement(146)
IT Integration(155)
K-12 Programs(28)
Knowledge Management(64)
Learners(186)
Learning(347)
Learning Space Design(199)
Library Projects(66)
Organizational Issues, Teaching and Learning(19)
Standards and Specifications: Teaching and Learning(16)
Teaching(276)
Virtual Community(146)

In each category you will find links to featured content, primary publications on the topic, wiki's, blogs, communities, events in keeping with the topic, authors on this topic, conference resources and other internet sources and more.

Some of the other popular topics include:
Cybersecurity(300)
Information Systems and Services(98)
Information Technology Management and Leadership(265)
Libraries and Technology(230)
Networking and Emerging Technologies(101)
Policy and Law(151)

Make a video of your screen

Daniel Socco from DailyBlogTips recently posted some information on free open source software you can use to make a video of your screen.

It's the free version of CamStudio and here is what you can do with it:
- You can use it to create demonstration videos for any software program
- Or how about creating a set of videos answering your most frequently asked questions?
- You can create video tutorials for class or training
- You can use it to record a recurring problem with your computer so you can show technical - support people
- You can use it to create video-based information products you can sell
- You can even use it to record new tricks and techniques you discover on your favourite software program, before you forget them

I have not had time to download and play around with CamStudio, but seems to be quite promising and I can already see the use of it with regards to my training session, perhaps it will be useful to you?

Leading Social Science Research Delivered Daily

Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of social science research and is composed of a number of specialized research networks in each of the social sciences.

The SSRN eLibrary consists of two parts: an Abstract Database containing abstracts on over 166,700 scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers and an Electronic Paper Collection currently containing over 133,300 downloadable full text pdf documents. The eLibrary also includes the research papers of a number of Fee Based Partner Publications.

The networks are: Accounting; Economics; Entrepreneurship; Financial; Information Systems and eBusiness Networks; Management; Marketing and others.

Each network will cover the following:

• Partners in Publishing Research
• Paper Series
• Conference & Meetings
• Subject Matter eJournals
• Job Openings
• Professional Announcements
• Subscribing Organizations

Subscribers also have the option of viewing the Top Papers; Top Authors and Top Institutions. (subscription is free)