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Supplement Your Language Learning By Using Common Sites In A Foreign Language
6:00AM Adam Pash | Ask anyone who’s achieved proficiency in a second language and they’ll tell you submersion is key. While most of us can’t pick up and move to another country just for our language-learning benefit, you can submerse yourself on the web easily enough. More »
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Get It Wrong Before You Google To Learn It Better
4:30AM Adam Pash | We live in an era where the answer to almost any fact-based question is no further than a Google search away, but Scientific American highlights a study suggesting subjects forced to get something wrong before being told the answer learn it better. More »
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2:30PM Angus Kidman | Apple has expanded its iTunes U scheme to include primary and secondary schools, and there’s already a number of local schools providing education content that can freely be downloaded by anyone. More »
Apple Expands Australian iTunes U Content
2:30PM Angus Kidman | Apple has expanded its iTunes U scheme to include primary and secondary schools, and there’s already a number of local schools providing education content that can freely be downloaded by anyone. More »
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Learn How To Improve Your Web App Delivery
1:56PM Kym Weathersten | A heads up for all you IT gurus; the Citrix NetScaler VPX conference will take place this Wednesday and Thursday in Sydney and Melbourne. Starting at 8am, the three-hour seminars will cover such topics as web app acceleration, dynamic layer 4-7 load balancing, ensuring availability of business-critical applications and application level firewalling. For more details, click through to the seminar web page and register. Did we mention it includes breakfast? [Citrix]How To Build A Web Site From Scratch With No Experience
2:00AM Adam Pash | I took one (bad) computer science class in college, and I’m not a web developer. So in early 2008, when I decided I was finally going to build a web site I’d been fantasizing about for years, I was starting from scratch. More »
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Five Classic Ways To Boost Your Note-Taking
8:00AM Adam Pash | If your note-taking skills are suffering from rigor mortis, now’s as good a time as any to throw a new technique into the mix. Let’s take a look at some new and old tools for improving your ballpoint repertoire. More »
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Learn New Phrases By Tweaking Your Gadgets’ Language Settings
5:30AM Azadeh Ensha | If you’re heading off to a foreign country and want to quickly familiarise yourself with its language, try changing the default language on your favourite gadgets to help jump-start your education. More »
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Cobocards Is An Impressive, Collaborative Flash Card Webapp
1:45AM Adam Pash | Cobocards is a free, web-based flash card application with an emphasis on collaboration, so you can create and study a set of flash cards alongside your friends or fellow students. More »
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4:00PM Angus Kidman | File under we-all-thought-so-but-here’s-the-proof-sort-of: if you spend too much time on Facebook, your results are probably going to suffer. More »
Too Much Facebook Might Ruin Your University Grades
4:00PM Angus Kidman | File under we-all-thought-so-but-here’s-the-proof-sort-of: if you spend too much time on Facebook, your results are probably going to suffer. More »
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