http://www.lrning.net Learning Resources Network : Nurturing learning as a lifelong discipline Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:19:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en CeeBot is a brand new concept with which you will learn programming while having fun. The programming language you'll use is very similar to those used by professional programmers to develop their products. CeeBot introduces many modern concepts found in today's most popular environments like C++, C# or Java. After ... http://www.lrning.net/2009/06/29/ceebot-have-fun-programming/ Alice is an innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web. Alice is a freely available teaching tool designed to be a student's first exposure to object-oriented programming. It allows ... http://www.lrning.net/2009/06/07/alice-teaching-students-computer-programming-in-a-3d-environment/ IXL is a product of Quia Corporation, which was founded in 1998 with the goal of revolutionizing education through Web technology. IXL's fundamental mission is to improve and invigorate the learning experience for students, parents, and teachers. At first glance, IXL Math is a simple Web tool that makes math ... http://www.lrning.net/2009/01/07/ixl-1-math-practice-site/ In 1995, Cerego began as a privately funded research-oriented think-tank, with a mission to enhance the efficiency of the human learning process by focusing on the biological and psychological requirements for learning. Based on years of applied research, Cerego has built adaptive, web-based applications that accelerate knowledge acquisition. Cerego’s patented core ... http://www.lrning.net/2008/10/28/iknow-a-social-learning-platform-that-can-really-make-you-smarter/ Mission to Learn Blog Features Article: "26 Learning Games to Change the World" By jtcobb on Apr 29, 2008 in Games & Widgets Jeff Cobb has a fantastic web site called Mission to Learn. Among the myriad of useful articles and discussions featured on Mission to Learn is an article that ... http://www.lrning.net/2008/06/01/26-learning-games-to-change-the-world/ What’s cryptology? Cryptology is making and breaking codes. It’s so cool. We make codes so we can send secret messages to our friends. And we try to figure out what other people are writing about by breaking their codes. It’s a lot of fun. On this site, you can learn all ... http://www.lrning.net/2007/11/10/cryptokids%e2%84%a2-future-codemakers-codebreakers/ Looking for a way to get middle-schoolers interested in math? The Math Explorer will do just that. The folks at the Exploratorium, who brought you the Science Explorer series, have created this book filled with games, puzzles, and science experiments to help kids develop math skills while having fun. Best of ... http://www.lrning.net/2007/10/25/books-the-math-explorer/ Addictive Learning is a powerful new technology, unlike any you have used before, that enables you to learn at high speeds and to total confidence, in a way optimized and customized to you! It is the fastest, and easiest way to get smarter by learning facts, rules, procedures, and other associative ... http://www.lrning.net/2007/10/17/addictive-learning-transformation-of-learning-does-not-have-to-wait-for-education-reform/ Australian Museum Audience Research Center (AMARC) has been studying museum visitors and their learning since 1994. Museum learning is a key objective for the Australian Museum. This section contains papers, reports and presentations from a range of AMARC projects. http://www.lrning.net/2007/10/11/learning-in-museums/ Building electronic projects that interact with the physical world is good fun. But when devices that you've built start to talk to each other, things really start to get interesting. Through a series of simple projects, you'll learn how to get your creations to communicate with one another by forming ... http://www.lrning.net/2007/10/10/books-making-things-talk-practical-methods-for-connecting-physical-objects/