Monthly Archives: March 2012

Khan Academy

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“A free world-class education for anyone anywhere.
The Khan Academy is an organization on a mission. We’re a not-for-profit with the goal of changing education for the better by providing a free world-class education to anyone anywhere.

All of the site’s resources are available to anyone. It doesn’t matter if you are a student, teacher, home-schooler, principal, adult returning to the classroom after 20 years, or a friendly alien just trying to get a leg up in earthly biology. The Khan Academy’s materials and resources are available to you completely free of charge.”

http://www.khanacademy.org/

ePUBlishing

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Use and create your own ePubs (read with Apple’s iBooks, Nooks, Sony Readers, PCs, Macs, etc.) to enhance your learning experience. Learn how to correctly format documents and share ideas. We will address how to create ePubs on Macs.

ePUBS made by students and for sale…

Through ePubBud.com: http://www.epubbud.com/sell.php
Through Lulu.com: http://www.lulu.com/publish/ebooks/?cid=us_home_nav_ebk
Through iTunes: http://www.apple.com/itunes/content-providers/book-faq.html
Through Amazon (Kindle): http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1000234621
Through B&N’s PubIt: http://pubit.barnesandnoble.com/pubit_app/bn?t=pi_reg_home

 

Toola, An Otter Pioneer Who Raised Orphan Pups, Has Died

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by Eyder Peralta

 

Toola, the southern sea otter, with a surrogate pup.
                                                                              Randy Wilder/Monterey Bay Aquarium

Read the full article here.

“Toola was the first captive otter to ever serve as a surrogate mother. And that changed the way researchers rehabilitated injured otters.”