The AmericanPetroleum Institute (API) has a number of cool interactive games.Road Trip offers something new - an entertaining gamingexperience with helpful do's and don'ts for better fuel efficiency!In Exploration Nation, you will have to balance yourtime, money, Mother Nature and unexpected factors while you search forresources.Think you know your facts and figures on energy? Put themto the test with the Energy IQ. Checkit out: http://energytomorrow.org/multimedia/#/channel/interactives

As a born-global platform, Eliademy has always been developed from day one to meet the needs of our clients, who are highly diversified in terms of location, industry and organization design. In the short span of two years since launch, … Continue reading →

The Experience API (xAPI) provides a means to store and access data about learning experiences. The xAPI is designed to support existing browser-based capabilities such as the Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM) and extend that support to include non-browser-based capabilities such as mobile applications, games, virtual environments, full-scale simulators, and sensors. The xAPI also... Read More ›

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Your local library (Houston Public Library for me) may have access to the online Mango Language program.  If so, you can probably access the training classes for free.Today is International Talk Like a Pirate Day (Sept 19th). HPL will let you access the pirate lessons for free without a library card - http://www.mangolanguages.com/try-it.php?course_id=224To access any of the other courses at the Houston Library website, you will need your library card.  http://www.houstonlibrary.org/homeGo to Research, click Alphabetical Database Listing, and then M for Mango Languages.  Mango immerses you in real, everyday conversations in multiple languages, including Spanish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Russian, Arabic or learn ESL for Spanish, Vietnamese, Arabic and more.

If you enjoy Science, and don’t mind reading online, you’ll never be bored visiting LiveScience.com. There is always something there that’s new, interesting, innovative and worth a read.You might say,I know lots of Science sites. What’s special about this one?Well, it’s set up like a blog. Each article is a post. You can comment on the posts and discuss their content with other readers and sometimes with the author.You could say,Science sites I know always have the same stuff.I don’t want to read the same stuff all the time.LiveScience posts several times a day, so you’re never short of new things to read. You might then say,What! Several posts per day! How could I possibly read all those?You don’t have to. But I recommend you pop the address in your RSS reader rather than bookmark the site.Just take your pickThe feeds are short summaries, so you can scroll quickly through six or a dozen of them on your RSS reader to see what takes your fancy.That’s what I do. Like picking strawberries - I pick ripe and juicy ones. There’s no way I’d sit and gorge them all. But I don’t have to. There will be another pick of fresh juicies to harvest tomorrow.You’ll maybe say,What if I want to see what’s gone before?You can do that too. The site has a great archive and a fine search mechanism that’s easy to use. It also has categories that you can browse, for these tabs are displayed across the header of the site: They give access to the latest articles in the category of your choice.What do I best like about LiveScience?LiveScience is hosted by Imaginova, a leading digital and commerce company.The articles are well written, well sourced and invariably well provided with links to the source sites to give you more background information. It’s like a Science newscast, giving you the latest on the most recent that’s hit the news in the world of Science, with the opportunity to read more.And it’s not all reading either. There are diagrams, displays and illustrations galore, often with informative videos or podcasts, appropriate and relevant to the topic.So if you’d like to taste today’s selection of LiveScience fare, check out this strawberry. You might toss the address into your RSS reader for future munching.Go on! Spoil yourself.Pick the strawberries!A Green Pen Society contribution

Golden Dreams Therapeutic Riding Center started operating at Baileywyck Farm in Middleburg, VA in March 2007.  After operating for almost three and a half years, the program has made a difference in the lives of many children and adults in … Continue reading →

Imagine having all of your education records in a Gem housed in your own data vault, conveniently at your fingertips and ready for reuse in your private, personal network. In January 2012 the U.S. Department of Education Office of Educational Technology announced the MyData initiative to encourage schools, education organizations, and software vendors to allow students... Read More ›

About once per month,The University of Chicago Press offers a free e-book. This month's book is "Revel with a Cause: Liberal Satire in Postwar America".  "Before there was Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, or Bill Maher, there were Mort Sahl, Stan Freberg, and Lenny Bruce—liberal satirists who, through their wry and scabrous comedic routines, waged war against the political ironies, contradictions, and hypocrisies of their times. Revel with a Cause is their story."Enter your e-mail address and click "Get E-book." You will receive an e-mail confirmation with a link to download your free e-book, as well as a link to Adobe’s Digital Editions software, used to display the book.  Once you get the e-mail, click the link in your device to load.Please note: iPhone, iPod, and iPad readers: You will NOT need Flash. Pleasevisit the download link on your iOS device in Safari. You will be able to openthe ebook from there directly, into the Bluefire Reader app.Check it out:  http://www.press.uchicago.edu/books/freeEbook.html.

Over 100 years of Swiss excellence in the field of education. Lemania College was founded in 1908 by Dr. Paul Du Pasquier, giving the opportunity to young people who decided late to study and get prepared for the official exams … Continue reading →