Read Cube

Read Cube is an interesting free app (Mac/PC) that I just found out about from Free Technology 4 Teachers.  This is a nice app for students to keep their research articles organized.  The way this is done by uploading PDF's into a folder and then having full control over them.  This means users can search, highlight, and edit all in one place.

I recommend checking out Read Cube by clicking here!!

Visualizing Cultures

Visualizing Cultures is a site from the guys at MIT (Scratch) designed to illuminate social and cultural history. The closest thing I can describe this site to is Digital Vaults and Europeana but that's not really that accurate.

VC uses the web as a platform to: (1) examine large bodies of previously inaccessible images; (2) compose original texts with unlimited numbers of full-color, high-resolution images; and (3) use new technology to explore unprecedented ways of analyzing and presenting images that open windows on modern history. (this is straight from their site)

After exploring this site I can only say you really need to check it out. The user interface is completely unique, it's totally interactive, and it is filled w/ multi-media videos/images throughout.

For more info click here. (Free Tech 4 Technology great blog on VC)