I would like to share three brilliant videos made by Rick Mereki (an independent video producer) and his team during their travels to 44 countries during 11 days:

Move

MOVE from Rick Mereki on Vimeo.

Learn

LEARN from Rick Mereki on Vimeo.

Eat

EAT from Rick Mereki on Vimeo.

Gmail "killer" or an innovation toward more convenient social networking? Check out this live video about the Facebook press conference! =)

This recent NYT article is related to EdLab's e-book study in the summer (which investigates high school interns' experiences with an iPad e-reader).

First MIT, now Oregon and Rutgers universities...

Now the North Adams, Chicago, and Massachusetts public schools have all made a plan of using iPad with students.

Check out this New York Times article on how the web might change academia's sacred rites: the peer-reviewed journal article.

That transformation was behind the recent decision by the prestigious 60-year-old Shakespeare Quarterly to embark on an uncharacteristic experiment in the forthcoming fall issue — one that will make it, Ms. Rowe says, the first traditional humanities journal to open its reviewing to the World Wide Web.

I've recently heard a lot of acclaim (from both graduate students and high education staff) about iAnnotate, an annotating application designed for reading PDF documents/books in iBook, which is an Apple e-reader tool for iPad. A full review of this app can be viewed here. I think this tool might help solve the concerns and suggestions for improvement our high school EdLabbers had in an iPad pilot study conducted last month.

I happened to see the Research Digest Blog published by the British Psychological Society. The site won a 2010 Research Blogging Award. From my reading of the entries there, I feel that the writers of the site not only report new research findings from different sources but also bring out extended discussions in the field. The format of their writings is between summary and commentary, while the style is more similar to newspaper-like non-academic writing.

Probably this style of writing can be the next EdLab trial for our Research Digest series.

Maybe we can publish one nicely written post per week, and at the same time aiming at potential submissions to the commentary column in Teachers College Record?

Another question is that is there a way to link the EdLab Research Digest to our Pressible site in the near future? So any of the future posts and comments under the Digest can be automatically transferred to Digest's Pressible site?

To continue the discussion in Jeff’s recent post on the development of adaptive learning tools for young children:

I recently had a weekend trial of reading Sophie’s World on the iPad via one of the iPad e-book applications. I loved this new reading experience as it included many personalized options on a multi-touch screen such as zooming in and out and adjusting font type/size/color. With my interest in early childhood literacy and the roles technology will play in the future of education, I have been thinking about the affordances of iPad for education.

I believe the iPad will spark a revolution in the field of literacy education (and in children's reading culture too!). The colorful reading platform and the content supported by multimedia on iPad adapt to children's multimodal literacy needs.

Children’s iPad picture books might fall into the scope of adaptive learning tools in literacy.

Just by watching the following Alice in the Wonderland iPad book, I can imagine the great potential for developers/educators/researchers to develop/utilize/study iPad applications for/with young children in the near future.

And several other refined iPad books can be viewed here.