January 2008


orionXchange Picks

Explore the most recent additions to the orionXchange, a mini portal recently launched on the ORION website where researchers, educators, students and technology experts can find links to resources, tools, applications, and other valuable sources of information. The orionXchange is regularly updated, but we invite our readers and stakeholders to suggest other resources we may have missed. Visit the orionXchange today at www.orion.on.ca/orionxchange.



Cyberinfrastructure Tutor, hosted by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, is a web-based training site for High Performance Computing and Cyberinfrastructure topics.

ATutor is an open source web-based learning content management system, developed by the University of Toronto's Adaptive Technology Resource Centre, that allows educators to quickly assemble, package, and redistribute web-based instructional content, easily import pre-packaged content, and conduct their courses online.

myExperiment makes it easy for the next generation of scientists to contribute to a pool of scientific workflows, build communities and form relationships. myExperiment enables scientists to share, re-use and repurpose workflows and reduce time-to-experiment, share expertise and avoid reinvention.

Cyberinfrastructure Technology Watch is an online venue designed to engage the science and engineering research community in the news, ideas, and information surrounding the emergence of cyberinfrastructure as the essential foundation for advanced scientific inquiry.

Galileo Educational Network creates, promotes and disseminates innovative teaching and learning practices through research, professional learning and fostering external collaborations. Galileo works with students, teachers and policy makers across Canada both onsite and online.

Muse is a new social networking tool that makes it easier for the variety of K20 community groups around the world to discover and connect with each other surrounding the use of advanced network-enabled teaching and learning resources and applications. The goal of Muse is to allow users to quickly discover collaborators and projects, easily communicate with other community members, and to find inspiration to develop new and exciting projects using advanced R&E networks.


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