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Teens Try Out "Real Life" With Internships For Academic Credit | MindShift - 0 views

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    "Extended-learning opportunities are finding favor in more U.S. high schools as educators look for ways to give teenagers avenues to explore what they might like to do with their lives. By thinking outside of the classroom, kids who may not have thrived in traditional academic settings can find opportunities in the field. In this Atlantic article, Emily Richmond describes a school in Pittsfield, New Hampshire where students get class credit for completing internships in the community. "
John Evans

twitFlink - Find a link! - 4 views

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    If you wanna find a link tweeted from someone, it´s pretty simple: just enter above a Twitter username and done! We´re gonna list only links for you, give it a try!
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More and More, Schools Got Game - washingtonpost.com - 0 views

  • As Net-generation teachers reach out to gamers, classrooms across the country are becoming portals to elaborate virtual worlds.
  • But lately, researchers and educators say sentiment toward gaming is changing. Advocates argue that games teach vital skills overlooked in the age of high-stakes tests, such as teamwork, decision-making and digital literacy. And they admire the way good games challenge players just enough to keep them engaged and pushing to reach the next level
  • if ( show_doubleclick_ad && ( adTemplate & INLINE_ARTICLE_AD ) == INLINE_ARTICLE_AD && inlineAdGraf ) { placeAd('ARTICLE',commercialNode,20,'inline=y;!category=microsoft;',true) ; } The Pew Research Center reported in September that 97 percent of youths aged 12 to 17 play video games, and half said they played "yesterday."
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  • A new generation of game designers is borrowing from the sophisticated platforms and stunning graphics that captivate students for hours after school. They hope to channel the kind of feverish determination students exhibit when stealing a car in Grand Theft Auto and redirect it toward more wholesome pursuits, such as algebra.
  • Compelling games can help schools compete for students' attention, advocates say, even as many teenagers are tackling complex projects on the Internet in their free time.
  • Private foundations and the National Science Foundation have contributed millions of dollars to developing or studying games. The U.S. Education Department awarded a $9 million grant in September to a New York-based education firm to develop games for the hand-held Nintendo DS to weave into middle school science lessons
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NYS-EETT » Resources_3 - 0 views

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    Sheryl Nussbaum Beach"s fantastic resources on the following: Poswering Up Your PLN Project Based Learning Planning for Inquiry-based Learning\
John Evans

Free phone calls with Calling America - 0 views

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    Via PC WORLD : CallingAmerica, an ad-heavy but otherwise free alternative to GizmoCall. Like the latter, CallingAmerica requires no software; all you need is your browser. In fact, you don't even need to sign up: Just enter the phone number for anywhere in the U.S. or Canada and click FreeCall Now. You can make an unlimited number of calls this way, but each one is limited to two minutes. By registering (also free), the call cap gets raised to 15 minutes.
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Creative Problem Solving with SCAMPER - 0 views

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    * S = Substitute * C = Combine * A = Adapt * M = Magnify * P = Put to Other Uses * E = Eliminate (or Minify) * R = Rearrange (or Reverse)
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Is Linking an Antidote to Plagiarism in Journalism? - Publishing 2.0 - 0 views

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    Publish2's Editorial Director Tammi Marcoullier reflects on her own experience with being plagiarized while blogging for The Washington Post and wonders whether placing more value on link journalism could help with the problem of plagiarism among journalists. Check it out at the Publish2 Blog.
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Welcome :: MyJugaad.in: Slideshow for Webpages - 0 views

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    MyJugaad.in is a slideshow for webpages, which are sourced either from popular websites such as del.icio.us (for best webpages), digg (for most entertaining stories), google news (for latest news), yahoo, flickr, youtube, etc. or from a list provided by you or from your RSS feed(s).
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TheSpec.com - News - Hands-free cellphone may be legal but still unsafe - 0 views

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    "conclusion of a new report by the U.S. National Safety Council (NSC), which compiled 30 studies, including one from Transport Canada."
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An Intellectual Property Primer for Online Instructors - 3 views

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    According to copyright laws in the U.S.
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iPads in Schools - 6 views

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    Just added @wfryer 's Resources to the More Tab in the - iPads in Schools - LiveBinder! http://www.livebinders.com/play/play/26195
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International Society for Technology in Education - Blog > Apps for Conference Goers: i... - 1 views

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    "s mentioned in last week's post, Affordable ISTE 2011, I attend a lot of conferences. I always bring my laptop, but when I'm on the road my mobile devises are indispensible. My cell phone (an iPhone 3) is usually stuffed in my back pocket and I carry my iPad around in my small conference bag. At most conferences, I leave my laptop in my hotel room and use it at night to answer lengthy emails and maybe write a blog post or two. "
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Cool App To Share Your Favorite Ipad Apps - 8 views

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    "Today while browsing @tonyvincent 's blog I noticed a cool tool that he was using to share his favorite IOS apps. Appsfire is a place for you to create a list of your favorite apps as well as find other apps that you may like. Appsfire also allows you to "Follow" a search term for updates in the future. You can also limit your search to free only apps. Another great feature of the site is the ability to share your "Device" on social networks. You can also add your device to your blog."
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How to copy and paste text in iOS | Phones | Macworld - 1 views

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    "One of the most common early complaints about the iPhone was its lack of support for cut, copy, and paste text editing capabilities. In fact, Apple didn't add a copy-paste feature until 2009's release of iOS 3.0, two years after the iPhone's initial launch. Similar Articles: Five favorite text-selection tips Lion: The Complete Macworld Review Tips and tricks for printing labels in Bento 4 Hands on with Adobe InDesign CS5.5 What's new in Lion: Versions, Auto Save, and Resume Hands on with Amazon's Kindle Cloud Reader But if you didn't watch Steve Job demonstrate copy and paste back then, you might not know how to make it work on your iOS device. Here's a quick primer."
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Voice Academy - 0 views

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    A no-cost, self-directed, virtual school built for the vocal health of U.S. teachers
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Wikisend: free file sharing service - 0 views

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    Upload and download lots of files, big files, small files, data files, media files, archives or backups - any files. With Wikisend it`s simple and free.
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chris jordan photography - 5 views

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    Running the Numbers looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption) and so on. My hope is that images representing these quantities might have a different effect than the raw numbers alone, such as we find daily in articles and books. Statistics can feel abstract and anesthetizing, making it difficult to connect with and make meaning of 3.6 million SUV sales in one year, for example, or 2.3 million Americans in prison, or 32,000 breast augmentation surgeries in the U.S. every month. This project visually examines these vast and bizarre measures of our society, in large intricately detailed prints assembled from thousands of smaller photographs. Employing themes such as the near versus the far, and the one versus the many, I hope to raise some questions about the roles and responsibilities we each play as individuals in a collective that is increasingly enormous, incomprehensible, and overwhelming.
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