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This article will teach you how to build a solid and effective online portfolio, guide you through the best online portfolio tools available , and then show you a few awesome portfolio themes and sites for your inspiration.
* This brief article provides an overview of Creative Commons relevant to educators. While copyright laws provide some provision for educational uses, materials (e.g., texts, videos, audio, images, etc.) released under one of the Creative Commons licenses are actually much easier to incorporate into course content. Rather than just linking to a source, you may have the licensed right to incorporate and edit the material directly
Christian Boer, a typographer at the firm Studiostudio, based in the Netherlands, has designed a special font for people with dyslexia. The font, called "Dyslexie," uses specially shaped letters to exaggerate some of the differences between letters that dyslexics find hard to see.
Tweetdeck allows you to configure up to 10 columns where you follow tweets according to criteria you specify. These can be all the people you follow on Twitter (your “friends”), or a subset of friends, or the ongoing results of a Twitter search. So if you search for #bisphenol via Tweetdeck, a column will appear showing all the latest tweets using that hashtag — and it will automatically update for you. You can add, delete, or reconfigure columns anytime you like
This is fast becoming one of my favorite uses of Twitter. Combined with Google collaborative docs, Twitter becomes a powerful tool. Start your project in Google docs, spreadsheet or presentation and then Tweet a request to your followers for help.Here are a few examples of that:Last Day of Free Ning Networks - What Should You Choose?Innovative Ideas for Getting Teachers Excited About Building Their Personal Learning Networks Real Time from Hunterdon Central Regional High SchoolHiring the World to Be Your Professional Development Provider (free of charge)Adult Learners - Lucy Gray asked her followers for help on this
his is fast becoming one of my favorite uses of Twitter. Combined with Google collaborative docs, Twitter becomes a powerful tool. Start your project in Google docs, spreadsheet or presentation and then Tweet a request to your followers for help
As you go down the road of web measurement, always start with a goal in mind. When you have your goal in place, then provide context for the measurement. Let's break this down a bit more: How are we defining effectiveness? If the goal is for a user to download a PDF file of an alumni magazine, then you are successful if someone downloads the PD
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