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BBC - Wales - A Guide to Digital Storytelling - 0 views

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    Step-by-step guide to digital storytelling, from story origination through drafting, photographing, recording audio, publishing.
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Google Guide Quick Reference: Google Advanced Operators (Cheat Sheet) - 0 views

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    Quick guide to search tips and tricks
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Computer Laboratory: Baking Pi - Operating Systems Development - 0 views

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    Helpful beginners' guide to using the Raspberry Pi.
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Gosh! Napoleon Dynamite's Guide To Social Networking | The Talent Buzz - 0 views

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    5 principles for social networking success.
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How a Radical New Teaching Method Could Unleash a Generation of Geniuses | Wired Busine... - 0 views

  • And yet the dominant model of public education is still fundamentally rooted in the industrial revolution that spawned it, when workplaces valued punctuality, regularity, attention, and silence above all else.
  • Decentralized systems have proven to be more productive and agile than rigid, top-down ones
  • In 1970 the top three skills required by the Fortune 500 were the three Rs: reading, writing, and arithmetic. In 1999 the top three skills in demand were teamwork, problem-solving, and interpersonal skills
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  • We don’t openly profess those values nowadays, but our educational system—which routinely tests kids on their ability to recall information and demonstrate mastery of a narrow set of skills—doubles down on the view that students are material to be processed, programmed, and quality-tested. School administrators prepare curriculum standards and “pacing guides” that tell teachers what to teach each day. Legions of managers supervise everything that happens in the classroom; in 2010 only 50 percent of public school staff members in the US were teachers.
  • Teachers provide prompts, not answers, and then they step aside
  • There will be no teachers, curriculum, or separation into age groups—just six or so computers and a woman to look after the kids’ safety. His defining principle: “The children are completely in charge.”
  • “schools in the cloud,”
  • as the kids blasted through the questions, they couldn’t help noticing that it felt easy, as if they were being asked to do something very basic.
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    Must. Read. Such a valuable lesson and another example of how we are doing it wrong.
Randy Rodgers

Jauntful - 0 views

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    Site lets users create interactive maps of any location. Users add pins, then share stories or information, images, etc. Could be a good tool for students learning about historical places, local communities, etc. Also a good tool for writing short expository texts.
Randy Rodgers

Forvo: the pronunciation guide. All the words in the world pronounced by native speakers - 0 views

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    Site is attempting to have all words in every language available, pronounced by a native speaker. Currently includes 143,000+ words in 203 languages.
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