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Ken Fuller

Unit Conversion - Online Unit Converter - 0 views

  • Common convertersDistance and Length Conversion (92)meter, kilometer, decimeter, centimeter, millimeter, micron, league, mile, fathom, yard, foot, inch, microinch, caliber, megameter ...Weight and Mass Conversion (70)kilogram, gram, kilopound, slug, pound, ounce, quintal, stone, tonne, pennyweight, carat, grain, talent, mina, Planck mass ...Currency Conversion (38)US Dollar, Euro, British Pound, Canadian Dollar, Australian Dollar, Japanese Yen, New Zealand Dollar, Switzerland Franc ...Capacity and Volume Conversion (76)cubic meter, cubic kilometer, cubic decimeter, cubic centimeter, cubic millimeter, liter, exaliter, petaliter, teraliter ...Volume - Dry Conversion (15)liter, barrel dry, pint dry, quart dry, peck, bushel, cor, homer, ephah, seah, omer, cab, log ...Temperature Conversion (6)kelvin, degree Celsius, degree Fahrenheit, degree Rankine, degree Reaumur, Triple point of waterArea Conversion (39)square meter, square kilometer, square hectometer, square dekameter, square decimeter, square centimeter, square millimeter ...
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Ken Fuller

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Scott Nourse

More Schools Embrace the iPad as a Learning Tool - NYTimes.com - 1 views

  • The Virginia Department of Education is overseeing a $150,000 iPad initiative that has replaced history and advanced-placement biology textbooks at 11 schools. In California, six middle schools in four cities (San Francisco, Long Beach, Fresno and Riverside) are teaching the first iPad-only algebra course developed by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
  • converted an empty classroom into a lab with 36 iPads — named the “iMaginarium”
  • uestion whether school officials have become so enamored with iPads that they have overlooked less costly options
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  • working with textbook publishers on instructional programs and sponsoring iPad workshops for administrators and teachers
  • iPad algebra program in California
  • n Virginia, Pearson, an educational publisher, added iPad-specific features to existing American and world history programs, including an application for “Jeopardy”-like games and functions that enable students to take on-screen notes in the margins, bookmark pages and zoom in for close-ups. Pearson will develop iPad versions for all of its new instructional programs for students in kindergarten through 12th grade, and begin offering iPad versions for 30 top-selling math, reading, literature, social studies and science programs in April.
  • “Traditionally, so much of art history is slides on a screen,” he said. “When they were able to manipulate the image themselves, it came alive.”
  • iPads would also save money in the long run by reducing printing and textbook costs; the estimated savings in the two iPad classes alone are $7,200 a year.
  • eplacing math textbooks with digital versions
  • 60 percent of the high school’s literature reading list from iBooks free.
  • “We are talking about changing the way we do business in the classroom.”
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