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Google Apps Tutorial - Walk through each appl

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"Luckily, there are resources across the Web that allow you to use multimedia content for free with some simple attribution."

Create audio for a website and get link by email.

"There is a commercial about Tiger Woods that say, "relentless consistency, 50 percent; willingness to change, 50%." The commercial from the global management consulting firm Accenture sums up perfectly the dual focus of the Ambidextrous Professional Learning Community; relentless consistency while at the same time continuously innovating."

AmbiPLC part 3

"The Ambidextrous Professional Learning Community holds a dual focus, both internal and external, simultaneously. They focus on developing strong norms, processes for communicating, problem solving, building consensus, etc. This is important, but Professional Learning Communities must recognize that equally important, is a clear understanding of how their work fits into the needs of those outside of the team. They clearly understand that their work must fit within the greater goals of the school and the district. They are externally focused and internally focused. "

Second in the Ambidextrous PLC series by Rob Jacobs

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function." This is the first in a series by educator/blogger Rob Jacobs - Education Innovation.

This series will feature discussion of how members of PLCs deal with standard tensions or contrasts - such as local innovation vs. pulling in the ideas of other experts...

"The Ambidextrous Professional Learning Community knows they have the knowledge and information they need to make decisions instructional decisions and respond to student needs. But the Ambidextrous Professional Learning Community also knows that the answers they need lie outside of the team as well. "

Ambidextrous Professional Learning Community series - no. 6 (more to come as Rob Jacobs creates them...)

"The ambidextrous Professional Learning Community believes that results come from using a systematic approach to looking at essential learning, collecting and analyzing actionable data, using data to drive instruction, using Response to Intervention to meet the learning needs of all students, and using the best known research based instructional strategies. Ambidextrous Professional Learning Communities know that collaboration is central to their work. In other words, Ambidextrous Professional Learning Communities believe that results are simply a matter of using a systematic process. But the Ambidextrous Professional Learning Community also believes that great results are something more "

AmbiPLC No 5

"Being focused on current "real time" student data that can be acted on is key for Professional Learning Communities. Data, the right kind of data, is essential for driving the day-to-day instructional program of team members. The right kind of data is actionable, that is, it can be used to make instructional decisions based on current student learning needs. But there is another side to data that requires some skepticism. "

part 4, AmbiPLC

Very interesting description of Google Founder Sergey Brin's thoughts on his education

We should somehow be able to leverage this quote, don't you think?

promethean flipcharts for elementary school

"Now you can export all your documents, spreadsheets, presentations and PDFs from Google Docs in a ZIP archive."

Shared today by David Warlick on Twitter. OUTSTANDING visualization about unemployment figures.

"The purpose of this paper is to examine how KML, Keyhole Markup Language, can be used for thematic mapping. A thematic map displays the spatial pattern of a social or physical phenomenon, such as population density, life expectancy or climate change. "

"It's a subject we've discussed before, but it's worth taking another look. With all of the great new StreetView imagery arriving the last week, many people don't realize how easy it is to view that imagery in Google Earth. If you find yourself in Google Earth using one of the many layers they've built in or exploring a KML file you recently downloaded, it can be handy to dive into StreetView mode without having to load your browser and use Google Maps."

Great how to on using street view in Google Earth.