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Top 5 Skills to Excel in Today's Industrial Automation World | LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/top-5-skills-excel-todays-industrial-automation-world-don-fitchett/ Share this post with #industrial #engineering #students, especially those working with #automation. It just may help them excel at their #careers, if they act on it. :)

Speech Recognition in the Browser With Dictation, you can use the magic of speech recognition to write emails, narrate essays and long documents in the browser without touching the keyboard. To get started, just connect the microphone to your computer and click the Start Dictation button. Dictation uses your browser's local Storage to save all the transcribed text automatically as you speak. That means you can close the browser and it will resume from where you left off. Speak in your Native Language You don't have to speak in English as Chrome's engine can recognize quite a few languages including Arabic, Chinese, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Malay, Indonesian and more. Dictation will automatically determine your browser's default language and uses it for subsequent transcriptions.

"Research is a process. It is a continuum of stages that together make up a research plan. Below is a tentative sketch of what we think are the seven important steps of a research plan. For each of these stages we featured a short collection of web tools to help you carry it out."

Allow Anyone to Upload Files Directly to Your Drive "Have you ever been in the situation when you needed someone to share a digital file with you but the file is too large to send as an email attachment? Sharing that file with you in Google Drive is a great alternative, but what happens if the person does not have a Gmail or GAFE account? Well, it turns out there is a script that automatically provides you with a URL that allows any user to upload a file to a designated folder in your Google Drive. The beauty of this script is that anyone can send the file to your Google Drive without signing in to a Google account! Here is how to set it up (no scripting ability required)."

"A JOINT parliamentary committee examining Labor’s controversial data retention plans has again sought assurances on the vexed question of what it wants stored." Read More.....

This is a site that contains many articles about Internet safety.  Teachers could read these different articles and prepare an Internet safety lesson.  The articles are geared to all ages so this site helps every grade level teacher and it also has an article for parents.

This website provides parents with online safety to protect their privacy it also gives safety ideas to implement in the home.

Brief of s study completed by the journal Nature about the accuracy of Wikipedia as compared to the accuracy of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

"The Volume Purchase Program makes it easy for educational institutions to purchase iOS apps in volume and distribute those apps to users. The Volume Purchase Program also allows app developers to offer special pricing for purchases of 20 apps or more."

Great! We use this with our iPod carts. It is easy to use after the initial set up. Fits the bill for schools that have to follow certain finance guidelines/documentation.

FriendFeed enables you to keep up-to-date on the web pages, photos, videos and music that your friends and family are sharing. It offers a unique way to discover and discuss information among friends.

This might be an interesting way to facilitate conversation in classes and professional development.

This might be an interesting way to facilitate conversation in classes and professional development.

First, a technology must be evident to the user as potentially useful in making his or her life easier (or more enjoyable). Second, a technology must be easy to use to avoid rousing feelings of inadequacy. Third, the technology must become essential to the user in going about his or her business. This "Three-E Strategy," if applied properly, has been at the core of every successful technology adoption throughout history.

Vlog It creates video blogs faster and easier than traditional video editing software because there's no editing! In fact, it's more like an automatic TV newsroom right inside your computer.

Use this resource to search the web and go back to items posted long ago that are no longer available.

Good grief. Should we also tell them to stay away from the road because of the dangerous cars? Sounds like another way to deny kids an increasingly important 21C literacy.

Apologies - I thought you were advocating for the bulleted section of the article.

Thanks. My general rule of thumb is to only advocate for continual improvement through on-going learning. I consider myself to be pretty tech-savvy and was SHOCKED to learn that GPS coordinates get auto-embedded in images. I'd never considered this before and don't consider the extra information (GPS coordinates that can easily be mapped to an exact location) something that "should be" (yet it is) made available to anyone who can view a picture. In other words, let's say, I'm super careful to not include identifying information in my photos (my name, school name, city landmarks, etc) and take a picture of say, my stereo system. I've now included with this image the exact coordinates for where my home (with stereo) is located. Now a potential thief has this information (w/Google Map directions). It's super hard to be intentional about all of our choices and actions (including using GPS data w/cell phone images). That said, the more we all know, the more each of us is able to make decisions that best align with our own views, values and understandings. It's one thing for an adult to make a decision or not make a decision about inclusion of GPS data in their cell phone taken images, it takes another level of consideration when it involves giving that capability to children. THANK YOU for helping me to capture and better articulate my thoughts in this area!