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How Travel Portal Development Company can Enhance your Travel and Tourism Business - 0 views

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  • Brevity Software Solutions Pvt Ltd on 23 May 16
     
    Brevity Software Solutions is Well-known one of the best travel portal development company. We offer contacting, growth for all the areas of B2B & B2C journey website growth in addition to journey API integration for flight making your reservation for, in making your reservation for, journey packages, coach making your reservation for, auto leasing, vacation cruise making your reservation for in addition to insurance policies. We offer light branded option for journey web development and as well as travel booking software projects.
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How to Make Science or Math Flash Cards for an iPod like a Pro - 0 views

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shared by David Wetzel on 11 May 10 - Cached
  • David Wetzel on 11 May 10
     
    "Ever wondered how to make science or math flash cards for students to use with their mobile devices? This typically comes about because finding science and math flash cards specific to a particular concept, topic area, or unit is difficult. Often when appropriate flash cards are found, they are too expensive or need modification. Technological advances have uncomplicated the process of making tailor made free flash cards for students."

8 Ways Transcribing Journals Can Make You Super Productive - 0 views

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Spelling & Vocabulary Website: SpellingCity - 0 views

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shared by Alicia Kelley on 12 Jan 11 - Cached
  • sandra nelson on 12 Jan 11
     
    Help make spelling time a fun time! SpellingCity.com can be an invaluable part of every child's spelling and vocabulary education with over 42,000 spelling words and customizable sentences.
  • Alicia Kelley on 22 Jul 12
     
    Spelling city allows you to make spelling fun.  No more book and pencil work! Make crossword puzzles and flash cards.
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The Three-E Strategy for Overcoming Resistance to Technological Change (EDUCAUSE Quarte... - 0 views

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  • According to a 2007 Pew/Internet study,1 49 percent of Americans only occasionally use information and communication technology. Of the remaining 51 percent, only 8 percent are what Pew calls omnivores, “deep users of the participatory Web and mobile applications.”
  • Shaping user behavior is a “soft” problem that has more to do with psychological and social barriers to technology adoption. Academia has its own cultural mores, which often conflict with experimenting with new ways of doing things. Gardner Campbell put it nicely last year when he wrote, “For an academic to risk ‘failure’ is often synonymous with ‘looking stupid in front of someone’.”2 The safe option for most users is to avoid trying something as risky as new technology.
  • The first instinct is thus to graft technology onto preexisting modes of behavior.
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  • 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.
  • Technology must be easy and intuitive to use for the majority of the user audience—or they won’t use it.
  • Complexity, however, remains a potent obstacle to realizing the goal of making technology easy. Omnivores (the top 8 percent of users) revel in complexity. Consider for a moment how much time some people spend creating clothes for their avatars in Second Life or the intricacies of gameplay in World of Warcraft. This complexity gives the expert users a type of power, but is also a turnoff for the majority of potential users.
  • Web 2.0 and open source present another interesting solution to this problem. The user community quickly abandons those applications they consider too complicated.
  • any new technology must become essential to users
  • Finally, we have to show them how the enhanced communication made possible through technologies such as Web 2.0 will enhance their efficiency, productivity, and ability to teach and learn.
  • J Black on 03 Apr 09
     
    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.
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Where Social Learning Thrives | Learn at All Levels | Fast Company - 0 views

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  • Jenny Darrow on 17 Feb 10
     
    Social learning is not just the technology of social media, although it makes use of it. It is not merely the ability to express yourself in a group of opt-in friends. Social learning combines social media tools with a shift in the corporate culture, a shift that encourages ongoing knowledge transfer and connects people in ways that make learning a joy.
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Scopeprice | Jack by Podo Labs: Make Your Headphone Wireless - 0 views

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  • Jany Fernandez on 15 Feb 17
     
    Jack by Podo Labs is a stylish Bluetooth adapter that makes any headphones wireless. Simply plug your headphones into the Jack and pair it with your phone. No more cords in the way while you enjoy music and videos on your devices.
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Access, Analyze, Act: Asking Questions That Make a Difference - 8 views

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  • Jennifer Lamkins on 14 Oct 10
     
    Lesson Plan Grade Range: 6-8, 9-12 Think like a journalist and examine what it means to ask the right questions of politicians and public figures to make sure the public learns what they need to know about leaders in the community and the nation.
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BBC DIY Science - Make your own catapult - 0 views

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  • drew polly on 03 Sep 08
     
    Make your own catapult
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Map Multiple Locations by Address - 0 views

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shared by Dean Mantz on 07 Jan 09 - Cached
  • Dean Mantz on 07 Jan 09
     
    Locate multiple addresses internationally - North America & Europe - calculate distances - make your own mashup map - instantly. You can use an Excel template to create your own map.
  • Dean Mantz on 07 Jan 09
     
    Locate multiple addresses internationally - North America & Europe - calculate distances - make your own mashup map - instantly.
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Attention: Parents, Don't Give Your Kids a Cell Phone Until You Read This - 17 views

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shared by Professional Learning Board on 27 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Paul McKenzie on 28 Nov 09
     
    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.
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  • Professional Learning Board on 28 Nov 09
     
    Your analogy doesn't work. Of course we shouldn't deny them cell phones! Just as we should teach them how to drive before giving them a car, we should also teach them how to safely use cell phones. AND we should keep up on understanding the changes in the technology as well.
  • Paul McKenzie on 28 Nov 09
     
    Apologies - I thought you were advocating for the bulleted section of the article.
  • Professional Learning Board on 29 Nov 09
     
    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!
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http://blog.teqsmart.org/2010/01/smart-notebook-10-6-this-may-change-everything/ - 5 views

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shared by Joe Dixon on 29 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Joe Dixon on 29 Jan 10
     
    It is time to start separating the tools from the content and now SMART NB 10.6 makes that possible.
  • Joe Dixon on 29 Jan 10
     
    It is time to start separating the tools from the content and now SMART NB 10.6 makes that possible.
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The Test Generation - 11 views

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shared by Ben Rimes on 11 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • "The more any quantitative social indicator is used for social decision-making, the more subject it will be to corruption pressures and the more apt it will be to distort and corrupt the social processes it is intended to monitor.
    • Ben Rimes
      Ben Rimes on 11 Apr 11
       
      How many decades have teacher's experienced this firsthand as students try to cheat, weasel, and otherwise fabricate their way to the reward, whether it's a gold star, a piece of candy, or some extra credit.
  • In 2005, for example, Alabama reported that 83 percent of its fourth-graders were proficient in reading, even though the NAEP found that only 22 percent of these children were proficient readers. The harsh punishments associated with NCLB had encouraged Alabama and most other states to dumb down their tests and then teach directly to them.
  • The letter is a thinly veiled attack on teachers' unions and the job security for which they fight. Mike Stahl, former executive director of the Pikes Peak Education Association, says union membership in Harrison has decreased by half under Miles' leadership, and that teacher turnover, at about 25 percent from year to year, "is the highest in the state among like-sized or larger districts." According to Stahl, Miles "is very anti-union and very prone to retaliation for speaking in opposition to district or superintendent plans. ... There was no collaboration with staff or union in the development of this plan. As a result, district teacher morale is extremely low."
    • Ben Rimes
      Ben Rimes on 11 Apr 11
       
      This is where a lot of the proponents of education and teacher evaluation reform fall. In the area that no longer concerns itself with building effective cooperation, teamwork, and a positive work atmosphere, a shame really.
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  • Since Miles became superintendent, Harrison's scores on state exams in math, reading, and writing have steadily increased. In reading, for example, 54 percent of Harrison students were proficient in 2005, compared to 61 percent in 2010. Critics who chalk those gains up to "drill and kill" teaching might find at least one thing to love about Harrison District 2: Its test score-based teacher-evaluation system is matched by intense professional-development efforts of the sort promoted by education experts from across the political spectrum.
    • Ben Rimes
      Ben Rimes on 11 Apr 11
       
      The silver lining of this system.
  • But "really systemic, momentous things are happening right now, and I am at the ideological epicenter of that change," he added. "If nothing else, it's really interesting
    • Ben Rimes
      Ben Rimes on 11 Apr 11
       
      Don't our schools deserve reform and/or experimentation that is better than just "really interesting?"
  • Rival groups of education researchers interpret the reliability of value-added differently but even the technique's defenders have urged caution, as have the Educational Testing Service and the Department of Education's own Institute for Education Sciences. Experts raise a number of powerful objections: that value-added measurements are often based on poorly designed, unsophisticated standardized tests; that the ratings are particularly volatile (a teacher who scores very well or very poorly using value-added has only a one-third chance of getting a similar score the following year, and it takes about 10 years of data to reduce the value-added error rate to 12 percent for any individual teacher); and that the technique gives the impression that the teacher is the only factor in student achievement, ignoring parental involvement, after-school tutoring, and other "inputs" that research shows account for up to 80 percent of a student's achievement outcomes
    • Ben Rimes
      Ben Rimes on 11 Apr 11
       
      Although "value-added" seems great on the surface, having to wait around for 10 years to get a 12 percent error rate and then deal with all of the uncontrolable factors, makes student performance assessments seem like a joke almost.
  • A consensus is emerging on what those best practices are, and they have little to do with test-driven instruction. Research by Linda Darling-Hammond, a Stanford University teaching expert and former Obama adviser, has found that in Finland, South Korea, and other high-performing nations, teachers spend just 50 percent of their workday in the classroom with students, compared to about 80 percent for American teachers. During the rest of their day, Finnish and South Korean teachers work with other adults to plan lessons, observe one another's classrooms, and evaluate student work. This balance is especially important for beginning teachers; powerful evidence suggests that the single most helpful teacher-training exercise is to spend time inside a master teacher's classroom and to get feedback from that master teacher on one's own practice.
    • Ben Rimes
      Ben Rimes on 11 Apr 11
       
      Reflective practitioning through blogging as a systemic model for teacher PD would be one way to encourage growth in this area.
  • The teachers are grouped to maximize the sharing of best practices; one team includes a second-year teacher struggling with classroom management, a veteran teacher who is excellent at discipline but behind the curve on technology, and a third teacher who is an innovator on using technology in the classroom.
    • Ben Rimes
      Ben Rimes on 11 Apr 11
       
      Interesting group composition, and would be easy to put together in any school with proper surveys and cooperation among teaching "families".
  • When I visited MSLA in November, the halls were bright and orderly, the students warm and polite, and the teachers enthusiastic -- in other words, MSLA has many of the characteristics of high-performing schools around the world. What sets MSLA apart is its commitment to teaching as a shared endeavor to raise student achievement -- not a competition. During the 2009-2010 school year, all of the school's teachers together pursued the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards' Take One! program, which focuses on using curriculum standards to improve teaching and evaluate student outcomes. This year, the staff-wide initiative is to include literacy skills-building in each and every lesson, whether the subject area is science, art, or social studies.
    • Ben Rimes
      Ben Rimes on 12 Apr 11
       
      This is what schools should be doing. Foster community, cooperation, and collaboration among the teachers, not isolating them in content area groups, and separating them based on department. Inter-disciplinary teaching teams is a first start, but having everyone in a district adopt the same goal, and work together would be huge.
  • As Nazareno walked me through MSLA's hallways, introducing me to kids and teachers, she reflected on how her profession is changing. "I'm not afraid of being held accountable. I haven't dedicated a career to have kids unable to read or do science," she said. "But people need to understand that teaching and learning are very complex processes, and any time you try to measure anything that's highly complex, you can miss the nuances." Nazareno paused outside a classroom door and lowered her voice. "We had a girl in the second grade whose mother died. At the school next door, a girl was brutally murdered. That's all they've been talking about there for two weeks; they lost a lot of instruction time." She raised her eyebrows. "How do you factor that into value-added?"
    • Ben Rimes
      Ben Rimes on 12 Apr 11
       
      Education ultimately is about navigating the real world, and attempting to make meaning from our daily individual experiences, or building community around shared experiences.
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Make Pixel Art! - 21 views

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shared by Ben Rimes on 12 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Ben Rimes on 12 Oct 11
     
    Fantastic web tool for designing "old school" pixel art. Save work, share it with other artists, or just doodle. This would be a great tool for digital and media design classes, or someone looking to make a project a little more retro.
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Buy Verified CashApp Accounts - UK - 0 views

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  • buycashapp11 on 12 Jul 23
     
    There are a lot of people out there who are looking for ways to make money. And one of the most popular ways to do this is through the use of apps. CashApp is one of the most popular money-making apps out there, and it's no surprise that people are looking for ways to get their hands on a verified CashApp accounts. There are a few things you need to know before you can get started with this process. First, you need to have a valid email address so that you can sign up for an account. Once you have an account, you'll be able to choose how much money you want to make and when you want to receive your payments.
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The New Heroes . For Teachers: Classroom Materials | PBS - 5 views

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shared by Jennifer Lamkins on 18 Jan 13 - No Cached
  • Jennifer Lamkins on 18 Jan 13
     
    The For Teachers section includes free classroom materials written for students in grades 6-12 to deepen their understanding of the world and related social issues. These activities are intended to raise awareness of individuals who make a difference and show how problem solvers begin and carry out their work.
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The New Heroes . Engage | PBS - 5 views

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  • Jennifer Lamkins on 18 Jan 13
     
    Becoming a social entrepreneur takes both a vision for revolutionary change and the gumption to do something about it. Students can try the games and activities on The New Heroes website to learn about the characteristics of a successful social entrepreneur and find out if they might have what it takes to transform a vision into reality. They can play a game that requires them to tackle the challenges of building a business with a social conscience. They can determine how they can make a difference by taking a quiz to find out which issues and problems most inspire them. And if they have an inspirational story or great idea for changing the world, they can share it with others on the site.
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Simple Steps To Better Dental Health - 2 views

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shared by Jennifer Lamkins on 25 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • Jennifer Lamkins on 25 Feb 13
     
    Simple Steps to Better Dental Health The interactive tools, diagrams, videos, games, and animations at this comprehensive resource from the University of Pennsylvania Dental School make information about dental health accessible to visitors of all ages. Topics range from the most basic -- such as brushing and flossing -- to the sequence of gum disease and root canal treatment. The site includes sections specifically for seniors, parents, and children.
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The best stylus for iPad: we review the hits and misses | The Verge - 0 views

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shared by Kris Abel on 03 Nov 12 - No Cached
  • Kris Abel on 03 Nov 12
     
    The stylus is making a comeback, but which one is best?
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