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How to Browse the Web Using Tabs - Lifehacker - 2 views

  • open multiple pages in one window
  • new window
  • can clutter up your desktop quickly
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  • Tabs are a way to open up multiple web pages at one time in the same window
  • you want to make sure you fact-check your statement. You want to open Wikipedia, but you can't do so without leaving Facebook, or opening a cluttered new window. Not to fret, that's what tabs are for.
  • File menu and click "New Tab"
  • No extra windows, no interrupted work
  • You can open as many tabs as you want at one time, and switch between them easily, making web browsing a whole lot more convenient.
  • just hit Ctrl+T. (If you're on a Mac, hit Command+T instead.
  • Click on the link with your right mouse button and choose the "Open Link in New Tab"
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    Excellent explanation of how tabbed browsing can increase productivity...or at least making your browser windows more managable.
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    I like opening tabs by clicking the scroll wheel on the mouse. Uber efficient
Carolyn Kraut

Einstein, YouTube, and New Media Literacies in the Connected Age | DMLcentral - 0 views

  • Moving to a discussion of how attitudes and habits apply to digital literacies, she uses Twitter as a tool that can be a "representation of what the Web seeks to be," namely a source of personal, customized, community-filtered data -- but only to the person who knows how to use it and approaches it with the right mindset.
  • Social media in education, according to Maiers, is "a mindset challenge, not a skill set challenge."
Carolyn Kraut

Why Career & Technical Education Should Be a Priority for the U.S. [OPINION] - 0 views

  • Students enter a world cut off from their own where they are asked to turn off all electronic devices. They can feel trapped
  • At all levels, businesses need employees that are more creative, more technical, and more connected than ever. This means that technical literacy is no longer “nice to have,” but a requirement for success.
  • At the same time, a recent study found that 14% of employers in the U.S. reported having difficulty finding employees to fill high-skill positions, including jobs like technicians, sales people, office support, and skilled tradespeople.
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  • By placing so much emphasis on testing, the curriculum became centered around those tests. Since students’ day-to-day lives are vastly different from what they see on standardized tests, they have little context for the content they are asked to learn. The result: 21st century skills involving creativity, critical thinking, collaboration, and communication are devalued or absent from classrooms.
  • immersing students in a specific career provides a stronger context for learning. Students can connect the rationale for learning new content to a career skill or objective. Instead of being viewed as a distraction, technology becomes a critical tool to give students 21st Century skills in creativity, critical thinking, and communications.
Carolyn Kraut

Royal Wedding: A Two-Screen Experience Like You've Never Seen - 0 views

  • What we’ve come to realize more and more through major events — elections, major celebrations, breaking news events and tragedies — is that the two-screen experience is becoming more and more ubiquitous,” says Morse. “More people are interacting, watching while using their tablets and their iPhones, and we want to create the richest two-screen experience we can.
  • Most unusually, two-dimensional barcodes will appear on-screen throughout the day, prompting viewers with smartphones to scan the code to load additional CNN coverage on their smartphones.
  • networks are beginning to understand the importance of an engaged audience across multiple channels
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  • The challenges involve understanding how consumers use different kinds of devices, and how to optimize the experience for each device
  • The network will also keep track of trending conversations in order to bridge online and on-air discussions
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    Social media and multi-platform media outlets change the way we experience and interact with history.
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