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C CC

GeoExpert HD for iPad - 32 views

ukedchat.com/...tion-app-geoexpert-hd-for-ipad

ipad geography education ukedchat eduapps

shared by C CC on 29 Nov 13 - No Cached
  • C CC on 29 Nov 13
     
    Recently added to the UKEdChat Apple EduApps page is GeoExpert HD for iPad. Highlighted by the developer, this app is a great tool for helping pupils identify countries, capitals and their flags for six geographic areas - North America; South America; Europe; Africa; Asia; Oceania.
Michele Brown

StepMap - Create your personal map for free - 10 views

www.stepmap.com

maps geography maker

shared by Michele Brown on 22 Aug 12 - Cached
  • Michele Brown on 22 Aug 12
     
    StepMap enables you to create maps for free and to search for maps in the map directory. In the map directory you can find maps for Africa, Asia, Australia/Ozeania, Europe, North America and South America. You can add images, videos, audio files and much more to your personal map. Categories in the map directory include Travel Routes, News Maps, School Maps, Fan Maps, Political Maps as well as Historical Maps.
thebda

Finland schools: Subjects scrapped and replaced with 'topics' as country reforms its ed... - 45 views

www.independent.co.uk/...education-system-10123911.html

shared by thebda on 21 Mar 15 - No Cached
  • thebda on 21 Mar 15
     
    "We really need a rethinking of education and a redesigning of our system, so it prepares our children for the future with the skills that are needed for today and tomorrow"
Martin Burrett

GDPR and Education - 5 views

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GDPR data

shared by Martin Burrett on 14 Nov 18 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 14 Nov 18
     
    "New rights and responsibilities regarding personal data are set to be released in Europe on 25th May 2018 under the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). For individuals, new rights are given by knowing what information organisations hold about you, and what they can do with it. Organisations have new obligations, including ensuring permission has been given to hold such data and responsibilities about the way the data is held. The changes affect everyone, including schools, educational companies, and individuals."
Glenn Hervieux

Nat Geo MapMaker Kits - National Geographic Society - 34 views

www.nationalgeographic.org/...nat-geo-mapmaker-kits

geography nationalgeographic maps

shared by Glenn Hervieux on 06 Dec 17 - No Cached
  • Glenn Hervieux on 06 Dec 17
     
    Complete set of 11 map kits that students and teachers can use. Easy to assemble. The kits offer United States political and physical maps, world political and physical maps, maps of Asia, Africa, Europe, North and South America, Australia and Oceania, polar region maps, and maps of New England.
Thieme Hennis

Homepage - Youth on the move - European Commission - 8 views

ec.europa.eu/youthonthemove

culture youth EU europe policy education news

shared by Thieme Hennis on 15 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • Thieme Hennis on 15 Feb 13
     
    EU program aimed at youth (unemployment, skill development, intercultural exchange, etc.)
ingramhistory

BBC News - Iran: EU oil sanctions 'unfair' and 'doomed to fail' - 0 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...world-europe-16693484

shared by ingramhistory on 23 Jan 12 - No Cached
    • ingramhistory
      ingramhistory on 23 Jan 12
       
      Read and answer this question
  • Iran had "failed to restore international confidence in the exclusively peaceful nature of its nuclear programme", British Prime Minister David Cameron, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in a joint statement.
Kate Pok

OWS's Beef: Wall Street Isn't Winning It's Cheating | Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone - 0 views

www.rollingstone.com/...-winning-its-cheating-20111025

teaching

shared by Kate Pok on 07 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • Just recently, the French and Belgian authorities cooked up a massive bailout of the French bank Dexia, whose biggest trading partners included, surprise, surprise, Goldman, Sachs and Morgan Stanley. Here's how the New York Times explained the bailout: To limit damage from Dexia’s collapse, the bailout fashioned by the French and Belgian governments may make these banks and other creditors whole — that is, paid in full for potentially tens of billions of euros they are owed. This would enable Dexia’s creditors and trading partners to avoid losses they might otherwise suffer... When was the last time the government stepped into help you "avoid losses you might otherwise suffer?" But that's the reality we live in. When Joe Homeowner bought too much house, essentially betting that home prices would go up, and losing his bet when they dropped, he was an irresponsible putz who shouldn’t whine about being put on the street. But when banks bet billions on a firm like AIG that was heavily invested in mortgages, they were making the same bet that Joe Homeowner made, leaving themselves hugely exposed to a sudden drop in home prices. But instead of being asked to "suck it in and cope" when that bet failed, the banks instead went straight to Washington for a bailout -- and got it.
N Kolnik

Balkan Institute Sarajevo 2014 - 8 views

http://www.balkaninstitute.com/sarajevo.html A two-week intensive course, taking place in downtown Sarajevo, on the 100th anniversary of the Archduke's assassination, focusing on how the past has i...

history professional development education

started by N Kolnik on 20 Mar 14 no follow-up yet
Jennie Snyder

Atul Gawande: How Do Good Ideas Spread? : The New Yorker - 36 views

www.newyorker.com/...130729fa_fact_gawande

Innovation

shared by Jennie Snyder on 01 Aug 13 - No Cached
  • Why do some innovations spread so swiftly and others so slowly
  • Consider the very different trajectories of surgical anesthesia and antiseptics, both of which were discovered in the nineteenth century.
  • The first public demonstration of anesthesia was in 1846.
  • ...18 more annotations...
  • nsisted that he had found a gas that could render patients insensible to the pain of surgery.
  • The idea spread like a contagion, travelling through letters, meetings, and periodicals. By mid-December, surgeons were administering ether to patients in Paris and London. By February, anesthesia had been used in almost all the capitals of Europe, and by June in most regions of the world.
  • On October 16, 1846, at Massachusetts General Hospital, Morton administered his gas through an inhaler in the mouth of a young man undergoing the excision of a tumor in his jaw.
  • Four weeks later, on November 18th, Bigelow published his report on the discovery of “insensibility produced by inhalation” in the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal.
  • There were forces of resistance, to be sure. Some people criticized anesthesia as a “needless luxury”; clergymen deplored its use to reduce pain during childbirth as a frustration of the Almighty’s designs.
  • Yet soon even the obstructors, “with a run, mounted behind—hurrahing and shouting with the best.” Within seven years, virtually every hospital in America and Britain had adopted the new discovery.
  • Sepsis—infection—was the other great scourge of surgery. It was the single biggest killer of surgical patients, claiming as many as half of those who underwent major operations
  • nfection was so prevalent that suppuration—the discharge of pus from a surgical wound—was thought to be a necessary part of healing.
  • In the eighteen-sixties, the Edinburgh surgeon Joseph Lister read a paper by Louis Pasteur laying out his evidence that spoiling and fermentation were the consequence of microorganisms. Lister became convinced that the same process accounted for wound sepsis.
  • Lister had read about the city of Carlisle’s success in using a small amount of carbolic acid to eliminate the odor of sewage, and reasoned that it was destroying germs. Maybe it could do the same in surgery.
  • During the next few years, he perfected ways to use carbolic acid for cleansing hands and wounds and destroying any germs that might enter the operating field.
  • The result was strikingly lower rates of sepsis and death.
  • Far from it.
  • Surgeons soaked their instruments in carbolic acid, but they continued to operate in black frock coats stiffened with the blood and viscera of previous operations—the badge of a busy practice.
  • hey reused sea sponges without sterilizing them.
  • It was a generation before Lister’s recommendations became routine and the next steps were taken toward the modern standard of asepsis—that is, entirely excluding germs from the surgical field, using heat-sterilized instruments and surgical teams clad in sterile gowns and gloves.
  • Maybe ideas that violate prior beliefs are harder to embrace. To nineteenth-century surgeons, germ theory seemed as illogica
  • The technical complexity might have been part of the difficulty. Giving Lister’s methods “a try” required painstaking attention to detail.
jmcminn0208

There's No Place Like Home - 22 views

ngm.nationalgeographic.com/...keillor-text

shared by jmcminn0208 on 11 Jun 14 - No Cached
    • jmcminn0208
      jmcminn0208 on 11 Jun 14
       
      This is literally two sentences. I found it very difficult to read through the first one... as it was itself one whole paragraph
  • And it is distressing to come home and not know where I am
  • Superimposed over that geography, like a Jackson Pollock painted on a fishnet, is the geography of a man’s life, the griefs and pleasures of various streets,
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  • We attended church at the Grace & Truth Gospel Hall on 14th Avenue South, where a preacher clutched his suspenders and spoke glowingly of Eternity, and I grew up one of the Brethren, the Chosen to whom God had vouchsafed the Knowledge of All Things that was denied to the great and mighty. The Second Coming was imminent, we would rise to the sky. We walked around Minneapolis carefully, wary of television, dance music, tobacco, baubles, bangles, flashy cars, liquor, the theater, the modern novel—all of them tempting us away from the singular life that Jesus commanded us to lead.
    • jmcminn0208
      jmcminn0208 on 11 Jun 14
       
      What did he get from this? How has he lived his life based on this childhood staple?
  • There were the neon lights of Hennepin Avenue and the promise of naked girls at the Alvin Theater, which our family passed on Sunday morning on our way to church, but that was lost on me, a geek with glasses, pressed pants, plaid shirt, a boy for whom dating girls was like exploring the Amazon—interesting idea, but how to get there? Writing for print, on the other hand—why not? And then came the beautiful connection: You write for print, it impresses girls, they might want to go on dates with you.
  • For days after Frankie drowned, I visited the death scene, trying to imagine what had happened. He was paddling a boat near the shore, and it capsized, and he drowned. I imagined this over and over, imagined myself saving him, imagined the vast gratitude of his family. I don’t recall discussing this with other boys. We were more interested in what lay ahead in seventh grade, where (we had heard) you had to take showers after gym. Naked. With no clothes on. Which turned out to be true. Junior high was up the West River Road in Anoka, the town where I was born, 1942, in a house on Ferry Street, delivered by Dr. Mork. That fall of seventh grade, he listened to my heart and heard a click in the mitral valve, which meant I couldn’t play football, so I walked into the Anoka Herald and asked for a job covering football and basketball, and a man named Warren Feist said yes and made me a professional writer. Ask and ye shall receive.
  • down to work at 4 a.m. to do the morning shift on KSJN in a basement studio on Wabasha and then a storefront on Sixth Street, the house where I lived next to Luther Seminary and the backyard parties with musicians that inspired A Prairie Home Companion at Macalester College, the dramatic leap to home ownership on Cathedral Hill in St. Paul, where I’ve lived most of the last 20 years, where you drive up from I-94 past Masqueray’s magnificent cathedral, whose great dome and towers and arches give you a momentary illusion of Europe, and up Summit and the mansions of 19th-century grandees and pooh-bahs in a ward that votes about 85 percent Democratic today.
  • Pride goeth before a fall, so deprecate yourself before others do the job for you
  • I drive down Seventh Street to a Twins game and pass the old Dayton’s department store (Macy’s now but still Dayton’s to me), where in my poverty days I shoplifted an unabridged dictionary the size of a suitcase, and 50 years later I still feel the terror of walking out the door with it under my jacket, and I imagine the cops arresting my 20-year-old self and what 30 days in the slammer might’ve done for me
  • She was a suicide 28 years ago, drowned with rocks in her pockets, and I still love her and am not over her death, nor do I expect ever to be.
  • “There’s no point in a bunch of rubberneckers standing around gawking.”
  • That’ll be the day, when you say goodbye / oh, that’ll be the day, when you make me cry,”
  • She says, “Tell me a funny story”—my daughter who never had to fight for a seat. I say, “So ... there were these two penguins standing on an ice floe,” and she says, “Tell the truth,” so I say, “I like your ponytail. You know, years ago I wore my hair in a ponytail. Not a big ponytail. A little one. I had a beard too.” And she looks at me. “A ponytail? Are you joking?
Kenuvis Romero

Tarantula - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

en.wikipedia.org/Tarantula

shared by Kenuvis Romero on 23 Jun 13 - No Cached
  • accounts of bites by some species are reported to be very painful and to produce intense spasms that may recur over a period of several days; the venom by the African tarantula Pelinobius muticus also causes strong hallucinations.[13]
  • Old-world tarantulas (from Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia) have no urticating hairs and are more likely to attack when disturbed. Old-world tarantulas often have more potent, medically significant venom.
collettmegan

How Cyclone Yasi compares around the world | Latest news on the Queensland Floods | New... - 21 views

www.news.com.au/...story-fn7ik2te-1225998762870

shared by collettmegan on 02 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • with storms of the past - it's bigger than Larry, more powerful than Tracy.  Hours after landfall, it was still a category three and had been forecast to still be a category one even when it reached Mt Isa, more han
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 02 Feb 11
     
    " IF you're struggling to grasp the magnitude of Tropical Cyclone Yasi, consider this: it is so large it would almost cover the United States, most of Asia and large parts of Europe. "
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 02 Feb 11
     
    Cyclone Yasi is about to strike land in North Queensland as I enter this post on the evening of 2 Feb 2011. This is a good comparison and visualisation that other teachers could use in their classroom to explain to students.
Dimitris Tzouris

EDEN - 28 views

www.eden-online.org/index.php

education eLearning europe

shared by Dimitris Tzouris on 06 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • Dimitris Tzouris on 06 Jun 11
     
    European Distance and E-Learning Network
kjopowicz

Europe's economic crisis is getting worse not better, says Caritas report | World news ... - 10 views

www.theguardian.com/...ic-crisis-worse-caritas-report

teaching_ibecon commentary article IA

shared by kjopowicz on 01 Dec 14 - No Cached
  • kjopowicz on 01 Dec 14
     
    Survey shows increase in the number of new poor in seven countries and challenges the official European Union discourse
  • kjopowicz on 01 Dec 14
     
    Survey shows increase in the number of new poor in seven countries and challenges the official European Union discourse
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