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Roland Gesthuizen

Polished Man | End Child Abuse & Violence Against Children - 9 views

www.polishedman.com.au

charity domesticviolence children homepage

shared by Roland Gesthuizen on 08 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 08 Sep 14
     
    "Polished Man challenges men to wear nail polish and fundraise towards prevention programs to address violence against children."
S Berrend

Magnets: Where Physics Meets High Fashion - 75 views

physicscentral.com/...nailpolish1.cfm

magnets physics fashion experiment

shared by S Berrend on 19 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • S Berrend on 19 Feb 12
     
    Fun jumping off place for combining worlds via a discussion of magnetic fingernail polish. Students could test and explore ways to get different patterns to develop in the polish.
Lauren Rosen

Listen and Write - Dictation - 76 views

www.listen-and-write.com

dictation typing

shared by Lauren Rosen on 17 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Lauren Rosen on 17 Mar 10
     
    Great resource for practicing dictation based on real news stories. Large library in English. Several other languages offered including Japanese, Hebrew, Polish, and many others.
  • Lauren Rosen on 17 Mar 10
     
    Great resource for practicing dictation based on real news stories. Large library in English. Several other languages offered including Japanese, Hebrew, Polish, and many others.
  • Lauren Rosen on 17 Mar 10
     
    Great resource for practicing dictation based on real news stories. Large library in English. Several other languages offered including Japanese, Hebrew, Polish, and many others.
Martin Burrett

Babadum - 16 views

ukedchat.com/babadum

languages English Spanish German French Chinese Mandarin Japan Italian Russian Polish mfl

shared by Martin Burrett on 02 Oct 18 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 02 Oct 18
     
    "This is a fab HTML5 language learning site which tests your language skills through a series of games with 1500 words. The site collects stats on your performance. The current 21 languages include English, Spanish, German, French, Chinese, Japan, Italian, Russian, Polish and many more."
SJCNY Trainers

Polishing the Student's Image on Facebook Timeline | MindShift - 63 views

mindshift.kqed.org/...nts-image-on-facebook-timeline

ePortfolio Digital_Footprints

shared by SJCNY Trainers on 21 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • SJCNY Trainers on 21 Dec 11
     
    Great post about the potential for using the new Timeline feature (as of Dec 2011) in Facebook to help craft a positive digital footprint.
A Strang

Welcome to Great Source iwrite! - 5 views

www.greatsource.com/...index.html

writing language Resources literature six traits of writing

shared by A Strang on 28 May 09 - Cached
  • A Strang on 28 May 09
     
    A variety of templates, tutorials, and graphic organizers introduce and explain the major forms of writing (narrative, persuasive, expository, research, response to literature) and help students develop practical writing skills - from coming up with a topic idea to publishing a polished work. Developed in collaboration with Microsoft for Learning Essentials, these tools offer solid instruction from the popular, research-based Write Source series of writing programs.
Tony Baldasaro

Adobe - Managing Your Digital Footprint - 0 views

www.adobe.com/...digital-footprint.html

digitalfootprint footprint

shared by Tony Baldasaro on 24 Jul 09 - Cached
  • Tony Baldasaro on 24 Jul 09
     
    When it comes to job hunting, people have no shortage of concerns: preparing a compelling resume, providing polished answers to interview questions, and having excellent references, just to name a few. But since the word "Google" became a verb, job seekers have one more thing to worry about: ensuring their online records won't deter hiring managers from making a job offer.
Ed Webb

Enemy Lurks in Briefings on Afghan War - PowerPoint - NYTimes.com - 51 views

www.nytimes.com/...27powerpoint.html

powerpoint presentations military fail

shared by Ed Webb on 27 Apr 10 - Cached
  • “PowerPoint makes us stupid,”
  • behind all the PowerPoint jokes are serious concerns that the program stifles discussion, critical thinking and thoughtful decision-making
  • deeply embedded in a military culture that has come to rely on PowerPoint’s hierarchical ordering of a confused world
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  • Commanders say that the slides impart less information than a five-page paper can hold, and that they relieve the briefer of the need to polish writing to convey an analytic, persuasive point.
  • Senior officers say the program does come in handy when the goal is not imparting information, as in briefings for reporters. The news media sessions often last 25 minutes, with 5 minutes left at the end for questions from anyone still awake. Those types of PowerPoint presentations, Dr. Hammes said, are known as “hypnotizing chickens.”
Martin Burrett

Play Hangman - bab.la language portal - 3 views

en.bab.la/hangman.php

language mfl English Spanish German French Italian Portuguese Polish Romanian Russian Turkish games hangman

shared by Martin Burrett on 12 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 12 Aug 11
     
    Play hangman in ten European languages, including English, French, German and Spanish. You can choose the level of difficulty. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Languages,+Culture+&+International+Projects
Joe Virant

Does Easy Do It? Children, Games, and Learning - 29 views

www.papert.org/...Doeseasydoit.html

papert games

shared by Joe Virant on 14 Oct 09 - Cached
  • The kind of product I shall pick on here has the form of a game: the player gets into situations that require an appropriate action in order to get on to the next situation along the road to the final goal. So far, this sounds like "tainment." The "edu" part comes from the fact that the actions are schoolish exercises such as those little addition or multiplication sums that schools are so fond of boring kids with. It is clear enough why people do this. Many who want to control children (for example, the less imaginative members of the teaching profession or parents obsessed with kids' grades) become green with envy when they see the energy children pour into computer games. So they say to themselves, "The kids like to play games, we want them to learn multiplication tables, so everyone will be happy if we make games that teach multiplication." The result is shown in a rash of ads that go like this: "Our Software Is So Much Fun That The Kids Don't Even Know That They Are Learning" or "Our Games Make Math Easy."
  • What is worst about school curriculum is the fragmentation of knowledge into little pieces. This is supposed to make learning easy, but often ends up depriving knowledge of personal meaning and making it boring. Ask a few kids: the reason most don't like school is not that the work is too hard, but that it is utterly boring.
  • game designers have a better take on the nature of learning than curriculum designers. They have to. Their livelihoods depend on millions of people being prepared to undertake the serious amount of learning needed to master a complex game. If their public failed to learn, they would go out of business. In the case of curriculum designers, the situation is reversed: their business is boosted whenever students fail to learn and schools clamor for a new curriculum!
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  • watching kids work at mastering games confirms what I know from my own experience: learning is essentially hard; it happens best when one is deeply engaged in hard and challenging activities.
  • The preoccupation in America with "Making It Easy" is self-defeating and cause for serious worry about the deterioration of the learning environment.
  • I have found that when they get the support and have access to suitable software systems, children's enthusiasm for playing games easily gives rise to an enthusiasm for making them, and this in turn leads to more sophisticated thinking about all aspects of games, including those aspects that we are discussing here. Of course, the games they can make generally lack the polish and the complexity of those made by professional designers. But the idea that children should draw, write stories and play music is not contradicted by the fact that their work is not of professional quality. I would predict that within a decade, making a computer game will be as much a part of children's culture as any of these art forms.
  • Joe Virant on 14 Oct 09
     
    Dr. Seymour Papert describes ways in which gaming enhances learning. June, 1998.
robert morris

interpolate - definition and meaning - 8 views

www.wordnik.com/...interpolate

shared by robert morris on 17 Nov 14 - No Cached
  • Latin interpolāre, interpolāt-, to touch up, refurbish, from interpolis, refurbished; see pel-5 in Indo-European roots.
    • robert morris
      robert morris on 17 Nov 14
       
      Related to polis, as in police.
  • E Barney on 18 Nov 14
     
    Actually, polis was greek for city state, often in the idealized sense that we would use the term "state" to refer to a country The word "police" comes from Middle French, for public order, administration - policy is a better parallel Interpolate, as a verb, comes from Latin, and is closer to "polish" - but it usually means to introduce new meaning or to draw new conclusions, sometimes with the implication that they may be false additions (interpret looks at what's there, infer draws conclusions, interpose interrupts with a new topic)
Paul Beaufait

The purpose of aggregating bookmarks for the Diigo in Education group - 143 views

As somewhat of a Johnny-come-lately to this group, since hearing of new Diigo outline functionality AND planned deprecation of Diigo lists, I believed this group would focus on the transition in Di...

aggregations Diigo education groups purposes moderation noise-to-signal signal-to-noise tools

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