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mp3cut is service that allows you to cut mp3 files on-line. From now on you don't need difficult programs to cut and create a melody for your cell-phone. Three simple actions and your melody is ready!
"A Cutting-Edge Second Look at the Battle of Gettysburg
New technology has given us the chance to re-examine how the Civil War battle was won and lost" Interactive map
"New Change4Life teaching resources will support teachers to use English and Maths lessons to help children cut back on sugar.
This comes as Public Health England (PHE) reveals the average 10 year old has already consumed at least 18 years' worth of sugar.[1] While children's sugar intakes have declined slightly in recent years, they are still consuming around eight extra sugar cubes each day[2], equivalent to around 2,800 excess sugar cubes per year."
"Guidelines for teenagers should stress the importance of vigorous physical activity and fitness to cut the risk of heart disease, new research suggests. Current NHS guidelines say people aged 5 to 18 should do at least 60 minutes of moderate to vigorous physical activity each day to improve their current and future health.
But in a study of adolescents aged 12 to 17, University of Exeter researchers found significant differences between the effects of moderate activity (such as brisk walking) and vigorous activity (activity that leaves people out of breath, such as team sports or running around a playground)."
"Today Papert is considered the world's foremost expert on how technology can provide new ways to learn. He has carried out educational projects on every continent, some of them in remote villages in developing countries. He is a participant in developing the most influential cutting-edge opportunities for children to participate in the digital world."
global garment retailers
who want the incur the lowest cost--and offer the lowest price--to compete in developed markets but who do not want to be complicit in publicized worker
tragedies in developing markets
whether
Bangladesh has the means to enforce such laws
International Labor Organization
Inadequate government is a huge obstacle to change
only about one percent of Bangladesh garment factories have good standards.
garment factory owners are willing to allow workers to organize in unions or associations in order to have a
voice in health and safety conditions
"who pays" and "who is accountable"
Approximately 60 percent of the clothing made there goes to United States or the European Union
there are several problems
standards may depend on local law
buyers may simply cut off the suppliers rather than helping them improve their practices
global buyers simply leave the country when they conclude that conditions are so bad
question then becomes whether international buyers are willing to go beyond imposition of standards and supplier cut offs and to pay, in some form, for
the undetermined costs
actually implementing major substantive change
significant challenge in a weak state like Bangladesh.
Can a robust consumer movement arise among those shopping for discount clothing in response to the
Bangladesh building collapse?
What are the standards? What is the cost? Who is accountable?
drawn an analogy between the collapse of the Rana Plaza in the Bangladesh Capital of Dhaka and the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist factory
fire in New York which claimed 146 lives
Rana Plaza catastrophe represents a more complicated set of fractured global relationships, responsibilities and financial capabilities.
What to do on a maker-workshop? Here some ideas for organizers.
Make music with Makey Makey
CNC cut marble track
Program with Arduino
Illustrate your dreams
Build your own microscope and test the Berlin Water Quality
A video game about the city's future development
Grow roots and wings with Toywheel
Furniture design with a laser cutter
Dancing drones (a Dronenschwarm through a Web browser program)
Robots upcycled
A video game about the city's future development
Kids have a dream
Grow roots and wings with Toywheel
The NMC (New Media Consortium) is an international community of experts in educational technology - from the practitioners who work with new technologies on campuses every day; to the visionaries who are shaping the future of learning at think tanks, labs, and research centers; to its staff and board of directors; to the advisory boards and others helping the NMC conduct cutting edge research.
People toss around terms in education and attach the words "21st century" to appear cutting edge or on the front end of trending ideas. As a teacher in the 21st century, I find it amazing to see some of the things that are so-called 21st century and yet are no different from ideas from the 20th or even the 19th century. With that in mind, I reflected on what it takes to be a teacher in the 21st century and what such a teacher looks like.
your gateway to a cutting-edge collection of scientifically based resources on instruction. Funded by the U.S. Department of Education, COI develops and identifies free resources that Regional Comprehensive Centers and state, district, and local educators can use in their pursuit of high quality instruction.
We're big fans of all the latest cutting-edge consumer electronics here. We also believe that A Good Cat Deserves A Good Rat. For this reason, we specialize in selling the good value accessories.
Make a virtual paper snowflake with this great wintry site. Draw your pattern with the virtual pencil and cut out with the cyber scissors. Great to about out as Christmas cards.
http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Winter+%26+Christmas
What is plagiarism? A case study of a news story that keeps growing as the headlines change--racism, whites only screening, outrage--even though each story is simply a rewriting of a summary of a letter to the editor. The problem, ultimately, isn't the technology; it's the generation of readers and writers who prefer outrage to curiosity.