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Charles Cooper

Super PACs: How We Got Here, Where We Need to Go - 26 views

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government super

shared by Charles Cooper on 11 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • Not content with this, all these lawyers and campaign professionals came up with the next big idea — only months ago.  Let’s film candidates talking about their issues, and run the ads in key states, but it won’t count as “coordinated” with the candidate under the FEC’s “Swiss cheese” definitions because the ads won’t have the candidate say “vote for me.”
  •   An Independent Expenditure Only Multicandidate Non-Connected Political Committee
  • Speech Now v. FEC that if independent expenditures could not be limited as to the amount that could be spent because they are not corrupting, then there is no justification for limiting the amount that can be raised for those expenditures
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  • Members of Congress facing re-election in 2012, speaking on camera (or in voice-over, in the case of a radio advertisement) about one or more legislative or policy issues
  • Charles Cooper on 11 Apr 12
     
    Super pac, pac, elections, politics
Steve Ransom

The fantasies driving school reform: A primer for education graduates - The Answer Shee... - 5 views

www.washingtonpost.com/...gIQA5vwzLU_blog.html

education reform poverty teachers gr8 speech research black minority poor

shared by Steve Ransom on 14 May 12 - No Cached
  • Richard Rothstein
  • In truth, this conventional view relies upon imaginary facts.
  • Let me repeat: black elementary school students today have better math skills than white students did only twenty years ago.
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  • As a result, we’ve wasted 15 years avoiding incremental improvement, and instead trying to upend a reasonably successful school system.
  • But the reason it hasn’t narrowed is that your profession has done too good a job — you’ve improved white children’s performance as well, so the score gap persists, but at a higher level for all.
  • Policymakers, pundits, and politicians ignore these gains; they conclude that you, educators, have been incompetent because the test score gap hasn’t much narrowed.
  • If you believe public education deserves greater support, as I do, you will have to boast about your accomplishments, because voters are more likely to aid a successful institution than a collapsing one.
  • In short, underemployment of parents is not only an economic crisis — it is an educational crisis. You cannot ignore it and be good educators.
  • equally important educational goals — citizenship, character, appreciation of the arts and music, physical fitness and health, and knowledge of history, the sciences, and literature.
  • If you have high expectations, your students can succeed regardless of parents’ economic circumstances. That is nonsense.
  • health insurance; children are less likely to get routine and preventive care that middle class children take for granted
  • If they can’t see because they don’t get glasses to correct vision difficulties, high expectations can’t teach them to read.
  • Because education has become so politicized, with policy made by those with preconceptions of failure and little understanding of the educational process, you are entering a field that has become obsessed with evaluating only results that are easy to measure, rather than those that are most important. But as Albert Einstein once said, not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted, counts.
  • To be good educators, you must step up your activity not only in the classroom, but as citizens. You must speak up in the public arena, challenging those policymakers who will accuse you only of making excuses when you speak the truth that children who are hungry, mobile, and stressed, cannot learn as easily as those who are comfortable.
  • Steve Ransom on 14 May 12
     
    An important read for anyone who truly wants to understand what's really important in education and the false reform strategies of our current (and past) administration.
William Fricke

American Rhetoric: Edward M. Kennedy - Eulogy for Robert F. Kennedy - 1 views

www.americanrhetoric.com/...ekennedytributetorfk.html

AP

shared by William Fricke on 15 Mar 12 - Cached
  • We loved him as a brother, and as a father, and as a son.
    • William Fricke
      William Fricke on 15 Mar 12
       
      Identifies himself as part of mourning family.
  • William Fricke on 15 Mar 12
     
    Historical Precis 1
Glenn Hervieux

Legal Clips » Federal district court in Mississippi rules school district did... - 2 views

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shared by Glenn Hervieux on 23 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • Glenn Hervieux on 23 Mar 12
     
    Fascinating and helpful abstract on a ruling on if schools can address students off-campus posting and discipline students without violating the student's First Amendment Rights
Sandy Dewey

Victor Reader Stream, the versatile, powerful DAISY player - 1 views

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shared by Sandy Dewey on 09 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • Sandy Dewey on 09 Sep 12
     
    Download your favourite books and MP3s on your Stream and leave home with your library in the palm of your hand. This versatile, powerful DAISY-MP3 and NISO player lets you read and navigate through complex books, such as reference manuals and school books, as well as novels and magazines. You can also use its built in text to speech to read books in text format such as Bookshare. And thats not all there are many more functions, including an integrated microphone to record voice notes. No other DAISY player offers you so much in such a small package and at such an affordable price.
Enid Baines

Will Power's Shakespeare/Hip Hop Mashup Sets Caliban To A Beat. Because The Olympics, G... - 73 views

www.huffingtonpost.com/...espeare-hip-hop_n_1706962.html

shakespeare hip hop mashup

shared by Enid Baines on 30 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • Will Power, playwright, rapper, teacher, and possessor of a name you always hope exists but never know for sure, just released a "Tempest"/hip hop mashup.
Joyce Johnson

Tagxedo - Word Cloud with Styles - 105 views

tagxedo.com

shared by Joyce Johnson on 24 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • Joyce Johnson on 24 Feb 12
     
    Tagxedo turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters -- into a visually stunning word cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text. The following are a few examples to show the versatility of Tagxedo, especially how tightly the words hug the shapes.
Warren Hunter

More from Ken Robinson - 70 views

Here is another part of the speech put to an animated form. I know some of you have already seen this.

http:__www.youtube.com_watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U

started by Warren Hunter on 13 Feb 12 no follow-up yet
Eric Arbetter

Teaching Tip: Vocabulary Lesson Your Students will Devour - International Reading Assoc... - 31 views

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vocabulary reading

shared by Eric Arbetter on 12 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • A Juicy Word is a word that has some real substance to it. Juicy Words are special, more so than your everyday, dried-out variety of words.
  • First, I ask students to collect ten Juicy Words per week
  • from text or from speech
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  • note about where they found the word and how it was used
  • uring Week 2, I ask students to continue collecting ten Juicy Words per week, and in addition, to identify their three favorite Juicy Words and to use them at some point
  • In their Week 2 posts, students share their three Juicy Words, information about where they sourced each word, a brief explanation of each word's meaning, and how they used each word in real life.
  • By Week 5, the students are using five of their Juicy Words per week, and collecting an average of 15—five more than the ten words that I require
  • Eric Arbetter on 12 Feb 12
     
    Teaching tip for vocabulary - have students collect 10 "juicy words" each week including where they found them and how each was used.  Then they choose their favorite 3 and are asked to use those 3 throughout the week.
Martin Burrett

Talking Tom Cat 2 - 2 views

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speech app talking ipad android

shared by Martin Burrett on 11 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 11 Jun 12
     
    Help develop language skills for students who are having difficulty with this Android and Apple Device App with a cartoon cat that copies every sound you make and interacts in other ways. The basic free version has lots of functionality, but comes with banner ads. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Special+Educational+Needs
Martin Burrett

croak.it - 7 views

croak.it

speech voice audio record recorder

shared by Martin Burrett on 11 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 11 Jun 12
     
    This is a superb online recording tool where you can make a 30 second audio recoding at the touch of a button. Just share the short link to share your message. There are apps for mobile devices and a bookmarklet for quick access. It's a wonderful way to give homework/instructions and for students to ask questions when away from class. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Music%2C+Sound+%26+Podcasts
Martin Burrett

Lalo.li - 99 views

lalo.li

audio text to speech text to voice

shared by Martin Burrett on 18 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 18 Jun 12
     
    A useful site where you can type a message and it is read out using a voice synthesiser. There doesn't seem to be a limit to the length of the message. You can share the link to share the message. You can change the pitch, speed and more. It's a great way of giving instructions or homework over the net. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools
  • Laura Niezgoda on 18 Jun 12
     
    It didn't work.
Enid Baines

The Presurfer: Banned Books - 25 views

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banned books

shared by Enid Baines on 18 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • During Bookmans' 36-year fight against censorship, the shattered light bulb emerged as a powerful symbol of the importance of free speech.
  • In this video, combining passages from banned books read by customers and employees, Bookmans created a statement about how books inform, engage and inspire the light in each of us.
  • Enid Baines on 18 Sep 12
     
    Bookmans, an independent bookstore with six locations in Arizona, created this video for the 2012 Banned Books Week Virtual Read-Out.
Brett Costin

Toastmasters International - Home - 34 views

www.toastmasters.org/

speaking toastmasters communication education speech public_speaking presentation

shared by Brett Costin on 19 Dec 13 - Cached
  • Brett Costin on 19 Dec 13
     
    Great resources and tips for oral presentations
Dimitris Tzouris

SlideSpeech, presentations with voice - 12 views

slidespeech.com

tool presentation_tools speech slideshow

shared by Dimitris Tzouris on 27 Aug 12 - No Cached
  • Richer than a document, simpler than video, SlideSpeech transforms the way ideas are shared
Patience Wieland

Blynx: Speech-Friendly Lynx Help Files - 1 views

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resources visually-impaired tools

shared by Patience Wieland on 01 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Patience Wieland on 01 Sep 09
     
    Tips on adapting the Lynx browser to help visually-impaired viewers better utilize the web.
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