The whole of South Korea waited with baited breath last week as 668,500 students took the day-long standardized college scholastic ability test at 1191 centers nationwide. Flights were rescheduled, military training was suspended and emergency services were on standby, ready to rush delayed and injured students to their exam centre.
Everyone who applies for a position at either of my companies, iFixit or Dozuki, takes a mandatory grammar test.
But grammar is relevant for all companies. Yes, language is constantly changing, but that doesn't make grammar unimportant. Good grammar is credibility, especially on the internet.
Great overview of how much we have to communicate more correctly as we communicate more technologically. Planning to look at this with all of my students.
Lately, I've been trying to find a solution for backing up my school files in a way that I will never lose them and will be able to access them from anywhere, including a mobile device. There's about a thousand services out there, but the cheapest I've found is Sugarsync. First of all, it gives you 5 gb for free. That's 3 more gb than Google, Dropbox, and others give. Also, it's $5 a month for 30gb. It syncs all my files and I can access from anywhere. I tried really hard to find a syncing solution for Google, but you have to have a $50/year Google Apps account and then pay another site to do the syncing for you.
Free and easy tool for remembering all of your online sign-in data. If you've been enjoying Diigo in Education as much as I have, you might have signed up for some new Web 2.0 services and need to remember the passwords for all of them. Plus, who wants to log in to a site over and over? Just make sure you read about the different levels of security if offers.
Exchange lesson plans and projects with other educators across the U.S. Great way to share and collaborate. Includes peer review, rating system, and discussion areas.
A good site if you teach a class that deals with global issues. If you bookmarked the other link I posted for this site, please use this one instead. This one will take you to whatever the daily chart is, but the other one will only take you to a specific date. Sorry about the confusion.