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AIPMT Exam Details - 0 views

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    All India Pre-Medical/Pre-Dental Entrance Test (AIPMT) is a medical entrance exam conducted by Central Board of Secondary Education. The AIPMT entrance exam allows class XII students to sit in a single entrance examination and to get admission to almost all medical colleges in India, including private medical colleges.
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    All India Pre-Medical/Pre-Dental Entrance Test (AIPMT) is a medical entrance exam conducted by Central Board of Secondary Education. The AIPMT entrance exam allows class XII students to sit in a single entrance examination and to get admission to almost all medical colleges in India, including private medical colleges.
Randy Rodgers

Obama calling for more schooling --either more hours or more days. - Lynn Sweet - 0 views

  • economic progress and educational achievement have always gone hand in hand in America.
  • The source of America's prosperity, then, has never been merely how ably we accumulate wealth, but how well we educate our people. This has never been more true than it is today. In a 21st century world where jobs can be shipped wherever there's an internet connection; where a child born in Dallas is competing with children in Delhi; where your best job qualification is not what you do, but what you know - education is no longer just a pathway to opportunity and success, it is a prerequisite.
  • of the thirty fastest growing occupations in America, half require a Bachelor's degree or more. By 2016, four out of every ten new jobs will require at least some advanced education or training.
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  • I am calling on a new generation of Americans to step forward and serve our country in our classrooms. If you want to make a difference in the life of our nation; if you want to make the most of your talents and dedication; if you want to make your mark with a legacy that will endure - join the teaching profession. America needs you.
  • Secretary of Education Arne Duncan will use only one test when deciding what ideas to support with your precious tax dollars. It's not whether an idea is liberal or conservative, but whether it works.
  • the first pillar in reforming our schools - investing in early childhood initiatives.
  • Early Learning Challenge Gran
  • better standards and assessments
  • They are spending less time teaching things that don't matter, and more time teaching things that do
  • challenge our states to adopt world-class standards that will bring our curriculums into the 21st century.
  • develop standards and assessments that don't simply measure whether students can fill in a bubble on a test, but whether they possess 21st century skills like problem-solving and critical thinking, entrepreneurship and creativity.
  • money is tied to results
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      Research doesn't support the idea that money=successful schools, unfortunately.
  • using data to track how much progress a student is making and where that student is struggling
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      Individualization--good plan
  • third pillar of reform -- recruiting, preparing, and rewarding outstanding teachers.
  • politics and ideology have too often trumped our progress.
  • extra pay to Americans who teach math and science
  • if a teacher is given a chance but still does not improve, there is no excuse for that person to continue teaching
  • fourth part of America's education strategy - promoting innovation and excellence in America's schools.
  • I call on states to reform their charter rules, and lift caps on the number of allowable charter schools,
  • We can no longer afford an academic calendar designed when America was a nation of farmers who needed their children at home plowing the land at the end of each day.
  • expand effective after-school programs
  • rethink the school day to incorporate more time - whether during the summer or through expanded-day programs
  • let us all make turning around our schools our collective responsibility as Americans. That will require new investments in innovative ideas. That is why my budget invests in developing new strategies to make sure at-risk students don't give up on their education; new efforts to give dropouts who want to return to school the help they need to graduate; and new ways to put those young men and women who have left school back on a pathway to graduation.
  • The fifth part of America's education strategy is providing every American with a quality higher education - whether it's college or technical training.
  • simplify federal college assistance forms
  • the goal of having the highest proportion of college graduates in the world by the year 2020.
  • Adults of all ages need opportunities to earn new degrees and skills
  • bottom line is that no government policies will make any difference unless we also hold ourselves more accountable as parents.
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    President Obama's first address on educational reform.
Nigel Coutts

Learning to learn with a MakerSpace - The Learner's Way - 0 views

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    Making, Maker Centred Learning and STEAM fit neatly alongside Inquiry Based Learning (IBL) for many schools. Commonly this approach includes a constructivist view of knowledge and teachers seek to establish conditions which allow students to explore questions and ideas with greater independence than may occur in the traditional classroom.  Learning becomes a collaborative partnership between teachers and students with a clear focus on a learner centric approach.
Nigel Coutts

What meal would your team be? - The Learner's Way - 0 views

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    What makes a team truly great? What are the qualities which allow some teams to perform at a high level while others seem trapped? One approach to this question is to consider a team as though they were a meal. Thinking metaphorically, we ask what are the ingredients that make a great team and how might we combine them to produce the best results?
Billy Gerchick

6 Ways to Publish Your Own Book - 3 views

  • Users are able to use Google Book Search (Beta), which puts your book content in Google’s search results.
  • Lulu allows you to create a variety of books, but also lets you develop digital media. These range from music and ringtones to videos and e-books. With Lulu, you can also scan and digitize your old books, albums, and photos
  • Softcovers start at $7.60
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  • To increase your search ranking, you are able to add subtitles, tags, categories, and descriptions
  • Softcovers start at $12.95
  • . Because CreateSpace is a subsidiary of Amazon, it’s easier and quicker to sell your book through Amazon
  • Standard B&W starts at $3.66 per book; Standard Color starts at $6.55. You can also upgrade to their Pro Plan, which is $39.00 per book. The Pro Plan allows you to keep more from each sale, and pay less when ordering copies.
  • Prices start at $0.045 per page and a $4 binding fee.
  • WeBook combines the joys of self publishing with social media. You are able to write a book alone or collaborate with other writers. The site provides an online text editor for you to write, and you are able to add images from image-hosting sites like Flickr, Photobucket, Picasa, etc.
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Smartphone app lets user 'walk a mile in a refugee's shoes' - 0 views

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    The United Nations helped launch a smartphone app Tuesday that allows users to "walk a mile in a refugee's shoes" by simulating the daily struggles of a fictional Rohingya Muslim who was forced to flee her home.
Fred Delventhal

BookletCreator - create a booklet from any PDF document - 0 views

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    BookletCreator is a free online tool that allows you to create a booklet from a PDF document. It reorders pages so that after printing and folding the pages, a small book is created.
josephzone55

EntrancePrime Forays into M-learning with its Full Feature Mobile Site - 0 views

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    Entrance Prime, the leading e-learning and test preparation portal, has launched a mobile version of its website to allow seamless usage on smart phones and tablets. The mobile site replicates the entire web experience including the browsing of various test series, purchase experience, test taking experience, result analytics and guidance.
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    Entrance Prime, the leading e-learning and test preparation portal, has launched a mobile version of its website to allow seamless usage on smart phones and tablets. The mobile site replicates the entire web experience including the browsing of various test series, purchase experience, test taking experience, result analytics and guidance.
Fred Delventhal

TimeRime - View, create and compare timelines - 0 views

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    TimeRime.com is an online community that allows people to create, compare and upload information by creating timelines, and to view information uploaded by others. Information can be uploaded by individuals, as well as companies or (public) institutions. The subjects of the timelines can be anything which relates to time. For instance, one can create a timeline about ones favorite pop star, or one can create a timeline about a scientific subject, like history. But also timelines about company histories, individuals as yourself, your favorite summer melodies, your favorite car, all these timelines can be created on TimeRime.com. The TimeRime timelines can be characterized as interactive and multimedia. The timelines can be filled with text, music, YouTube movies et cetera, which makes TimeRime.com a platform that combines popular communities and other internet applications in one new portal.
Jennifer Dorman

Design Your Dorm: 3-D interior design tool for students, parents, and universities - 0 views

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    Got a college student who is heading back to a dorm this fall? Check out DesignYourDorm!
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    Got a college student who is heading back to a dorm this fall? Check out DesignYourDorm! DesignYourDorm.com is a web-based 3-D interior design tool that allows college students to customize their dorm room interiors and purchase their favorite room selections online.
Randy Rodgers

Penzu - Write in Private: Free Online Diary and Personal Journal - 9 views

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    "Penzu is a free online diary and personal journal with a focus on privacy. Easily keep a secret diary of thoughts or a journal of notes and ideas secure and on the web." Also allows users the option of sharing pieces.
John Evans

Kleinspiration: Tons of Classroom Examples Using Augmented Reality with @Aurasma - A Co... - 27 views

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    "Augmented reality allows someone to add another layer to an existing image. For example, imagine holding your phone over a poster on the wall as if you were going to take a photo of that poster, and then instantly a video starts playing to offer you additional information about that particular poster. Pretty cool, right? The first time it happens, it seems like magic."
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Heather Sullivan

Steve Hargadon: New Ning Plans: The Good, The Bad, and the Unknown - 10 views

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  • API access to networks will be a plus to organizations really wanting to research the value and use of educational social networking.  Several graduate students have looked closely at my Classroom 2.0 network and this kind of access will make deeper scholarship possible.
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  • Single sign-on / alternative authentication has been a highly desired feature from Ning in the past, and will potentially allow institutions and organizations with existing membership bases to incorporate access to Ning into their existing services.  It seems like there will be a couple of other somewhat intriguing options here as well, including logging in using Facebook or Twitter authentication.  What's not entirely clear in the material--or, according to John, to Ning yet--is if these features will be included as part of the Pro service or an extra fee.  
  • If you don't pay even the minimal amount, currently your network and all its content will disappear 30 days after the July shift.  While Ning will likely provide some capability to get a network back within some limited period of time, the idea that created content is not "grandfathered in" and retained even in some format feels bad.  I'm not sure how bad it actually is, but I'm hoping they reconsider this in some way and while not allowing those networks be functional, it would be nice to have the content statically available for posterity.  I'm also thinking about all the networks that will be created in the future--the idea that if for some reason you stop paying Ning all of the contributions "disappear forever" will be a mental and real roadblock to using the service.
  • The "major educational company" that has no name could be good or bad.  I'm assured it will be good, but I can imagine more than one large educational company whose providing Ning Mini networks for free would be looked upon with suspicion.  What's also not spelled out is what kind of control that company will have, their ability to market or message to the creators and members of the networks, and if there will be any advertising by that company on the networks.
Dean Mantz

Twiddla - Online Whiteboard Tool | Technology 4 Teaching - 3 views

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    Twiddla is a free collaboration tool where you set up meetings using an online whiteboard interface. Twiddla meetings allow users to interact in real time
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    Twiddla meetings allow users to interact in real time with drawing tools, chat, voice, images, videos, plain text, documents, emails, and GoogleMaps.
Nigel Coutts

A healthy dose of scepticism - The Learner's Way - 0 views

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    I want my students to be sceptics. I believe that in the present age scepticism is more important than ever. Easy access to information, ease of publishing, scams and confidence tricksters combine to create a climate where blind trust is dangerous for our security, our finances and our knowledge bases. For students of all ages a healthy dose of scepticism is much needed not just so they may reveal falsehoods but to allow them to discover new truths.
Nigel Coutts

Learning from the journey - The Learner's Way - 0 views

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    There is much to be learned from journeys. From stepping out of our doors and by placing one foot in front of the other making progress towards a planned destination. Journeys are a great metaphor for the challenges we face in our day to day lives and the parallels we draw may allow us to set a goal and achieve it despite the obstacles.
Nigel Coutts

Making Compassion the Fifth C of Learning - The Learner's Way - 0 views

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    The question of what learning matters most to our students is one that I return to regularly. A fascinating range of models are available each with similar elements but presented in a slightly different manner. Most could be summarised by the 'Four C's' model outlined in 'Most Likely to Succeed' by Tony Wagner and Ted Dintersmith. Critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and creativity are vital and each plays an important role in allowing us to manage the complexity of modern day life. Beyond being relevant to success in the classroom the Four C's are the foundations of life-long learning but I question if alone they are enough. I believe we must include a fifth; compassion.
Jennifer Dorman

Keep Your Password Secret - Safely log in despite spyware or keyloggers - 0 views

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    KYPS is a Web service that allows you to log into your account from a public computer without disclosing your password to that computer. The way KYPS works is very simple: You register your website (be it an email account or any login site) with the KYPS server. Based on the username and password that you have provided, KYPS will encrypt the password and generate a list of one-time codes that you can use to login to your account.
Nigel Coutts

Lessons from Schrödinger's Cat - The Learner's Way - 0 views

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    There are some ideas which seem to translate nicely into fields of thought far from their point of origin. These are  ideas which shine a metaphorical light on concepts and allow us to develop a deeper understanding of that concept once we see it from a fresh perspective. Schrödinger's Cat is one such idea.
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