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Using NETS-T to develop "Just in Time" PD for teachers on integrating 21st Century Skills.

Computational web based app. Although it's tempting to think of Wolfram|Alpha as a place to look up facts, that's only part of the story. The thing that truly sets Wolfram|Alpha apart is that it is able to do sophisticated computations for you, both pure computations involving numbers or formulas you enter, and computations applied automatically to data called up from its repositories. Why does computation matter? Because computation is what turns generic information into specific answers. To give an amusing example, every school child has at one time or another written a report on the moon, and they probably included the wrong figure for how far the moon is from the earth. Why wrong? Because the distance from the earth to the moon is not constant: it changes by as much as a mile a minute. If you ask Wolfram|Alpha the distance to the moon, it tells you not only the conventionally quoted average distance, but also the actual distance right now, which can at times be well over ten thousand miles off the average. The actual distance is a figure that can be arrived at only by computation based on the moon's known orbital parameters. It's rocket science, if you will.

Geolocation, also called geotagging, is the practice of associating a digital resource with a physical location. A photographer, for example, might include the longitude and latitude coordinates for where a picture was taken, allowing others to pinpoint that location on a map. Increasingly, geolocation is being applied to infrastructure components and end-user devices for the purpose of knowing where people are. This additional layer of location data can make resources much more useful to a broad range of users.

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Wall Street - A Symbol Of Commerce Wall Street has achieved the most attractive place in the eyes of financial institutions of the world .Wall Street has not only become a symbol of commerce but also that of American economy. A number of organizations of investment love to set up their offices in Wall Street due to its worldwide fame. The people who go to New York have earnest desire to visit Wall Street also. The visitors are keen to visit the historical buildings and places scattered in Wall Street. Wall Street- Some Facts Wall Street had been associated with commerce by eighteen century. It has been said that the meeting of traders under a famous button wood tree played a historical role to get Wall Street to this esteemed place . Beside other things, an important US institution New York stock exchange is situated in Wall Street. A famous newspaper Wall Street Journal is also published from Wall Street. It covers financial and global news and also keeps an open eye on the changing political scenario. Wall Street has a number of historical buildings . Some of these are museums.

The Internet of Things continues to build momentum, with connected devices ranging from fridges, light bulbs and TV's. The question is, what happens to the data these connected devices create? What do we need to do to secure these networks?

The top five things you need to know to keep your online identities and internet accounts fraud free this Christmas.

The massive earthquake which struck Chile in early April this year miraculously left the country's copper operations unscathed. Copper prices rose markedly, however, as investors waited to see what the fallout could be for the world's biggest producer. How didChile's copper industry weather the earthquake so successfully and what could the consequences have been had things gone differently?