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RJ Stangherlin

ImageChef - Customize Photos, Clip Art - 0 views

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    Create special image and text effects
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    Customize Photos, Clip Art
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    Customize Photos, Clip Art
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.
Alice Mercer

avatars.swf (application/x-shockwave-flash Object) - 1 views

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    Create your own avatar : NOTE: emailing it will not work. You need to take a screen shot of your avatar. - Katie Warren
Dean Mantz

VSTE - The Content Creating Classroom | Technology Times - 10 views

  • Presenter: Matt Monjan from Discovery Education (http://www.discoveryedspeakersbureau.com/node/121) – same gentleman who did yesterday’s presentation at lunch for the ITRTs This is the general session opening keynote
Christine Southard

The (Enormous) Economic Returns to a Good Teacher : Education Next - 15 views

  • It has now become conventional wisdom that teachers are the most important ingredient in an effective school. 
  • A good teacher gets above average achievement out of her students.
  • A teacher at the 85th percentile can, in comparison to an average teacher, raise the present value of each student’s lifetime earnings by over $20,000–implying that such a teacher with a class of 20 students generates over $400,000 in economic benefits, compared to an average teacher, for each year that she gets such achievement gains.
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  • a teacher at the 15th percentile subtracts $400,000 in value from her class of 20 students.
  • By changing a teacher’s profession into a perilous affair and a rat race, with many pink slips being handed out each year, by sewing distrust among colleagues, by exposing teachers to unfair high-stakes evaluations, Mr. Hanushek turns the teaching profession into a highly unattractive prospect for the intelligent, ambitious students that American education so desperately needs.
  • And that is bad news for *all* US students, not just for the ’5 to 8 percent’ about whom the magical ‘tests’ revelates that they are ‘ineffectively taught’.
Dean Mantz

How to Use New-Media Tools in Your Classroom | Edutopia - 24 views

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    7 video tips from great educators regarding the use of "New Media" in the classrooms. 
Methew Smith

BLS is the level of - 0 views

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started by Methew Smith on 23 May 14 no follow-up yet
Alex Parker

Solar farms - abuzz with biodiversity? - 1 views

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    Britain's ability to generate green electricity is growing, but with utility-scale solar farms typically covering up to 100 acres of land or more - usually in rural areas - is it good news for wildlife?
Alex Parker

European Commission gives green light to state backing Hinckley Point - 1 views

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    The European Commission has given the UK Government the go ahead to offer EDF a guaranteed price per unit of electricity generated for a 35-year period for the purpose of incentivising investment. Ever since it was first proposed in October 2013, the proposed deal between the UK government and French nuclear power company EDF for the financing of a new nuclear plant has courted controversy.
Alex Parker

The 10 biggest clean energy developments of 2013 - 1 views

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    The year 2013 witnessed some significant milestones in renewable power generation and transmission, inculding the opening of some of the world's biggest wind, solar and bio-gasification plants. Power-technology.com picks the ten biggest clean energy developments from 2013. The London Array, the world's biggest offshore wind farm, at 630MW installed capacity was opened in July 2013.
Alex Parker

Nuclear powered aircraft: Cold War fission to new-age fusion - 1 views

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    Inspired by the promise of vastly increased flight durations, the Russian and American militaries experimented with nuclear powered aircraft for two decades, but the concept never progressed beyond a handful of trials. Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works claims to have the solution in its grasp, unveiling plans for a compact nuclear fusion generator that could power everything from aircraft to naval vessels within ten years.
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