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12 best places to get free images for your site | News | TechRadar UK - 0 views

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    Links to 12 sites where you and students can obtain free images to use on webpages and in Powerpoint presentations. Be sure to review the sites for possibly inappropriate images though!
Clifford Baker

Free Technology for Teachers: Lesson Plans for Teaching Web Search Strategies - 0 views

  • The Google for Educators community has nine lesson plans for teaching Internet search strategies. The lessons are divided into three modules. The lessons start with the basics and conclude with advanced search strategies.
James Miscavish

Threat for Big Media: Guerrilla Video Sites - WSJ.com - 0 views

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    Mr. Martinez read aloud an email from a YouTVpc user saying that the link to the film "Old School" didn't work anymore. He said he would track down a working link. Another user wrote, "I want to know whether this service is legal or not," and asked whethe
Leslie Healey

BBC News - Internet has 'not become the great leveller' - 8 views

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    this is what happens when we look to prioritize our news by what's trending instead of perusing all of it and then deciding.  This supports my efforts to add contemporary texts to my World Lit course.
Mark Smith

Your Brain on Computers - Digital Devices Deprive Brain of Needed Downtime - NYTimes.com - 5 views

  • “Almost certainly, downtime lets the brain go over experiences it’s had, solidify them and turn them into permanent long-term memories,” said Loren Frank, assistant professor in the department of physiology at the university, where he specializes in learning and memory. He said he believed that when the brain was constantly stimulated, “you prevent this learning process.”
Mary Worrell

Nameless, Faceless Children (Blogs & Internet Safety) | Julie A. Cunningham - 7 views

  • I would say that they primarily need protected from themselves… that they need help moderating their web presence until they understand the full ramifications of things they say online.  I don’t think that means they need to be anonymous.  I do think that anonymity tends to foster less responsible behavior, in both children and adults alike
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      Hear hear! Boogeyman tactics don't work. Educators and parents should be online, modeling the sort of digital citizenship we hope for our children and students - the kind that will keep them safe.
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    Great article demonstrating the threats of real life and juxtaposing them with the threats of having an active, online life.
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    Great article demonstrating the threats of real life and juxtaposing them with the threats of having an active, online life. Might be a good conversation starter with tech facilitators at your school.
Dana Huff

McSweeney's Internet Tendency: willslist. - 3 views

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    Shakespeare meets Craigslist.
Meredith Stewart

Internet Archive - 1 views

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    Free Movies, Music, Books & Wayback Machine
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