Notches cut into each wheel will also be aligned. These notches form a gap that will allow the lock to release and open. Pin-and-tumbler locks are different, because they require a key to unlock them. Basic pin-and-tumbler locks have several spring-loaded pins inside a series of small cylinders. When the right key slides into a pin-and-tumbler lock, the pointed teeth and notches on the blade of the key allow the spring-loaded pins to move up and down until they line up with a track called the shear line. When the pins align with the shear line, the cylinder can turn and the lock will open.

Touch screens are used in all sorts of modern electronic devices, including personal digital assistants (PDAs), satellite navigation systems and video games. Their popularity has surged recently, but the idea for the touch screen goes back several decades.

But the obvious thing to do was to evolve the potential of this very stable listserv in a number of social media ways. While I am not sure which of these will be the favourites, the idea looks something like this: share a link on the listserv and store it for easy retrieval any time in the Diigo group! share your library images in Flickr, because we need to collect the ideas from around Australia Like us on Facebook – and include us in your News Feed. Share things you find, and get into the conversation. Perhaps 140 characters on Twitter will be just the thing for you – just another way to stay in touch and build the teacher librarian community.

Most K-12 classrooms in the United States today don’t use interactive blogs. By “interactive,” I mean a blog website which permits posts from students as well as the teacher, and comments from blog visitors as well as class members. As I explained in my post earlier this week on the iThemes education blog,

The past two months, I’ve had opportunities to ask different groups of educators the same question via an interactive SMS poll powered by PollEverywhere. The question I’ve asked has been: How many different assignments last year did you invite students to share on your interactive, classroom blog? The graph below summarizes responses in early June in Fort Bend ISD, which is in Houston, Texas. Of 156 respondents, 78% answered “zero.”

There is something about the touch environment that lets the kids interact so much easier with digital content

Those who can interact and create are the ones who will be most successful in our society

I now have students picking the stories they want, and recording themselves recording - recording is created on a regular computer with a webcam

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This podcast is an audio recording of Wesley Fryer’s breakout session at the May 29, 2012, “Inspiring Excellence” conference in Kansas City Kansas Public Schools titled, “Deepening our Learning Through Storytelling: creativity, STEM and stories.

They define Visual Literacy (VL) as "a set of abilities that enables an individual to effectively find, interpret, evaluate, use, and create images and visual media".

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Technology in Education Around the World Education, Technology This series of short v

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igital technologies are transforming learning and opportunities to learn for students around the world.

Check out Kathy Schrock’s extensive infographics links here, and check out the infographic template she found.