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Let's say you're a butcher, a baker or a candlestick maker. You want to get up to speed on the social media activity in your market, as fast as you can. Or perhaps you want to sell things to candlestick makers online, or you're a journalist writing a story about blogging butchers, or maybe you've got some kind of weird baking fetish or academic interest. Is there any way to ramp up your knowledge of these fields, fast, other than the "Google and wander" method? We think there is. Below you'll find step-by-step instructions, with screen shots, for the process we use when we want to get smart about a new field in a hurry.

I've spent considerable time thinking about how to alter the classes I teach to re-center them on a core of flexible learning. In all of my classes this semester, students will be completing a variety of learning projects that involve alternative ways to learn (e.g. blogging, making mindmaps, teaching a lesson, making a video presentation, or designing a non-digital game).

Blog about wikinomics by a computer scientist at Google

These three guides cover the basics about Google Docs and have tidbits of information on features you may not know too much about. If you already use Google Docs spreadsheets, but aren't so familiar with presentations, you can read this guide to learn, for example, how to embed an online presentation in your blog.

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Open Education blog post about the new Bloom's Taxonomy and the digital age.

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Even with the best PD and resources available, some teachers will still struggle. Support them! I've worked with great veteran teachers that just wa

Twitter for students

I am getting more and more interested in how the web is changing how we connect and from social groups. There are powerful social currents forming under our feet and if educators don't get connected to these currents we will become just foam on the surface.

There is a time for big picture thinking and there is a time for details in business and IT, the latter which make business and technical strategy a reality and the former which provides needed direction and focus.

How to load the KDE desk top to Ubuntu

Scene 1, Financial aid office of a college: Two phones ringing incessantly, an inbox flooded with emails from prospective students, a pile of financial aid applications lying unprocessed, and a clock announcing the end of office hours. Scene 2, Somewhere in the US: A student, exasperated with the rising cost of getting a college degree, calls the financial aid office continuously, sends his 4th email since morning, resolves to visit the office in person next day. What might appear like two scenes out of a modern-day tragicomedy belonging to The Theatre of Absurd, are a routine during the enrollment season in universities. Increasingly expensive degrees make financial aid help desk support imperative to get in and stay in- college. As if it isn't already difficult enough, steps in the complicated process of getting the required financial aid. That's when Financial Aid Help Desk Services come to your rescue.

Welcome back to BlackBeltHelp's monthly product updates! In our quest to provide you with the best-in-industry student engagement products and services, we are continuously innovating and upgrading our technology! This has been another busy and exciting month of new client implementations along with our product enhancements. Here is a rundown of the updates and features that you can now take advantage of. All of this is carefully curated to further streamline the processes and help you get the most out of our products with ease. Have a look! Simplify Admin Panel: We are in the beginning stages of implementing Multi-Factor Authentication for users of the Admin Panel and the Advisor Desktop (the completion of this will be released in the next Sprint) Simplify Chatbot: Conversation History Filters: We have added filters for admin users to search through conversation history quickly.