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Ted Sakshaug

NOAA's Geophysical Data Center - Geomagnetic Data - 4 views

www.ngdc.noaa.gov/...Declination.jsp

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shared by Ted Sakshaug on 16 Dec 10 - Cached
  • Ted Sakshaug on 16 Dec 10
     
    calculator for determining magnetic declination. Needed for many things including making a sundail
Ted Sakshaug

Wolfram|Alpha - 0 views

www.wolframalpha.com

knowledge education

shared by Ted Sakshaug on 11 Mar 09 - Cached
  • yc c on 11 Mar 09
     
    Let's say we succeed in creating a system that knows a lot, and can figure a lot out. How can we interact with it? It's going to be a website: www.wolframalpha.com. With one simple input field that gives access to a huge system, with trillions of pieces of curated data and millions of lines of algorithms.
  • Ted Sakshaug on 19 May 09
     
    Making the world's knowledge computableToday's Wolfram|Alpha is the first step in an ambitious, long-term project to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable by anyone.  You enter your question or calculation, and Wolfram|Alpha uses its built-in algorithms and growing collection of data to compute the answer
Fred Delventhal

Up2Maps - Create & Share thematic maps of any country in the world - 0 views

www.up2maps.net

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shared by Fred Delventhal on 17 Jan 09 - Cached
  • Fred Delventhal on 17 Jan 09
     
    See and Publish your research data on Thematic Maps & Share results with the World Community!
Anne Bubnic

Play It Safe: Hackers use the back door to get into your computer; a strong, well-chose... - 0 views

www2.journalnow.com/...living

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shared by Anne Bubnic on 18 Aug 08 - Cached
  • For the home user, however, password safety requires more than on-the-fly thinking. Pacheco suggests a system built around a main word for all instances. The distinction is that the name of the site is added somewhere. For example, if the main word is "eggplant," the password might be "eggyyplant" Yahoo, "eggplantgg" for Google or "wleggplant" for Windows Live. He suggests listing the variations in an Excel spreadsheet.
  • Password security is a big deal, and if you don't think it is, then someone might be hacking into your computer even as you read this. A strong password isn't foolproof, but it proves that you're no fool. And it might protect you from compromised data, a broken computer or identity theft. Your bank account, your personal e-mails and lots of other stuff are at risk with weak passwords.
  • "A good password is the most important part of Internet security," said Robert Pacheco, the owner of Computer Techs of San Antonio. "It's the beginning and end of the issue. You can't stop it (hacking). You do what you can do to prevent it. You just try to stop most of it." A strong firewall, as well as spyware -- and virus-detection software -- protect a computer's so-called "back door," Pacheco said, where a hacker can gain access through various cyber threats. Those threats include infected e-mail attachments; phishing Web pages that exploit browser flaws; downloaded songs or pictures with hidden trojans; or plain ol' poking-and-prodding of a computer's shields. But passwords protect information from a frontal assault by way of the computer's keyboard.
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  • Other people use easy-to-remember passwords. Trouble is, Rogers said, they're easy-to-guess passwords, too. Good examples of bad passwords are your name, your family's names, your pet's name, the name of your favorite team, your favorite athlete or your favorite anything. Get to know the person -- a technique that geeks refer to as "social engineering" -- and the password is easy to guess. There are message-board stalkers who can guess passwords in a half-dozen tries. Hackers rely on a lot of methods. Some, Rogers said, employ "shoulder surfing." That means what it sounds like -- looking over someone's shoulder as that person is typing in a password.
  • Other people use easy-to-remember passwords. Trouble is, Rogers said, they're easy-to-guess passwords, too. Good examples of bad passwords are your name, your family's names, your pet's name, the name of your favorite team, your favorite athlete or your favorite anything
  • The type of hardware being used can be a clue, said Rogers, a senior technical staffer in the CERT Program, a Web security research center in Carnegie-Mellon University's software engineering institute. It's easy to find a default password, typically in the user's manual on a manufacturer's Web site. If the user hasn't changed the default, that's an easy break-in.
  • Hackers rely on a lot of methods. Some, Rogers said, employ "shoulder surfing." That means what it sounds like -- looking over someone's shoulder as that person is typing in a password
  • Most of the password hacking activity these days goes on at homes, in school or in public settings. These days, many workplaces mandate how a password is picked.
  • The idea is to choose a password that contains at least one uppercase letter, one numeral and at least eight total characters. Symbols are good to throw in the mix, too. Many companies also require that passwords be changed regularly and that pieces of older ones can't be re-used for months. And user names cannot be part of the password. Examples: Eggplant99, 99eggpLanT, --eggp--99Lant. For the next quarter, the password might change to variations on "strawberry.
  • The idea is to choose a password that contains at least one uppercase letter, one numeral and at least eight total characters. Symbols are good to throw in the mix, too. Many companies also require that passwords be changed regularly and that pieces of older ones can't be re-used for months. And user names cannot be part of the password. Examples: Eggplant99, 99eggpLanT, --eggp--99Lant. For the next quarter, the password might change to variations on "strawberry."
  • Anne Bubnic on 18 Aug 08
     
    Password security is a big deal, and if you don't think it is, then someone might be hacking into your computer even as you read this. A strong password isn't foolproof, but it proves that you're no fool. And it might protect you from compromised data, a broken computer or identity theft. Your bank account, your personal e-mails and lots of other stuff are at risk with weak passwords.
Nelly Cardinale

National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Home Page, a part of the U.S. Departmen... - 0 views

nces.ed.gov

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shared by Nelly Cardinale on 20 Mar 09 - Cached
  • Nelly Cardinale on 20 Mar 09
     
    The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) collects, analyzes and makes available data related to education in the U.S. and other nations.
Dianne Krause

GeoCommons Maker! - 11 views

maker.geocommons.com

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shared by Dianne Krause on 26 Feb 10 - Cached
  • Dianne Krause on 26 Feb 10
     
    "Professional cartography is now in your hands. Maker! was designed by cartographers with an eye for detail. Style your map with shaded thematics, proportional symbols, and more. Maker! makes the tough statistical and cartographic decisions for you. Anyone can build complex, data-rich maps."
Michael Klugman

Betrayed - Why Public Education Is Failing: Why administrators don't listen - 21 views

betrayed-whyeducationisfailing.blogspot.com/...dministrators-dont-listen.html

shared by Michael Klugman on 11 Dec 09 - Cached
  • In April and May, I asked district administrators for the research and data that support their continued use of reform curricula. Despite several formal requests for public information and a friendly phone call, I’ve received no data and no research. I was told that supporting research was tossed with yesterday’s meatloaf. No, I was actually told it wasn’t kept on hand. (The meatloaf is still there.) I don’t know why the research wouldn’t be kept because administrators keep referring to it (as in “research shows” and “according to the research”). Instead, I was given the names of three organizations and two types of tests, and I was invited to the central office to look over their “great number of materials on the subject of effective instruction in mathematics.” Technically, this is not “data” or “research.” Technically, I think this is called “skating.”
    • Michael Klugman
      Michael Klugman on 11 Dec 09
       
      The author's implication is that the district never had any research despite the claim that it wasn't kept
Vicki Davis

Gapminder: Unveiling the beauty of statistics for a fact based world view. - Gapminder.org - 11 views

www.gapminder.org

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shared by Vicki Davis on 26 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Adrienne Michetti on 26 Jan 10
     
    Fascinating way to dispel myths and stereotypes of all kinds: look at the data. It doesn't lie. It's much easier to see the way Hans Rosling presents it at Gapminder.org
  • Vicki Davis on 25 May 10
     
    A student on netgened shared this with me based upon his topic "visual data analysis." This is an amazing repository of statistics shown in very cool ways. Great for social sciences.
Michael Walker

Get Your Geek On, Help Scientists With iDoScien - Flash Player Installation - 11 views

planetgreen.discovery.com/...scientists-ido-science.html

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shared by Michael Walker on 28 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Michael Walker on 28 Jan 10
     
    From the site: 1. Teachers now have an unprecedented resource of meaningful science projects to engage their students. 2. Students can work with professional scientists anywhere in the world on real research projects that benefit us all. 3. Students can create their own projects and find collaborators all over the planet. 4. Citizen scientists can find like-minded people to share ideas. 5. Home-schoolers now have a network of science lovers to use as a resource for their children. 6. Professional scientists now have a turn-key solution to promote their research projects, archive their data, find collaborators and reach out to thousands of people they could not reach before.
  • Michael Walker on 28 Jan 10
     
    From the site: 1. Teachers now have an unprecedented resource of meaningful science projects to engage their students. 2. Students can work with professional scientists anywhere in the world on real research projects that benefit us all. 3. Students can create their own projects and find collaborators all over the planet. 4. Citizen scientists can find like-minded people to share ideas. 5. Home-schoolers now have a network of science lovers to use as a resource for their children. 6. Professional scientists now have a turn-key solution to promote their research projects, archive their data, find collaborators and reach out to thousands of people they could not reach before.
Ted Sakshaug

widgenie - Home - 0 views

widgenie.com

visualization tools web2.0 graphs spreadsheet graph widgenie data education

shared by Ted Sakshaug on 17 Jun 09 - Cached
  • Ted Sakshaug on 17 Jun 09
     
    Data visualizer
Roland O'Daniel

copyrightconfusion - Reasoning - 9 views

copyrightconfusion.wikispaces.com/Reasoning

fair use copyrightconfusion copyright administration instruction

shared by Roland O'Daniel on 06 Oct 09 - Cached
  • How do I know if my use is a fair use? This tool has been developed to help teachers and students reason through the fair use process. You can see an example of how this tool is being used HERE
  • Use the form online The data from this form feeds into a google spreadsheet so you can compare how individuals or groups reason the fair use of copyrighted material in a work. If you would like to use this form in your work you can click here. If you have a google account, you can sign in and copy into your google account.
  • Dennis OConnor on 06 Oct 09
     
    Here's a breakthrough tool to help all teachers better understand copyright and fair use.
  • Roland O'Daniel on 07 Oct 09
     
    How do I know if my use is a fair use? This tool has been developed to help teachers and students reason through the fair use process. You can see an example of how this tool is being used HERE Use the form online. The data from this form feeds into a google spreadsheet so you can compare how individuals or groups reason the fair use of copyrighted material in a work. If you would like to use this form in your work you can click here. If you have a google account, you can sign in and copy into your google account.
Vicki Davis

Information Is Beautiful - 28 views

www.informationisbeautiful.net

education news infographics

shared by Vicki Davis on 20 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Dave Truss on 20 Nov 09
     
    Beautiful Ideas, issues, knowledge, data - visualized!
  • AnnMarie Furbur on 28 Jul 10
     
    visual literacy
  • Vicki Davis on 30 Nov 13
     
    Big data visualized. What a cool site that connects art and math. If you explore or write or are just a scholar, this site will give you lots to think about.
Vicki Davis

Passing the Privacy Test as Student Data Laws Take Effect | EdSurge News - 2 views

www.edsurge.com/...-student-data-laws-take-effect

privacy data laws bestpractices

shared by Vicki Davis on 13 Jan 16 - No Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 13 Jan 16
     
    Student privacy - SOPIPA and the Privacy pledge
Martin Burrett

3D Charts - 2 views

ukedchat.com/...3d-charts

charts Microsoft 3D data

shared by Martin Burrett on 18 Oct 18 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 18 Oct 18
     
    "A useful 3D chart creator from Microsoft. This Windows app allows you to create scatter plots, bar charts, line graphs and geospatial data maps."
Martin Burrett

The @UKEdPodcast - Episode 31 - #EdTech - Data Privacy and Behaviour - 0 views

ukedchat.com/...ukedpodcast-031

podcast privacy

shared by Martin Burrett on 12 Feb 19 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 12 Feb 19
     
    "Hosted by Colin Hill (@digicoled), we speak to Jamie Manolov about his research into how ClassDojo is used in classrooms globally, with potential implications to data, privacy and behaviours encouraged."
Martin Burrett

Clean (some of) your digital data with the @JumboPrivacy iOS app - 0 views

ukedchat.com/...jumbo-app

shared by Martin Burrett on 30 Apr 19 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 30 Apr 19
     
    "you can easily remove old Twitter posts, limit what others can see of your life on Facebook, delete your Google search history, and purge all of Amazon's recordings of your conversations with Alexa. (Data privacy controls for your Instagram and Tinder accounts are "coming soon.")"
Martin Burrett

England schools to be required to report on the number of exclusions - 0 views

ukedchat.com/...exclusions-data

exclusion

shared by Martin Burrett on 06 Jun 19 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 06 Jun 19
     
    "The practice of excluding students from schools is set to be placed under scrutiny with plans announced that the number of exclusions is set to be reported publicly in school league table data. The intention is to stop so-called "off-rolling", where schools remove difficult or low-achieving pupils. On average about 2,000 pupils are excluded from school each day - with 40 being permanently excluded."
Martin Burrett

NatGeo Mapmaker - 3 views

ukedchat.com/...natgeo-mapmaker

map maps mapmaker map data National Geographic

shared by Martin Burrett on 21 May 18 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 21 May 18
     
    "A great map making site from National Geographic with a bank of ready made layers with data about wildlife, the environment, and human development."
Martin Burrett

A+ Click Math Skill Tests and Problems for Grade K-1 K-12 - 16 views

www.aplusclick.com

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shared by Martin Burrett on 22 Nov 12 - No Cached
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  • Martin Burrett on 22 Nov 12
     
    This great maths site has an amazing collection of maths self-marking problem solving questions. Search by age level or topic. This covers both Primary and Secondary levels. Topics include numbers, geometry, algebra, data analysis, probability and more. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Maths
Vicki Davis

Say Farewell To Google Reader | Fast Company - 7 views

www.fastcompany.com/...say-farewell-google-reader

education news apps google

shared by Vicki Davis on 14 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 14 Mar 13
     
    This is horrible news to most bloggers I know as many of us use Google reader and the apps that go with it like Mr. Reader and Feedly to pull information out of the web. RSS is one of the most useful features of Web 2 and I'm really unhappy w/ Google. iGoogle was a mistake, this a travesty. Google needs to read outliers and the mavens who use tools. I'll be researching new rss tools. This is ridiculous. ""While the product has a loyal following, over the years usage has declined. So, on July 1, 2013, we will retire Google Reader," Urs Hölzle, SVP Technical Infrastructure wrote. "Users and developers interested in RSS alternatives can export their data, including their subscriptions, with Google Takeout over the course of the next four months.""
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