Group items tagged

This article provides instruction for canning, a popular food preservation method. Specifically, it addresses bioling water canning as more economical and cost effective and simple, than a pressure canner. This addresses my research question regarding how to simplify food preservation so that anyone can apply this method, regardless of lifestyle or income.

YouTube for Schools lets schools access free educational YouTube videos while limiting access to other YouTube content. Students can learn from more than 400,000 educational videos, from well-known organizations like Stanford, PBS and TED, and from up-and-coming YouTube partners with millions of views, like Khan Academy, Steve Spangler Science and numberphile. Schools can also customize their YouTube for Schools experience, adding videos that are only viewable within their school network.

Share a VoiceThread with friends, students, and colleagues for them to record comments, too. Users can doodle while commenting, use multiple identities, and pick which comments are shown through moderation. VoiceThreads can even be embedded to show and receive comments on other websites and exported to MP3 players or DVDs to play as archival movies. A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents and videos, and allows people to navigate slides and leave comments in five ways: using voice (with mic or telephone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam).

Welcome to our Wordpress tutorial. This video is a short Wordpress tutorial on how you can make the most of your Wordpress website and Wordpress theme by adding images into your Wordpress posts and Wordpress pages. The beauty of Wordpress is that you once the initial theme is in place, you can modify it to your heart's content! So this is a short Wordpress Pages tutorial and a Wordpress post tutorial for beginners ideally or anyone that is interested in getting to know Wordpress.

This article provides a very simple method of food preservation that anyone can utilize, which is freezing. This addresses my research question regarding how to make food preservation manageable for anyone. Many people already freeze food so this method just utilizes an already familiar practice that can be applied to home-grown food as well.

Games are uniquely positioned to be a key driver of innovation in addressing many challenges facing our planet. Games can inspire action across gender, racial, economic, and cultural barriers. They are being used in areas ranging from early literacy to scientific discovery to sustainable living. However, the impact games sector is still in its infancy and there is both a great need and a great opportunity for innovation in the sector. We invite the world to engage with us in leveraging the power of digital games to address pressing economic, civic, cultural, educational, health, and environmental challenges facing the planet.

Canning and preserving one's own food is vital knowledge for those who have their own garden and don't want to waste what cannot be eaten right away.

A guide for incorporating quotes into sentences, in-text and parenthetical citations included. When considering incorporating quotes, consider if paraphrasing or quoting adds most to your sentence, paragraph, etc. When selecting a quote, consider the "10-word rule," to get to the most valuable information from the quote (anyone can cut-and-past paragraphs), decrease in conventions errors (less unnecessary words = less opportunity for errors), and fluency. Once you've incorporated a quote into your sentence, try reading the sentence out loud, same sentence, without the quotation marks. If it's unreadable, revise how you've placed the quote in your sentence.

The left navigation bar can serve as a guide to any specific formatting issues you may be struggling with when writing in MLA format.

Shared through Purdue's OWL (Online Writing Lab), this paper is a model for students struggling to write papers in MLA format. You can download the model for current and future writing assignments.

This handout is intended to help you become more comfortable with the uses of and distinctions among quotations, paraphrases, and summaries. This handout compares and contrasts the three terms, gives some pointers, and includes a short excerpt that you can use to practice these skills.

Outstanding survey site; useful for building on WGR chapter 5. Also, using this can fulfill primary research requirements for the WP2.

The tools included below are among the best web services you can find online to help with the integration of bibliography and citations into documents. They cover different style formats including APA, MLA, and Chicago.

Use these tools to help with citations.

Not familiar with LTI? Basically it's like Facebook apps or Google widgets, but interoperable between lots of edu tools. The tutorials page shows how to configure LTI tools in supported systems. There's also some handy extensions to LTI that you can learn more about on the extensions page. Tools with a gray label under their configuration xml support LTI extensions that won't work in all systems. Currently LTI extensions are only supported by Canvas.

Here's an example of Blogger and how quickly a web page can be built and updated; an NCTE 2012 attendee made the blog and just updated it from this weekend's conference. 

Helpful site on prepping for your primary research which can come in the form of interviews.

Gateway to e-sources from the MCC Library. MCC students can gain access with their MEID log-ins.

These people are modern day homesteaders and they provide a whole lot of information on their homestead. They explain almost every category a person can imagine they would need for their own homestead.

This site will help in my paper with explaing the many different areas Social Workers can go once completed with degree.

The Writing Center tutors students, one-on-one, if students make an appointment. Especially for mechanical issues and those far behind on a paper, this can be a valuable resource.