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in title, tags, annotations or urlLife of an Educator by Justin Tarte: 5 ways to make your classroom more student-centered - 2 views
Google Changes Its Tune on Interviews - Vault: Blog - 0 views
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Thus, the old pre-reqs are out: GPAs, transcripts, SATS. In fact, Google is beginning to disregard academic educations altogether: they're just not a good predictor of success at the company. Says Bock, "After two or three years, your ability to perform at Google is completely unrelated to how you performed when you were in school, because the skills you required in college are very different. You’re also fundamentally a different person. You learn and grow, you think about things differently." According to the Times, Google is putting its money where its mouth is: they've actually increased their hires with no college education—14% of some of its teams have never been to school, according to Bock. Instead, the emphasis is on hiring candidates who are leaders, and work well in teams. The only way to discover this, says Bock, is through "structured" behavior interviews that assess how a person makes decisions. The winning interviewees will be able to demonstrate that they are "consistent and fair in how [they] think about making decisions and that there’s an element of predictability." This is key to building trust among team members once hired, he explains. "If a leader is consistent, people on their teams experience tremendous freedom, because then they know that within certain parameters, they can do whatever they want. If your manager is all over the place, you’re never going to know what you can do, and you’re going to experience it as very restrictive."
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Google is beginning to disregard academic educations altogether: they're just not a good predictor of success at the company. According to the Times, Google is putting its money where its mouth is: they've actually increased their hires with no college education-14% of some of its teams have never been to school, according to Bock. Instead, the emphasis is on hiring candidates who are leaders, and work well in teams.
6 Free Online Resources for Primary Source Documents | Edutopia - 0 views
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"The Common Core Learning Standards describe the importance of teaching students how to comprehend informational text. They are asked to read closely, make inferences, cite evidence, analyze arguments and interpret words and phrases as they are used in a text. Primary source documents are artifacts created by individuals during a particular period in history. This could be a letter, speech, photograph or journal entry."
Easy Duplicate File Finder | File Management Download | PCWorld - 0 views
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"Use your PC long enough, and it will get littered with duplicate files of all kinds. Graphics files, .doc files, media files, .dll files, you'll be amazed at how many duplicates you have. They clog up your hard disk, take away precious hard disk space, and make it hard to find the files you want. This simple freebie will find duplicate files, then let you delete the ones you don't want. Point it at your hard disk or selected folders, and it goes to work, finding duplicates. It then gives you a full report, and lets you clean them en masse, or just selected ones. There's some nice intelligence built in as well. It tells you how much disk space duplicate files take up, for example, and lets you protect system files so that you don't accidentally delete any important files your PC needs in order to run properly. "
Springpad: a free app that helps you remember - 1 views
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"Bookmark? Picture? Take a quick note? All of the above? Now you can. All in one place. And all easily accessible. Whether on your computer or from your phone, Springpad is a free app that helps you remember stuff today - places, websites, books, recipes, ideas, anything - so you can make better decisions tomorrow. It's called springing."
Graphic Organizers - 1 views
Convert Microsoft Word to plain text - Jonathan Hedley - Live from Sydney - 1 views
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"Convert Microsoft Word to plain text Most of the time when I'm writing content for the web (for this blog, or a forum comment, or whatever), I'll write in Microsoft Word for the spell check and other features that aren't in a standard textarea widget, and then I'll cut and paste into the form on the site. The problem is that this carries all of the high characters ("smart-quotes" and the like) that MS Word makes straight through to the site - and most sites aren't set up to handle them. They expect plain ("Latin") text. A solution: this script converts text copied from MS word into plain text. Paste your input into the top box, press clean, and the input will be scrubbed and sent to the lower box."
HTML Tidy Online - 0 views
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"HTML Tidy is a tool for checking and cleaning up HTML source files. It is especially useful for finding and correcting errors in deeply nested HTML, or for making grotesque code legible once more. This online version enables you use it without installing the client tool on your PC. More information about HTML Tidy is available from the original W3C page, and you can download a local copy of it from the SourceForge project page. "
Faster typing, fewer mistakes - Official Google Docs Blog - 1 views
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" Today we're making it a little easier for users to quickly type equations using LaTeX equation shortcuts. For anyone who heard of LaTeX before, it's a document markup language that's often used by academics to quickly type out complex formulas. In Google Docs, when you're inside an equation you can type '\sqrt' followed by a space or a parenthesis to automatically convert the text into a square root sign √. Other examples of useful shortcuts are '\frac' for a fraction and shorthands like '\epsilon' for Greek symbols."
Free epub children's picture books - 2 views
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"These were created from the free books available as part of Project Gutenberg. Of all eBook formats, I chose the epub standard because it's open and well-documented, it makes good use of existing standards, and the FBReader eBook reader program can read epub files. Most importantly, FBReader is the only eBook reader that I know can run on the OLPC XO laptop."
gettingtrickywithwikis » home - 0 views
Free Technology for Teachers: Free Guide - Making Videos on the Web - 1 views
How to Transform Your Classroom Using Web 2.0 Tools - SimpleK12 - 1 views
voice recording - SimpleK12 - 1 views
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"it's simple and free to send voicemails over the internet, and record your voice without using any software. All you need is Vocaroo. Vocaroo makes recording your voice simple. To use Vocaroo you don't need to download any software, pay any fees, or even sign up for anything. Vocaroo gives you the option to download your recording so you have it anywhere. There's also an embed code for each recording, so you can embed it in your blog, web pages, slide shows and other presentations. Vocaroo is all you need to create a voice recording - and it's Free!"
Dr. Jeff's Blog on the Universe - 0 views
Moodle Tutorials: Moodle Magic: Make It Happen - 0 views
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I like Moodle for several reasons. One of them is that Moodle is an open source software. I thought to create this blog in order to add free tutorials and free resources for my fellow Moodlers. I believe that I become Moodlcoholic. www.christopher-pappas.com
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