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Ilya's blog on multi intelligences

Eliazabeth Hanson Smith's blog

Cheryl's blog.

Amanda Fazani from Blogger Buster explains how to "use a blog post as a 'page' and backdate the timestamp so that the page does not show up in recent feed entries" (Creating your "Static" Pages in Blogger, para. 1), and how to tweak your template header to add links for ease of navigation to backdated posts. The template re-coding may be unnecessary if yours already allows multiple header elements.

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..should teachers and students really be interacting with each other in this way? With proper adherence to respectful and professional interaction, and with the understanding that our personal and professional cyber presence cannot really be altogether separate and based on different standards...yes! Yes, we should! Who better to teach students how to develop online identities aligned with the same character education standards modeled in "real" life? Who better to guide them on what is acceptable interaction? I believe this is a wonderful opportunity for mentoring young students, and for the most part, we are currently opting out.

When you are struggling with academic writing, your professors try to motivate you with completely useless advice: practice, research, improve your vocabulary and you'll do just fine. Their intentions are good, but that "strategy" never works in practice.

When you make your eyes big and point finger at them, you are showing that you don't believe in the divinity in them. As parents we are always wagging our finger at our children, with a critical eye and are saying do this and do not do that. See more @ http://www.victoriouskidsseducares.org/blogs/develop-the-seed-of-humanity-inside-your-children/

In this post Tony Vincent outlines ways to evaluate a wide range of educational application. His Education App Evaluation Rubric focuses on relevance to users and their purposes, customizability, provisions for feedback, promotion of higher order thinking skills, potential for user engagement, and the exportability of performance summaries or products of use. Links in this post enable you to download his rubric and a related checklist. There also are links to checklists and rubrics that other educators have created.

Automated tool for creating your own cloze tests: Thanks to EnglishCentral for pointing it out in Teacher Tips for Making a Transcript.

Although, overclocking CPU is not superfluous and does not need you to dip your fingers in mud. First thing first, overclocking may cause damages to your hardware or invalidate warranty. Whaoo! Relax! On the contrary, side, it sounds interesting that your PC will run faster and you can have all the gaming fun with your current best friend, your PC. Game play is improved, loading of graphics becomes quicker, and gives you an unmatched experience.