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Ziem Merwin

Faxless Payday Loans - Easy And Quite Comfortable For Helpless People - 0 views

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    Faxless Payday Loans, a simple and online process fiscal source to dissolve unseen crunches with easy application process. These funds readily update your entire financial issues without much delay or any kind of obligation.
Tony Searl

Educating Productive Users of Technology - - 4 views

  • When we are trying to convey ideas, get buy-in, share values or challenge someone we need to pick a richer medium. Sometimes only face-to-face will do - hence the outrage when employees are notified of their redundancy via SMS message from a gutless manager
  • Sobel-Lojeski's work and her conception of Virtual Distance shows us that there are lessons to be learned from the way technology is making the workforce in some businesses less productive
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    Sobel-Lojeski has called this phenomenon "Virtual Distance" because the death of (physical) distance due to the use of communications technologies just heralded a new kind of interpersonal detachment.
John Pearce

WackWall - Social Network Builder | Create a Social Network Free - 5 views

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    "WackWall is a free tool for creating custom social networks with easy setup and complete feature set. " It has # Photo, Video sharing; # Blogs, forums, friends; # Comment, tag, rate any kind of content; # Privacy and profile customization; # Groups; # Events, wiki; (coming soon) # Collaboration, file sharing, video-conference tools; (coming soon) # ... and much much more!
Rhondda Powling

WatchKnow - Free Educational Videos for K-12 Students - 7 views

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    WatchKnow has indexed over 15,000 online educational videos for children. Select from over 3,000 categories or search by subject and age level. Titles, descriptions, age level, and ratings are all added for usefulness. The site invites broad participation in a new kind of wiki system, guided by teachers.
John Pearce

Where does the information come from? Information Source Use Patterns of Wikipedia - 2 views

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    "Little is known about Wikipedia contributors' information behaviour and from where and how the information in the encyclopaedia originated...... Understanding the information source use of contributors helps us to understand how new Wikipedia articles emerge, how edits are motivated, where the information actually comes from and more generally, what kind of information may be expected to be found in Wikipedia. "
John Pearce

Lemelson Center presents Invention at Play - 0 views

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    This online exhibit from the Lemenson Center includes Invention Playhouse. The Tinker Ball game in particular is a great physics based interactive. The site also includes Inventors' Stories and a section called Does Play Matter? How have attitudes toward play changed over time? What kinds of toys did inventors play with as children? Is the quality and quantity of children's play changing? If play is changing, how will that affect invention? Reflect upon these and other questions through video commentaries and toy displays
anonymous

The Eggcorn Database - 0 views

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    This site is devoted to collecting the kind of unusual English spellings that have come to be called eggcorns
anonymous

NCTE Articles | Mr. Bass - 0 views

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    a story about 21st Century Literacies for the Council Chronicle. I gave some suggested contacts and kind of forgot about it until I was asked to be interviewed as well. The following two articles are the result.
Tony Searl

5 Predictions for Online Data In 2011 - 1 views

  • people have openly wondered whether the social media expert will go the way of the webmaster
  • data that is accessible and transportable and managed by its rightful owner — you
  • Backing up your data is just the first step, of course, a function that saves a seat for an entirely different function eventually.
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  • When I am finally able to join my data from disparate services with a unified view and the right accompanying toolset, I’ll be able to do all kinds of derivation and detection
  • The tension between data that is sold or bestowed and data that is found or acquired is, for now, a productive dynamic.
  • We’ll see open data disrupt industries and verticals ranging from air travel to journalism to religion. We’ll see new kinds of museum displays, classrooms
  • Data knows everything we know, everything we don’t know, and, as it turns out, even a few things we don’t know we don’t know.
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    true data science involves a heavy dose of machine learning, code skills, math chops and deep domain expertise.
Rhondda Powling

Electronic Literature Collection Volume One - 5 views

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    An anthology of works by an international group of authors "that pushes through the boundaries of literary forms, creating new kinds of experiences for interacting readers."
John Pearce

Facebook Launches 'Guide To Facebook Security,' Helps You Secure Your Account - 2 views

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    "Over the last few months, Facebook has launched several initiatives and features to help you keep your account and data secure. Back in May, the company revealed it was switching over to the secure HTTPS protocol and announced details of its login approvals feature. Facebook has also teamed up with Web of Trust to help protect you from scam websites and recently added its social reporting tool to its mobile website. In addition, the company has launched a bug bounty program that rewards security researchers for finding flaws in the social network's security systems. To help you understand the social network's security features and how to protect your account, a Guide To Facebook Security has been launched. The guide, which you can download from Facebook, is 14 pages long and offers all kinds of tips on how to protect your account, including how to spot and avoid scam apps and clickjacking."
dean groom

The Best Tools for Visualization - 0 views

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    Visualization is a technique to graphically represent sets of data. When data is large or abstract, visualization can help make the data easier to read or understand. There are visualization tools for search, music, networks, online communities, and almost anything else you can think of. Whether you want a desktop application or a web-based tool, there are many specific tools are available on the web that let you visualize all kinds of data.
Andrew Jeppesen

smart.fm - it's where you learn - smart.fm - 0 views

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    Choose a list on all kinds of topics and then use the learning apps to help memorise the vocab
Rhondda Powling

Booklist Online - Top 10 Graphic Novels for Youth: 2011, by Ian Chipman (FEATURE) - 1 views

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    A list of the best graphic novels for children and teens reviewed in the past 12 months in Booklist suggests, it was a good year for sweeping, seafaring adventures, but all of the books point to the remarkable versatility of the comics format to deliver thrills, laughs, and ideas to all kinds of readers.
John Pearce

The 10 Best and Worst Ways Social Media Impacts Education - Edudemic - 4 views

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    Social networking communities are here to stay. Facebook has over 500 million users, while Twitter has over 200 million. That's not even counting blogs or YouTube video blogs. There's no doubt that students are actively engaged in online communities, but what kind of effects are these sites having and how can parents counteract the bad and bolster the positive?
Chris Betcher

Search Stories - 4 views

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    Welcome to the Search Stories Video Creator. Just type in your searches and select the kind of results that best communicate your story. Then, share your story with the world.
Rhondda Powling

9 Learning Tools Every 21st Century Teacher Should Be Able To Use - 5 views

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    The 21st century teacher is in the critical spot-of mastering constantly evolving technology and digital learning tools-the same tools their students use every day. In this post 9 such tools are discussed. The list is not meant to be exhaustive or even authoritative and is subjective. As this is the 21st century, things will change but, here and now, the authors suggest that this is a fairly accurate litmus test of what the kinds of tools the average 21st century teacher can be expected to use and master."
dyerzwats

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