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Sheryl A. McCoy

2009 Year In Review by JibJab - 0 views

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    "Never a Year Like '09″, the 2009 year in review animated video by JibJab. Check out the JibJab blog for a "Behind the Scenes" look at how the video was made.
Sheryl A. McCoy

2009 FFA Essay Contest Announcement and Official Rules | Rodale Institute - 0 views

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    Rodale Institute announces its first annual essay contest entitled "How Can Farming Restore Human and Ecological Health?" The contest is open to high-school students who are FFA members and are enrolled in vocational agriculture classes.
Elizabeth Koh

Trends - March - ASTD - 0 views

  • The point of social media is to turn learning into a more participatory activity
  • In a corporation, micro-blogging can be a way to augment behavior modeling
  • companies use Twitter to foster communication among employees and customers.
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  • Sarah Milstein predicts that micro-messaging will be as common as email in a few years and may replace email for certain kinds of information, such as client and customer relations.
  • micro-blogging is taking off because it fits how people work and think. But, cautions Lentz, “Think before you tweet. Each tweet is a webpage. It can be Googled. It’s forever.”
Sheryl A. McCoy

Rating Systems and Personal Rules // NoahBrier.com - 0 views

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    Rating systems are something I find myself discussing fairly frequently. Partly because the idea shows up in a lot of projects and partly because I usually end up relating it to the rules people set for themselves within different social networks. shared on Plurk
Sheryl A. McCoy

What Megazoom Looks Like | Popular Science - 0 views

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    A camera and camcorder with extreme close-up
Sheryl A. McCoy

Songhai Concepts: Organizational and Creation Tools - 0 views

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    Favthumbs converts all of your delicious links into a series of colorful thumbnail images.
Sheryl A. McCoy

At risk of offending… « Educational Discourse - 0 views

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    "there isn't one mention of technology or the sort. Why you ask? Because the reality is that in order to swim, you have to have water." a snapshot of schools today
Sheryl A. McCoy

n2teaching: Do You Lock Your Doors? - 1 views

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    "Many of my Professional Learning Network, including me, have recently experienced troubles with our various interactive social networks, including blog comments and Twitter. There is also the less obvious, yet serious problem: thieves that steal your postings without attributing the work to you."
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    I'm hoping you will share your experiences with this. What happened? How did you solve the problem? We want to look at innovative solutions.
Sheryl A. McCoy

Google Student Blog: Google Docs celebrates the holidays with templates and launches - 0 views

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    "The Google Docs team is celebrating the holidays in big ways this year. With nine launches in the last two weeks - and a gallery full of festive templates - there will be no shortage of cheer!"
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    try these template when you use Google Docs
Sheryl A. McCoy

TeachPaperless: Three Things Schools Need to Think About with Regard to 'Free' - 0 views

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    Reader Teach_J brings up some important points about going the 'free' route in ed tech. I'll try to touch on each of his three very valid concerns.
Sheryl A. McCoy

Boobytrapped images pose threat to Mac users, warns Apple | Graham Cluley's blog - 0 views

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    n a security advisory posted on its website, the Cupertino-based vendor of iMac and MacBook computers warned that it had discovered that hackers could create specially crafted image files capable of running malicious code without the user's authorisation,
Sheryl A. McCoy

How Different Groups Spend Their Day - Interactive Graphic - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    American Time Use Survey asks thousands of American residents to recall every minute of a day. Here is how people over age 15 spent their time in 2008 very cool graphic; we need to socialize more, IMHO
Sheryl A. McCoy

Blogging on a Bus « From Mr. "A" to Mr. "Z" - 0 views

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    why we blog; reflection after Great Falls blogger luncheon
Sheryl A. McCoy

"Twitter for poets": poetry and conversation in Identica | Via Negativa - 0 views

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    @pfanderson shared colleague's blood post; using identi.ca as microblogging service and interacting with a chain poem using their conversation tree
Elizabeth Koh

More talking, more problems: 'Cell phone elbow' damages nerves - CNN.com - 0 views

  • "cell phone elbow," in which patients damage an essential nerve in their arm by bending their elbows too tightly for too long.
  • remedies
  • Avoid activities that require the elbow to be bent tighter than 90 degrees. Fix workstations so the elbows aren't overly flexed. Don't lean on your elbows for an extended period of time.
Sheryl A. McCoy

Pub Night: Piri Piri Breaded Pickle Spears with Buttermilk Dill Dipping Sauce | Choosy... - 0 views

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    this is a baked version of deep fried pickles; just reading it makes is sound delicious
Sheryl A. McCoy

n2teaching: Technology and the Source - 0 views

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    a mashup on primary sources featuring Dr.Fifer1863.
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    posting on technology and primary source photographs. Any teacher who wants to learn more about using technology and primary sources
Sheryl A. McCoy

My Blog - 0 views

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    a new educational blog, written by a classroom teacher; will be good to follow
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