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Phil Taylor

Twurdy Search - Search for Readable Results - 0 views

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    gives reading level scale of a website
Phil Taylor

Firefox 4 review: Better, faster, stronger - 0 views

  • While App Tabs can be used with any open tab, this feature is meant for websites that you might keep open throughout the day, like Pandora, Twitter or Gmail.
  • The transformation is so complete that Mozilla appears to have beaten back the sudden onslaught of competition in the form of IE9. It may even triumph over Chrome 10 — but that fight’s one to watch closely.
  • “Panorama” feature gives users the ability to group tabs together into manageable groups, which can be named, organized and edited simply.
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  • noticeable default change to the Windows version of Firefox 4 is the “Firefox button,” or the browser menu, which has been reduced to a small orange button that appears in the top left corner of the browser.
  • The most noticeable difference between Firefox 3.6 and 4 is the speed
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    Works well so far
Phil Taylor

Not Your Father's School: A Letter to New Teachers - 1 views

  • teaching isn’t about content and it’s not about technology. It’s about kids, about building relationships with them, about believing in them, about finding out what they can do and then providing opportunities for them to do it.
  • Know your students, have faith in their capacities, and magical things will happen.
  • you’re a professional now
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  • The best teachers do the same, and you should try to emulate that—if for no other reason than to stay on the right side of all the disruptive change that’s coming along.
  • the strongest teachers are very good at gently, and sometimes not so gently, reminding parents that we’re all on the same side here
  • go to your school’s website and re-read the mission statement. If there are sections on values, and history, read those, too.
Phil Taylor

Digital Leisure and Digital Literacy | The Learning Zone - 0 views

  • digitally literate students should have a far wider range of tools at their fingertips to aid  productivity, communication, and collaboration (for an extensive list, see the C4PLT website).
Phil Taylor

Not So Distant Future - technology, libraries, and schools - 0 views

  • Because iPads deal with pdfs so easily, teachers can share out their assignments as .pdfs, either via their websites, qr codes, email, etc.    
  •   We have Google Apps, including email, so one option is students emailing their assignments to the teacher.
  • But the happiest and most powerful benefit of all is seeing all the staff and students coming together to problem solve.   Students helping teachers with utilizing an app, students sharing apps with one another, teachers showing other teachers new methods for doing things, teachers sharing with students, and tech staff and library staff all in the mix as well.  
Phil Taylor

World's Simplest Online Safety Policy « My Island View - 0 views

  • Our students need adults to stop being afraid, and stop hiding, so education can get out of the shadows and into the light of the world in which our children live.
  • were not created to keep students stuck in the past, educated in a disconnected school environment that shares little resemblance to the real world for which we should be preparing our children.
  • Students can access websites that do not contain or that filter mature content. They can use their real names, pictures, and work (as long it doesn’t have a grade/score from a school) with the notification and/or permission of the student and their parent or guardian.
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  • What about Safety?
  • 90% of child predators are family members, close family friends, or clergy
  • puts kids at risk are things like
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