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Rick West

Online Dating: Harder to Find Future Spouse on Internet? | Healthland | TIME.com - 0 views

  • Digital dating is now the second most common way that couples get together, after meeting through friends.
  • Once potential partners meet, in other words, other characteristics take precedence over the ones they thought were important.
  • the best prognosticators of how people will get along come from the encounters between them. In other words, it’s hard to tell whether Jim and Sue will be happy together simply by comparing a list of their preferences, perspectives and personality traits before they meet. Stronger predictors of possible romance include the tenor of their conversations, the subject of their discussions, or what they choose to do together.
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  • the sheer number of candidates that some sites provide their love-seeking singles — which can range from dozens to hundreds — can actually undermine the process of finding a suitable mate. The fact that candidates are screened via their profiles already sets up a judgmental, “shopping” mentality that can lead people to objectify their potential partners.
  • “Online dating sites have a vested interest in your failure. If you succeed, the site loses two paying customers.”
  • A few weeks of email and photo exchanging serves to enhance people’s attraction when they finally meet, researchers found, but when the correspondence goes on too long — for six weeks — it skews people’s expectations and ends up lowering their attraction upon meeting.
jenna_welsh

Free Technology for Teachers - 2 views

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    Exactly what it sounds like. Plus it was named "Best resource sharing blog" in 2008 by Edublog, so apparently it's pretty cool.
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    I found this blog under the list of Edublog award winners and thought it was really interesting. It has posts everyday for new ideas for using technology in the classroom. For example, for today there is a post about Gapminder, a type of graphing technology that can be used for lesson plans, quizes, and animations. I also really like this blog because it gives links to each application and then has a whole section on how it can be realistically applied in the classroom.
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    Unfortunately we won't always have access to BYU's amazing resources. This blog gives ideas for ways to use technology in the classroom free of charge! Woohoo!
Rick West

Thinking in Mind: 8 Simple Tips for Improving Student Presentations - 0 views

  • Here's the simple one page handout I made for them:
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      These are good ideas, but some may not apply well for using VoiceThread. Just do the best you can!
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    tips for improving powerpoint presentations
David Wetzel

10 Personal Response Systems Teaching Strategies: Best Practices for Using Clickers to ... - 0 views

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    The use of this interactive wireless technology is ideal for stimulating student involvement using both interactive whiteboards and for one computer classrooms.
Whitney Fox

The Best of History Websites - 0 views

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    For those going into Social Studies, this site has many resources and links to lesson plans and helpful history websites.
Rick West

Google Earth: Learn - 0 views

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    These look like the best help documents for learning Google Earth
Dantzel Cenatiempo

Learn French With Daily Podcasts - 0 views

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    This website and others like it allow you to keep your French skills strong with daily updates about what's happening in the Francophone world.
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    I forgot to mention why this is so important to me as an educator, but I figured it was pretty obvious--I'm going into language teaching and if I don't maintain my fluency one way or another, my students will get nothing but repetitive and maybe incorrect phrases...short of moving to France for total immersion this is the best way to stay current with the language.
mckaylasko

Sites for teachers - 0 views

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    This website is a gold mine of websites and information that is useful for teaching, and the best part is that most of it is based on classroom safe web practices.
Rick West

How to make teachers better | News In Brief | Marketplace from American Public Media - 1 views

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    Interesting article about the best way to improve teaching, by promoting collaboration among teachers.
Rick West

Educational Videos - The Best Educational Videos Online | Educational Videos ... - 3 views

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    From Allison--great site of instructional videos
Rick West

Swf to mov free software by Chen Hui and others - 1 views

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    convert swf to mov?
David Wetzel

10 Personal Response Systems Teaching Strategies: Best Practices for Using Clickers to ... - 0 views

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    Students have no risk of embarrassment with respect to their individual answers and are very motivated to actively participate when using the personal response system (PRS). This interactive wireless system produces active learning by providing each student with a simple and handheld response remote. This remote is non-threatening and is in use from pre-K through college graduate education. PRS is often referred to as Clickers, Classroom Response Systems, and Learner Response Systems.
David Wetzel

Wiki or Blog: Which is Better? - 0 views

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    Both wikis and blogs provide teachers with a a dynamic process for integrating Web 2.0 technology in their science and math classes. These two types of online tools offer students a more engaging process for learning. Both are relatively easy tools which do not require teachers or students to learn any special program tools or computer skills. Their uses and applications are only limited by the vision and purpose for helping students learn.
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