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YOURLS: Your Own URL Shortener - 2 views

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Allows you to create a short url with your name in it

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maps.stamen.com - 0 views

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Great site for good-looking maps... download big beautiful images.

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Single-Tasking Is the New Multitasking - The Atlantic - 3 views

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Dealing With Digital Cruelty - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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How Apple Uses Picasso To Teach Employees About Product Design | Co.Design | business +... - 2 views

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Interesting Apple vid explaining their design approach.

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20 Inspiring Posters with Design Quotes - 2 views

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Quotes about design. I particularly like Saul Bass's "Design is thinking made visual" quote

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The Influence of Colour on Memory Performance: A Review - 0 views

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Colour can help us recall

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Wolfram Language for Knowledge-Based Programming - 0 views

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Elements of Design by Paperleaf - 0 views

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Poster of the elements of design.

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WHY YOU SHOULD GIVE A CRAP ABOUT DESIGN | FG Press - 0 views

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CRAP design. Well written post about my favourite design elements

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Your Classroom Does Not Have to Be Pinterest Worthy to Be Effective | Blogging Through ... - 1 views

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Great reminders as we kick off another school year

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Using Mentor Texts to Motivate and Support Student Writers | Edutopia - 1 views

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Making Sense of Data - Course - 0 views

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Jeffrey Plaman on 09 Aug 14

This is a 10-15 hr online course that introduces essential concepts of understanding data, organizing and displaying it using Fusion Tables. This would be good for students who are undertaking survey research or other data collection activities.

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13 Tips for Staying Motivated in Photography - 0 views

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Zaption - Interact With Video - 0 views

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The Science Of Comic Sans | Co.Design | business + design - 0 views

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The Secrets Of A Memorable Infographic | Co.Design | business + design - 0 views

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5 Myths and Truths About Kids' Internet Safety | Common Sense Media - 1 views

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Compound Interest - 0 views

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Some very useful infographics under CC licence.

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The truth about Finland's education miracle » Spectator Blogs - 0 views

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The Finnish fan club rarely talks about its mathematics performance in TIMSS, an international survey focusing more on curriculum-based knowledge – which plummeted over the last decade.
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Others questioned whether it represents a victory at all since important knowledge had been sacrificed along the way.
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while Finland scores well on PISA, this particular league table is designed to test everyday rather than curriculum-based knowledge. This means that it lacks key concepts of importance for further studies in mathematically intensive subjects, such as engineering, computer science, and economics. This is an obvious defect: such subjects are likely to be crucial for developed countries’ future economic well-being.
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So Finland might not be so great after all, partly because its centralised curriculum has ignored certain concepts that are not tested in PISA.
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choice is extensive
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