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Paul McMullen

YAKiToMe! - 0 views

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    Free Text To Speech (TTS) Free Audio Book Podcast
Robyn Treyvaud

Preoccupations - Texting in Meetings - It Means 'I Don't Care' - NYTimes.com - 8 views

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    AS technological devices have become more portable and more popular, they've enhanced our connectedness at work. But they have also led to a greater degree of incivility - a trend that is damaging our workplace relationships.
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    Increasingly schools are having to deal with this issue, in classrooms with students and with colleagues in meetings. At conferences delegates seem to be hiding behind their screens and I wonder what level of engagement is taking place between them and the speaker/s? What messages are being sent and received..on a number of levels?
Tom March

Is Twitter Really That Big? - 0 views

  • digg_url = 'http://digg.com/software/Is_Twitter_Really_That_Big';digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff';digg_skin = 'normal';It seems as though far less people are actually using and contributing to the site than Twitter's recent hype and massive growth would suggest. In fact, the data shows that a large percentage of Twitter users have not "tweeted" since the first day they joined the service and at least a quarter of its users don't have any followers at all.
  • 80 percent of Twitter users have less than 10 followers (i.e., for many users, their posts are not being widely tracked or read).
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    "It seems as though far less people are actually using and contributing to the site than Twitter's recent hype and massive growth would suggest. In fact, the data shows that a large percentage of Twitter users have not "tweeted" since the first day they joined the service and at least a quarter of its users don't have any followers at all."
Tom March

Free online OCR - 5 views

shared by Tom March on 12 Apr 11 - Cached
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    Useful when clipping text in graphics from Web pages.
Tom March

Dan Meyer: Math class needs a makeover | Video on TED.com - 6 views

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    "Today's math curriculum is teaching students to expect -- and excel at -- paint-by-numbers classwork, robbing kids of a skill more important than solving problems: formulating them. "
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    I know my students are learning how to use a text book, take them outside and measure/photograph a problem and they are left hanging. This is a great view on how to get students to discover knowledge. It is a powerful tool.
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