April 2011
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Let me just point something out:
We’ve been to the MOON.
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Advice for high-school graduates
Submitted by knanthony in response to this post.
Go volunteer!
Personally, I’m against having a paying job in high school for a few reasons. First, it can distract from your real job: school. Second, pay puts a little more pressure on you and you can sometimes have less freedom to explore all parts of a job. Though you may not get paid as a volunteer as an intern, the flexibility can be...
March 2011
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If Instructional Designers Ran The World →
All highway and road signs would make sense.
Signs would be written and rewritten until they were the epitome of perfection. Road signs would never confuse the reader nor have multiple meanings. Signs like the one below would be immediately removed.
Everyone would know their objectives.
Enough of this silliness. We can’t have people running around not sure of their goals and objectives. If...
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The 6 Verbs For The Next 20 Years Of The Connected... →
Screening — Kelly notes that whereas there used to be just the television screen and then the computer screen, now screens are everywhere. And increasingly, everything will be a screen — all surface. There will be a “one screen for all,” Kelly says.
Interacting — Right now, interaction is limited mainly to our fingertips, Kelly says. But the iPad is changing that — it’s about using more of your...
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Wisconsin Judge Declares Union Law Not In Effect →
A Wisconsin judge on Thursday did what thousands of pro-union protesters and boycotting Democratic lawmakers couldn’t, halting Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s plans – at least temporarily – to cut most public workers’ pay and strip them of most of their union rights.
Dane County Circuit Judge Maryann Sumi issued a declaration stating in no uncertain terms that the...
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Facebook Sued by Murder Victim’s Family Over Photo →
gjmueller:
In 2009, Ms. Criscitiello got a crashing introduction to the world of intellectual property, as the pictures and content on Facebook are called. On March 30, her sister Caroline Wimmer, 26, was murdered in her apartment on Staten Island. A month later, a reporter with The Staten Island Advance called the family home with news that a picture of her dead body had been posted on the...
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Advice to soon-to-be high school graduates
Submitted by garycope in response to this post.
My advice is going to go against the grain. While most adults say to “follow your passion” and make a living doing what you love; I’m going to throw some practicality out there as food for thought.
I followed that “follow your passion” advice and looking back, I almost wish I hadn’t. I always wanted to be a...
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"High School Graduation Soon": Reply
Submitted by amandaross in response to this post.
I’m going to graduate from college in just over a month and have been killing myself over the last four years because I wish someone would have told me the following:
-Never take the minimum credit hours in any semester. If you do this, you will find yourself with one year to go and not enough time to fulfill the minimum credit hours...
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High School graduation soon
For high schoolers, not me. But with graduation looming in May and June, I want to ask you all:
What advice do you have for this year’s class of graduating seniors?
You can reply via reblog, or the Submit box if you need more space.
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Wisconsin GOP Rep complains about his $174,000... →
With video.
The Wisconsin GOP is now demanding this video be removed from the internet via a misleading copyright claim (sorry, public officials talking in public is not copyrighted work, it’s public record).
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WatchWatch this student get the crowd fired up over education budget cuts in LA.
(via Single Video Player)
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T-Minus two hours
Until I have the opportunity to keynote a networking event for law students and attorneys at the Cleveland Hillel Foundation. Can’t wait!
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“Academics are trapped in this paradox of using Wikipedia but not contributing....”
– Dario Taraborelli, research analyst for the Wikimedia Foundation, quoted by Zoe Corbyn in a Guardian article, Wikipedia wants more contributions from academics.
Seems most academics either A) feel Wikipedia is beneath them or B) just have too much on their plate trying to publish in academic...
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E-book pricing spurs debate →
Earlier this year, Harper Collins Publishers surprised many people by announcing that libraries can only loan its e-books 26 times before the license expires. In an Open Letter to Librarians, the company said
We have serious concerns that our previous e-book policy, selling e-books to libraries in perpetuity, if left unchanged, would undermine the emerging e-book ecosystem, hurt the growing...
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Dipity - My new favorite thing
Wisconsin Protests on Dipity.
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Post-Jeopardy, Computer Watson Is Taking on... →
The computer that defeated humanity’s finest Jeopardy players in February isn’t stopping at game show domination. Its creators have been busy retrofitting the computer to help doctors diagnose and treat patients.
Watson’s potential applications in healthcare have been a subject of discussion since its debut. According to American Medical News, IBM has partnerships with eight major universities...
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SiliconEdition: 5 GB Free Online Storage from... →
revolutionizeed:
siliconedition:
Amazon introduced a free online storage facility “Amazon Cloud Drive”, a secure place to store your photos, videos, musics and other files. No more worries on losing the local files in your PC crashes. Get 5 GB of free online storage which is enough to store upto 1000 songs. Storage plans are…
Time to go fill my 5 GBs…great for teachers who go from computer...
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What's a little-known site you think everyone...
I was inspired by this post from Reddit. I’m curious about what the educational community thinks.
Feel free to reply via Reblog or the Submit box if you need more space.
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When I was a kid...
You only had to dial 7 numbers to call someone.
Oh, and if you wanted to call a friend, you had to memorize their number.
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Times I remember that "digital native" does not...
thingsforteachers:
…when the majority of my students do not know how to attach something to an e-mail.
Edited because I remembered more.
…when my students open Microsoft Word and say “I can’t find my file.” when we are using Microsoft Powerpoint.
…when my students do not know how to change the font color.
Ooh, I can play this game (faculty edition)! Like during training or support…
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Just an update
I wanted to share with everyone that I’ve accepted a full time position as an Associate Educational Technology Designer at Kent State University, and will start on April 18th. This is an incredible professional opportunity for me, and will help me be an even more valuable resource for all of you.
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Cavs just beat the Heat by 12
Just saying.
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“For years, my self-education was stupid and wasteful. I learned by consuming...”
– The Best Textbooks on Every Subject - Less Wrong (via ourignorance)
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Minn. Student Expelled For Posting Hit List On... →
A Minnesota high school expelled a freshman who allegedly posted a hit list on his Facebook page.
The list on Facebook included 30 names of school staff, students, and graduates that the student wanted to see dead, Chisholm High School Superintendent James Varichak told the Duluth News Tribune.
There was no threat in the post, other than the heading bearing the words hit list. The decision to...
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Dipity: Find, Create, and Save Timelines for Free →
What is Dipity?
Dipity is a free digital timeline website. Our mission is to organize the web’s content by date and time. Users can create, share, embed and collaborate on interactive, visually engaging timelines that integrate video, audio, images, text, links, social media, location and timestamps.
DOO. DAH. DI-PITY.
Am I the only one who thought of the hamster commercial?
Also, this is...
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'Facebook Depression': Rare but Serious Side... →
infoneer-pulse:
Many teens enjoy keeping in touch with their friends on social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, but using such sites to excess can be unhealthy and has even been linked to depression, researchers say.
A new report from the American Academy of Pediatrics describes a new phenomenon known as “Facebook depression,” in which children and teenagers spend an inordinate...
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“Teachers need to stop saying, “Hand it in,” and start saying “Publish It.”
– -Alan November
Although I’m wary of posting anything that starts with “Teachers need to”.
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these are a few of my favorite things: Fieldwork →
paperpackages:
was tough today. I was observed by my supervisor for the Direct Instruction reading lesson and I didn’t do a very good job. First of all, the lesson I was teaching wasn’t the one they were supposed to be on because they missed a day- so that got the students pretty riled up. I was also teaching the lower-achieving group, who are already rowdy as it is, so that didn’t help. I had a...
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U.S. Internet Piracy Is on the Decline [STATS] →
Online piracy is a popular scapegoat of the music industry, which has suffered a 30% decline in global sales between 2004 to 2009, according to IFPI’s annual digital music report [PDF].
But given that only 9% of U.S. Internet users use P2P networks to download music illegally (that percentage does include those who obtain music through unauthorized online streaming services and download sites),...
