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Royalty Free Sound Effects (FX) Library for Download
"The simplest way to search and find sounds."
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10 Warm Ups for Lesson Plans - Using Ice Breakers as Warm Ups
10 Warm Ups for Lesson Plans
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Stories are not just for telling around campfires - they entertain, educate, motivate, incite and surprising to many also bring healing powers into our lives. Digital storytelling is not simply a technical playground but an artistic experience merging the ancient art of storytelling with a palette of digital tools. Mixing images, sounds, voices, and special effects together creates a sensory experience of well-written stories.
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Authorama - Public Domain Books
Welcome to Authorama.com, featuring completely free books from a variety of different authors, collected here for you to read online or offline. The books may have been published before, but not in this form, which I hope you find enjoyable to read and print. Feedback is welcome – enjoy the reading.
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The Endangered Languages Project, is an online resource to record, access, and share samples of and research on endangered languages, as well as to share advice and best practices for those working to document or strengthen languages under threat.
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Web search can be a remarkable tool for students, and a bit of instruction in how to search for academic sources will help your students become critical thinkers and independent learners.
With the materials on this site, you can help your students become skilled searchers- whether they're just starting out with search, or ready for more advanced training. -
7 Things to Never Do on Your Blog | Smedio
Given the success of smedio, I’m often asked on my take on what makes a blog successful. I’ve always believed that there’s no secret mantra to making a blog successful, you just need to understand the basics and religiously follow them. In my opinion, it’s equally important to understand the DO’s and the DONT’s that can make or break your blog.
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Graphic design is a burgeoning industry. With the rise and ubiquity of the Internet in the last decade, web design especially has become prevalent. Other forms of graphic design include print, mobile, illustration, and typography. Typography refers to any design involving the arrangement of letters or alphabetical symbols in a space.
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Snapito! Full length website screenshots
Just enter a website address into the box above and click on the Snap! button to take a screenshot.
To pin a website on Pinterest just use the dropdown on the right of the Snap! button and select either 'Pin to Pinterest' or 'Pin Full Page'. -
It’s no secret that Apple’s search results within its App Store on both the iOS and Mac don’t always turn up the best results. In return, many hoped that with Apple’s recent acquisition of app search engine Chomp, revealed in February, it would start leading to better results. That time may now be here.
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Is modern technology creating a culture of distraction? — Tech News and Analysis
Are all the modern devices and digital conveniences we have at our disposal — from the web and social media to smartphones and tablets — making us more distracted and less able to concentrate? And is this harming our ability to think and be creative, and therefore by extension harming society as a whole?
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From teaching to learning… « What Ed Said
We’re working on shifting the focus from teaching to learning at my school. We try to ensure decisions are based on our learning principles, be they about teaching, classrooms, programs or personnel.
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Why I’m looking forward to Microsoft’s Surface Device
During the presentation, Microsoft introduced two Surface devices. First Surface RT, which is running Windows 8 RT, a version of the operating system for ARM processors, and then Surface Pro, which is running on Intel hardware and Windows 8 Professional.
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Microsoft opening its first Canadian store in Toronto's Yorkdale Shopping Centre
Microsoft is preparing to open its first retail store in Canada. According to a report from The Star, the Redmond giant is heading to Toronto’s Yorkdale Shopping Centre and has apparently already cleared the paperwork needed to push this forward.
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5 College Degrees That Aren't Worth The Cost - Business Insider
No degree guarantees that a college graduate will earn more over a lifetime than a high school student.
Worse still, there are many degrees where the average high school graduate will likely out-earn a college graduate. -
sitfu.com - 50 Excellent Online Professional Development Resources for Teachers
Teachers may spend their days imparting knowledge to others, but that doesn’t mean they should stop learning themselves. Whether they choose to take classes, read books, or just talk with their colleagues, professional development offers a chance to become a better and wiser teacher.
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The Educational Value of Creative Disobedience | The Creativity Post
In this age of innovation, even more important than being an effective problem solver, is being a problem finder. It’s one thing to look at a problem and be able to generate a solution; it is another thing to be able to look at an ambiguous situation, and decide if there is a problem that needs to be solved.
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Educational poetry iPad app | Timbuktu
The introduction is promising, and indeed this app is full of things to like. To begin with, a selection of 270 poems to pick from by authors such as T. S. Eliot, Lewis Carroll or William Shakespeare, divided to match the specific educational needs of three age groups: 0-6, 7-12, 13 and over.
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Valve On Why Games Could Very Well Fix Education | Rock, Paper, Shotgun
The first time I ever played Portal was damn near magical. Each room I walked into held promise of some diabolical new assault on both my brain and the laws of physics, but I made them look like child’s play.
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Is It Time to End Suspension as the 'Go-To' Punishment in Schools? | Education | AlterNet
Some schools are finding that promoting positive behavior choices, rather than punishing via suspension, leads to higher graduation rates -- especially among students of color.
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How to Enable Awesome HRTF Sound Effects in Linux Games ~ Ubuntu Vibes | Daily Ubuntu Linux Updates
This new feature is a filter that simulates Head-Related Transfer Function (HRTF) if a pair of stereo headphone is in use. Some headphones has built in HRTF support but this filter will simulate HRTF effects in an ordinary stereo headphones as well.
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[Phoronix] Apple Mac OS X 10.7.4 Lion vs. Ubuntu Linux
Before Apple releases Mac OS X 10.8 "Mountain Lion" next month, here's a look at how the latest point release of Mac OS X 10.7 "Lion" is performing compared to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" and the latest development snapshot of Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" Linux
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Windows 8 Secure Boot: Two Linux Distros Respond | PCWorld Business Center
For those who missed it, a quick recap on what's coming our way: Basically, future Windows 8 hardware will come with the Secure Boot technology enabled in the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI), meaning that only operating systems with an appropriate digital signature will be able to boot.
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3D Origami How to do: Angry Birds
This is a really cool project inspired in the amazing game Angry Birds. I hope you enjoy it. Good luck and enjoy the folding. Lots of paper folding fun for fans of Angry Birds. This page features the 3D modular origami tutorials for kids and adults to craft in paper. Which Angry Bird will you make today? Or will you prefer to make their arch-enemies, The Pigs?
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The Importance Of Education | MakeUseOf Geeky Fun
The Importance of Education graphic
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DOWNLOAD Computing Harmony: Seamlessly Blend Windows and OS X
If you’re one of those millions you should check out “Computing Harmony: Seamlessly Blend Windows and OS X”, the latest free MakeUseOf manual. This manual outlines everything you need to know to get your Mac and your PC to live in harmony, so you can do the things you wanted to do.
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