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My Brain on Apps | OT's with Apps
"This infographic reaffirms how difficult it can be to “sift and winnow” apps when there are more than 67,000 educational iPad apps. Finding the right one to support individuals with special needs can be a challenge and take time!"
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Interesting Facts and Fun Facts - OMG Facts
I didn't know that!
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"EasyGUI is a module for very simple, very easy GUI programming in the Python programming language. Experienced Pythonistas need to be able to make simple GUI interfaces quickly and easily. New Python programmers, students, and sysadmins need GUI capabilities that don't require knowledge of Tkinter, frames, widgets, callbacks or lambda. This is what EasyGUI provides. Using EasyGUI, all GUI interactions are invoked by simple function calls."
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online storage re-imagined | put.io
"Put.io is a storage service that fetches media files and lets you stream them immediately You can use it to stream video, listen to your music and share your library with friends"
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The Trouble with Schooling: Why Do Schools Kill Curiosity? « Educhatter's Blog
"Thinking deeply about the story of public schooling can land you in trouble. That’s why Zander Sherman’s first book, The Curiosity of School: Education and the Dark Side of the Enlightenment could well be the most stimulating Canadian contribution to the Great Education Debate in decades. It came from out of the blue — and has hit the world of public schooling with the impact of a Molotov cocktail."
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Practicing Grammar with NoRedInk
High school teacher Jeff Scheur tells a pretty familiar story for anyone who’s taught writing: you spend a lot of time grading essays, doing your best to provide personalized feedback on what the students are saying and even how they’re saying it. But that feedback can often be overwhelming to students – all the comments and circles and “red ink” – and it’s sometimes difficult for students to figure out how to improve.
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7 Ways to Make Teaching Life Easier
"After posting 7 Icebreakers you Can Do with Post-it Notes, I am sharing with you another great poster from the same source Busy Teacher about the 7 Ways to Make Teaching Life Easier. This is basically a collection of ideas on how post-it notes can help you teach."
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The Elements Of A Digital Classroom | TeachThought
"What are the components of a digital classroom? From eBooks to smartboards, iTunesU implementation to online learning, the classroom as we know it is changing."
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Transforming Teaching and Learning with iPads: iPad Activity: Open House Scavenger Hunt
" This is when my kids will find out who their teacher will be for the year, and they will also find out that we will have 30 iPads in our classroom!! Yay! I decided to incorporate the QR scans and create an Open House Scavenger Hunt to give the parents and kids the information needed to begin the new school year. As the students arrived, there was an iPad and the first page of the scavenger hunt on their desk. They were instructed to work through the scavenger hunt with the help of their parents. Here is what I created:"
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Top 10 Tools That Are Better in the Command Line
"Typing commands into a terminal may seem tedious, but with the right tools, the command line can be incredibly powerful. Here are our favorite command line tools that do awesome things you just can't match in a GUI."
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How to keep good teachers from leaving - latimes.com
"Too often, teachers who are consistently successful with students are not given leadership roles that would allow them to reach students beyond their own classrooms."
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What Are You Reading To Your Students on the First... - WeAreTeachers
"We asked teachers on Facebook about their favorite read-aloud books for the first day of school. Here's what they said:"
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Internet Habits Then & Now: 2002 vs. 2012 [Infographic]
"We all know that technology is advancing super fast, but what about our Internet habits? Do you think those are evolving just as quickly?"
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6 Great Interactive Data Visualization Tools (Part 2) | NTEN
"Welcome back for the second part of my series on interactive data visualization (dataviz) tools. In part one, we covered three cool tools for visualizing charts and graphs and many other data types on a webpage. In part two, we take a look at three more tools that are a bit more complex but have some incredible data visualization capabilities."
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CVG Blog: Infographic: Nintendo Vs. Sega: The evolution of logos - ComputerAndVideoGames.com
"Infographic: Nintendo Vs. Sega: The evolution of logos"
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The Colors of the top 100 Web Brands [Infographic] » Design You Trust – Design Blog and Community
"A detailed infographic that reveals powerful colors of the web which are colors implemented by major internet companies in their branding. This great infographic about the most powerful colors in the world"
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"Go Dark For IE" effort launched for better web browser use - Neowin
"Now a new, and apparently grass roots, effort has launched to get Internet users to upgrade their browsers to at least the level of IE 9. The effort is being led by a group, Go Dark For IE, which is trying to get websites to go dark on October 26th (the same day as Microsoft plans to launch Windows 8 for regular consumers) for users of web browsers below that of IE 9."
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"The new startup from the creators of Blogger and Twitter says it’s “rethinking publishing and building a new platform from scratch.” It’s also raising some fundamental questions about how content on the web is structured."
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5 Reasons Why Web Publishing is Changing (Again)
"We're witnessing another sea change in Web publishing. From Pinterest at the beginning of this year to the launch this week of a new product from two Twitter founders, Medium, 2012 has been a year where the norms of publishing are being challenged."
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Overparenting: How Not to Get Kids Ready for School -
"“Everyone knows” that the problem with “kids these days” is “parents these days.” If a child isn’t performing in school, his parents didn’t give him a good enough head start. Anxious that their children may fall short academically, one parent actually defended her daily academic work with her four-year-old with these words: “These days if your child isn’t reading by kindergarten, he won’t succeed in school.” This notion is false, and merely holding it in mind is a net negative for the child."
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Making Advanced Customizations to the WordPress Roots Theme - Speckyboy Design Magazine
"WordPress is well-known for having the single largest and most active development community of any content management platform, and that large development community has created some of the most powerful pre-made themes available anywhere. Lately, most developers have been focusing their efforts on migrating their designs to new technologies, including HTML5 and CSS3, which are more able to scale with differing screen sizes. HTML5 is the chief way to combat this transition toward varying screen sizes and devices, but it’s not a well-known entity for most WordPress administrators."
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