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My TEDxMelbourne talk: Education Leadership | Lucacept – intercepting the Web
"My husband and I just watched it through and I was doing that involuntary shaking thing while I viewed myself talking. It’s a tad confronting seeing yourself onscreen, exposing your thinking for others to judge."
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The Top 10 Educational Livebinders for 2012
"LiveBinders is an electronic portfolio that allows its users to organize , bookmark, and share online content . It is a bookmarking tool that facilitates the organization of the information found online. Instead of saving the links of your favorite websites in other bookmarking services like Delicious for example, LiveBinders lets you organize your links into tabs accessible through instant click ."
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Gazette » Alternatives to Failing Your Students
"Kids don’t fail; they are failed. And what they fail is what schools and teachers are responsible for teaching."
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Good Work: Back to School Apologies - Getting Smart by Tom Vander Ark - blended learning, Teaching
"Thanks to all the educators that went back to school. You’re doing the most important work in the world. Unfortunately, you’re doing it with crude tools, tough conditions, and what may appear to be weak career options. The good news is it’s getting better fast."
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"Anatomy of a Teacher is an interesting infographic with data on teachers - percentage female vs. male, public vs. private schools, student/teacher ratios, salary, working hours and more. Take a look and see if the data matches your situation and share it with others."
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Why kids need to fail to succeed in school - The Globe and Mail
"How much influence do parents really have on their children’s success in life? My own view has always been: far less than they think, and far less than the experts tell them. I’ve always thought that how your kids turn out depends a lot more on their genes and their IQ than whether you played them Baby Beethoven or sent them to all-day kindergarten."
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What I Won't Do on the First Day of School
"This year, I promise my students to not: "
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Project Management Problems & How To Solve Them [Infographic]
"Anyone who has ever been in charge of a big project knows that it takes a lot of time to plan, track and analyze the progress continuously."
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Illuminant's Chinese Takeout: Colors to use and colors to avoid in China
"Illuminant’s first Chinese Takeout covered the absolute basics concerning China as a new market for your business, product or service. Our second Chinese Takeout covered the yearlong schedule of vacations and holidays in China, forming a template for the best times to plan your market visits into the middle kingdom."
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INFOGRAPHIC : How To Create An Infographic | Teachers Tech
"Here at MakeUseOf, we get lots of infographic submissions sent to us on a regular basis. Some fall under the category “EXCELLENT!” while a lot others get deleted right away. "
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Infographic: Graduating with Technology | Daily Inspiration
"Technology has become an integral part of our daily lives: we use it to learn, to shop, to pay bills, and to entertain ourselves. Not surprisingly, younger generations are heavily influenced by computers in a way that changes the way they retain information and the ways they develop opinions about culture."
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Windows 7 Passes Windows XP, Mac OS X Passes Windows Vista
"Windows 7 finally overtakes Windows XP in market share, Mac OS X overtakes Windows Vista"
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Python Development on Linux and Why You Should Too | The Linux Experiment
"If you’re a programmer and you use Linux but you haven’t yet entered the amazing world that is Python development, you’re really missing out on something special. For years, I dismissed Python as just another script kiddie language, eschewing it for more “serious” languages like Java and C#. What I was missing out on were the heady days of rapid development that I so enjoyed while hacking away on Visual Basic .NET in my early years of university."
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How to Motivate Students in the Online Learning Environment | online learning insights
"How can course instructors encourage their online students to learn? In this post I’ll describe how course instructors can foster learning in their online classes. I’ll also examine how the needs of online learners differ from students of traditional learning and how instructors and institutions can support non-traditional students."
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Ultimate List of Free Online Video Courses
"Save money and time on your education and take free online college courses taught by some of the best professors in the world! See our list of the top online video courses on the Web."
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The Question Should be: Why Are You *Not* Blogging - CogDogBlog
"I don’t really have to explain why I blog. Actually I am compelled to. I cannot stand to NOT blog. It’s easy, and as I said in my first post, April 19, 2003, on a them self hosted MovableType blog- I Blog Therefore I Am."
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A 5-Step Plan to Improve Every Blog Post You Write | Copyblogger
"If your posts aren’t getting the traction you want, you might think you’re not a good enough writer. But the truth is, every writer can follow a few simple steps to improve their posts. (And that goes for the old hands, too.)"
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Chrome OS To Ship with More Pre-loaded Apps
"The team has putting together a list of bundled apps to ship along with Chrome OS. Here is the initial list. Note that this may change before things are finalized."
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Firefox 15 edges closer to Chrome with silent updating, memory fixes, & more | VentureBeat
"Firefox 15, the latest browser from Mozilla, is available now and comes with many new features including “silent” updating just like Google Chrome."
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Still Using Google Reader? Grow Up! - Get Feedly Today
"Sometime back in 2010, I pinned a tab on Chrome so that it will open up whenever I launch Chrome. With its green icon glowing, feedly stayed inside this pinned tab since then."
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ClipSync Keeps Your Android and Windows Clipboard in Sync
"Android/Windows: ClipSync is a simple application that works in the background to keep your Android and Windows clipboards in sync."
OTR Links 01/23/2018 – doug — off the record OTR Links 01/23/2018 https://t.co/nJKZXGIJCa tags: via:packrati.us Sergei Eisenstein - Google Search Sergei Eisenstein https://t.co/AO6acACKzD — Doug Peterson (@dougpete) January 23, 2018 tags: IFTTT Twitter via:packrati.us Ontario minimum wage hike having ‘trickle up’ effect on paycheques of higher earners | Financial Post Ontario minimum wage hike having 'trickle up' effect on paycheques of higher earnershttps://t.co/x28xegyu9UShared from my Google feed Ontario minimum wage hike having 'trickle up' effect on paycheques of higher earnershttps://t.co/x28xegyu9U Shared from my Google feed — Doug Peterson (@dougpet
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