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"The Stairway to Reading materials downloadable from this site are free. All we ask is for you to provide us with some contact information so that we can follow up on the effectiveness of our program and get your ideas for improvement. All contact information is kept strictly private. "
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Helping New Teachers Beat the Back-to-School Jitters with Twitter | Edutopia
"A recent topic was one that is always near and dear to my heart -- back to school -- tips to make your first day/week/year great."
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10 Ideas for Classroom Video Projects | open thinking
"If you follow my Twitter-stream, you know that I spend a lot of time viewing, collecting & sharing videos. In this post, I share ideas on certain types of videos that I’ve gathered and how educators might use related methods or styles to engage students in constructing and deconstructing media while becoming critical consumers and producers of digital media."
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80+ Absolutely Gorgeous Free PSD Files For Designers | designrfix.com
"In this post I have assembled an amazing set of high quality free PSD files such as Paper ticket, iPhone, Record button, Sliders, iPhone Camera App UI and much more for you to download. I am confident that you will find one of these free PSD files to fit your every design needs. Enjoy!"
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AntiSec Leaks 1m Apple UDIDs Allegedly Obtained from FBI Breach
"AntiSec hackers leak 1,000,001 Apple device IDs allegedly obtained from FBI breach"
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4 Awesome Tools to Easily Watermark your Images
"Watermarking is a great way to protect your images. It is basically the process of adding a chunk of text or image to a photo to claim its ownership. Many stock photograph websites use watermarks to prevent the theft of their images but with the introduction of web 2.0 technologies, anyone now can easily add watermarks to their photos using tools that do not even require software installation. Here is a list of some of them :"
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Around the Corner-MGuhlin.org: Video: The Race to Mediocrity #iPads
"On the flip side, should we see the heavy investment of funding in iPads as a race to excellence?"
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B.C. plans to overhaul K-12 curriculum; greater emphasis on concepts over facts
"The B.C. education ministry is planning a major overhaul of the K-12 curriculum to focus less on facts and more on big ideas."
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Why highly educated immigrant parents choose Canada - The Globe and Mail
"Aayushmaan is one of nearly five million elementary and secondary students who will start school on Tuesday, one of 500,000 who are foreign-born, and one of thousands who will be in a Canadian classroom for the first time. It’s a testament to the resiliency of children that, despite the challenges they face – cultural, linguistic and financial – immigrant students in this country outperform their native-born peers."
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Why I Teach Kids to Code | Geek Girl Web
"Why I Teach Kids to Code"
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Study: Dumb Robots Cause Students To Learn More Quickly | TechCrunch
"Students learn faster when learning from robots that make mistakes. The counter-intuitive study finds that Japanese children learn English quicker when they correct the intentional translation errors of a toy robot–exploiting a well-known fact among educators that students learn best when they help teach others."
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"When introducing transformative teaching practices involving technology, you have to be careful not to overload the senses of the tech novices on your staff. What took über geeks like me a couple of hours to master can take a life time for others"
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The 2 Hottest Educational Social Networks You’re Not Yet Using | Edudemic
"If you’re an early adopter, you’re going to want to pay attention. If you know an early adopter, send this to them or ask if they’ve heard of either social network. It’ll be like a fun quiz where you may actually know more than them!"
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"Tonight, #K12Media (an educational chat on Twitter that I co-moderate) will be all about "Back to School". We hope to share ideas, lessons and resources to start the year. "
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Calgary classrooms going textbook-free
"For generations of children, textbooks have been as ubiquitous in schools as teachers and pencils. But in a growing number of modern classrooms it’s now tough to find any sign of that weighty math or history volume."
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Blog > 10 Great Articles About Digital Games in Education
"We would like to share with you a few articles we found helpful for those interested in teaching with games."
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Technological Superiority: Star Wars vs. Star Trek [Infographic]
"At first look, this infographic paints a pretty bleak picture of the Star Trek universe. Do you agree with the data that’s in there? Are you more of a Star Trek or Star Wars fanboy/girl?"
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Opera Software preparing Opera for Windows 8
"Third party software developers who want their programs to function properly under Microsoft’s upcoming operating system Windows 8 need to focus their attention on two new areas. The start page is the first and without doubt the most difficulty to work with as it is restricting apps significantly that run here. The second area is touch, which is one of the improved features of Windows 8, and if you take the hardware announcements of this year’s IFA as an indicator, one of the main focuses of hardware manufacturers when it comes to Windows 8 powered devices."
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Finally! Windows XP no longer most popular desktop system - CNN.com
"Windows 7 is now the world's most popular desktop operating system, according to the August report from Net Applications."
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Global Connections in Kindergarten | The Global Classroom Project
"Through-out the year the children in KC have communicated and collaborated with KinderPals on the other side of the world. This relationship has provided an authentic purpose and audience for both classes to inquire, create and construct understanding. The children have communicated through blog comments, twitter, postal mail, Google docs and Skype."
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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