July 2010
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Good Connection Really Does Lead to Mind Meld |... →
adambozarth:
An interesting, short article about brains actually being on the same wavelength, so to speak.
People in a real conversation, making a connection, actually experience some identical brain activities.
It has some pretty interesting implications to improv, especially in terms of warming up before a show. Almost scientific proof as to why you need to try to listen and engage in order...
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100 Tips, Apps, and Resources for Teachers on... →
A great collection of links for learning how to use twitter, specifically tailored towards educators, how you could use in the classroom, who to follow, and apps you can use to experiment with. Via curriki
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“Once women connect, they engage; once they engage, they embrace;once they...”
– Women on the Web: How Women are Shaping the Internet
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REPORT: How Women Use the Web →
Via Mashable, the report covers worldwide female Internet activity. Women are more engaged than men, especially in the social networking space, and the key drivers of online shopping. But perceived stereotypes end there:
Sports, Automotive, and Online Trading sites remain male strongholds online, but beware of extending other assumptions about online behavior. Women are just as likely to...
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Windows 7 Bible →
CIO’s list of everything you wanted to know about the flavours of Windows 7!
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“Students who had learned much more in kindergarten were more likely to go to...”
– NYT The Case for $320,000 Kindergarten Teachers
While not yet peer-reviewed, Harvard economist Raj Chetty presented longitudinal data on 12,000 Tennessee children to look at how early learning may affect adult outcomes.
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Milwaukee Library CountyCat iPhone App →
Jessica Celella, an MATC student has developed a free iPhone app that allows you to search and request materials from Milwaukee County’s CountyCat system.
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“According to the characteristics of survey respondents, schools with 1-to-1...”
– from eSchoolNews: Jeanne Hayes, president of the Hayes Connection and co-author of Project RED’s 1:1 program study
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NOOKstudy →
Coming in August, NOOKstudy will provide free eBooks, give you 40% off eTextbooks, and doesn’t require a NOOK! Designed by students for other students, this might be a great tool to help you organize you class info or study, even in you’re not using eTextbooks.
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SearchCredible: One-stop Search Engine →
SearchCredible gives you access 26 different engines like Google, EBSCO, Oxford Journals, WolframAlpha, and YouTube using the same search criteria. This is really great tool for illustrating the quality of the resource being searched (google versus EBSCO), as well as your own search query. The EBSCO query in particular uses google to search EBSCO, using the site: advanced search feature.
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DSHA Employement: Special Events Coordinator →
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Student Achievement and Principalship →
High student achievement is linked to “collective leadership”: the combined influence of educators, parents, and others on school decisions.
Ready more about and expansive study commissioned in Minnesota that links joint-decision-making processes to high student achievement.
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“It used to be: ‘Let’s sit down and talk about it,’ ” he says. “Over the past...”
– Norbert Dunkel, Director of Housing at the University of Florida
Read more about University experiences of roommate conflict resolution and the speculative influence of technology and smaller families at the NYT
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ReputationDefender →
A tiered subscription service, this site offers tools to help you stay on top of your online presence. They have services geared towards your children’s, your own, and your family’s privacy.
I have no experience with it, but I find this type of service fascinating:
“gossip is no longer the resource of the idle and of the vicious but has become a trade.”
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The Web Means the End of Forgetting →
…a challenge that, in big and small ways, is confronting millions of people around the globe: how best to live our lives in a world where the Internet records everything and forgets nothing — where every online photo, status update, Twitter post and blog entry by and about us can be stored forever.
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Watch“I wanted a full experience of going to a four-year college,” says Doris Gonzalez Gomez, 21, who currently attends Oregon State University. According to an unpublished analysis of federal education data by the Pew Hispanic center, Latinos are the least likely of any other major racial or ethnic group to attend a four-year college or university. —Stephen Voss for Education Week
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“I was depressed and so sad and so isolated, and she reached out and saved me....”
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“At a time when public school teachers are being blamed for everything from poor test scores to budget crises, Facebook is one place where they are receiving adulation, albeit delayed.”
NYT: On Facebook, Telling Teachers How Much They Meant
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Install Multiple Apps on your Windows PC →
This website lets you pick and choose multiple software programs to be installed on your computer. Programs like Skype, VLC, Paint.NET, and OpenOffice can all be checked, the latest version is installed without clicking all those “next” buttons, and you’re off and running..!
