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50 Divine Savior Holy Angels High School girls cut off 500 inches of hair on Monday in an assembly organized by student leaders and the director of campus ministry. It was all part of Locks of Love, and the hair will benefit other girls who have lost their hair for medical reasons.
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Aspiring and Residing IT Leaders: A Legacy for the... →
An aspiring leader is someone who wants to be or could be a future IT leader within an organization, community, or institution. To advance in the higher education IT profession and cultivate their leadership skills, aspiring leaders should take three steps: (1) complete a self-assessment; (2) create a plan or roadmap; and (3) work the plan.
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Multimedia Lectures: Tools for Improving... →
Great list of tools you can use to record and transcribe lessons and lectures to “improve retention and success for all types of students.”
At the most basic level, Bain said, an instructor could record a presentation with little more than a good lavalier mic or headset and a digital recorder. A more intermediate approach could include using audio recording software like Audacity,...
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Survey: charter school closure rates dropping →
Just 6.2 percent of the nation’s charter schools up for renewal in 2010-11 were closed, down from 8.8 percent the year before and 12.6 percent in 2008-09, according to the report. While the association attributes the decline to any number of factors – stronger policies regulating charter oversight, better quality among charters, or even political pressure to keep bad schools open – it believes...
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“If Amazon’s high-powered data engines can take just one split second to process...”
– Mark Milliron, chancellor of Western Governor University Texas in What Does Your School Know About You?
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What we can we do to improve student... →
I think fears about students’ motivation to get high grades (even if they don’t deserve them) has caused most of us to conclude that students can’t be a part of the assessment process.
True or false?
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Scholars Seek Better Ways to Track Impact Online →
The current system of measuring scholarly influence doesn’t reflect the way many researchers work in an environment driven more and more by the social Web. Research that used to take months or years to reach readers can now find them almost instantly via blogs and Twitter.
That kind of activity escapes traditional metrics like the impact factor, which indicates how often a journal is...
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“The result of this consolidation that gives me cause for concern is the...”
– Use Google? Time to Get Real About Protecting Your Digital Self - The Atlantic (via courtenaybird)
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Alumn.US →
Watch Out, Facebook, Alumn.us is here to help your K-12 to get your alumnae network in-place.
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No More Résumés, Say Some Firms →
Instead of asking for résumés, the New York venture-capital firm—which has invested in Twitter, Foursquare, Zynga and other technology companies—asked applicants to send links representing their “Web presence,” such as a Twitter account or Tumblr blog.
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Thanks for Teaching Us →
Teachers having a rough time? Brighten your day with this tumblr!
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WatchFormerly homeless student wins scholarship to college
“Here, this is your dream, have it.”
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The World’s First Computer Password? It Was... →
Allan Scherr, a Ph.D. researcher at MIT in the early ’60s, came clean about the earliest documented case of password theft.
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Teachers, which do you prefer:
cranialpotpourri asks:
Staying for a couple hours after school to get work done or leaving earlier and bringing it home with you?
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State special education rates vary widely →
“If you have a struggling reader, there are some schools and or some states that will say immediately, we’re putting that kid in special ed,” says Alice Farrell, director of special education in Vermont. “There are other states, such as ourselves, that say, ‘let’s not do that, let’s diversify our education and handle it in the classroom.”
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How Parents Normalized Teen Password Sharing →
In 2005, I started asking teenagers about their password habits. My original set of questions focused on teens’ attitudes about giving their password to their parents, but I quickly became enamored with teens’ stories of sharing passwords with friends and significant others. So I was ecstatic when Pew Internet & American Life Project decided to survey teens about their password sharing...
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WatchThis video was created for students about science fairs.
It was created by a student, Kevin Temmer, as part of his community outreach project in high school and is an animated video that teaches students about the science fair. NASA, the National Science Foundation and National Geographic have featured this video.
Kevin would like more students to view this to help inspire them to ...
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Income Inequality is Bad for Society. REALLY BAD. →
The mysterious SocProf, who writes The Global Sociology Blog, offered a nice review of Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett‘s book, The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better. Wilkinson and Pickett offer transnational research showing how, exactly, income inequality is related to bad outcomes on average. In other words, as SocProf puts it, ”…egalitarianism is not a...
