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Interestingly, Ontario had its own labor flare-up this week—over a proposed wage freeze and a law that could limit strikes. But coming after years of relative harmony, the response has been reasonable so far. The union urged members to temporarily stop coaching sports and limit other voluntary activities. The situation could deteriorate, but for now, the tone in Ontario is revealing.
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Our sarcastic tribute to those infographic designers who insist on doing it wrong…repeatedly and unashamedly.
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These lessons have been developed for educators to use in classrooms or in workshops. They differ from the traditional tutorials but some content is very similar in both. For example, HelloPurr is the introductory lesson for both the tutorials and the curriculum, and it is similar to Part One of the Magic 8 Ball lesson. However, Magic 8 Ball provides a nice self-contained workshop for students to develop a fun, individualized, game app in a short amount of time. In general, the lessons here in the Curriculum section of the educator's site are intended to provide a connected progression for students learning App Inventor, and are designed to be used in classrooms and workshops. Feel free to explore all of these and choose the pieces that work best for your setting.
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Our premier must have had a dream — one that included advice from John (“create a crisis”) Snobelen and Mike (“common sense”) Harris. How else to explain the bizarre and unnecessary actions taken by the brain trust at Queen’s Park over the last two months?
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Here's a quick look at how to make a time lapse video with iMovie.
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Instant Roof, by Chuck Vali of Vali Architects, is a truly great SketchUp Ruby script. Its purpose is simple – you use Instant Roof to quickly create gables, hips, sheds and trellises anywhere you need them. This script has everything going for it:
It's easy to install.
It's easy to learn.
It's easy to use.
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"Learning in the open...
This 12 week course, starting September 10, 2012 will explore openness in education - its roots, its growing influence, and economic and systemic impact.
We have adopted an open online format (massive open online courses, sometimes referred to as MOOCs...though we expect this course won't hit that "massive" target achieved by initiatives like Coursera and EDx.
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"Daphne Koller is enticing top universities to put their most intriguing courses online for free -- not just as a service, but as a way to research how people learn. With Coursera (cofounded by Andrew Ng), each keystroke, quiz, peer-to-peer discussion and self-graded assignment builds an unprecedented pool of data on how knowledge is processed.
With Coursera, Daphne Koller and co-founder Andrew Ng are bringing courses from top colleges online, free, for anyone who wants to take them. "
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This past summer, with the help of my brilliant friend, Kristen Swanson, I took my Technology Curriculum to a place I had never imagined it could go. As a computer lab teacher, there has never been an easy to follow, mapped out path for instruction. As such, over the last 5 years I created a scope of skills and concepts across grade levels to guide my teaching and I had begun to map out what kinds of projects I could use to teach these skills. Still, my curriculum always seemed a bit disjointed and while my students created wonderful work and amazed me with their ability to apply their skills to video, music production, programming and more, I still felt like I wasn’t doing the best job at making it ‘stick.’
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In this lesson we will focus on the following two ideas:
Domain Extensions and the site: syntax (See 6-8th Grade Lesson Plan)
Finding current research
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"Power Searching with Google
Class 3 Lesson 5: intext: and Advanced Search"
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Power Searching with Google
Class 1 Lesson 5: Word order matters
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Power Searching with Google
Class 1 Lesson 3: How search works
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I have been to a lot of meetings in my career. Some of them have been good: they were well run, followed an agenda, gave authentic opportunities for multi-directional interaction, had a finite finish point, and left off with plans for future action. Others have been not so good: they seemed aimless, were dominated by a few speakers, provided little chance for dialogue, and gave excessive amounts of information that could have been communicated asynchronously for people to read at their leisure. Try as I might have to come out of those sorts of meetings with a positive attitude, often times I struggled mightily to find any redeemable bits that I could take back to my own learning situation.
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"The passing of Bill 115 today represents one of the darkest days in the history of workers' rights in recent memory," said OSSTF/FEESO President Ken Coran. "This government has now passed a law that tramples on the rights of education workers in Ontario, and it appears that Premier McGuinty will be targeting other workers in the near future."
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Sensing the excitement from online education tools like edX, Google has just unveiled a (very beta) version of its own course building software. If you’ve ever wanted to run your own online courses, this might be worth your time.
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"Course Builder is our experimental first step in the world of online education. It packages the software and technology we used to build our Power Searching with Google online course. We hope you will use it to create your own online courses, whether they're for 10 students or 100,000 students. You might want to create anything from an entire high school or university offering to a short how-to course on your favorite topic."
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"Two-thirds of parents think it's important to start saving as soon as a child is born - More than 90 per cent unaware of what types of investments can be held in an RESP - BMO offers tips on how to save for a child's post-secondary education"
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"This CBC Sunday Edition Universities in the Digital Age explores MOOCs – Massive Open Online Courses – and their impact on higher education."
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According to many customers, sites hosted by major web host and domain registrar GoDaddy are down. According to the official GoDaddy Twitter account the company is aware of the issue and is working to resolve it. Update: customers are complaining that GoDaddy hosted e-mail accounts are down as well, along with GoDaddy phone service and all sites using GoDaddy’s DNS service.
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"Today, I walked into a high school where I am not an employee. Where I have no classroom, no agenda on the board, no lesson plans, no books, no exit slips, and no first-day-of-school icebreakers, because I am no longer a high school English teacher."
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"We’ve all used USB sticks to transport files between computers and back up our files, but there are other cool things you can do with a USB stick. You can use one to lock and unlock your computer — just like in the movies. You can also use a USB flash drive to quickly connect to a wireless network on all your PCs, increase your computer’s performance, or even run a web server – directly from the USB stick itself.
Windows XP users can also check out Microsoft’s useful USB Flash Drive Manager application, although it’s been discontinued and does not function on newer versions of Windows."
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"A number of conservative Christian and Muslim parents — unusual political bedfellows — suddenly are asking schools across the GTA to notify them when their child’s class will discuss topics ranging from homosexuality and birth control to wizardry, evolution and “environmental worship,” so they can withhold their child from classes that contradict their religious beliefs."
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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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Minecraft is a sandbox-type game where you gather materials and use them to create things, which is about as understated a description as "the sun is a big bright light in the sky." The poster child for indie gaming success, Minecraft began as a basement coding project by hat-wearing Swede Markus Persson in 2010; it has since become a bona fide phenomenon.
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The union representing Ontario’s secondary school teachers will reschedule recently postponed strike votes in retaliation to the anti-strike legislation currently before the Ontario legislature, Global News has learned.
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"Alberta Education has signed licensing agreements with Media Smarts (formerly called Media Awareness Network) to provide all K-12 school authorities with rescources for students and teachers on Internet safety and cyberbullying. Information on accessing this information has been sent out to all Jurisdiction Technology Contacts."
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Education leaders are re-examining acceptable use policies in light of the increasing use of highly mobile information technologies. While acceptable use policies were developed to manage and control behaviour, a digital citizenship policy takes a more comprehensive approach by recognizing the important role of education in preparing digital citizens. The intent of this guide is not to ascribe policy, but rather to offer guidance to leaders as they
strive to better meet student and organizational needs. The guide provides an overview of digital citizenship policies and practices. It draws from research and the practical experience of Alberta schools.
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