My Diigo Bookmarks (posted weekly)
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Incredible mind reader. Surprise ending. http://t.co/mpPWavnv
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Creating the Conditions: Student Discipline http://t.co/toZpGQ8S < Sharing this at my school #BDSS
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FAVI's $50 Streaming Stick adds apps, streaming services to any HDTV http://t.co/y1df7vDc < Looks like a great device!
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Curiosity Has Found a Riverbed on Mars http://t.co/1USq7g6u < Good topic for science classes today!
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I am automatically bookmarking URLs I tweet and favorite to my diigo account. http://t.co/8UGKaCgb via @packratius
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Mrs. Smith's report card day - just blogged my reflections on student feedack! http://bit.ly/6elpMj – Shannon Smith (shannoninottawa) http://twitter.com/shannoninottawa/status/6222433678
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Top 9 Flipboard for iPhone Power User Tips: http://t.co/khvDlLo2 - Inside Flipboard (InsideFlipboard) http://twitter.com/InsideFlipboard/status/144907062101544961
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Is it more important that kids enjoy reading or that they score higher on standardized tests? Can we have it both ways? http://t.co/bmVxXtQp – Jeanne Conte (contej) http://twitter.com/contej/status/146337708833382400
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The cloud-based office suite will, from 1 October, only be able to export to newer Office Open XML formats such as .docx. This will affect anyone collaborating with users of pre-2003 Office versions, although Microsoft does have a compatibility pack to help out users of some earlier iterations.
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Welcome to the most popular online photo editor in the world!
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A Canadian woman has drowned during a photoshoot as she posed in her wedding dress in water at a Quebec park. (Using MY picture!)
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A great article from 1971 unearthed from the Sports Illustrated archives– Steve McQueen discussing desert bike riding with Bud Ekins & Malcolm Smith, Racing in the 12 Hours of Sebring with Pete Revson, The Great Escape, his son Chad, and much more.
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Don Stookey knew he had botched the experiment. One day in 1952, the Corning Glass Works chemist placed a sample of photosensitive glass inside a furnace and set the temperature to 600 degrees Celsius. At some point during the run, a faulty controller let the temperature climb to 900 degrees C. Expecting a melted blob of glass and a ruined furnace, Stookey opened the door to discover that, weirdly, his lithium silicate had transformed into a milky white plate. When he tried to remove it, the sample slipped from the tongs and crashed to the floor. Instead of shattering, it bounced.
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"Welcome to Class2Go! We're Stanford Online's internal platform, designed to be an open platform for online learning and research."
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"Google and Stanford are more than just neighbors in Silicon Valley. They’re becoming the leaders in the online learning revolution. And it’s all happening fast and starting right about … now. Stanford, like Google, has now announced a free and open source platform that lets you run your very own Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). Stanford’s platform, dubbed Class2Go, has big and slightly different aspirations from its competitors. Developed as a non-profit project by eight Stanford Computer Science engineers, Class2Go is meant to offer not only a course-like project but also tools for collaborative research. The latter functionality is a change from what Google, edX, Coursera, and others are offering right now."
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"Google Forms is a great free service for us in education. It is part of the free tools Google Docs offers to its users. Google Forms has a huge potentail for classroom teaching and teachers can do a myriad of tasks with it. As an example, instead of going looking for quiz forms others have created and that might not suit your teaching purposes why not learn how to create your own forms. Testing forms is just an example and of course there are many other things you can do with forms "
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In the next few days, every student and teacher within HWDSB will have a Google Account. This is not a Gmail account (*you will still rely on First Class for email); what we have done is provision access to the Desktop publishing suite of apps (Docs, Forms, Presentations, Spreadsheets, Drawing, Sites). Why, you ask? Well first of all, we love the collaborative capabilities of Google Docs. The ability for multiple users to view and edit content simultaneously, paired with the way having a Google account eliminates the need for an easily lost USB key, makes it a great addition to a teacher’s quiver of available tools in the classroom.
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"Self-paced Tutorials are SKP files, which guides you step by step (using scenes) on concepts of modeling in SketchUp."
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The last thing young people want is another set of rules. But these days, social media comes with great responsibility, whether you’re just starting high school or finishing up college. The fact is, irresponsible social media conduct could potentially ruin your education and negatively impact your career, not to mention hurt others in the process. (And we’re not just talking kids, either.) But most of those consequences are preventable, often with just a little foresight. We’ve pinpointed 12 social media mistakes that students should avoid at all costs, because after all, it’s never as simple as “be responsible.” And it’s never as finite as “don’t friend your teacher on Facebook.” Social media circumstances are nuanced and vary by situation, school and user.
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PythonAnywhere is a Python development and hosting environment that displays in your web browser and runs on our servers. They're already set up with everything you need. It's easy to use, fast, and powerful. There's even a useful free plan.
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- first week's lectures are now available
- Be sure to do the in-lecture quizzes!
- The first exercise is also posted, and is due on Monday 1 October at 12:01AM EST
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