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Diigo Links on Lead By Example 02/28/2009
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3DTextMaker.com – Create Free 3D text Banners for Your Web Pages!
Free online 3 D banner creator for Websites
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Picasion – Create GIF animations online – Get images from Picasa Web or Flickr
Create Free online animated gif’s. You can upload your pictures or import from Flirkr or Picasa
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How Cramberry Works
Using Cramberry to study is simple. First, you create a blank “set” of flashcards. Cramberry will prompt you to give your set a name. All of your flashcards are stored in sets. Once you’ve created a blank set, Cramberry will help you add cards to the set. Adding cards with Cramberry is as simple as it is with traditional flashcards: just type in the text you want on the front and back of the card, and click on “add another card” to add another card to the set. Once you’re satisfied with the amount of cards you have in your new set, click “finish”.
Once you’ve set up one or more sets with the cards you want to study, actually learning them is simple. Click the title of the set from the home screen, and you’re off! Cramberry will present you with the front of a random card. Try to guess what is on the back of that card, and then click on the button to find out if your guess was correct. If it was, click “correct”. If not, click “incorrect”. As you continue studying, Cramberry will keep track of which cards you know, and help you learn the ones you don’t.
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Guides, HowTos and Tips for Technology Geeks – The Geek Stuff
Howto and instruction guides on Linux, Database, Hardware, Security and more.. You can download a great free e-book called Linux 101 Hacks
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Convert PDF to Word (DOC) Online — 100% Free!
Easily convert pdfs to Word.
- Doesn’t THIS change a lot of things? Convert pdf to Word. – By James Gates
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In Tough Times, the Humanities Must Justify Their Worth – NYTimes.com
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The study of the humanities evolved during the 20th century “to focus almost entirely on personal intellectual development,” said Richard M. Freeland, the Massachusetts commissioner of higher education. “But what we haven’t paid a lot of attention to is how students can put those abilities effectively to use in the world. We’ve created a disjunction between the liberal arts and sciences and our role as citizens and professionals.”
Mr. Freeland is part of what he calls a revolutionary movement to close the “chasm in higher education between the liberal arts and sciences and professional programs.” The Association of American Colleges and Universities recently issued a report arguing the humanities should abandon the “old Ivory Tower view of liberal education” and instead emphasize its practical and economic value.
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Derek Bok, a former president of Harvard and the author of several books on higher education, argues, “The humanities has a lot to contribute to the preparation of students for their vocational lives.” He said he was referring not only to writing and analytical skills but also to the type of ethical issues raised by new technology like stem-cell research. But he added: “There’s a lot more to a liberal education than improving the economy. I think that is one of the worst mistakes that policy makers often make — not being able to see beyond that.”
Anthony T. Kronman, a professor of law at Yale and the author of “Education’s End: Why Our Colleges and Universities Have Given Up on the Meaning of Life,” goes further. Summing up the benefits of exploring what’s called “a life worth living” in a consumable sound bite is not easy, Mr. Kronman said.
But “the need for my older view of the humanities is, if anything, more urgent today,” he added, referring to the widespread indictment of greed, irresponsibility and fraud that led to the financial meltdown. In his view this is the time to re-examine “what we care about and what we value,” a problem the humanities “are extremely well-equipped to address.”
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For the month of March, a group of educators and lifelong learners will be picking a “Tweet of the day” and ReTweeting it with a tag: #gr8t
Hopefully, you will join us in doing this too! See the ‘about’ page for more details.
There are a number of reasons why you might want to participate:
• To share what you value about Twitter.
• To see what others value about Twitter (just look below).
• To celebrate the power and wisdom of your Personal Learning Network.
• To find interesting people to follow on Twitter.
• To commit to giving Twitter a try.- If you twitter, or would like to twitter, then participate along with us! – By Dave Truss
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A 21st Century Global Acceptable Use Policy for cellphone use in Schools
Very interesting look at how schools are restricting cellphone use in the classroom and The AU policies in place
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ETLMS Blog » Blog Archive » The “Personalities” of Blog Writers
Neat blog over at etlms – Educational technology & Library Media services – lots of interesting current things over there. I’ a subscriber now!
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Tinkering as a mode of knowledge production in a Digital Age « Generation YES Blog
A fine video of John Seely Brown talking about creating space for students to tinker as a way of creating and sharing knowledge.
Posted from Diigo. The rest of educators group favorite links are here.
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