FreeFoto.com is a collection of images developed by Ian Britton. FreeFoto offers a mix images that are available for free and for a licensing fee. Students can use the images on FreeFoto for free provided that they adhere to the student use guidelines. Visitors to FreeFoto can search for images by keyword or they can browse the galleries. The galleries are arranged by the locations of where the images were captured, by natural subject (sunsets, seasons), and many other subjects. Applications for Education The next time your students are looking for images that they can use in videos or…
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FreeFoto - Free Images for Student Use
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We need to stop arguing over which factory-age solutions we should try
Dangerously Irrelevant6 Feb 2012 | 4:13 amTrace Pickering recently sent me a slide deck that's definitely worth viewing. Trace is a wonderful systems thinker. His slides do a nice job of describing historical shifts in American society and the concurrent changes that were necessary in American education. As he notes about our current era, We seem to be stuck … arguing over which factory-age solutions we should try without fully understanding the implications of the context we are in and the new functions we need education to perform. Trace's slides are embedded below. He's kindly made them available with a Creative Commons license. -
Active & healthy lifestyle keeps this Sedalian happy
Mountain Climbing News8 Feb 2012 | 5:26 pmSedalia resident Paul Musslin has spent a lifetime being active in everything from bike riding to mountain climbing, and he doesn't look to stop anytime soon. -
Snowpack Profile Update. Waffles!
Mount Rainier Climbing6 Feb 2012 | 4:16 pmWow, big news here at the Old Station in Paradise. We now have a computerized weather display running 24hrs and Waffle Weekdays will be starting this week!The computerized weather display is located inside the Old Station in the windows to the left of the inner door.You read that right. If you can't get enough of the Mountain during the weekend and can make it up on Friday you can join the ranger(s) in the Old Station for hot drinks and waffles. Start your weekend early between 11 and 3 this Friday, February 10.Please bring your own cup or mug, donations of hot drinks, waffle makings and… -
Romance survey [infographic]
Holy Kaw!9 Feb 2012 | 12:02 pmVia Hotels.com. Infographics to put you in the mood. Permalink | Leave a comment »
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Free Technology for Teachers
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FreeFoto - Free Images for Student Use
9 Feb 2012 | 12:00 pmFreeFoto.com is a collection of images developed by Ian Britton. FreeFoto offers a mix images that are available for free and for a licensing fee. Students can use the images on FreeFoto for free provided that they adhere to the student use guidelines. Visitors to FreeFoto can search for images by keyword or they can browse the galleries. The galleries are arranged by the locations of where the images were captured, by natural subject (sunsets, seasons), and many other subjects. Applications for Education The next time your students are looking for images that they can use in videos or… -
Piazza - Not Just Another Message Board System
9 Feb 2012 | 10:30 amOver the years I've reviewed quite a few services that offer teachers the ability to create private message boards for use in their courses. Here's a handful of those services. Today, I learned about one that tops all of those services. Piazza is a free service that teachers can use to create message boards for their courses. Piazza message boards offer more than just the standard question and answer format found in the old free Ning packages, but not quite as many features as a paid service like Blackboard. Some of the highlights of Piazza are tracking of student use, options… -
Infogr.am - Create Interactive Charts and Infographics
9 Feb 2012 | 9:00 amInfogr.am is an online tool for creating interactive charts and graphs. Soon you will be able to create interactive infographic posters on Infogr.am too. There are four basic chart types that you can create on Infogr.am; bar, pie, line, and matrix. Each chart type can be edited to use any spreadsheet information that you want to upload to your Infogr.am account. The information in that spreadsheet will be displayed in your customized chart. When you place your cursor over your completed chart the spreadsheet information will appear in small pop-up window. Your Infogr.am charts can be embedded… -
Videos - How Candidates Raise and Spend Money
8 Feb 2012 | 2:00 pmThe amount of money that Presidential candidates spend on their campaigns is just mind boggling to me. Chances are good that it's mind boggling to your students too. CNN's Explain It To Me series has a couple of videos explaining how candidates raise money and what they spend that money on. Here is How Candidates Raise Money. Here is Campaign Spending. One of the statistics in this video that might help your students understand how much money is spent on campaigns is that Kobe Bryant would have to play for 29 years to earn as much money as President Obama spent in 2008. On a much lighter… -
Applications are Still Being Accepted for Google Teacher Academy UK
8 Feb 2012 | 1:30 pmThe Google Teacher Academy is held periodically at various locations throughout the world. I had the privilege of attending GTA when it was held in Washington, D.C. in 2009. This spring there will be a Google Teacher Academy in London on April 4th. If you're interested in becoming a Google Certified Teacher, applications are being accepted until February 16th. On a few previous occasions I have written about applying to GTA and the experience. If you're interested in my advice about GTA, here are some of my thoughts: Overcoming the Video Hurdle of Applying to GTA Advice for Applicants Why…
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Dangerously Irrelevant
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We need to stop arguing over which factory-age solutions we should try
6 Feb 2012 | 4:13 amTrace Pickering recently sent me a slide deck that's definitely worth viewing. Trace is a wonderful systems thinker. His slides do a nice job of describing historical shifts in American society and the concurrent changes that were necessary in American education. As he notes about our current era, We seem to be stuck … arguing over which factory-age solutions we should try without fully understanding the implications of the context we are in and the new functions we need education to perform. Trace's slides are embedded below. He's kindly made them available with a Creative Commons license. -
Digital Learning Day: The aftermath
2 Feb 2012 | 5:51 amWell, yesterday was Digital Learning Day. By all accounts, it was a busy day across the country. Lots of conversation and high-profile events and demonstrations of students doing cool stuff with technology... Should every school day be Digital Learning Day? Nope. We still need down time from these electronic and virtual spaces of ours, times when we experience the joy of human connection, nature, solitude, reflection (and all of those other things that people say I should be experiencing!). But, nonetheless, we definitely need 'more digital, more often' in most of our primarily-analog… -
Announcing our new School Technology Leadership courses: Get a graduate certificate, Master’s, or Ph.D.
1 Feb 2012 | 10:48 amShort version We're relaunching our online School Technology Leadership courses and programs today! Woo hoo! (This is all pending final approval by Faculty Senate) Long version It's Digital Learning Day here in the U.S. As I said in my guest post for the event: We ... need school leaders who can begin envisioning the implications of these [new technology-suffused, globally-interconnected] environmental characteristics for learning, teaching, and schooling. We need administrators who can design and operationalize our learning environments to reflect these new affordances. I also said: If… -
Keeping Students Engaged in a 1:1 Project-Based Classroom [guest post]
29 Jan 2012 | 3:55 pmImage approved for copy by Creative Commons. Source: http://bit.ly/vYUkXB When laptops first arrived in my classroom, I worried about classroom management. How could I create an environment where students used their computers as tools rather than toys? I was worried for nothing. The following are suggestions for keeping students engaged in a project and accountable for their time with computers: Students make a plan. Students are most tempted to open widgets, games, and social chats when they are faced with a blank screen and have no plan. Much of the time, students think they have… -
Flawed, ideological, non-peer-reviewed studies should not rebut decades of anti-retention research
29 Jan 2012 | 8:41 amIowa Governor Terry Branstad's recent remarks about retaining 3rd graders confirm both the potential positives and the many negatives of in-grade retention in elementary school. First, the potential positives: in-grade retention sometimes leads to short-term (1 to 2 years out) - and maybe even mid-term (3 to 5 years out) - academic gains. The peer-reviewed research shows that these test score gains occasionally occur when you force kids to repeat 3rd grade, partly because 4th grade test scores look better when low-achievers have been removed from the grade cohort and partly because retained…
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Mountain Climbing News
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Active & healthy lifestyle keeps this Sedalian happy
8 Feb 2012 | 5:26 pmSedalia resident Paul Musslin has spent a lifetime being active in everything from bike riding to mountain climbing, and he doesn't look to stop anytime soon. -
Ferguson ready to scale another mountain in pursuit of Manchester City
4 Feb 2012 | 7:01 pmThe sound of Sir Alex Ferguson singing is generally an indication that all is well in Manchester United's world, and although "Climb Every Mountain" is not known to be in his repertoire, it should nudge aside Frank Sinatra once in a while. -
Climb Halla Mountain with Um Hong-gil
3 Feb 2012 | 6:29 amLotte Hotel Jeju presents the Halla Mountain-Climbing Package with champion mountaineer Um Hong-gil, who has climbed 16 peaks taller than 8,000 meters in the Himalayas. -
Chris Evans. Shirtless Rockclimbing.
2 Feb 2012 | 12:07 pmHe finished filming The Avengers movie a few months ago. But it appears actor Chris Evans is maintaining his superhero figure, given his sculpted physique on a photoshoot in Los Angeles yesterday. -
Rock climbing with baby on board
1 Feb 2012 | 5:19 amMother-of-one Menna Pritchard, 26, who has scaled a few routes including Gower's Three Cliffs bay, with her daughter Ffion, now two, on her back has said the climb pictured was "100% safe" from falling rocks.
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Mount Rainier Climbing
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Snowpack Profile Update. Waffles!
6 Feb 2012 | 4:16 pmWow, big news here at the Old Station in Paradise. We now have a computerized weather display running 24hrs and Waffle Weekdays will be starting this week!The computerized weather display is located inside the Old Station in the windows to the left of the inner door.You read that right. If you can't get enough of the Mountain during the weekend and can make it up on Friday you can join the ranger(s) in the Old Station for hot drinks and waffles. Start your weekend early between 11 and 3 this Friday, February 10.Please bring your own cup or mug, donations of hot drinks, waffle makings and… -
Weekend Conditions February 3-4
3 Feb 2012 | 6:26 pmSome of the nearly twenty people that headed up to Panorama Point todayIf today was any indication of what Saturday and Sunday are going to be like, Paradise is going to be a happening place.Wind Crust above ParadiseWith blue skies has come strong winds (20+mph at Paradise, with reports of being blown to the ground higher on the mountain).Be prepared for a chill and remember to pay attention to your surroundings. The current wind is coming from the East instead of the usual West and is thus redistributing some of the snow pack. Combined with the sunshine there is quite a crust forming. -
Snowpack Conditons as of January 31
1 Feb 2012 | 8:39 amClick on the image above to get a clear and readable snowpit diagram. -
Weekend Conditions January 27-29
27 Jan 2012 | 8:29 amWeather conditions for this weekend are looking fair. Snow and rain showers are expected to return to the area Saturday night. In the meantime expect some chilling winds and blue sky.The mountain is as dangerous as it is beautiful, start early, come prepared.Remember to register if you are camping or going above 10,000 ft. -
Weekend Conditions Januray 20-22
20 Jan 2012 | 11:19 amInclement weather continues here on the mountain complete with park wide closures yesterday, today, and possibly tomororw. Before you leave home check out:Park and Park Road ClosuresThe WeatherAvalanche ConditionsDont Forget to Stay warm!
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Holy Kaw!
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Romance survey [infographic]
9 Feb 2012 | 12:02 pmVia Hotels.com. Infographics to put you in the mood. Permalink | Leave a comment » -
Do aliens go invisible by 'going green'?
9 Feb 2012 | 11:24 amAs we discover more and more planets around other stars, the Fermi Paradox is becoming, well, more paradoxical. The Fermi Paradox simply asks the question "where are they?" Our Milky Way galaxy is so big and so old -- and we are estimated to be accompanied by at least 100 billion planets -- that aliens should have visited us by now. Instead, when we peruse the heavens, we are faced with the Great Silence, which is one of the biggest challenges to modern astronomy. Full story at Discovery News. More news from Discovery Communications. Photo credit: Fotolia Permalink | Leave a… -
Mysterious sounds reported around the world
9 Feb 2012 | 11:23 amPeople around the world have reported hearing strange sounds from the skies over the past month. Sometimes they describe it as a hum or low rumble; other times it’s a whine, thump, or even a melody. Often the sounds have been recorded and posted online, fueling rumors and conspiracy theories. One blogger wrote, "either the world is ending, aliens are landing or everyone is getting hoaxed. Or, possibly, there’s an actual scientific explanation for the mass amount of YouTube videos capturing bizarre sounds that are being heard around the globe. Are we witnessing the beginning of a… -
Costa Concordia: an ecological time bomb
9 Feb 2012 | 11:21 amAs workers begin to extract the half-million gallons of fuel in the shipwrecked cruise liner, locals are worried that their pristine waters are in danger. Reporting by Rossella Lorenzi. Written and produced by Rossella Lorenzi and Martin Berman. Full story at Discovery News. More news from Discovery Communications. Permalink | Leave a comment » -
Inside Syria's capitol: nervously normal
9 Feb 2012 | 11:18 amAs the violence in Syria continues to escalate, Syrian citizens are arming themselves to resist their oppressive regime. For days, Homs, the third-largest city in Syria, has endured shelling, tanks and attacks by heavy weaponry. Syrian protestors react with more violence against forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad, resulting in all-out war zones in some residential neighborhoods. Full story at Discovery News. More news from Discovery Communications. Permalink | Leave a comment »
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ReadWriteWeb
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Hangout With the Scientists Looking for the God Particle
9 Feb 2012 | 11:57 amWant to hang out with the people who run the CMS? No, not the content management system. The Compact Muon Solenoid. It's one of the two big detectors at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the largest and highest-energy particle accelerator in the world. CERN physicist Dr. Albert De Roeck is hosting a Google+ Hangout tomorrow from inside the cavern where the experiment takes place, about 100 meters underneath Cessy, France. He'll explain the CMS experiment and take questions about the crazy frontiers of particle physics. Sponsor The CMS is one of the two general-purpose LHC experiments searching… -
Fabled Google Drive Won't Be Another Dropbox
9 Feb 2012 | 11:00 amThe Wall Street Journal has revived rumors about Google launching a cloud storage service called Drive. The comparison everybody wants to make is to Dropbox. The thinking is that Google will challenge everyone's favorite start-up by releasing a native desktop and mobile Drive app with the same syncing features Dropbox users know and love. Google Drive rumors have been around for many years, and they've always conformed to the understanding of "The Cloud" that has prevailed at the time. If it's not like Apple's iCloud, which is integrated into Apple's devices, then it must be like Dropbox,… -
[STUDY] 61% of Social Media Users Feel So Close To You
9 Feb 2012 | 10:30 amSometimes little things like a sweet comment on Facebook or a Twitter friend calling your tweet a "favorite" can really make a social networker bee's day. A new study from Pew finds that for the most part, adults are kind to each other on social media sites. In fact, 85% of adults say that most of the people they come across on social media are rather kind; only 5% say that people are "mostly unkind," which would imply rude or mean. An additional 5% say that it's all situational. On the whole, adults have positive experiences on social networking sites. A total 68% of SNS users had an… -
[Infographic] Mapping the Tools in the Mobile Development Ecosystem
9 Feb 2012 | 10:00 amThe mobile development ecosystem is a large, complicated space. There are innovative startups making tools for native and mobile Web apps along with large enterprise-grade companies that offer solutions from cloud support to frameworks and developer environments. For a mobile developer, it can be confusing to know where to turn and what to use to make the best app possible. Mobile "backend-as-a-service" startup Kinvey created a map for ReadWriteMobile to help developers understand the ecosystem. Kinvey brackets the mobile ecosystem between two primary pillars: the service providers and the… -
Harry Reid Wants a Bigger, Badder Version of SOPA/PIPA
9 Feb 2012 | 9:30 amSenate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., still licking wounds from last week's defeat of the Protect IP Act and its House counterpart the Stop Online Piracy Act, is reportedly working on an even more sinister, Internet-regulating bill. Few details have been publicly disclosed about the latest push by legislative Democrats to expand executive-branch authority over the Internet, but the Daily Caller has pieced together publicly-available clues suggesting that Reid's newest bill is even broader than President Barack Obama's cybersecurity proposal. Sponsor Released last May, Obama's proposal…
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Pogue's Posts
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The Dilemma of Cheap Electronics
9 Feb 2012 | 11:37 amIf consumers want cellphones and other gadgets to be made under decent working conditions, they will also have to reckon with higher prices. -
Things That Were Once Amazing
2 Feb 2012 | 11:04 amDavid Pogue is amazed that people are still amazed at children's tech prowess. It's too bad there's no List of Things That Were Once Amazing, but Are Really Kind of Old News at This Point, he says. It would be a handy clip-and-save document that you could review, perhaps to avoid unwittingly embarrassing yourself at the next cocktail party. -
Look, Ma, No Hands! Operating a Laptop With Eyes Only
26 Jan 2012 | 10:43 amTobii, a Swedish company, is demonstrating eye-tracking software that really rocked my world. Imagine reading a Web page or Word document on the screen and the page scrolls automatically, gracefully and effortlessly as you proceed through the article. The system knows where your eyes are and how fast you're going. -
A New G-Shock Watch Awaits a New Bluetooth
24 Jan 2012 | 5:57 amCasio's G-Shock GB6900 watch uses a new, low-power Bluetooth chip called Bluetooth Smart (or Bluetooth 4.0) to do amazing things with a PC or smartphone. Butt the watch doesn't work unless your phone also has Bluetooth 4.0 - and right now, only a couple of them do. -
Put Down the Pitchforks on SOPA
19 Jan 2012 | 9:50 amNot enough people have acknowledged that the opposition was arguing two totally different points - the "you're going about it the wrong way" group and the "we want our illegal movies!" group. In the new world of Internet versus government, the system worked. The people spoke, government listened, and that's good. But let us do it responsibly, people. Both sides have an obligation to do the right thing.
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Mashable!
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LinkedIn Hits 150 Million Members
9 Feb 2012 | 1:26 pmLinkedIn on Thursday announced it has 150 million members in its network, a 20 million increase over November. The figure was disclosed in a press release the company issued Thursday announcing its fourth quarter and full-year 2011 results. The company posted revenues of $167.7 million, beating the analysts’ consensus of $160 million for Q4. Earnings were $0.06 cents per share, which was on target. LinkedIn’s stock was up more than 5% in after-hours trading. The Q4 revenue figure was a 105% jump over the same period in 2010. Revenues for full-year 2011 was $522.2 million, a 115%… -
FarmVille Toys Are Coming: Zynga and Hasbro Sign Licensing Deal
9 Feb 2012 | 1:14 pmIf Angry Birds and Cut the Rope can have toys, why can’t FarmVille? Social gaming juggernaut Zynga is teaming up with toy maker Hasbro to create a “wide range of toys and gaming experiences” based on Zynga properties and brands, a release read. The first products are expected to hit the market in Fall 2012. The agreement gives Hasbro license to develop and distribute an array of products in various toy and game categories for Zynga’s various properties. The companies will also be able to co-brand merchandise, which could potentially lead to digital product tie-ins. The… -
Hipstamatic Releases Lens for New York Fashion Week
9 Feb 2012 | 1:02 pmIn conjunction with New York Fashion Week, iPhone photography app Hipstamatic has released a cool-toned lens (i.e., filter) designed to capture the aesthetic of classic American beauty. The lens was developed in partnership with fashion photographer Chiun-Kai Shih, whose work has appeared in GQ, Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar, among other well-recognized publications. This is the second lens Hipstamatic has developed with Shih to commemorate NYFW. Last year, the pair released a lens called “Chunky,” which gives images a highly saturated, hazy glow. A spokesperson for Hipstamatic… -
Apple Hit With 250,000 Signatures Protesting Labor Conditions in China
9 Feb 2012 | 12:46 pmFair-labor organizers delivered 250,000 signatures to Apple stores in six cities around the world on Thursday in protest of the company’s working conditions in China. Apple’s main factory, Foxconn, has faced numerous accusations of providing an inhumane work environment to Chinese workers. “It’s hard to hear tales of people jumping off buildings and using their hands until they can’t anymore,” said senior organizer of Change.org William Winters, who delivered a stack of petitions to the San Francisco Apple store on Stockton Street. The rest of the 250,000… -
Live LOLz: Cheezburger Plans Grammy Awards Memes in Real Time
9 Feb 2012 | 12:35 pmI Can Has Cheezburger plans to turn the 54th Grammy Awards into a laughing matter by giving viewers an outlet to write funny captions for red carpet and ceremony photos. The “Live LOLing” event starts Sunday at 4 p.m. PT when Cheezburger’s ROFLrazzi site, Twitter profile and Facebook page will begin publishing Grammy images with humorous captions — in lolcat meme format. People can click “Recaption This” to plop their own witty text on the photos. Participants can then share their creations on their social networks. Cheezburger editor in chief Emily Huh…
