Helpful site to agree on a time/date for a meeting.
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Google – Internet Stats
This Google resource brings together the latest industry facts and insights. These have been collected from a number of third party sources covering a range of topics from macroscopic economic and media trends to how consumer behaviour and technology are changing over time.
YouTube – Project Based Learning: Explained.
PBL explained by CommonCraft video.
Dan Gillmor’s Mediactive: masterclass in 21st century journalism demands a net-native news-media – Boing Boing
Gillmor explains how reporters can (and sometimes do) use online media to get their stories straight, and in so doing, explains how you can do the same, and become a smarter consumer of, participant in, and maker of news. This is a crash-course in being a better consumer of the news, asking active questions about how the news you see and hear and read is constructed.
Part two is an information age journalism program encapsulated in a swiftly moving section on using tools and systems to make better news. Even if you’re not planning on starting up your own blog, wiki, mailing list, or even a newspaper, this section should be required reading for anyone hoping to understand how smart use of the right tool can put the news in the service to its community, structured around the values of truth, humility, and honor.
Teach Parents Tech
Interesting take on help videos by google. Worth imitating/using?
“Five Sci-Fi Children’s Books” by Caldwell Tanner on CollegeHumor
YouTube – historyteachers’s Channel
Some pretty good history/song mashups for history. I’m not sure students learn from watching them (be worth checking out), but I’m confident they’d learn a lot making them.
Education Week: Global Study Tracks Common Paths to Improving Schooling
In general, the report finds that lower-performing school systems with weaker teaching forces, such as the education system now serving the Madhya Pradesh province of India, tend to provide teachers with prescriptive curricula and pedagogical techniques to ease the delivery of lessons and ensure consistency across classrooms and access for all students to achieve basic literacy and numeracy.
Approval By Numbers: How Obama Compares To Past Presidents | TPM Photo Galleries
TPM compiled Gallup’s monthly presidential approval ratings for every President’s first two years in office, dating back to Dwight Eisenhower. Each plot point represents the poll taken closest to the end of given month, beginning at the time of inauguration. Polls were not always taken at uniform intervals, so some approximation was necessary. In the cases of Johnson and Ford, who were not inaugurated in January like the other Presidents on this list, their data begins one month from the date they assumed office.
Infographic: How Color Affects Our Purchasing Habits – Business – GOOD
There’s a reason Tide is bright orange: the color is aggressive, it screams for a call to action, “buy me, buy me, buy me.” Black means luxury. Banks love blue and green because they exude trust and relax you, plus money is green.
—-some color theory regarding purchasing- worth keeping in mind for other things