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An interesting kerfuffle has been brewing in LibraryLand. Some library organizations have been using alternative utilities to catalog their resources, and now one of them expects their intended savings to be wiped out because OCLC wants to charge the (read)
This week, YouTube made an announcement that will have a major impact on virtual learning: captioning will now be available on millions of video they show. The site will use an automatic speech-to-text program already developed by Google. San Jose M (read)
Free online tutorials can help you master Adobe Photoshop, make advanced calculations in Microsoft Excel, or create more impressive PowerPoint presentations. Use the free online tutorials in this list to sharpen your business, design, and programming (read)
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Today I've been listening to the CSPAN BookTV interview on Encore Booknotes with Dorie McCullough Lawson and it is fascinating. (You may watch the program free online here.) Lawson has edited a book of letters that famous Americans wrote to their chi (read)
Whether through over-zealous editing, poor transferal of interview material from me, over compression of complex arguments or the fact that newspapers feel they can only put online what little will fit in the paper edition (and in the case of the TES (read)
Razzies 2010 Winners Video | Sandra Bullock Accepts 'Worst Actress Of 2009′ Award » Web TV & VideoWith grace and good humor, Sandra Bullock accepts her Razzie! Would love to see her win an Oscar too!tags: no_tagPosted from Diigo. The rest of my f (read)
Sunday Snippets--A Catholic Carnival is a weekly opportunity to share our best posts with the wider Catholic blogging community. To participate, create a post highlighting posts that would be of interest to Catholics and link to the host blog at This (read)
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elliemom posted a photo: Created with fd's Flickr Toys A spoof for Sam and Harry Sivec who played the guitar for the confirmation kisd retreat after spending the night AND not using a music stand! (read)
At a time when some colleges are favoring applicants who do not require financial aid, Hamilton College in upstate New York has decided to swim against that tide. Hamilton, a small liberal arts college in Clinton, N.Y., is announcing that it is adopt (read)
MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Democratic Rep. Alvin Holmes of Montgomery, had asked Duncan to cancel the visit because in 1965 the school and its then-principal publicly opposed the Rev. Martin Luther King and the Selma-to-Montgomery voting rights march. Offic (read)
Is Teacher Melinda Dennehy a Cougar or a Sex Offender? High school teacher Melinda Dennehy, a 41-year-old English teacher, sent four revealing shots of herself to a 15-year-old student at Londonderry High School in New Hampshire. The student, in t (read)
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) is one of three left wing think tanks funded by the Democracy Alliance which is funded by George Soros. The other two are the Center for American Progress and the Economic Policy Institute. They are a (read)
A lot more than you're told. CATO figures the per pupil cost in Washington DC is $28,170, and in Los Angeles $25,208. Those aren't the figures reported, if they are reported at all. Are you getting your money's worth? (read)
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Okay, I think I'm in love!! (don't tell my wife.) Today's New York Times Magazine (disclosure: they own me,) has a great feature article, 'Can Good Teaching Be Learned?' about the work of Doug Lemov. A former teacher, administrator and charter (read)
Johnson Museum, Cornell. Originally uploaded by Michael Tinkler. I went along to Cornell as an extra chaperon (the rule is one faculty or staff member per van) with my colleague Lara Blanchard and some student groups (class, club, etc).... (read)
Usually students attend private school because their parents send them there. It probably isn't something most children have much of a say in anyway. Having made that observation, I am interested in finding out from students who attended private scho (read)
I sent slightly different versions of this letter to my legislators this afternoon. (I didn’t ask my senators to sign on to a House letter, for example. Nothing substantive.) If you support the National Writing Project, I hope you have done, (read)
When the University announced it was switching from its long-standing online learning management system WebCT to eLearning Commons, Kelly Wright was a bit concerned. 'I've been used to dealing with WebCT and it took me a while to get comfortable with (read)
Received via email. Please check the web site for updates on proposal deadlines, etc.14th European Conference on Digital LibrariesSeptember 6-10, 2010Glasgow, UKhttp://www.ecdl2010.orgThe European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL) is the leadin (read)
MONTGOMERY, Ala. U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan will meet with students as planned at Montgomery's Robert E. Lee High School, despite a state legislator's call to cancel the appearance. Democratic Rep. Alvin Holmes of Montgomery, had asked Dun (read)
February 5, 2010 -- It's a fact: Children today are surrounded by all types of digital media from a very young age. Educators, parents and caregivers... (read)
February 1, 2010 -- To the Editor: It is imperative we continue to provide quality early learning opportunities for our children. While Pennsylvania... (read)
Economist says our system is broken and Washington doesn't have a clue how to fix it. (read)
British University in applies sustainable development techniques in design of its new campus By Rania Moussly, Staff Reporter And Amelia Naidoo, Editor Published: 00:00 March 7, 00 Shaikh Ahmad Bin Saeed Al Maktoum, chairman of British University in (read)
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Senior Cabinet minister Ed Balls has accused the Conservatives of preparing to raise VAT and impose the tax on food if they win the general election. Unconfirmed reports in the Sunday Telegraph claimed that Whitehall officials were informally discuss (read)
Slate’s Julia Turner is the latest to put out a call for hand-drawn maps, in a post that is part of her series on signs: The maps we draw for one another also have a certain ephemeral beauty. Each map is the product of a conversation. While mo (read)
Washington, Feb 27 (DPA) Jilted love may have prompted a man to kill a female teacher Friday outside an elementary school in Tacoma, Washington, a newspaper reported. There were no children in the school at the time of the shooting, the News Tribune (read)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. Kansas City was held up as a national example of bold thinking when it tried to integrate its schools by making them better than the suburban districts where many kids were moving. The result was one school with an Olympic-sized swim (read)
STUDENTS at Coleg Gwent showed they had the X factor by constructing an entire set for a project. Media students spent three days building the 12ft tall and 32ft wide backdrop in the studio of the Crosskeys campus for the end of year project. Made us (read)
CAMBRIDGE, England, March 7 (UPI) -- A Cambridge University student says she read news headlines on the air naked in response to students at the British school who take themselves too seriously. (read)
ECO-CONSCIOUS schoolchildren have been recognised for their efforts to reduce the carbon footprint created by their education. Friends' Junior School in Saffron Walden has been awarded a coveted Green Flag which is part of the Eco-Schools scheme. (read)
Education chiefs have issued a guide to teaching science that fails to mention biology, chemistry or physics. The traditional subjects are instead called 'organisms and health', 'chemical and material behaviour' and 'environment, Earth and (read)
Ouch! Web designer and cartoonist Brad Colbow calls this strip Why DRM Doesn't Work--but the subtitle reads 'How to Download an Audiobook from the Cleveland Public Library.' Colbow's not taking a shot at Cleveland Public, but at the frustrating (for (read)
I am teaching a seminar on law and technology next semester, and I’m looking for a book or an article that addresses–at a relatively high level of generality–the disruptive impact of technological change on doctrine. (Or perhaps an (read)
So here’s a 5:30 am brain dump because I woke up thinking about all of the minds on fire at TEDxNYED yesterday and there’s no way I’m going back to sleep, not with the brilliant voices the likes of Andy Carvin teaching me how social (read)
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The Wise Guide - monthly portal to the many resources available from the U.S. Library of Congress - March 2010 now available (read)
Survey of Academic Librarians: Use of Associations, Blogs, Listservs, Conferences, & Publications about Libraries imparts highly specific data about academic librarian use of library oriented blogs, listservs, publications, association membership and (read)
Above the Fold is a Web-based newsletter published by OCLC Research. It has been developed to serve a broad international readership from libraries, archives and museums - March 2, 2010 - Vol. 3, No. 8 now available (read)
Network Protocols and AlgorithmsJournal of Library and Information StudiesJournal of Library ScienceRevista Eletrônica de Sistemas de InformaçãoJournal of Agricultural ScienceBeden Egitimi ve Spor Bilimleri DergisiConvergencias : Revista de Invest (read)
I took TLM down to the community fair this morning. It was still manageably quiet at around 9.30, but an hour later we had experienced a veritable tsunami of humanity in the streets.And there's this thing - first thing in the morning we walked past s (read)
Scotland is stepping up its funding for colleges and universities, increasing the annual budget by £42.9 million. In total, £692.7 million will go to colleges and £1,076 billion to universities for learning, teaching and research. According to (read)
A GROUP of parents who are planning to open their own school in West Yorkshire have been described as an 'inspiration' by the Tory Party. Michael Gove, the Conservative's shadow schools secretary, said he 'wholeheartedly' supported the BBG Parents' (read)
Senior Cabinet minister Ed Balls has accused the Conservatives of preparing to raise VAT and impose the tax on food if they win the general election. Unconfirmed reports in the Sunday Telegraph claimed that Whitehall officials were informally discuss (read)
Senior Cabinet minister Ed Balls has accused the Conservatives of preparing to raise VAT and impose the tax on food if they win the general election. Unconfirmed reports in the Sunday Telegraph claimed that Whitehall officials were informally discuss (read)
Senior Cabinet minister Ed Balls has accused the Conservatives of preparing to raise VAT and impose the tax on food if they win the general election. Unconfirmed reports in the Sunday Telegraph claimed that Whitehall officials were informally discuss (read)
From the man who suggested making the film (read)
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adj. Ahhhhh... Ohhhhhh.... Excuse me, could I get some privacy here?Real citation: 'Tempur-Pedic mattresses, while comfort-gasmic to lie on, would terrible for all activities sexual.'(Feb. 17, 2010, Edward Langstone, Twitter, http://twitter.com/fauxp (read)
A German family has been granted political asylum because they home-school their children. From TIME magazine:The Romeikes are not your typical asylum seekers. They did not come to the U.S. to flee war or despotism in their native land. No, these mus (read)
Why is relatively little Fantasy Fiction written by Jews? This is an interesting suggestion at the Jewish Review of Books. via Arts & Letters Daily... (read)
A fascinating take on how much ransom to ask for a stolen Leonardo, and how it was recovered: In mid-December 2009, Leonardo's 'Madonna of the Yarnwinder,' which was stolen from the Duke of Buccleuch's collection at Drumlanrig Castle in 2003... (read)
At first it all sounded so probable - but the security forces in Dubai are starting to sound delusional: 'The Mossad needs to be ashamed of its actions,' said Lt. Gen. Dahi Khalfan Tamim. 'They sent 26, 27 persons to... (read)
This is a bit of a shock to read - Harvard is hiring its first full-time Egyptologist since 1942. After years dedicated to shedding light on the work of the late Harvard Egyptology Professor George A. Reisner, Class of 1889,... (read)
Was it more than a week ago that we heard that an RFK grandson (scary - already FOUR generations down from Honey Fitz! Talk about dynasties that haven't quite made it back to shirtsleeves*) was thinking of running for Congress?... (read)
Why Hobart is playing Cornell in the Carrier Dome today Originally uploaded by Michael Tinkler. The lacrosse season-opener got moved - and I'm sure the Buildings and Grounds staff is VERY grateful. McCooey Field is astroturf, but imagine cleaning... (read)
Peace be upon you!....Occuring of natural disasters at normal frequency is a part of natural phenomenon. But when the number of disasters increases unnaturally, it is alarming. In the past 1100 years, there had been 11 massive (death toll excee (read)
Winter season has warm, isn't it off the thick coat on lightweight costumes? You are elegant fair maiden, cool, or the handsome melting lovely girl pie? The answer is here, for your perfect deduce different styles of dress warm afternoon. Choose soft (read)
Cross posted from Border Jumpers, Danielle Nierenberg and Bernard Pollack. As we talked to locals in Gaborone, Botswana Capital City, people were so proud to talk about the things they love about their country. 'We are free here, our country is so p (read)
I have recently witnessed family members of mine that just do not understand the real importance of reaching and grasping for education. I am 17 and am leaving for San Francisco this July to pursue studies of fashion design. It means a me, e (read)
Check out this interview featured in Eco-Chick about the Worldwatch Institute's Nourishing the Planet's on-the-ground research in Africa by Stephanie Rogers: If it's true that there are sayers and there are doers, Danielle Nierenberg falls firmly int (read)
This past weekend, my boyfriend and I went to Disney World to celebrate our anniversary. This is the first trip that I've been allowed to go on alone. No parental supervision. I was really excited. My boyfriend has become my best friend and for the m (read)
Cross posted from Border Jumpers, Danielle Nierenberg and Bernard Pollack. We spent a couple of amazing days in Lilongwe, Malawi - although it was cut short because we took an emergency flight back to Canada for the funeral of Bernard's grandmother ( (read)
You know what? A 'werewolf' is described as someone who is half man and half 'wolf' hence they behave like a 'wolf' supposedly, by having this uncontrolable urge to stalk people and eat them. What I want to know, is where the heck WOLVES got into th (read)
I can't help but have noticed the recent outbreak of powerful earthquakes the world has experienced lately. The first one I took note of was in Northern California. It measured over 6.0, but thankfully had little damage because California has buildin (read)
It's funny how you can relate one situation to so many other different situations and the result, in the end, is similar. Human tendency is to feel loved and belonged. Be it acceptance from the family or from friends. Though it is difficult to get al (read)
As a student, education is very important to me. While in class today, we had a discussion that was essentially about the values of our society. I have been watching the steady evolution from the public school system from a place with a myriad of c (read)
In every moment of every day, change occurs. Whether or not that change is positive or negative is relative to each individual's situation. When a person reaches the age of 18, it could very well be one of the single most important days of his or her (read)
Do you know what it is like to feel so stressed you wish the world were to just stop around you so you can relax. You are not alone. Many people feel this way but don't know how to relieve this stress in healthy ways. Well here are some great tips on (read)
In eighteen short years, I have already figured out how far my writing can take me. Writing has taken me around the world, and I'm very greatful for that. It seems that people are begging the question, why would I give up writing, for a visual arts m (read)
This may or may not be the start of another series, but regardless, I have to write on this topic. There are many things that we do on a day-to-day basis that damage our health. We indulge in one too many sweets, we eat processed foods (or fast foods (read)
This is so great to celebrate valentine 's Feast on 14th February. It is a feast of intimate friendship. Friends show their love affection and solidarity. The one who finds a friend finds a treasure. If we go back to the origin of the feast, the chri (read)
Middle school student suspended for REJECTING pillAnd these brainless loons are the ones teaching kids!The parents of a Kentuckiana seventh grade student say their young daughter was suspended from school for doing exactly what she's been taught to d (read)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ today, i am pleased to tell you about our sponsor sundara yarn. in the words of sundara herself: 'sundara yarn hand-dyes a wide range of luxury fibers for knitting, crochet and weaving. the majority (read)
How do you know it?s election season? When Governor Deval Patrick takes time out of his day to more or less encourage a bunch of high school students visiting the State House to vote for him. Popping out of his fourth-floor office on Wednesday, Patri (read)
iHigh is quickly becoming a popular extension to the South Shelby website. It is a safe, user friendly, and free environment designed to promote schools and students. South Shelby is one of over 23,000 schools listed on iHigh and they're putting the (read)
Virginia Gov. Robert F. McDonnell's proposal to allow the State Board of Education to precertify the quality of charter school applications and offer a reconsideration process for those rejected by local school boards brought an initial flurry of dis (read)
I endorse the general gist of Bryan Caplan’s post on “Why Cronyism Doesn’t Explain the Free Market’s Unpopularity,” but I want to dwell a bit further on some things the post suggests. Bryan writes: I’ll admit that (read)
PUPILS of Warley Road Primary School, Halifax, were inspired by Huddersfield poet Gez Walsh to write and perform their own poems as part of the school's creative arts week. Children from nursery to Year 6 were judged by Mr Walsh and the best poems we (read)
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The Scottish Government yesterday called for a wide-ranging debate on the future of higher education funding … but again ruled out the introduction of top-up tuition fees. In his first major speech on higher education, Education Secretary Michael (read)
Fourteen undergraduates have been suspended from Oxford University after claims they sent sexist emails grading female students. The male students, from the notorious Penguin drinking club at Hertford college, are alleged to have drawn up a list (read)
James Warren is a longtime Chicago journalist and the publisher of The Chicago Reader. Faculty and staff members at the University of Illinois at Chicago will take an anger-fueled field trip on Monday to visit a growing, bedeviled species: financiall (read)
A Rhode Island school board's decision to fire the entire faculty of a poorly performing school, and President Barack Obama's endorsement of the action, has stirred a storm of reaction nationwide, with teachers condemning it as an insult and (read)
The Buena Park Library District will be offering a bilingual beginning computer class (computación para principiantes) on Saturday, March 13, 2010, from 9 am to 10:30 am in the Library's Boardroom. The class will be repeated on March 27 and April 3, (read)
Fourteen undergraduates have been suspended from their University of Oxford college amid an investigation into claims they sent sexist emails. The male students, members of the drinking society the Penguin Club at Hertford College, are alleged to hav (read)
Ofqual today publishes reports on the assessments used in Diploma and AS qualifications. The two reports are part of Ofqual's scrutiny programme, an in-depth study of the assessments used in a range of qualifications offered by AQA, Edexcel and OCR. (read)
A LECTURER at a top Midland college planted a spy camera in a bathroom to watch female students shower. Paul Powen Hwang, 33, was teaching business studies at University College Birmingham when he secretly hid a digital camera in an air freshener in (read)
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