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Save To Drive

Google offers some very interesting and useful extensions for the Chrome browser. A new extension allows a user to collect images to Drive by right clicking on an image.   The image is saved within seconds. I would have one … Continue reading

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Scrooge weighs in – a comment on teacher salaries

I am passing on the link to a post regarding teacher salaries from Louis Caruso. His comment regarding “gender shifts” is interesting: More women are entering the fields of education and healthcare than men while male graduates are outnumbering their … Continue reading

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Age appropriate “news”

This is really cool. A Canadian company (Teaching Kids News)  has created a site populated with current news stories written at grade levels (you can use the tags to find stories for second grade, 8th grade, etc.). Take a look … Continue reading

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Creating web sites

Here are some suggestions from LifeHacker for creating web sites with analysis. Interesting options if you have not bothered to look around (I am interested in SquareSpace, the one suggestion I have not tried,  because of the publicity it receives on TWIT … Continue reading

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Intro to the Facebook

I seldom use Facebook, but when I do …. Actually, I have so little experience with Facebook that I am ill prepared to offer anyone advice. However, I do appreciate the popularity of the site and the interest adolescents might … Continue reading

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Writing to Learn (Rediscovered)

Education Week has an article promoting the rediscovery of Writing to Learn.  Implementation of the basic principles of generative learning have always seemed the way to go. I have taken to calling it “authoring to learn” so it sounds like … Continue reading

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