June 2010
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Submit to the National Gallery of Writing →
teachingliteracy:
Get Ready for the 2nd National Day on Writing, October 20, 2010!
In the National Gallery of Writing we’re collecting all kinds of writing from people from all walks of life—people just like you. Submit stories, poems, recipes, emails, blogs, even audio, video, and artwork.
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I read this on the streetcar this morning and it’s even more striking in...
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GRAMMARRULES →
bobulate:
In teaching — whether to students, clients, teams, colleagues — how do we do so? Do we simply tell people why or let them come to why themselves? Dan Meyer has been talking a lot about encouraging “patient problem solvers,” and now Tim Childers considers an approach to presenting problems that makes the kids he teaches work through the why themselves:
I’ve been thinking of ways to make...
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um, excuse my unknowingness, but is there an accelerometer in everything? Click through to play!
ideasareawesome:
Turn Your Browser Into a Pong Paddle With Browser Breakout
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Sort your inbox by altering your email address
Gmail has an interesting quirk where you can add a plus sign (+) after your Gmail address, and it’ll still get to your inbox. It’s called plus-addressing, and it essentially gives you an unlimited number of e-mail addresses to play with. Here’s how it works: say your address is pinkyrocks@gmail.com, and you want to automatically label all work e-mails. Add a plus sign and...
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90% of web traffic to be video 'by 2014' →
teachingliteracy:
infoneer-pulse:
Video content is set to take over the internet by 2014, with net analysis firm Cisco VNI Forecast predicting big changes for the web by 2014.
From there research, there’s a few mind-blowing numbers, including that 64 exabytes per month will be processed on the web in 2014 – four times the amount which is piped through in 2010.
Cisco VNI Forecast also...
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