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Placing world news on a map of the world.
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Prezi dealing with Blooms Taxonomy and thoughts about a digital taxonomy.
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Could you spot an essay that had been partially lifted from the internet? Would you know how or where to check that a pupil’s work was actually the pupil’s work? If you think you can, read on.
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Everything you need to know about grub
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Unofficial YCombinator Company List
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The SIFMA Foundations's Stock Market Game™ (SMG) gives students the chance to invest a hypothetical $100,000 in an on-line portfolio. They think they're playing a game. You know they're learning economic and financial concepts they'll use for the rest of their lives.
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21st century enlightenment
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Welcome to the ever-growing, ever-changing collection of Steve Spangler's favorite science experiments, recipes and cool science projects. This hands-on science library represents Steve's most requested science experiments from his weekly television appearances and live presentations throughout the country. Just search for an easy science project idea or browse the entire library of experiments.
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Tribute to Report Card Makers!:"the five stages of grading" http://j.mp/d0U6vr
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Ranking:"Family Tree free online comic strip library at comics.com" http://j.mp/doU1kE
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The RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce) has been a cradle of enlightenment thinking and a force for social progress for over 250 years.
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The Cybertecture® Mirror is a reflective mirror with programmable applications and digital display for the home, office and public environments (hotels, hospitals, retail shops).
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Screencasting is a better and great way to showcase a procedure, to teach,demonstrate a service or to create video tutorials without having to write a content or an article.
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Most of the 400 codes listed here were drafted and adopted by an individual outlet (e.g. a newspaper) or a sector of the media industry (e.g. broadcasting) or a union/ association of journalists or a press council or a press club. The exceptions consist of synthetic codes, codes imposed by a government or codes recommended by international bodies or militant citizens.
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Widgets are mini-apps built on top of Wolfram|Alpha queries. You can build your own, or find useful widgets in the Widget Gallery. Share them in Facebook, Twitter, email, or anywhere else.
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One of the biggest questions that has faced our division over the last three years as we began movement toward a modern educational institution, was the question of what 21st Century Learning looks like.
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Agreed:"Baby Name FAIL – Epic Fail Funny Videos and Funny Pictures" http://j.mp/9OBM0Z
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We've shown you how to bring the OS X GUI to Windows, but if you're more of a Linux fan, Macbuntu will add an OS X theme to your Ubuntu desktop instead.
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Here are the two open source firmware products that readers mentioned to me, and why you want to know about them if you have a home Wi-Fi network.
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Reading:"Portugal Plans the First "City with a Brain" – Cities – GOOD" http://j.mp/a9V19u
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On the outskirts of Paredes, in northern Portugal, a start-up called LivingPlanIT, which has its roots in the tech industry, is working on a 150,000-person city that would use information technology in unprecedented new ways.
The content of this blog is generated by whatever strikes my fancy at any given point. It might be computers, weather, political, or something else in nature. I experiment and comment a lot on things so don't take anything here too seriously; I might change my mind a day later but what you read is my thought and opinion at the time I wrote it! My formal education includes a Bachelor of Mathematics degree from the University of Waterloo and a Bachelor of Education degree from the University of Toronto. Ontario Ministry of Education and Training qualifications are in Data Processing, Computer Science, Accounting, and Mathematics. My personal website is at: http://www.dougpeterson.ca Follow me on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/dougpete I'm bookmarking things at: http://www.delicious.com/dougpete
