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The best part of Twitter is finding those hidden, and sometimes not so hidden, personalities that seem to light up the world…well, the Twitterverse at least. This is especially true for the ever-growing technology focused field of education.
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Social bookmarking service Delicious announced five years ago last Thursday that it had been acquired by Yahoo The first comment posted on the blog entry announcing the deal was from TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington, saying "Congratulations! Yahoo sure does get tagging I see." When I heard the news, I felt very differently. I was deeply saddened that it wasn't US Library of Congress to acquire Delicious. Five years later, Yahoo announced internally today that it is closing down Delicious. No date has been given for its closure.
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Collect, organize and share your favourite images, videos, documents and links from all over the web
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Yahoo! Announced today that it will be discontinuing Delicious. http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/16/is-yahoo-shutting-down-del-icio-us/the news in spanish http://www.genbeta.com/actualidad/yahoo-cierra-delicious
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Search for .doc, xls, ppt, and .pdf files.
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Use this search engine to find documents in the following 'Documents Sharing Communities'
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Find a PDF is an easy-to-use PDF search engine. All you need to do is type in your search term in the box below and we will fetch you as many PDF documents as we can, sorted by relevance.
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Search for PDF documents.
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Search for Microsoft .doc, .ppt, .xps, and Adobe .pdf files.
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Documents Search Engine
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TypePDF.com is a free search engine that provides an option to search for and download various PDF documents, data sheets etc.
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Search for PDF, CHM, DOC, RTF, and TXT books.
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Search specifically for PDF documents from a variety of resources.
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In 2009–10, we began the Power of Coaching—Teachers and Teaching project to examine the role of school administrators, teacher leaders, and mentors in the work of teacher coaching. Through focus groups, surveys, and interviews with more than 1,200 teachers, as well as a review of more than 100 works on coaching from education and other professions, we were able to understand consistently recognized good practices for those engaged in coaching teachers and to help clarify precisely what effective instructional coaching is—and is not
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These technologies can enable educators to improve communications, enhance student learning, controls costs, manage Internet access in the classroom, and more.
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Pew Internet has updated its data on how different generations are using the Internet for 2010, and the results clearly show that the older generations are catching up with younger internet users, even surpassing them in some online activities.
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Google Docs, unlike Microsoft PowerPoint, doesn’t support animations yet but that hasn’t stopped these extremely creative Google employees from coming up with a cool flipbook style animated movie created entirely in Google Docs.
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December 16th is Jane Austen’s 235th birthday and Sourcebooks, the world’s leading Jane Austen publisher, is throwing a huge one-day-only birthday book bash. They will be offering ten of their best Austen-inspired novels for FREE. Yep. That’s right. FREE!
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Great Idea!:"Handbook" Create your Child Safety Handbook http://j.mp/i21oAr
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Keep information about your child’s health and safety close at hand. Assemble and save files from this website into a personalized pdf file that you can store and download.
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Government of Canada website devoted to safety issues about children.
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It's taken 41 years, but a previously unseen set of photos of the mighty Niagara Falls reduced to nothing more than a barren cliff-top have finally surfaced.
The stark images reveal North America's iconic – and most powerful – waterfall to be almost as dry as a desert.
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GoGoNews was born out of a desire to inform children of the world around them in an educational and non-threatening way. Since its inception 4 years ago, GoGoNews has provided children with general knowledge as well as a consciousness and awareness of the world regardless of geography or culture.
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Being such a lover of words and good writing, I thought I'd chime in on one of the filthier sides of blogging: scraper sites and autoblogging.
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Reading:"New York Jets suspend Sal Alosi indefinitely for ordering wall – ESPN New York" http://j.mp/dWe6D4
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
