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As someone with family ties in the area, I’m constantly challenged by the majority of stories about Michigan. But, it’s not hard to see why Detroit is so frequently used as the poster city of our collective economic straits. Inner city blight, the exodus of college graduates, deep cuts in social services, and a shocking adult illiteracy rate: Detroit has all the hallmarks of a city in the throes of disaster. It’s upsetting, but no real surprise then that most of the media attention the city gets is negative.
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Hackasaurus makes it easy to remix and change any web page like magic. Or create your own.
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Facebook hosts 140 billion photos, and will add 70 billion this year, according to the blog of photo-sharing site 1000memories.
Putting this in context, 1000memories made the following visualization which shows how big Facebook's library of photos are in comparison to other photo sharing sites, as well as the Library of Congress.
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As I was reading through the projects coming to our upcoming Contact Summit in NYC next month, I was inspired by a few people who are reimagining what a library could be.
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The Apple tablet is helping people with disabilities by reading e-mails, voicing directions, and zooming in on text
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QR-Codes
“Resources that I've found for creating / using QR-Codes”
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Build a contraption to solve a puzzle.
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Online classes can simulate a traditional college lecture, an interactive class discussion and hands-on training with the help of Skype, a software application that enables users to make video and voice calls online. Skype adds a whole other dimension to the online classroom, by allowing students to talk face-to-face with their professors and classmates for free.
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Taking Yourself Seriously
Processes of Research and Engagement
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iPad applications sorted by type.
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It has often been said throughout time that a picture is worth a thousand words. Any picture may be worth a thousand words, but only a few rare photos tell more than a thousand words. They tell a powerful story, a story poignant enough to change the world and galvanize each of us. Over and over again…
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21 WAYS TO USE MAKEBELIEFSCOMIX.COM IN THE CLASSROOM
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You are invited to send me other online writing resources or add to these. The following were compiled by Lena from TESOL.
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LibGuides provides excellent support as my Head of Library discovered when she contacted them for help and received an immediate reply. I’m not a fan of ploughing through text-heavy manuals so I found a visual alternative which you can have a look at here. I had a look at how Illawara Grammar School and Trinity Grammar School (NSW) presented their school library’s ‘face’ and organised their pathfinders and online resources. LibGuides also offers examples and reviews of their product here. Seneca Libraries also have a great manual for the creation of subject guides in LibGuides.
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Free Flash Resources for teachers by Stewart J J Davies
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