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We have recently been publishing a series of articles on Google Docs. The purpose behind this series is to make teachers and educators aware of the potential of this free service. You can consult this link if you have missed the previous publications.
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Monica S Mcfeeters's curator insight,
May 21, 6:15 AM
This is a great series of videos on how to flip your classroom! 
Denize Piccolotto Carvalho's curator insight,
May 22, 8:39 PM
Olhem isso César Alcon, Jimi Estrázulas e Maritza Mota! Delete the scoop?
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Deanya Lattimore's curator insight,
May 14, 7:44 AM
I think if departments reviewed their faculty, it would become clear to them which teachers should *not* be forced into using technology in the classroom. Questionably, if those teachers cannot teach the assigned material any longer, they may be driven to learn it in order to keep their jobs, but honestly, if teachers don't possess these traits in today's world, the only thing they should probably be driven to is a different job.... Delete the scoop?
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davidgibson's curator insight,
May 2, 4:44 PM
Remarkable how this subsector has taken off! Does anyone have a link to a critique and categorization? 
Craig Fleming's curator insight,
May 20, 12:10 AM
Loving the disruption. Higher Ed is starting to quaver. Delete the scoop?
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I am sharing with you today an awesome graphic on Bloom's Taxonomy Question and Task Design Wheel.I find it really useful and thought you might like to have a look. Via Susan Bainbridge 
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April 18, 5:58 AM
Mooi om 'm nu ook eens in een wiel te zien i.p.v driehoekig - om het even waar de punt zich bevindt;) Delete the scoop?
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Finding the best education technology tools is a time-consuming task. It may even be viewed as a chore (for some). Not with this fabulous list, though! Via Susan Bainbridge 
Martin Laidlaw's curator insight,
April 17, 6:33 PM
Some really good ones there ...didn't see scoopit 
Tracey Healey's comment,
April 18, 5:31 AM
Martin - Scoop it is definitely there - 4th row down , 3rd from right :)
Karen Bonanno's curator insight,
April 25, 5:25 PM
A quick way to check out the tools you may not have seen before. Delete the scoop?
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Technology and education are pretty intertwined these days and nearly every teacher has a few favorite tech tools that make doing his or her job and connecting with students a little bit easier an... Via Susan Bainbridge 
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March 30, 2:54 PM
I am going to use this as a good link to reference during an upcoming event. Thanks to those who found it and wrote it. Delete the scoop?
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Seth Dixon's curator insight,
March 19, 2:54 PM
GE Teach is a phenomenal site, designed by an AP teacher to bring geospatial technologies into the classroom in a way that is incredibly user-friendly. This site allows you to use Google Earth with clickable layers. With multiple data layers of physical and human geography variables, this interactive globe puts spatial information in powerful, yet fun, student-inspired platform. Click here for a video tutorial. Tags: google, virtual tours, geospatial, edtech. 
Kristen McDaniel's curator insight,
March 29, 9:54 AM
Use Google Earth in the classroom with clickable layering of maps. Great for bringing Geography into your classroom! Delete the scoop?
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Ronda Schuler Scott's curator insight,
March 12, 3:28 PM
Cool inforgraphic on how CCSS and tech integration pair. 
Michael John Maxson's curator insight,
March 13, 12:07 AM
Great resource for educational resources that help teachers create more rigorous learning opportunities for their students using technolgy. Delete the scoop?
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Seth Dixon's curator insight,
March 4, 1:13 PM
This fabulous collection of African maps from 1535-1897 represents an historical geographic vision of both Africa and colonial visions of an imagined Africa. I chose this particular map to display because it beautifully highlights the Mountains of Kong. For generations, European cartographers erroneously believed that this long mountain range extended north of the West African coast and across the continent. Currently this map collection is at Plymouth State, NH, but much of it is archive online here. Tags: Africa, cartography, colonialism, map. 
ADEN Africa's curator insight,
March 5, 12:43 PM
An interesting historical perspective on the geography of the African continent. 
Mary Patrick Schoettinger's curator insight,
March 11, 10:07 AM
Love seeing the change over time. Especially on a continent we often know so little about. Delete the scoop?
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Having just freshened our own website, we felt it was timely to repost our 10 Commandments of About Us pages. Need a PDF to share with decision-makers at your organization? Glad to oblige. Commandment 1: Know thy ... Via Karen Dietz 
Laurent Brixius's curator insight,
February 27, 3:16 PM
Les dix commandements à suivre pour rédiger, ou faire rédiger, la page A propos de votre site web, une page trop souvent sous-utilisée. 
Karen Dietz's comment,
February 27, 3:40 PM
Thank you Rowan! Yes, I just re-did my website and am now going to take this list and re-look at it again :)
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Elevated levels of nitrogen dioxide pop out over certain shipping lanes in observations made by the Aura satellite between 2005-2012. The signal was the strongest over the northeastern Indian Ocean. Via Seth Dixon 
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February 19, 10:37 PM
The Straits of Malacca show up as a highly affected band - and this from traffic that is not even bound for, or related to, Malaysia. Delete the scoop?
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Blubbr is a neat quiz creation service that I recently learned about on Danny Nicholson's blog. Using Blubbr you can create interactive quizzes that are based on YouTube clips. Your quizzes can be about anything of your choosing. The structure of the quizzes has a viewer watch a short clip then answer a multiple choice question about the clip. Viewers know right away if they chose the correct answer or not. 
Cyndi Danner-Kuhn's curator insight,
January 3, 12:22 PM
Blubbr is a neat quiz creation service that I recently learned about on Danny Nicholson's blog. Using Blubbr you can create interactive quizzes that are based on YouTube clips. Your quizzes can be about anything of your choosing. The structure of the quizzes has a viewer watch a short clip then answer a multiple choice question about the clip. Viewers know right away if they chose the correct answer or not. 
Maggie Verster's curator insight,
January 28, 9:50 AM
This would really work great for a flipped classroom if youa re using videos. When the students come into class, they can do a quick self marking quiz. Delete the scoop?
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Happy Holidays and welcome to “Part One” of a series of posts dedicated to those attempting to curate the Digital Curriculum. Please enjoy and share this post via email or a retweet. Wh... Delete the scoop?
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Free video course on Foundations of Modern Physics by Leonard Susskind of Stanford. This Stanford Continuing Studies course is a six-quarter sequence of classes exploring the essential theoretical foundations of modern physics.
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This may be a good source for a 'flipped' classroom approach. Delete the scoop?
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A 10th Grader Explains How Social Media Can Replace Textbooks (A 10th Grader Explains How Social Media Can Replace Textbooks. Via Susan Bainbridge 
Clay Leben's curator insight,
May 3, 1:21 PM
Social media is so temporary this might help context survive the momentary discovery learning. Delete the scoop?
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I am sharing with you today an awesome graphic on Bloom's Taxonomy Question and Task Design Wheel.I find it really useful and thought you might like to have a look. Via Susan Bainbridge
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Mooi om 'm nu ook eens in een wiel te zien i.p.v driehoekig - om het even waar de punt zich bevindt;) Delete the scoop?
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As a tech advocate, I often find myself coaxing established educators to incorporate new tools & technologies. Here are some ways I've found to be successful. Via Susan Bainbridge Delete the scoop?
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Seth Dixon's curator insight,
March 16, 7:09 PM
Google Earth is a great teaching tool for geographers, but it is also a way to bring geography and spatial thinking to other disciplines. Google Lit Trips makes the journeys that take place in literature (both fiction and non-fiction) all the more real by mapping out the movements as a KML file that can be viewed in Google Earth. By embedding pictures, websites, videos and text into the path, this becomes an incredibly interactive resource for teachers of all levels. Tags: google, virtual tours, English, edtech. 
Ann-Laure Liéval's curator insight,
March 17, 7:51 AM
Utiliser Google Earth pour cartographier l'itinéraire de personnages de fiction, afin de mêler géographie et littérature. 
GoogleLitTrips Reading List's comment,
March 19, 10:30 PM
I'm very appreciative. Thanks! Jerome, GoogleLitTrips.com
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Where in the world has 007 been in his 30 movies?
If that's a question you've always wanted to know, then this set of maps was made just for you. Via Seth Dixon Delete the scoop?
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The world of rechargeable batteries is full of trade-offs. While lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries are currently the most commercially successful, their low energy density doesn't allow for a long driving range. They are also very expensive, often accounting for half the price of electric vehicles. One alternative is lithium-sulfur (Li-S) batteries, which are attractive for their high gravimetric energy density that allows them to store more energy than Li-ion batteries. And although they still use some lithium, the sulfur component allows them to be much cheaper than Li-ion batteries. But one of the biggest drawbacks of Li-S batteries is their short cycle life, which causes them to lose much of their capacity every time they are recharged.
After identifying the problem, the researchers set about fixing it by adding polymers to the carbon nanofiber surface in order to modify the carbon-sulfur interface. The polymers are amphiphilic, meaning they are both hydrophilic (water-loving) and lipophilic (fat-loving), similar to soap. This property gives the polymers anchoring points that allow the lithium sulfides to bind strongly with the carbon surface in order to maintain strong electrical contacts. As experiments showed, sulfur cathodes containing the amphiphilic polymers had very stable performance, with less than 3% capacity decay over the first 100 cycles, and less than 20% decay for more than 300 cycles. Although the improvement is a big step forward, the capacity retention still doesn't compare to Li-ion batteries, some of which have lifespans approaching 10,000 cycles. In order to avoid having to replace the battery every few years, electric vehicles require these longer lifespans. But Cui says that Li-S batteries have the potential to close this gap in the foreseeable future. "Using the amphiphilic polymer idea here in this paper, together with nanoscale materials design and synthesis, it is possible to improve the cycle life up to 10,000 cycles," Cui told Phys.org. "My group is working on this. Our recent results on nanomaterials design already improved to 1000 cycles." In the future, Cui think Li-S batteries will give Li-ion batteries some serious competition. "The Li-S batteries become pretty promising for electric vehicles," he said. "The life cycle needs to improve further. The lithium metal anodes' safety problem needs to be solved. It is possible to get around Li metal anodes with Si anodes." Via Dr. Stefan Gruenwald 
Dan Aldridge's curator insight,
March 5, 9:56 AM
Very encouraging news about improved lithium-sulfur batteries. Maybe Boeing should investigate for the Dreamliner! Delete the scoop?
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On three different occasions, the candidate with the most votes didn't become President of the United States. We call this "The Electoral College Problem." Here a solution. Simple. Mathematical. Rational. Via Seth Dixon 
Ken Halpern's comment,
March 1, 1:20 PM
Interesting idea but I don't think either political parties will go for it unless it favors them. However, I am not in favor of increasing the number of House Reps. We spend too much money as it is funding the government. I think we should get rid of the old system and simply go by popular vote.
Gary Pascoa's comment,
March 1, 9:43 PM
I know the founding fathers would be horrified as this cuts into the whole idea of the electoral college: to place a further check on the majority when electing a president. Nonetheless, I would support a redrawing of the map that would lean toward a popular vote system.
Conor McCloskey's comment,
March 4, 8:27 PM
Interesting idea, however I can't say this is a "rational" solution to the Electoral College. It is actually completely irrational to think that the borders could be redrawn and everyone could be redistricted every four years... They can't even manage to get a census out every year... Logistical nightmare. I agree with Ken and Gary, let the people choose with the popular vote
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Bill Harley, a Friend, storyteller, author, songwriter, teaching artist; two-time Grammy winning artist in the spoken word category; Lifetime Achievement awa... Via Karen Dietz 
Elsemiek Meijs's curator insight,
February 8, 8:09 AM
Wow! Please take 13 minutes and forget everything else. 
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February 8, 11:17 AM
Make sure to read the insight by Karen Dietz, the 1st one posted.
This is well worth 13 minutes. They say time stands still during a good story. Look at your watch after Bill understands the boy in the back of the room, you may be surprised... Delete the scoop?
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Welcome to another holiday post! Did you know that Santa believes in Project Based Learning? It’s true… in fact I have worked quite hard at finding evidence that supports this conclusion. Recently ... Delete the scoop?
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