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Andrea Zeitz
August 28, 2012 5:07 PM
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Here is an interesting infographic that illustrates just how popular photos and videos are on social media and how the social networks like Pinterest are embracing this trend.
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Andrea Zeitz
August 28, 2012 5:02 PM
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As the technologies of the 21st century evolve and mature, we become the beneficiaries of exciting approaches for designing learning experiences. The convergence of informal and social media learning, combined with the explosion of smartphone and tablet use, is having a huge impact on how we think about training and education.
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Andrea Zeitz
August 28, 2012 2:35 AM
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Starting the school year or walking into a new room every day as a substitute can become pretty draining and confronting for both teachers and students. Luckily, there are things you can do to break the ice and make the kids feel a lot more enthused and comfortable about learning.
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Andrea Zeitz
August 27, 2012 8:29 AM
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The Michigan Council on Educator Effectiveness plans to focus on coming up with plans to measure how well a building’s chief administrator is performing.
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Andrea Zeitz
August 26, 2012 6:24 PM
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From the great Edgalaxy blog: Have you checked out our ever growing collection of amazing classroom posters and charts. We have been adding a new one every day for the last month and decided today was a great day to publicize it. We have an ever growing collection of maths posters, literacy posters and even student motivation posters that will turn any boring classroom into place of joy. All our posters are produced using high resolution text and can be up scaled or down scaled to suit your needs.
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Andrea Zeitz
August 26, 2012 1:10 AM
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The “Merging Time” art exhibit—a collaborative project between the City of Vancouver Archives and Langara’s Professional Photo Imaging Department.
In her new book Teach Your Children Well: Parenting for Authentic Success, psychologist and author Madeline Levine exposes the pitfalls of over-parenting, and argues for a new definition of success and achievement.
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Andrea Zeitz
August 24, 2012 7:57 PM
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I had many days like this...The following poem was written by Robyn Shulman. It’s dedicated to the students and teachers for the new school year.Please share, get inspired, and most of all get excited for the upcoming school year.
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Andrea Zeitz
August 24, 2012 12:11 AM
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Zentangle is an easy-to-learn, relaxing, and fun way to create beautiful images by drawing structured patterns. Almost anyone can use it to create beautiful images. It increases focus and creativity, provides artistic satisfaction along with an increased sense of personal well being. The Zentangle method is enjoyed all over this world across a wide range of skills, interests and ages. We believe that life is an art form and that our Zentangle method is an elegant metaphor for deliberate artistry in life.
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Andrea Zeitz
August 22, 2012 2:41 AM
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Late August or early September is a make-it-or-break-it time for educators. The non-stop, brutal schedule that is a school year starts with all the finesse of trampling elephants, and doesn’t relent for the next nine months (not coincidentally, the same amount of time it takes to gestate a baby). That makes starting the year right important -- and there are few more critical pieces to an educator's success than collaboration.
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Andrea Zeitz
August 22, 2012 2:30 AM
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Rumors swirling around the iPhone 5 have gadget watchers dizzy with anticipation. Bigger screen size, thinner display, Siri song-and-dance numbers -- when will the madness stop?!
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Andrea Zeitz
August 22, 2012 1:31 AM
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Learn how to create an infographic without a designer using PowerPoint.
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Andrea Zeitz
August 22, 2012 1:22 AM
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Does it surprise you that over two-thirds of smartphone owners say they could not "live without" their devices?Probably not, particularly if you own a smartphone yourself. Something you might find more interesting is what we tend to do with our mobiles.
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Andrea Zeitz
August 28, 2012 5:05 PM
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Today, most educational systems are designed to work from the microscopic to the macroscopic. Students learn facts and figures and tiny fractions of knowledge long before anyone really puts things into a larger context. It's time to mix it up...
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Andrea Zeitz
August 28, 2012 2:37 AM
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Kid's love riddles. They often see them as a very intellectual challenge that can be solved with some thinking outside of the square.
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Andrea Zeitz
August 28, 2012 2:28 AM
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From the wonderful blog of Chris Kennedy: In my conversations with education groups last year, I would often quip, “It is a great time to be a teacher, just maybe not the best year to be a teacher.”
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Andrea Zeitz
August 27, 2012 8:23 AM
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In the whole history of space exploration, I've never seen something like this visualization. It's a look back at the past 50 years of space exploration ... visualized in one single image.
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Andrea Zeitz
August 26, 2012 6:01 PM
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From cyberbullying to in-person bullying, the education environment is a whole lot different from years past. The upcoming school year is going to feel a bit, well, odd if you compare the current state of affairs to what happened before.
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Andrea Zeitz
August 26, 2012 12:06 AM
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They’re not kidding when they say cheat sheet! The infographic Kitchen Cheat Sheet from Everest covers anything from kitchen conversions, to how to store your food, to how to cook different parts of animals! I’d recommend posting this infographic on your fridge!
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Andrea Zeitz
August 25, 2012 11:16 PM
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There's a whole lot more to Skype than just placing some calls. Ever played battleship via Skype? How about learning a foreign language? Read on for 50 interesting ways to leverage it in your classroom.
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Andrea Zeitz
August 24, 2012 7:40 PM
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Yellena James grew up and attended art school in Sarajevo. At the age of 18 she moved to the U.S. After gaining her BA in painting and graphic design at UCF, she eventually made her way to Portland, OR.
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Andrea Zeitz
August 23, 2012 1:33 AM
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Ethereal Art-Digital Media with Painting: Dana Roper
Dana Roper: In my art as well as in my photography, my first priority is strong abstract design, often to the extent that I ignore subject matter altogether. My art includes mixed aquamedia on paper, collage, paper mosaics, and assemblage of found objects http://www.redbubble.com/people/danaroper
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Andrea Zeitz
August 22, 2012 2:33 AM
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We live in a world of quick consumption, bite-size morsels of information, and visualizations of just about everything. All of this has become boiled down into the uber-popular infographic.
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Andrea Zeitz
August 22, 2012 1:34 AM
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A lot more had changed in the past 40 years than just the emergence of sexy vampire movies and books. Today’s college students might look at you with a blank expression if you talk about cassette tapes, or library card catalogs.
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Andrea Zeitz
August 22, 2012 1:27 AM
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Schoology, the leading cloud-based, collaborative learning platform for K-20 classrooms, today announced that it has opened the Schoology App Center. New York City-based Schoology is the developer of a K-20 collaborative learning platform that incorporates online learning, classroom management and social networking in one platform. The cloud-based solution is available as both a free, stand-alone product and as a fee-based, integrated enterprise-class solution for schools and districts. Schoology integrates seamlessly with existing school/district technologies to create a single, scalable interface where educators can teach, assess, administer and analyze student progress.
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