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HowStuffWorks "Learn how Everything Works!"

HowStuffWorks "Learn how Everything Works!":
This is just a fun site. You can spend time learning about such a wide variety of subjects. They have several podcasts that are worth subscribing to through iTunes!
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I’ve Got A Bad Feeling About This: “Next Up in Teacher Evaluations: Student Surveys” | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…

I’ve Got A Bad Feeling About This: “Next Up in Teacher Evaluations: Student Surveys” | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…: "Education Week Teacher has just published a report titled Next Up in Teacher Evaluations: Student Surveys (Learning First also has a good post on the same topic). It discusses the growing interest in using student survey results as a part of a teacher evaluation process and specifically talks about what’s happening in Pittsburgh."

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Free Technology for Teachers: Easy Group Blogging With Posterous Spaces

Free Technology for Teachers: Easy Group Blogging With Posterous Spaces: "In Posterous Spaces you can allow people to make contributions to your blog by simply sending an email to "yourblog'sname" @ posterous.com. For example, if I created the blog "awesomeblog.posterous.com" I could allow others to contribute to the blog by simply sending an email to "awesomeblog@posterous.com." You can choose to moderate or not moderate those contributions. From an administrative standpoint, using the email method of contributing to a group blog is much easier than having to enter permissions for each person you want contributing to your group blog."

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Google Drive and Docs for Teachers 2012

Why Good Classes Fail

Why Good Classes Fail: "This is a quick little essay about why a teacher can employ all the “right methods” (pick your buzzword: student-centered, learning-centric, participatory, collaborative, problem-based, etc.) and embrace all the most rich, compelling, and engaging technologies, and still fail. This is an essay in the true sense of the word (which Gardner Campbell has recently reminded me is derived from the French infinitive essayer, “to try” or “to attempt”) … so this is just a try, an attempt, and in that sense also an invitation for you all to jump in and let me know your thoughts as well."

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Whack-A-Bone

Whack-A-Bone: "Whack-A-Bone will lead you toward an instinctive knowledge of the major bones of the body. Build up, scan and whack the arm, leg and core. When that has been perfected, scan the entire skeleton and finally, whack Harold silly."

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Pathfinders

Pathfinders: "LOST? Help is here! Pick a subject you need to research and you will be given a list of sites to guide you with your work. We now have 101 pathfinders!!"

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How Google is teaching computers to see — Tech News and Analysis

How Google is teaching computers to see — Tech News and Analysis: "Google is attempting to teach computers to recognize human faces without telling the computing algorithms which faces are human. It’s a machine-learning problem made for this era of unstructured data and easy access to large compute clusters. It could help the search giant make huge strides in building the next big opportunity in tech, enabling computers to “see.”"

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