Tom Barrett's Proposal to use Google Docs for Online Reporting to Parents | ICT in my Classroom

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My Proposal to use Google Docs for Online Reporting to Parents | ICT in my Classroom

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Tom Barrett is planning to use a shared Google Doc to update the parents of his students on their progress in class...

What follows is a proposal I submitted to my headteacher regarding a trial of the use of Google Docs (as part of the Education Apps) to deliver online reporting

Lapham's Quarterly

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A friend pointed me to a publication called Lapham's Quarterly. Laphman's is a quarterly publication that targets a single topic in each issue. The contributors are contemporary and historical writers.

LAPHAM'S QUARTERLY sets the story of the past in the frame of the present. Four times a year the editors seize upon the most urgent question then current in the headlines - foreign war, financial panic, separation of church and state - and find answers to that question from authors whose writings have passed the test of time.

photo.jpgYou can learn more about the format of Lapham's Quarterly here. The latest issue is titled Ways of Learning and deals with education. The preamble , Playing with Fire, is available online...

Google to Digitize Newspaper Archives - NYTimes.com

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Google to Digitize Newspaper Archives - NYTimes.com

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This is an expansion of a service that Google already has in place with The New York Times. The Washington Post and Time magazine... Another great primary source for research...

Google has begun scanning microfilm from some newspapers’ historic archives to make them searchable online, first through Google News and eventually on the papers’ own Web sites...

iPhone stand in action on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

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iPhone stand in action on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

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Turn your iPhone into a bedroom clock...

I'd been after a nice looking digital clock for the bedroom for ages, so I was pleased with the 'Digital Clock' app from the iPhone App Store. It's quite customizable (colour, brightness and digit style) and auto-rotates. Only problem is you have to leave it on all night - which used to drain the battery almost flat, until I discovered the 'Airplane Mode'!

Safety Concerns Eclipse Civic Lessons as Schools Cancel Classes on Election Day - NYTimes.com

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Safety Concerns Eclipse Civic Lessons as Schools Cancel Classes on Election Day - NYTimes.com"

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I find this kind of sad. I remember working at my old school on election day with the community coming in. Was a great learning opportunity for my students. Of course then Oregon went to vote by mail... I hate vote by mail... I always liked going to the polling place. Now I fill it out my ballot at my kitchen table... not the same...

“In a post-Columbine, post-9/11 world, we shouldn’t be opening the doors at our schools on Election Day, and just hoping everything will be O.K.”

How Nate Silver Went From Forecasting Baseball Games to Forecasting Elections -- New York Magazine

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How Nate Silver Went From Forecasting Baseball Games to Forecasting Elections -- New York Magazine"

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Nate Silver of fivethirtyeight.com is profiled in New York Magazine. This guy writes about my two favorite things, baseball and politics...

Nate Silver is a number-crunching prodigy who went from correctly forecasting baseball games to correctly forecasting presidential primaries—and perhaps the election itself. Here’s how he built a better crystal ball."