Monthly Archives: June 2008

Embed Flickr Slideshows with flickrSLiDR

If you’ve been looking for a ridiculously easy way to embed your Flickr pics on your website or blog, look no further than flickrSLiDR. All you need to do is enter the URL of the Flickr photo set, user name, … Continue reading

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The Honest Truth About Cheating

This post from NPR Weekend Edition Sunday, May 6, 2007 – Donald McCabe talks to Liane Hansen about cheating among graduate students in the United States. He is a professor of management and global business at Rutgers University. Hear the … Continue reading Continue reading

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The Smile Guy – Using the Awesome Highlighter.

Check out the Awesome Highlighter, a simple Web service that will allow you to highlight content on web pages and create a link to share those highlighted pages with your students, colleagues, or friends. It works. And, there’s even a … Continue reading Continue reading

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Sketchcast

This nifty free tool could allow mathematician, statisticians, engineers, etc. to present and solve equations online while explaining the process to students. A new site called Sketchcast launched last year – it’s a tool for bloggers and others to create … Continue reading

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Liberty Fillmore – The Shopping Cart Whisperer

Just for fun… Liberty Fillmore – The Shopping Cart Whisperer . . . everywhere I go, I see shopping carts tossed aside. Cast off. Abandoned. In super-value-store parking lots. And, more and more, on the interweb which is online. People … Continue reading Continue reading

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How to Make Windows Vista Less Annoying

This post from Lifehacker: Editor: Say hello to fellow tech writer and Lifehacker reader The How-To Geek, who was kind enough to pull together some of best Windows Vista power tweaks here on Lifehacker today. Whether it’s the nagging prompts … Continue reading Continue reading

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BBtv: “Improbable Research Collections” debut

Those crazy academics. This posting from Boing Boing: The Improbable Researchers are a group of scientists who collect and conduct research to provoke both laughter and thought. They publish a bi-monthly magazine, “Annals of Improbable Research;” they award the coveted … Continue reading Continue reading

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Ira Glass on Why Creative Excellence Takes Time

This in from Open Culture: Ira Glass, host of the beloved radio show This American Life, offers a helpful reminder that excellence doesn’t come automatically. (See video below.) It takes work, years of it. And he revisits some of his … Continue reading Continue reading

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Is the Internet Making Us Stupid?

This posting from Open Culture: In case you missed it, a new piece in the Atlantic Monthly “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” raises some questions about whether the internet is changing the way we think. Or, to paraphrase, is it … Continue reading Continue reading

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BBC Schools

BBC Schools This site from the BBC has some great ideas for K-12 education. Be sure to see the Questionaut. It’s fascinating! <img src="http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/images/promos/4_11/ks2_questionaut.jpg" Continue reading

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