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  • How to find images on the internet « Random knowledge
    Images can be found just about everywhere on the mighty internet. Below youll find some interesting gateways to larger image collections. Some are for free, some ask for hard bucks. Some are copyrighted, others are not or even others have a Creative Co


  • Media Literacy - high school curriculum
    On the first day of class, I ask students to try and identify several plants and trees common in our Brooklyn neighborhood. They generally fail to name one. Then I show a slide of the alphabet comprised entirely from brand logos and they name almost all o


  • Boolify Project: An Educational Boolean Search Tool
    Librarians, teachers and parents have told us how hard it is for students to understand web searching. Boolify makes it easier to for students to understand their web search by illustrating the logic of their search, and by showing them how each change to


  • The New Literacies
    Are you familiar with the Pacific Northwest tree octopus? Most likely not. Good thing there is a Web site on the Internet to tell you all about it!


  • Searching The Internet: Part I
    In the Industrial Age, we mined our raw materials from quarries and forests. In the Information Age, our quarries will be the networks where information raw materials are storied. Although stone quarries will not disappear, most people will be using infor


  • Searching the Internet Part II
    Search engines are your helpers. They are information assistants who aid you in finding the information that you need to solve a problem, answer a question, or make a decision. Like any other assistant, the degree to which they are able to help depends on


  • The Search Process
    onducting effective searches of the Internet is rarely a matter of typing in a single keyword and being presented with the solution to your problem, at the top of a list of 54,000 hits. It is much more frequently a series of searches, each revealing more



  • Search Engine Showdown: The Users' Guide to Web Searching
    Search Engine Showdown, the users' guide to Web searching, compares and evaluates Internet search engines from the searcher's perspective. Developed originally as a way to keep track of search engine features and search capabilities and to share that info


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Employing Information

  • Inicio :: Bestiario
    Cool visualization that demonstrates what I'm thinking about with regard to profile mining.






  • Vermont MIDI Project
    1995-2007 Vermont MIDI Project marks 12 years of infusing music composition into the curriculum.  The purpose of the Vermont MIDI Project is to encourage and support students in composing and arranging music. A community of professional composers, teach



  • Landmarks for Schools: Words of Humankind -- Literature
    You may have found a web page with information about a historic event, a specific location, or a scientific phenomena. In writing a report or preparing a study guide, you would like to include only portions of the text in your report, which is being co



  • Landmarks for Schools: Words of Humankind -- Literature
    You want your students to learn about specific events that happened in America that led to the Revolutionary War and the Declaration of Independence. To do this, you want to give teams of students a map of Colonial America on disk, so that they can use


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Expressing Ideas Compellingly

  • Intended Consequences
    Tim Holt talks to Professor Mark Bauerlein from Emory University and author of "The Dumbest Generation."


  • How to find images on the internet « Random knowledge
    Images can be found just about everywhere on the mighty internet. Below youll find some interesting gateways to larger image collections. Some are for free, some ask for hard bucks. Some are copyrighted, others are not or even others have a Creative Co



  • welcome to cf/x!
    cf/x is a small company specializing in electronic graphical arts and effects. we provide artistic support to our clients. our goal is to aid our customers in enriching their artistic work, making the process of creation easier and more fun.



  • Center for Digital Storytelling
    The Center for Digital Storytelling is a California-based non-profit 501(c)3 arts organization rooted in the art of personal storytelling. We assist young people and adults in using the tools of digital media to craft, record, share, and value the stories


  • Vermont MIDI Project
    1995-2007 Vermont MIDI Project marks 12 years of infusing music composition into the curriculum.  The purpose of the Vermont MIDI Project is to encourage and support students in composing and arranging music. A community of professional composers, teach


  • figby.com » Color tools for the design impaired
    Ill be the first to admit that Im not a designer, just a programmer and writer. So I need a bit of help with things like choosing color schemes for a site. Fortunately, there are a number of tools that make that easier. Darrens post today about o



  • Welcome to PrimaryAccess
    PrimaryAccess is a web-based tool that offers teachers and students frictionless access to digital images and materials that enable them to construct compelling personal narratives.


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Expressing Ideas Compellingly


  • Digital Citizenship
    Digital Citizenship is a concept which helps teachers and technology leaders understand what students should know to use technology appropriately. But Digital Citizenship is more that just a teaching tool, it is a way to prepare students for a society fu


  • Plagiarism in Colleges in USA
    Plagiarism by students is a serious problem in colleges in the USA. This essay discusses plagiarism from a legal perspective. For other perspectives on the problem of plagiarism, see the links section below.


  • Plagiarism Resource Site Home Page
    The goal of this web site is to help reduce the impact of plagiarism on education and educational institutions. At present, it distributes free software to detect plagiarism and provides links to other resources.


  • Plagiarism and Anti-Plagiarism
    College plagiarism seems to be on the increase. So we round up and decry the usual suspects: the rise of the internet and the decline of student writing. To be sure, there are term papers for sale on the internet, and the very process of surfing the Web


  • Plagiarism
    In the spring semester of 2000, Bear Braumoeller, an assistant professor of government at Harvard University and Brian Gaines, an associate professor of political science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) began their plagiarism stu


  • Paper Mills
    ONLINE PAPER MILLS AND PLAGIARISM: HAS THE WEB CHANGED CHEATING?




  • History of the Fisher-Price Airplane (Tu-164 / FP-72)
    Almost forgotten, the Fisher-Price Airplane is a relic from the 1970s, a rare example of a Soviet design that was adopted by Western airlines. It is the predecessor of regional jets, which are beginning to form the backbone of major U.S. airlines.


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