HOW TO CHEAT AT EVERYTHING
Over lunch with Simon Lovell, a fascinating former card shark, Allison Schrager learns all sorts of things about how swindlers operate ... Special to MORE INTELLIGENT LIFE "I can spot someone's weakness a mile away.
Twitter: The Best PD For Educators
Free, instantaneous and self-directed, social networks like Twitter carry enormous benefits for educators’ professional development. By following national experts and participating in worldwide chats, even skeptical teachers can share lessons, explore theories, and trade resources. Many simple ways exist for teachers to gain insights into eye-opening concepts, articles, and resources through cooperative technology. Professional development can often be costly, but free social networks empower both educators and students to direct their own learning and internalize best practices from esteemed experts and fellow instructors. Social networking has become an integral part of most families’ lives, but it has not yet become synonymous with education. As daily leaders in their students’ lives, teachers also need to be technological leaders in tapping into dynamic information streams like Twitter, Pinterest, and others to collect best practices and motivate young learners.
10 tools that can help data journalists do better work, be more efficient
It’s hard to be equally good at all of the tasks that fall under data journalism. To make matters worse (or better, really), data journalists are discovering and applying new methods and tools all the time. As a beginning data journalist, you’ll want to develop a sense of the tools others are using to do the work you admire.
How to Make Holograms
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler” - Albert Einstein We attempt to follow this dictum so you can make holograms easily. The procedures we propose herein are as simple as it is physically possible. In the process, we make holography not only as simple as possible, but safer, less expensive, and more accessible to young people. Most of the essential items described in this article can be found in Integraf's holography kits or are available separately. The kits provide materials for you to make many kinds of holograms, including reflection holograms and transmission holograms.
100 Of The Best Twitter Tools For Teachers By Category
In 2009, we shared our favorite tools for teachers on Twitter, with 100 resources for managing feeds, finding followers, and tackling classroom groups on the social media site. Since then, many tools have been revamped, replaced, or simply aren’t available anymore. Clearly, an update is in order, so we’re proud to present a new list for 2012, featuring the very best tools available to Twittering teachers today.
Infomous
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How to Solve a Rubik's Cube (Easy Move Notation)
First LayerMiddle LayerLast layerNotations Edited by NatK, Krystle, Mimi, BohemianWikipedian and 59 others The Rubik's Cube can be very frustrating and may seem next to impossible to restore to its original configuration.
25 Ways To Get The Most Out Of Twitter
Twitter may very well be the single most important tool for teachers right now. Considering many are not even using the service, that says a lot about how effective the platform is for learning, engaging, development, and more. In an effort to make sure you are getting the most out of Twitter, we’ve compiled a very lengthy list of tips and tricks. That long list is coming out tomorrow morning but we thought you’d enjoy our hand-picked choices. See Also: 45 Simple Twitter Tips Everyone Should Know About
Reporters' Lab // How a conference taught me I know nothing
The Chicago Tribune's Brian Boyer removes his costume panda head before demonstrating PANDA, an open-source database system developed by Investigative Reporters and Editors. | Photo by Tyler Dukes It was the lightning talks that set my head spinning. I’m a bit new to the world of data journalism, and up until that point, my first time at the annual Computer-Assisted Reporting conference had stopped just short of overwhelming. But after a few mile-a-minute presentations in this particular session , I only had one clear thought: There’s so much to know, and not enough time to learn it. Luckily, Politifact developer and University of Nebraska-Lincoln journalism professor Matt Waite gave the audience a little bit of reassuring advice gleaned from Zen Buddhism: It’s bad to be an expert.
Twitter - A Necessity for Educators in 2012 - Texas Principal
Twitter A Necessity for Educators in 2012 “Twitter won’t change your life, but it might make your job more fun and a little easier” - NEA What is Twitter? Twitter is an online social networking site which allows users to send and receive messages of up to 140 characters. Why should I join Twitter?
Teaching Materials from NICAR 2012 « Michelle Minkoff
I had the sincere honor of presenting at NICAR 2012 in St. Louis for the second year in a row. I provide the takeaway materials here, if you find them useful. Bring Your Mapping Dreams to Fruition — code for demos of Leaflet and Raphael, for making zoomable and non-zoomable maps. Tipsheet with links to projects we’ve done at the AP using these tools, documentation and helpful tools to use, and sample code for some more basic projects I demoed during the session Web Scraping without Programming (Panel) — Chris Keller and I talk about free tools you can use that will take care of scraping tasks for you, without you having to spend time/have the knowledge set to write code.
