Revision Quiz - Marketing Strategies Thursday, November 29, 2012 PrintEmailTweet This!Save to Favorites In this revision quiz we provide ten questions on marketing strategies, including Porter's Generic Strategies and Ansoff's Matrix: Revision Quiz - Marketing Strategies Please enable JavaScript to view the <a href=" Business Studies Revision / Exam Coaching Workshops Coming Up: GCSE Business (AQA Unit 2 & Edexcel Unit 3) Thursday 24 April 2014 - Birmingham Friday 25 April 2014 - London (Stratford City) AQA AS & A2 Business (BUSS1 & BUSS3) Monday 20 January 2014 - London (Stratford City) Tuesday 21 January 2014 - London (Fulham Broadway) Wednesday 22 January 2014 - Bristol (Cribbs Causeway) Thursday 23 January 2014 - Birmingham (Star City) Friday 24 January 2014 - Manchester (Salford Quays) AQA AS & A2 Business (BUSS2 & BUSS4) Post-Easter (BUSS1/BUSS2 Combined & BUSS4) Try some of these superb starter activities for Business Studies:
Google Docs for Teachers and Classrooms This post presents Google Docs use in the Classroom. Google Docs is excellent collaboration tool for teachers, school development and classroom use. Basicly its about collaborative planning and writing, sharing information, working simultaneously with other students or teachers, and in my opinion it should be used on every school. I use Google Docs nowdays in writing project plans when network of schools apply funding for projects. Using Google Docs 101 from Josh Stumpenhorst @stumpteacher Google Docs in the Classroom by Melanie Wiscount Google Docs in Classroom Google Docs in Classroom
Compress PDF – Reduce your PDF Online for Free Khan Academy Searching Google: 38 tips to get better results Recently passing the 1 billion user mark, Google has come a long way since it was first founded back in 1998 and has become a byword for internet searches. But, beyond chucking a couple of words into the main search box, do you really know how to get the best out of it? We've done some research and put together a few tips on how to get Google to do even more of the work for you. The basics If you've got no intention of spending hours studying the ins and outs of every search option on Google then don't worry. Spelling - Even if you're not the world's best speller, it doesn't matter as clever old Google will do the hard work for you. Web history - For many keen users of the Internet, the idea of anyone having access to their seach history may well be enough to bring them out in a cold sweat and cause them to hit the 'delete history' option at the first available opportunity. If in doubt, keep in general - As with many things in life, the best advice is to keep things simple. Fast Facts
The Future Of Education [Publication] 10 Great Free Google Forms Every Teacher Should Be Using Today's post is about a great work that has been done by our colleague Tom Barret. He has created awesome example forms for different topics. He has also made all these forms available for us to download and use with our students. To download any of the forms below, make sure to visit Tom's original post. 1- Get to Know your Class Use this form to collect information about your students such as their likes, dislikes, club affiliations, and many more. 2- Emotion Graph This is a form ideal for use by students when studying linear narrative both written or visual. 3- Spelling Test As its name suggests , this form is great for use inside the classroom to test students spelling. 4- Comprehension Questions This is a form that test students understanding of a text or anything thing else you want to test. 5- Weekly Reading Record This is a form where students can provide data about their reading. 6- Maths Data Handling 7- Guided Reading Record 8- Prior Learning Assessment 9- Library Book Review
The Future Of Education Eliminates The Classroom, Because The World Is Your Class This probably sounds familiar: You are with a group of friends arguing about some piece of trivia or historical fact. Someone says, "Wait, let me look this up on Wikipedia," and proceeds to read the information out loud to the whole group, thus resolving the argument. Don’t dismiss this as a trivial occasion. It represents a learning moment, or more precisely, a microlearning moment, and it foreshadows a much larger transformation—to what I call socialstructed learning. Socialstructed learning is an aggregation of microlearning experiences drawn from a rich ecology of content and driven not by grades but by social and intrinsic rewards. Think of a simple augmented reality app on your iPhone such as Yelp Monocle. This is exactly what a project from USC and UCLA called HyperCities is doing: layering historical information on the actual city terrain. So look beyond MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) in thinking about the future education.
Interactive Learning Online at Public Universities: Evidence from Randomized Trials Published May 22, 2012 William G. Bowen, Matthew M. Copy the Below Code and paste in your site: <a href=" Online learning is quickly gaining in importance in U.S. higher education, but little rigorous evidence exists as to its effect on student learning outcomes. We find that learning outcomes are essentially the same—that students in the hybrid format "pay no price” for this mode of instruction in terms of pass rates, final exam scores, and performance on a standardized assessment of statistical literacy. Supporting Materials
I, Cringely . The Pulpit . War of the Worlds There is a technology war coming. Actually it is already here but most of us haven't yet notice. It is a war not about technology but because of technology, a war over how we as a culture embrace technology. This is a war over how we as a culture and a society respond to Moore's Law. The real power of Moore's Law lies in what the lady at the bank called "the miracle of compound interest," which has allowed personal computers to increase in performance a millionfold over the past 30 years. The key word here is "empowerment." Let's be clear about what we're measuring here. Here, buried in my sixth paragraph, is the most important nugget: we've reached the point in our (disparate) cultural adaptation to computing and communication technology that the younger technical generations are so empowered they are impatient and ready to jettison institutions most of the rest of us tend to think of as essential, central, even immortal. I started writing educational software in 1978. But does it?
About the College - About Berea College Berea College is distinctive among institutions of higher learning. Founded in 1855 as the first interracial and coeducational college in the South, Berea charges no tuition and admits only academically promising students, primarily from Appalachia, who have limited economic resources. Berea’s cost of educating a student exceeds $23,000 per year. Berea offers rigorous undergraduate academic programs leading to Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degrees in 28 fields. All students work at least 10 hours per week in campus and service jobs in more than 130 departments. The College has an inclusive Christian character, expressed in its motto ”God has made of one blood all peoples of the Earth.”
Hacking education: Google U I’m lucky to be at a great Union Square Ventures session on hacking education today. I believe education will be restructured radically and that will be accelerated out of the so-called financial crisis. You can follow tweets at #hackedu; Union Square will put up the entire transcript later. In honor of hacking education, I’ll put up all of the Google U chapter in What Would Google Do? (the rest after the jump): Who needs a university when we have Google? You may suspect that because I’m a professor, I’ll now come out of this litany of opportunities with a rhetorical flip and demonstrate why we must preserve universities as they are. Who’s to say that college is the only or even the best place to learn? If that is what education looks like, what does a university look like? Socialization is, of course, a key reason we go to college and send our children there. Perhaps we need to separate youth from education. Our portfolios of work online, searchable by Google, become our new CVs.
A Virtual Revolution Is Brewing for Colleges Students starting school this year may be part of the last generation for which "going to college" means packing up, getting a dorm room and listening to tenured professors. Undergraduate education is on the verge of a radical reordering. Colleges, like newspapers, will be torn apart by new ways of sharing information enabled by the Internet. The business model that sustained private U.S. colleges cannot survive. The real force for change is the market: Online classes are just cheaper to produce. This doesn't just mean a different way of learning: The funding of academic research, the culture of the academy and the institution of tenure are all threatened. Both newspapers and universities have traditionally relied on selling hard-to-come-by information. But the demand for college isn't just about the yearning to learn -- it's also about the hope of getting a degree. You can already see significant innovation in online education at some community colleges and for-profit institutions.