Read to Lead: How to Digest Books Above Your “Level” I shouldn’t be able to read most of the books on my shelf. I never took a single classical history class and I cheated through most of Economics 001. Still, the loci of my library are Greek History and Applied Economics. And though they often are beyond me educationally, I’m able to comprehend them because of some equalizing tricks. This is how I break down a new book: Before the First Page Break out of the School Mindset Almost everything you learn in the classroom is tainted by the fact that ultimately teachers have to test you on it. When you read History of the Peloponnesian War, the countries involved in the conflict between Corinth and Corcyra is not really worth remembering. From Seneca: “We haven’t time to spare to hear whether it was between Italy and Sicily that he ran into a storm or somewhere outside the world we know–when every day we’re running into our own storms, spiritual storms, and driven by vice into all the troubles that Ulysses ever knew.” Ruin the Ending Read the Intro
Excellent iPad Apps to Create Interactive eBooks for Teachers and Students Yesterday when I was talking about the 22 rules for effective digital storytelling, I mentioned writing stories as one motivational factor that helps students get engaged in their writing.Students find it easier to connect to their writing when it centers around their own experiences they have lived in their immediate environments. Another strategy to use to enhance your students writing and get them motivated to write is to provide them with simple and easy to use platforms to publish their work. Knowing that their final product is going to be published somewhere for others to view and read may drive them to write diligently to satisfy their writing egos. There are actually several web tools that students can use to publish and share their writings with others, here is a list of the best platforms you can recommend for your students. 1- Creative Book Builder Creative Book Builder enables everyone to create, edit and publish ebooks in a few minutes on the go. 2- Book Creator for iPad
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Prss is trying to design the iPad publishing app that Apple never built A Netherlands-based company wants to revolutionize iPad publishing. In much the same way that Quark enabled desktop publishing in the eighties and platforms like WordPress and Tumblr allowed anyone to cheaply and easily set up their own blog in the aughts, Prss wants to put iPad publishing in the hands of people who lack programming skills. The app is the latest in a series of tools that democratize publications, giving high-level capabilities to those who want to distribute their message but don’t necessarily have the technical skills. The idea for Prss came after entrepreneur Michel Elings and longtime travel writer and photographer Jochem Wijnands constructed their own iPad publication called TRVL. “In the two-and-a-half years that we publsihed TRVL, we didn’t see something that did justice to the iOS platform,” Elings told me. After devising a “cookbook” of all the features they wanted, with an eye toward capitalizing on the iPad’s native features for interactivity, TRVL was born.
Harold Bloom Creates a Massive List of Works in The "Western Canon": Read Many of the Books Free Online I have little desire to rehash the politics, but the facts are plain: by the time I arrived in college as an undergraduate English major in the mid-90s, the idea of the “Western Canon” as a container of—in the words of a famous hymn—“all that’s good, and great, and true” was seriously on the wane, to put it mildly. And in many quarters of academia, mention of the name of Yale literary critic Harold Bloom provoked, at the very least, a raised eyebrow and pointed silence. Bloom’s reputation perhaps unfairly fell victim to the so-called “Canon Wars,” likely at times because of a misidentification with political philosopher Allan Bloom. That Bloom was himself no ideologue, writes Jim Sleeper; he was a close friend of Saul Bellow and “an eccentric interpreter of Enlightenment thought who led an Epicurean, quietly gay life.” Nonetheless, his fiery attack on changing academic values, The Closing of the American Mind, became a textbook of the neoconservative right. A: “The Theocratic Age” Italy
The Paperless Classroom with Google Docs Top 5 Epub Reader For Windows 7 | Next Of Windows Ever since the first Kindle was introduced in 2007, eBooks have been gaining more market shares. Reading books not printed on paper is becoming a trend. Among the number of eBook formats available on the typical type of eReader devices, ePub, electronic Publication, is no doubt the most popular one that is set to be a free open standard for all digital media publications. Most eBook readers support this format, except for the Kindle (which need to convert from Mobi to ePub). Here we have compiled a list of 5 best ePub readers available on Windows 7 and 8 for those who want to read ePub books on a desktop Windows computer. 1. It’s a new free tool made specifically for Windows 7 or 8 desktop users to enjoy reading books in ePub format. Icecream Ebook Reader is current still in beta and only supports ePub format at the moment. It’s completely free and works perfectly on Windows 7 and 8, both 32-bit and 64-bit editions. 2. 3. 4. 5. Another open source program. Bonus
What's Behind the iPad Hack at Los Angeles High Schools? - business issues, MDM, education, hardware systems, school, business, tablets, industry verticals, iPad, Management Topics, Apple, LAUSD, Management Topics | Consumerization of IT CIO — Last week, more than 300 students across three high schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) brought their school-issued iPads home and hacked into them, probably to download juicy blacklisted apps and access banned websites. Well, "hacked" might be a strong word. Students simply removed their mobile device management (MDM) software profile—an easy enough thing to do—which also got rid of Apple's Global Proxy that ensures traffic goes through a Web filter. It wasn't much of a hack, rather a couple of finger taps. The Los Angeles Times reported the story, which was picked up by other media, and LAUSD suddenly found itself in hot water. Headlines screamed: "Students find ways to thwart school iPad security" (rtv6) and "Students gleefully teach admins that mobile device management is hard" (Ars Technica). Seemingly caught by surprise, LAUSD threw together an official response. Related: iPad Pilot Programs' Dirty Little Secret What really happened at LAUSD?
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Guide: How to create and self publish a print book with a lot of images and pictures — Creating the inside pages document This step refers to the layout program Adobe InDesign. You can use another layout program (like QuarkXPress) if you wish. Please review the hardware & software step first to familiarize yourself with the options you have. Choose the correct program for each graphical task. From a technical standpoint, Adobe InDesign is the program where you create text boxes, choose your fonts, link to your images, crop them if necessary, and generally lay out the pages of your book. Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator are basically for creating the images that you place into InDesign. Let's start by creating a new InDesign document for the interior pages. Document Preset: [Custom]Intent: Print Number of Pages: 8 (use your own)Start Page #: 1Facing Pages Box: Checked/YesMaster Text Frame Box: Unchecked/No Page Size: [Custom]Width: 7 inches (use your own)Height: 10 inches (use your own) Columns - Number: 1Columns - Gutter: 0 inches Note: I used Adobe InDesign CS5. Page #2 and #3 make up the next spread.