January 2011
10 posts
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“The Case For Social Media in Schools”
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The Case For Social Media in Schools
A year after seventh grade teacher Elizabeth Delmatoff started a pilot social media program in her Portland, Oregon classroom, 20% of students school-wide were completing extra assignments for no credit, grades had gone up more than 50%, and chronic...
“The absentee owner of a multimillion-dollar home being used by President Barack...”
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Paradise Pointe Estates
Photo Tour of the estate
Kevin Comcowich, the Houston investment executive who purchased the nearly 5,000-square-foot home for $9 million in January 2008, was charged $300 in property taxes this year.
I certainly don’t disagree that the President and his...
December 2010
19 posts
“Jacky LaChienne and her family wish everyone a “Hyvää Uuttavuotta”
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cellodad’s wp journal | cellodad
“Every pupil at Cedars School of Excellence, in Greenock, Scotland, is now armed...”
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While in our schools…
“Okay children, stop what you’re doing so we can go to the computer lab to teach you how digital technology seamlessly integrates with your life.”
The school that gives every student an iPad | News | TechRadar UK
“The Worst of the Worst
Bad dude dictators and general coconut heads.”
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Somehow I missed this excellent piece in the July/August Foreign Affairs…
The Worst of the Worst - By George B.N. Ayittey | Foreign Policy
“Light rail stops create nodes and create opportunities for denser...”
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…and then there’s Honolulu where we’ve been waffling about rail for two decades while the cost of the inevitable just rises. (and who elected Cliff Slater, noted jewelry store owner, as Philosopher of Transportation anyway?)
Light Rail Transforming Cities, Guiding...
“The Son of the Sun, Tutankhamun (1334-1325 BCE) was a god in his own time; but...”
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Lanny Bell, Brown University January 13th, 2011 Doris Duke Theatre 7:30 PM free Sponosored by Archaeological Institute of America, University of Hawaii and Honolulu Academy of Arts Dr. Lanney Bell, distinguished Egyptologist Brown University will deliver an illustrated lecture:
The Son of the...
“Ailurophile - A cat-lover.
Assemblage - A gathering.
Becoming - Attractive....”
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Courtesy of David Pogue (NY Times) follow the link to the list of the 100 Most Beautiful Words in English and an ad for a book of essays about each word. Anyone fond of words (as I am) should take a look…
alphaDictionary * The 100 Most Beautiful Words in English
“Have you tried turning it off and turning it back on again?” Today’s...”
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One- computers are not very smart. They only do what you tell them to do. A lot of problems occur when people think that they’ve told their machine to do one thing, when they’ve really told it to do another. Two- Turn it off and turn it back on again. It’s amazing how many ills...
“Arts Academy Orchestra with Joshua Roman on cello – Live Webcast
Details Date...”
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Venue: Live Online Webcast
To watch a live Interlochen webcast, your computer must meet the following requirements: A broadband/high speed internet connection
To view a webcast, navigate to the Academy homepage (http://academy.interlochen.org/) shortly before the scheduled start-time. There will...
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“A musical cryptogram is a cryptogrammatic sequence of musical notes, a sequence...”
– Quite an interesting article. I don’t usually quote W’pedia but this is fascinating. (Thanks to Yu Yu Liu)
BACH motif followed by transposed version from Schumann’sSechs Fugen über den Namen B-A-C-H, op. 60, no. 4, mm. 1-3[11] Play (help·info). Note that C and H are transposed...
“Instead we should look for signs that indicate a conspiracy theory is likely to...”
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Good common-sense article. Not every mysterious black helicopter is part of a one-world domination plot…
The Conspiracy Theory Detector: Scientific American
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The Engine Insitute, Inc. | Art, Music, Science...
Art - Music - Science - Genius
“The Engine Institute, Inc., is an organization which fosters innovations to benefit society and culture through artistic exploration at the frontiers of science.”
Very interesting concept developed by my old friend China Blue. Take a look.
via The Engine Insitute, Inc. | Art, Music, Science and Genius.
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How to spur more technology integration in the...
“Panelists said school should hire technology integration specialists to help personalize technology use for each teacher.”
Education leaders suggest ways for others to integrate educational technology into the curriculum
By Jenna Zwang, Assistant Editor
Dec 8th, 2010
Superintendents and educational technology directors discussed how to ensure that technology is integrated...
“Hawaii becomes the only state in the country without a professional orchestra”
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The end nears for 110-year-old Honolulu Symphony | KHON2 Hawaii’s News Leader
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Thwarting Waste with a File Format That Can't Be...
Here’s an idea who’s time possibly, has arrived.
“Will you really save a tree every time you use this new file format? Obviously not. But the campaign does provide an effective reminder that a lot of paper gets wasted out of plain old carelessness.”
For some people, perhaps the only way to make them stop printing everything on paper is to make it impossible. I have a...
“All the new technology in the world isn’t going to do students any good if...”
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Short article that hits a couple of key points that are lacking in HIDOE as a whole. The first thing that we need to work on is cloud-based resources. The second, of course, is the need to help teachers get up to speed with the twenty-first century in order that students can learn how to use... 