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YouTube - OK Go - This Too Shall Pass - RGM version Amazing example of a Rube Goldberg Machine, done as part of a music video. tags: youtube, OkGo, video, RGM, TIJ1O Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor To see if your PC is ready for Windows 7, download the free Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor. It scans your PC for potential issues with your hardware, devices, and installed programs, and recommends what to do

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The Ultimate Collection Of Brilliant Web Design Tutorials - Noupe tags: TGJ, TGJxx, web, webdesign, tutorials, list YouTube - Timeline : The History of Electricity [English] This timeline presents the History of Electricity from Ben Franklin tying a key to a kite string during a storm to the first nuclear power plant in Russia. tags: history, youtube, electricity, tweeted, video Posted from

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Women in Programming tags: ICS, women, gender, issues, ICSxx Ask a Tech Teacher Looks like a great site to pick up tips to use in the classroom or share with students.tags: TechEd, ICT, blog, tips, education 16 Interesting Ways to use Wallwisher in the Classroom tags: wallwisher, web2.0, education, feedback, TGJ, TDJ, ICS, issues, tools Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

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Google SketchUp - Layout tags: Layout, Google, SketchUp, TDJ, TDJxx, 2D, blueprints, video sketchyphysics - Project Hosting on Google Code See the video at http://3dvinci.blogspot.com/2010/02/classroom-rage-with-sketchup-physics.html for how this SketchUp plugin can be used. tags: SketchyPhysics, physics, TDJ, TDJxx, SketchUp, Google Citrify Free Photo Editor for the Web A free easy-to-use

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Blogging About The Web 2.0 Connected Classroom: Why Do We Have To Learn This? "I can remember some days when kids would ask me that. I could be in the middle of a conversation about convection currents and a kid would raise their hand and ask, "What's the point? Why do we need to know this? What's the point!" I would get so angry. They needed to learn it because I was teaching it, that's why!" 

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I often point out that we are not teachers -- we are facilitators of our students' education. There's a huge difference in those two viewpoints. In the first, the teacher is the center of focus, in the latter, the student is the center of focus. Sometimes that means it's best for us to just get out of their way and let them get on with their learning.

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Education Week's Digital Directions: Students Sound Off on School Tech Use "Discussions of technology in education typically center on what policymakers, academic experts, and educators would like to see happen in the classroom. Rarely heard are the voices of those who are actively test-driving new forms of technology: the students." tags: ICT, students, #otfretreat2010, education, issues The

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41 Nicest Photoshop Photo Effects [Photoshop Tutorials] | Photoshop Tutorials Looks like an incredible list of tutorials for Photoshop tags: photoshop, Effects, tutorials, list, TGJ2O Brizzly / A simple way to experience the social web Great web-based client ("front-end") for Twitter and Facebook. I prefer using this website over twitter.com because it automatically displays pictures and videos.

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Flickr: Discussing BMW 2010 Calendar competition - beware! in Motorcycle On The Road - (Only bike with landscape, no racing) This page mentions a promotion BMW is having where you submit your photos but then BMW is free to use the photos however they wish. It may be a good starting point to discuss the subject of copyright with your students. tags: flickr, copyright, issues, TGJ, TGJxx,

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Community Library for #otfretreat2010tags: #OTFRetreat2010, search, diigo, bookmarks TooManyTabs for Chrome - Google Chrome extension gallerytags: TooManyTabs, chrome, extension, myplugins Justice For Youth and Childrentags: #OTFRetreat2010, age, legal, rights, education Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

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View the vancouver2010.com medals' table

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One of my tasks at school has been to create a new website. After much testing with a complex site that was extremely difficult to maintain and troubleshoot, I switched to Google Sites to create it. The address of the new site is: http://www.beamsvillesecondaryschool.org/ The principal asked me to put a page counter on it, and I was pleasantly surprised to see that the new site had been viewed

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Free online media file conversion (Document, Images, Audio, Video & Archives)Looks like a good site to convert media files. tags: utility, online, free, convert, TGJ, TGJxx - post by rjleaman Portrait of a Multitasking Mind: Scientific AmericanWhat happens when you try to do three things at once?tags: multitasking, media, social-networking YouTube - Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?

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According to http://www.infoworld.com/d/mobilize/what-you-should-know-about-apples-tablet-246?page=0,0 Apple has also created a version of its iWork desktop productivity suite for the iPad -- that could make the iPad a competitor to both Windows netbooks and Apple's own MacBooks as an entertainment device that also doubles as a lightweight productivity device. Each app -- Pages, Numbers, and

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Inventor Nikola Tesla Is Back in Tech Fashion - WSJ.com tags: Tesla, history, TEJ, TEJxx, Edison, electricity Google Chrome Extensions: Quick Tabs tags: chrome, extension, tabs, QuickTabs, tweeted Screenpresso - Home tags: utility, free, software, screenshot, capture, screen YouTube - Personal Learning Networks tags: education, PLN, video Bring Lost Cameras Home with a Digital

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Motorcycle Sales Statistics - webBikeWorld Motorcycle sales statistics and information. tags: Motorcycle, sales, statistics Create an Internet Shortcut (.URL) file using Delphi tags: delphi, ICS, URL, shortcut, code, snippet Motorcycle Tours tags: Motorcycle, Tours, Africa Trailer Lift Combo | Motorcycle Trailer | Motorcycle Lift tags: motorcycle, trailer, lift, maintenance, combo

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Seven Waterfall Photo Tips « Photofocus "I don’t know why, but human beings seem to be strongly attracted to waterfalls. One of the first photos most newbies want to make is a serious waterfall photo. It’s not hard to do well, and here are seven tips to get you started on your way." tags: TGJ, TGJxx, photography, waterfalls How do I change my site's URL? - Google Sites Help tags: GoogleSites,

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"motorcycle gangs are one of the biggest abusers of wearing leather, and we decided it was high time that we let them know that we disagree with them using it…ergo, they should stop." Hehe, read the rest of the story here.

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I'm currently in the process of converting my very old and tired website to a Google Sites website, and have been searching for small icons I could use to represent Adobe Acrobat files, Word files, etc. Almost by accident, I came across a set of 700 (!) nice looking 16x16 icons which are perfect for my application.I was only going to tweet about it, but I found I wanted to say more than 140

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"Weird Al" Yankovic - Bob"An homage to early Bob Dylan (the lyrics consist entirely of palindromes) - from "Weird Al" Yankovic's 2003 album "Poodle Hat" "tags: palindromes, English, education, video, WeirdAlYankovic, BobHow can we ignore Social Media? « doug – off the recordtags: social-networking, education, issuesPROBLEM-BASED LEARNING (PBL)"PBL is not a new model of instruction. Plato and

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Weebly - Create a free website and a free blogThis is the link for educators.tags: TGJ, TGJxx, education, web2.0, WebsiteCreationPosting style - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediatags: MailList, posting, wikipediaUsenet quoting - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediatags: MailList, Quoting, wikipedia» Magazinetags: magazine, free, photography, TGJ, TGJxx, pdfPixelatedImage Blogtags: blog, TWIP,

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Google Chrome Extensions: IE Tabtags: google, chrome, extensions, myplugins, IETabuwnews.org | Of girls and geeks: Environment may be why women don't like computer science | University of Washington News and Informationtags: ICS, ICSxx, issues, Girls, ComputerScience, ACSE, tweetedGoogle Chrome Extensions: Email this page (by Google)tags: chrome, extension, email, mypluginsGoogle Docs (Google

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It's been awhile since I updated my trip log, and with two big trips this past year (Florida, West Coast), I thought now was a good time.So now the challenge will be how to fill in some of the gaps this coming summer. Perhaps a loop around the southern states, like this: http://bit.ly/5UzYTL? It's just over 5000 miles, and I can easily do 500 miles per day. If I take two weeks, it should give me

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Cairo Integration with wxPython - Installation of Python, wxPython, pyCairo, and Cairo 2-D graphics library on Windows XP | Alex Matantags: python, ICS, ICSxxI Don't Understand My Colleagues Sometimes - The Educators' Royal Treatmenttags: education, administration, web2.0, social-networkingNational Geographic's International Photography Contest 2009 - The Big Picture - Boston.comtags: photography

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