• TypeWith.me: Live Text Document Collaboration!

  Document text is synchronized as you type, so that everyone viewing the page sees the same text. This allows you to collaborate seamlessly on documents in your Web browser.

  Go ahead – send the link to this page to a friend, colleague, or co-worker and watch the magic unfold! (no registration required)

  tags: collaboration, writing, tools, text, docs, documents

• Google Moderator

  “Helping the world find the best input from an audience of any size.

  Let your audience decide: Get to know your audience by letting them decide which questions, suggestions or ideas interest them most.

  Everyone’s voice is heard: The voting box at the top of page focuses attention on submissions recently added and on the rise, making it simple and easy to participate.

  Be creative: Include people in your preparation for lectures, interviews and hard decisions or work together to organize feature requests and brainstorm new ideas. “

  tags: google, voting, tools, research, survey, poll, polling

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• NumberQuotes – Get a quote, make a point

  “Ever need a good quote to add scale to a number? You know, you’re giving a presentation on sales and you want to give a number some scale. For example:

  “Last year our industry changed by 50 billion dollars – that’s the GDP of Serbia.”

  Only finding those quotes used to be a pain, but with NumberQuotes you can find the quote you need fast and easy. Give your numbers some scale today!”

  tags: presentation, quotes, numeracy, workshop, tools

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• STRONGVON — FREE Blank Bracket Sheets

  Single and double elimination bracket sheets in both word and pdf form – great resource.

  tags: bracket, tools, instructional strategies

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• Your Personalized Newspaper – MeeHive

  “Specify your interests, and we deliver the news.

  • Get the latest from around the world
  • Take MeeHive with you via iPhone, RSS, email and more
  • Discover new interests
  • Share and discuss with friends and family”

  tags: newspaper, aggregator, rss

• Texas Conservatives Win Vote on Textbook Standards – NYTimes.com

  “the Texas Board of Education on Friday approved a social studies curriculum that will put a conservative stamp on history and economics textbooks, stressing the superiority of American capitalism, questioning the Founding Fathers’ commitment to a purely secular government and presenting Republican political philosophies in a more positive light. “

  tags: social studies, curriculum, politics, texas

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• Book recommendations for teachers to be (pre-service teachers)

  from Wed Fryer

  tags: book, books, teachers, library

• Lunchwalla | What’s For Lunch?

  “Lunchwalla brings you, your friends, colleagues and family a fun and efficient way to schedule your own lunch tradition. Lunchwalla is an internet epiphany that provides interactive scheduling, invitations and reservations in order to decide what’s for lunch. It allows the indecisive group to vote and choose a location, time and day with ease.”

  tags: restaurants, dining, food, planning, travel

• Cut MP3 Online with MP3 Cutter

  “CutMP3.net is a simple Web 2.0 utility that enables you to cut out pieces of a MP3 files without having to decode that MP3. The tool cuts the MP3 at the frame level without losing the quality of your MP3.

  You don’t need to upload MP3, CutMP3.net cuts MP3 locally. Cut MP3 files online for Free!”

  tags: mp3, audio, editor, online, tools

• Education Week: Interest Turns to ESEA Plan’s Chances of Passing

  tags: no_tag

  • Obama administration has unveiled its blueprint for reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act
  • the proposal rolled out March 13 already has two key detractors: The National Education Association, a 3.2 million-member union, and the American Federation of Teachers, a 1.4 million-member union
  • the proposal “still relies on standardized tests to identify winners and losers
  • “Districts and states weren’t a part of the previous law; they would be under our proposal,” said Mr. Duncan, apparently referring to language in the blueprint saying that states and districts would be subject to consequences and rewards, as are schools.

  • The administration contends that its long-awaited proposal is aimed at fixing the “flawed” NCLB law to make it more flexible for states, while encouraging them to set higher standards for students.

    Under the blueprint, for example, the NCLB deadline for bringing all students to proficiency by the 2013-14 school year—deemed unrealistic by many critics—would be replaced with a goal of ensuring that all students are ready for college or a career by 2020.

  • Schools that are high-performers would be rewarded with recognition, additional dollars, and funding flexibility.

  • The blueprint would retain key aspects of the NCLB law, including its requirement for annual testing in reading in math in grades 3 through 8 and once in high school, and its call for disaggregating student data for populations such as racial minorities, English-language learners, and students in special education.
  • National School Boards Association, based in Alexandria, Va., called the proposal “a vast improvement over the flawed No Child Left Behind program which it would now replace.”

• Hot Pocket Ingredients Artwork

  From the “it’s better not to know” category … a beautifully executed wordle-esque piece of art indicating Hot Pocket ingredients …

  tags: food, graphic design, wordle, visualization

• The National Broadband Plan: Connecting America

  “National broadband goals:
  Goal 1: At least 100 million U.S. homes should have affordable access to actual download speeds of at least 100 megabits per second and actual upload speeds of at least 50 megabits per second.
  Goal 2: The United States should lead the world in mobile innovation, with the fastest and most extensive wireless networks of any nation.
  Goal 3: Every American should have affordable access to robust broadband service, and the means and skills to subscribe if they so choose.
  Goal 4: Every community should have affordable access to at least 1 Gbps broadband service to anchor institutions such as schools, hospitals and government buildings.
  Goal 5: To ensure the safety of Americans, every first responder should have access to a nationwide public safety wireless network.
  Goal 6: To ensure that America leads in the clean energy economy, every American should be able to use broadband to track and manage their real-time energy consumption.”

  tags: broadband, educational reform, internet, government, politics

• How Google Works

  “As a company, Google focuses on three key areas: Search, Ads and Apps. Search is our core technology; ads are our central business proposition; and apps are the umbrella over our web-based software that you can access anywhere, any time. While each of these has a lot of technology under the hood, the basic tenets for Search, Ads and Apps are very simple. We’ve created some short videos explaining the principles behind our core services. “

  tags: google, search, search engine, advertising

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• WORDOID – Creative Naming Service

  “Wordoids are made-up words. They look nice and feel great. They are good for naming things. And more…

  Why? Naming is not easy. Coming up with a catchy name for a product, company or domain can be a real challenge. It is like looking for a needle in a haystack: the right name should sound good, must not be already used by someone else, should have the potential to become a brand, and preferably with as little Google search results as possible.

  How? Wordoid.com is a webapp that strives to help you invent a good name. It makes up new words. Automagically. It knows how to create words in English or Spanish. It even knows how to create words in an imaginary language, constructed by blending two or more real languages together.

  It is simple to use: Just choose one or more languages, select the preferred quality level, type in a fragment you would like the wordoids to contain, and press Create.

  tags: words, domains, generator, language, literacy, tools

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• IQWST Home Page

  “How can a teacher promote deep understanding across science disciplines while also attending to national content standards, inquiry standards and goals for science literacy? And how can that teacher concurrently engage students in activities that are challenging and meaningful, and then assess their learning in authentic ways?”

  tags: curriculum, science, university of michigan

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