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The Cult of Rigor and the Loss of Joy By Alfie Kohn "Why are our schools not places of joy?" - susan tsairi

Real Lives is a unique, interactive life simulation game that enables you to live one of billions of lives in any country in the world. - susan tsairi

The K-12 Online Conference invites participation from educators around the world interested in innovative ways Web 2.0 tools and technologies can be used to improve learning. This FREE conference is run by volunteers and open to everyone. The 2009 conference theme is “Bridging the Divide.” - susan tsairi

"if I do a search for [new york] on Google, my best friend's New York blog probably isn't going to show up on the first page of my results. Probably what I'll find are some well-known and official sites. We've taken steps to improve the relevance of our search results with personalization, but today's launch takes that one step further. With Social Search, Google finds relevant public content from your friends and contacts and highlights it for you at the bottom of your search results." - susan tsairi

ZoomIt is a screen zoom and annotation tool for technical presentations that include application demonstrations - susan tsairi

Koobface, an anagram of Facebook, is a computer worm that targets the users of the social networking websites Facebook...Koobface spreads by delivering Facebook messages to people that are 'friends' of someone on Facebook whose computer has already been infected. The messages contain innocuous subject headers...followed by a link. Upon receipt, the message directs the recipients to a third-party website unaffiliated with Facebook where they are prompted to download what is purported to be an update of the Adobe Flash player. If they download and execute the file, they will infect their computer with Koobface. Koobface then commandeers their surfing activities and directs users to contaminated websites when they attempt to access search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing, and Ask.com. - susan tsairi

At-Risk Students Make Multimedia A team of college professors and K-12 teachers discovers how building video games can elevate student performance. - susan tsairi

These are improvisation games, game handles, Warm-ups, Icebreakers and improv exercises. Each of these may belong in one or more improv game Categories. - susan tsairi

1 minute videos summarizing great works of literature typically assigned in school. - susan tsairi

over one million public domain books from Google Books in an additional format. We're excited to now offer downloads in EPUB format, a free and open industry standard for electronic books. It's supported by a wide variety of applications, so once you download a book, you'll be able to read it on any device or through any reading application that supports the format. - susan tsairi

moving learning games forward - susan tsairi

The physics department has replaced the traditional large introductory lecture with smaller classes that emphasize hands-on, interactive, collaborative learning. Last fall, after years of experimentation and debate and resistance from students, who initially petitioned against it, the department made the change permanent. Already, attendance is up and the failure rate has dropped by more than 50 percent. - susan tsairi

טרנדים, קמפיינים וכל מה שקורה עם צעירים - susan tsairi

"Believe it or not, there are several distributions of Linux intended for use by children as young as 3 years old. Child-oriented Linux distros tend to have a simplified interface with large, “chunky”, colorful icons and a specialized set of programs designed with kids in mind." - susan tsairi

also on this site: community plugin capability plugin - susan tsairi

http://translated.ning.com language and translation tools for ning networks. - susan tsairi

"Whuffie has replaced money, providing a motivation for people to do useful and creative things. A person's Whuffie is a general measurement of his or her overall reputation, and Whuffie is lost and gained according to a person's favorable or unfavorable actions. The question is, who determines which actions are favorable or unfavorable? In Down and Out, the answer is public opinion." - susan tsairi

לכידת תמונת מסך עריכה ואנוטציה ישר מתוך הדפדפן this plugin provides a set of editing and annotation tools, which let users quickly modify web captures and insert text annotations and graphical annotations - susan tsairi

Google Wave is a new model for communication and collaboration on the web, coming later this year. Here's a preview of just some of the aspects of this new tool. - susan tsairi

מיטב ספרי הלימוד מבית מטח עכשיו על המסך שלך. החל משנת הלימודים תש"ע יופיעו מיטב ספרי הלימוד של מטח בגרסה דיגיטאלית - susan tsairi

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home. - susan tsairi

Tracks is a web-based application to help you implement David Allen’s Getting Things Done™ methodology. It was built using Ruby on Rails, and comes with a built-in webserver - susan tsairi

here we go - fingers crossed - susan tsairi

The Committee's final report will launch at 00.01 on Tuesday, 12 May. You will be able to access it in the Our Findings section of this site, where you will also be able to hear a podcast interview with the Chair and members of the Committee and read the podcast transcript. - susan tsairi

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