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Blog Archive » Gallery is available - Gorgeous tag clouds. 3 Web-Based Tools that Generate Awesome Tag Clouds. This post is meant not only to show you the tools that will build an awesome tag cloud for you but also to inspire you and share various creative ways to use those tools.

3 Web-Based Tools that Generate Awesome Tag Clouds

For example, you can create infographics to visualize your point and make your message easier to deliver. Besides, you should also check this post on how tag clouds may be useful. 1. Tagul: Create and Embed Interactive Tag Clouds Tagul (view previous MUO review of Tagul) is a multi-feature tag cloud generator that requires registration and allows you to build beautiful clouds and embed them on your blogs. Build and customize your awesome tag cloud Core Options: Name your cloud;Copy and paste the source code (or let the tool grab the source code from the URL) and fetch the tags;Choose the shape (cloud, heart, star, triangle, pentagram, circle, rectangle) and specify the form angle and aspect ratio;Select the font View the generated tags in a separate tab; you can delete any of them if you wish: The result. Art Comes from Art. « Happy Halloween! | Eye Level Home | Art in America (by way of France) » Art Comes from Art November 3, 2006 Philip Guston, American, b.

Montreal, Canada, 1913 – 1980, Daydreams, 1970, oil on linen, 72 1/8 x 80 1/8 in., Bequest of Musa Guston, 1992 (92.18 ), Part of the Hirshhorn's current exhibition "Ways of Seeing," Image courtesy of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. A.E.P. Acute Emotional Perception - Robinson Independent Research. Virtual worlds] Giant Snail Races. Japanese game show meets whacky mini-golf with RacerX Gullwing’s Giant Snail Races a Second Life institution since 2004.

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 The course is on the mainland grid at Hawthorne, and sees a collection of 45 feet tall snails racing through an obstacle course. Be epic learn how to make machinimas from scratch in five weeks. Home- Mykal Skall.

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Educational Study Tools: Mind Maps & Graphic Organizers. Educational Study Tools: Mind Maps & Graphic Organizers Allowing students to express and organize their thoughts graphically is a wonderful way to enable them to improve key skills.

Educational Study Tools: Mind Maps & Graphic Organizers

Technology and Education. (1) C3 Cyber Club. Overview - About - Healthy Weight Commitment Foundation. Overview The Healthy Weight Commitment Foundation, a CEO-led organization, is a national, multi-year effort designed to help reduce obesity–especially childhood obesity–by 2015.

Overview - About - Healthy Weight Commitment Foundation

It’s a first-of-its kind coalition that brings together more than 255 retailers, food and beverage manufacturers, restaurants, sporting goods and insurance companies, trade associations and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and professional sports organizations. The Healthy Weight Commitment Foundation (HWCF) promotes ways to help people achieve a healthy weight through energy balance–calories in and calories out. It focuses its efforts on two critical areas—families and schools. International Society for Education through Art.

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Caledon Quest. Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education. Online Instructional Tools. Best Tool to Convert Videos from YouTube to Edit or embed in PowerPoint We're often asked how to embed great YouTube videos in PowerPoint.

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Reserch Documents. Minecraft. Teaching Creativity. The above illustration is typical of a kindergarten child's uninhibited pre schematic drawing of herself.

Teaching Creativity

Most five year olds are totally confident that they can draw, sing, and dance. Tragically, within three or four years this child, if she is typical, will experience a crisis of confidence. She will no longer feel competent or creative. As teachers, we are often partly to blame for the diminished inclination to be creative as children become socialized and more intelligent. I write this as an art teacher for other art teachers. Teaching creativity to everyone is vitally important. Modern technology is changing the way our brains work, says neuroscientist. Human identity, the idea that defines each and every one of us, could be facing an unprecedented crisis.

Modern technology is changing the way our brains work, says neuroscientist

It is a crisis that would threaten long-held notions of who we are, what we do and how we behave. It goes right to the heart - or the head - of us all. This crisis could reshape how we interact with each other, alter what makes us happy, and modify our capacity for reaching our full potential as individuals. Collaborative 3D Environments for Teaching and Learning.

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4 Ways to Bring the World to your Students. It’s a big world out there!

4 Ways to Bring the World to your Students

Here are four organizations who can help your students be ready... Secondary students are graduating into a flat, global, competitive, and rapidly changing world. In a previous blog I’ve described “4 Reasons Why Global Fluency Matters”, an open letter to 6th graders. In that article I explained my top four reasons: Global fluency builds relationships Global fluency helps you understand, not just translate Global fluency bridges cultural differences Global fluency is the new resume differentiator What I describe below are four examples of organizations that help make these connections happen for students.

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12 Dozen Places To Educate Yourself Online For Free. Education - iPad makes the perfect learning companion. Shayne Evans on Using Digital Media to Engage Students in Learning.