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8 Good Web Tools to Create Video Quizzes for Your Class. Vialogue (Video + Dialogue ) is an online video with a group discussion feature.

8 Good Web Tools to Create Video Quizzes for Your Class

Vialogue allows users to interact with videos by adding time stamped comments to them.

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Poor Man’s Sparklines in Microsoft Excel

In a rare guest post, Sparklines For Excel vs. Excel 2010 Sparklines by Alex Kerin of Data Driven Consulting compared this new feature to existing third-party sparkline add-ins for Excel. Scribble Maps - Create custom google maps with scribblings and more! Thomas Sowell. The Greatest Books of All Time, As Voted by 125 Famous Authors.

“Reading is the nourishment that lets you do interesting work,” Jennifer Egan once said.

The Greatest Books of All Time, As Voted by 125 Famous Authors

This intersection of reading and writing is both a necessary bi-directional life skill for us mere mortals and a secret of iconic writers’ success, as bespoken by their personal libraries. The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite Books asks 125 of modernity’s greatest British and American writers — including Norman Mailer, Ann Patchett, Jonathan Franzen, Claire Messud, and Joyce Carol Oates — “to provide a list, ranked, in order, of what [they] consider the ten greatest works of fiction of all time– novels, story collections, plays, or poems.” Wall Street's Most Worrying Charts. How to Get the News You Want Without Being Overwhelmed - Alan Jacobs - Technology. People often ask me, "Alan, how do you manage to be so well-informed and up-to-date on so many subjects?

How to Get the News You Want Without Being Overwhelmed - Alan Jacobs - Technology

" Actually they don't, but if they did I'd explain to them how I have achieved optimal internet filtering. Because that's what it's all about: setting up the right filters. In Clay Shirky's well-known formulation, our problem isn't information overload, it's filter failure. Herewith a tale of filter success. (Well, I think so, anyway.) (1) Our story begins with RSS feeds (in my case via Google Reader) and Twitter.

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Comparing the Lifestyles of Homosexual Couples to Married Couples

Dailey, Ph. D. Senior Fellow, Center for Marriage and Family Studies "Married and Gay Couples Not All that Different," proclaimed the headline of a news article portraying homosexual households as remarkably similar to married couples. "We're the couple next door," claimed one partnered homosexual. Are homosexual households, as the article suggests, simply another variant of human relationships that should be considered, along with marriage, as "part of mainstream American society"?

On the contrary, the evidence indicates that "committed" homosexual relationships are radically different from married couples in several key respects: relationship duration monogamy vs. promiscuity relationship commitment number of children being raised health risks rates of intimate partner violence Finally, this paper will present evidence from gay activists themselves indicating that behind the push for gay marriage lies a political agenda to radically change the institution of marriage itself. The Weed: Club Unicorn: In which I come out of the closet on our ten year anniversary.

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The Weed: Club Unicorn: In which I come out of the closet on our ten year anniversary

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