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& Sleeves, Necklines, Collars, and Dress Types She's in Fashion. I’ve recently ventured into drafting patterns starting from my basic bodice and skirt sloper. The fit issues are minimal, since the sloper is made skin tight. Design ease is added as you go along. I found these reference pictures useful for ideas on basic sleeves, necklines, collars, and dress types. These are from Vogue Sewing, circa 1982. Browse: Material Type: Textbooks. Home. World Statistics, Country Comparisons. Goofram - Google and Wolfram Alpha Side by Side. Goofram is a mash-up of Google Search and Wolfram Alpha search. Enter your search term(s) into Goofram and it will display relevant results drawn from Google and Wolfram Alpha.

Goofram really shines when you're searching for information about a topic that could potentially have a lot of numerical information as well as text-based information. For example, when I searched using the phrase, "first person to climb Mount Everest," the result was a column of links, generated by Google, to articles about Mount Everest and a column of statistical information, generated by Wolfram Alpha, about Mount Everest. (click the image below to see my Goofram results page). Applications for EducationGoofram could be a good resource for science and mathematics students conducting online research. By having statistical information displayed side-by-side with text-based information students will save time as they are essentially getting a two-for-one with Goofram. HowStuffWorks - Learn How Everything Works! Smarthistory: a multimedia web-book about art and art history.

Learn a New Skill This Weekend. Top 10 Highly-Desired Skills You Can Teach Yourself. Audi. Optical Illusions and Visual Phenomena. The Knowledge Sharing Place. LiveBinder It Bookmarklet - Add "LiveBinder It" to your browser toolbar so that you can add to your binders while you browse. It is one-button binder building! LiveBinders iPad App - Our iPad app gives you easy access to your binders from your iPad.

LiveBinders iPhone App - Our iPhone app lets your students access and save your binders on their iPhone without even if they don't have a LiveBinders account. More Great Apps - TeacherCast has created a great way to search binders from your iPad. Janet Hale has created a very nice app called The CCSS ELA Progressive Continuums. 100 Websites You Should Know and Use. In the spring of 2007, Julius Wiedemann, editor in charge at Taschen GmbH, gave a legendary TED University talk: an ultra-fast-moving ride through the “100 websites you should know and use.” Six years later, it remains one of the most viewed TED blog posts ever. Time for an update? We think so.

Below, the 2013 edition of the 100 websites to put on your radar and in your browser. To see the original list, click here. While most of these sites are still going strong and remain wonderful resources, we’ve crossed out any that are no longer functioning. And because there are so many amazing resources out there, please add your own ideas in the comments. And now, the original list from 2007, created by Julius Wiedemann, editor in charge at Taschen GmbH. Best iPad Apps. 50 Fantastic Free iPad Apps. We all love getting something great for free! However, hunting down the good free iPad apps from the terrible ones in the jungle of the App Store can be a difficult job. Fortunately for you, I’m here to help. We’ll try and keep a mix of old classics and new favourites, read on and stock up on fantastic free iPad apps! Like the article? Be sure to subscribe to our RSS feed and follow us on Twitter to stay up on recent content.

Flipboard Flipboard is one of the most popular news readers for the iPad due to its fantastic, intuitive interface and its sheer ease of use. Planetary Planetary is a fascinating way to explore your music collection that’s only available on the iPad. We recently reviewed Planetary and found it to be a simply stunning free offering for the iPad. Zite Zite is a great way to consume all kinds of news and articles, that gradually learns your preferences and what you like to read. The Onion If you’re not already a fan of The Onion, you probably should be. IMDb Remote Paper 500px.