5 Ways for Students to Publish in Under a Minute. There are many excellent platforms that teachers and students can use to create and maintain a blog throughout the school year. Depending upon your chosen purpose for student blogging, some platforms are better than others. But if you just want students to occasionally publish an essay to the web for peer review, you might not need a full-fledged blogging platform.
Here are five ways that you can have students publish their essays to the web in under a minute (writing and editing time excluded). Pencamp is a simple platform for quickly publishing your writing. Scriffon is a simple service for writing and publishing online. Pen.io is a simple blogging service that you can start using in a minute or less. Wordfaire is a new service for quickly creating and updating a live blog. This one does assume that your students already have a Google Docs account in some form either through your school's domain or as a stand alone account.
Bonus item: Writing Prompts. Pocket. Android or Apple? How about agnostic? - CNET Mobile. Whether it's Apple or Android, a Nexus tablet or an iPad, it just isn't that big a deal anymore. For me, that is. A couple of years ago the iPhone and iPad were easy choices. Today, Android is, well, Android. It's everywhere. Apps: Just mentioning apps in the context of Android versus iOS can be provocative. That said, the essential apps that I need are now on both platforms.
That includes lesser-known apps like OnStar RemoteLink (for my car), AT&T U-verse, and birding apps, in addition to the usual suspects like Netflix and Skype. So, I was intrigued by a release from market researcher Canalys this week that listed the most popular iPad apps under the headline "Half of top iPad apps either unavailable or not optimized on Android. " Take a look at the two lists (below) for yourself (original PDF here). While developers in the past have favored iOS, I don't know how true that is universally today. Hardware: A quick word about hardware. But for now, I'm an agnostic. Turning the Page on Magazine Apps: The Future of Digital Content is on the Web.
In his last column, Sparksheet design director Charles Lim argued that the problem with magazine apps is that they’re often just “print in digital clothing.” This time he suggests that publishers looking for a solution need not look any further than the trusty web browser. It’s been almost two years now since Wired launched its iPad Magazine App. What happened after the initial hype about the app being “the future of magazines” was that people stopped downloading it, Condé Nast’s “digital wonder boy” Scott Dadich was put on the hot seat, and hardly any other publisher has been able to monetize their fancy magazine apps. The tablet was supposed to be every publisher’s dream: unlimited pages, more room for extras. It seems like the more designers tried to innovate with navigation and layout – shoehorning print techniques into digital form – the more confusing it became for the user.
Nobody wants your “extras” They’re not alone. In some industries, extras do work. The power of words. What Does Platform Agnostic Mean? We’ve been using the term “platform agnostic” for years. But our recent feature article about the future of magazine apps has given us pause to reflect on an uncomfortable truth: We’re not entirely sure what “platform agnostic” means anymore. Ask a web developer and she will invariably start waxing poetic about hardware architecture, software frameworks and programming languages. Ask a journalist and he’s likely to start talking about the places content is housed – in print, on the web or in an app. Speak to a film or television producer, writer or marketer and they might casually drop the term “transmedia,” a close cousin of platform agnosticism which is coming into its own as an industry.
Last year we attended a conference in San Francisco all about transmedia. We like to think of Sparksheet as a platform agnostic magazine. It also means our content is available on whatever screens or device you want to consume it on, thanks to our website’s responsive design. Confused yet? The Common Core Toolkit equips teachers with the tools and resources to needed to implement the CCSS Standards. Learning Unlimited.
The Common Core Made Easy: 3 Great Resources. The title of this post, interestingly, came from someone who searched using this phrase, and landed on our website. While I can’t promise to make implementing the Common Core easy, I can highlight several resources that will make learning more about the Common Core easier for you. And, the more you learn, the easier implementation will be. I’ll briefly share three resources that may just provide the digestible and visual information you’ve been looking for. Each resource is unique and in them you’ll find: a cheat sheet, a visual overview, a handy CCSS reference/foldout of standards, a webinar, a periodic guide to the CCSS Standards, and an in-depth look at the standards.
The Common Core Toolkit The Common Core Toolkit includes easy-to-digest information and tools for clarifying the CCSS E/LA and literacy standards. Developed in the fall of 2012, thousands of educators have downloaded the toolkit, and the feedback has been positive. The Common Core Toolkit includes 3 Tools: Details: Kimberly. Resources | Common Core Made Easy. Core Resources Educational Organizations Latest News on Common Core State Standards 23 April 2014, 6:11 am 23 April 2014, 5:01 am 22 April 2014, 9:04 pm 22 April 2014, 4:53 pm 22 April 2014, 4:38 pm 22 April 2014, 12:15 pm 21 April 2014, 3:30 pm 21 April 2014, 9:45 am 11 April 2014, 9:07 pm 7 April 2014, 9:00 am Common Core Video Clips Common Core State Standards: High School Common Core State Standards: Middle School Common Core State Standards: Elementary School. The story of NASCAR's Richie Parker asks you to leave your excuses at the door.
This is Richie Parker. He's a number of things: car enthusiast, engineer, employee, son. He's a normal guy for his age, working a job in a field he loves. Oh, he also happens to have no arms. After watching this video from ESPN, we can't help but think that Richie might describe himself in just such a way, with his birth defect a secondary part of his life, scarcely worth mentioning.
His story is a remarkable one, about not letting bumps in the road stop you and about finding ingenious solutions to problems you or I have never thought about. Richie was born with bilateral amelia, a non-genetic birth defect in which limbs aren't formed. After that, perhaps you'd be interested in hearing a bit about some more people who have managed to overcome similar issues in equally impressive ways.
Disability Resources and Educational Services. Win up to $1,500 at the 2014 Recognition Awards Ceremony On Sunday, April 27, DRES will recognize outstanding students at our annual ceremony. Upper Division Writing Proficiency Exam (UDWPE) Workshop Why stress out over the UDWPE, especially when you can sign up for the free preparation workshop through DRES? The workshop takes place Wednesday, April 16, 2014, 2-4 p.m., in the DRES conference room within Bayramian Hall 110. Thriving and Achieving Program (TAP) Connection Point Seminars Study Strategies Need to figure out how to study better for finals?
If so, our workshop takes place Thursday, April 17, 2014, 3:30-4:30 p.m., in the DRES conference room within Bayramian Hall 110. Stress Management Feeling stressed? Scheduling Exams at DRES Exams should be scheduled in SAAS five business days prior to the exam date, and final exams should be scheduled 10 business days in advance. Recent CSUN graduate Erick Gallegos was profiled in CSUN Today for his hard work and determination.