80+ Google Forms for the Classroom
If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my weekly newsletter. Thanks for visiting! Google Forms is a great tool for the classroom and this post from 2008 has always proven popular on my blog. I hope you continue to be inspired by the ideas here. I have created example forms for each of the different topics, follow the links in each of the ten sections. 1 ) Get to know your class Use this form to gather some indication from your new class about their likes and dislikes, their favourite lessons or after school clubs they enjoy. 2 ) Emotion graph An emotion graph is a simple line graph comparing a range of happiness to sadness against different points (time) in a story or film. Use a Google Form to gather the children’s responses to different parts of any type of linear narrative, written or visual. 3 ) Spelling test Steve Kirkpatrick had this brainwave a while back so check out his excellent post for more information about setting up the spreadsheet. 4 ) Comprehension questions
The New Big Data
Top scientists from companies such as Google and Yahoo are gathered alongside leading academics at the 17th Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) in San Diego this week. They will present the latest techniques for wresting insights from the deluge of data produced nowadays, and for making sense of information that comes in a wider variety of forms than ever before. Twenty years ago, the only people who cared about so-called “big data”—the only ones who had enormous data sets and the motivation to try to process them—were members of the scientific community, says Usama Fayyad, executive chair of ACM’s Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining and former chief data officer at Yahoo. Even then, the results of data mining were impressive. “We were able to solve significant scientific problems that were standing in the field for 30-plus years,” Fayyad says.
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30+ Online Drawing Tools
Here are some great online drawing tools for those who like to draw and work online at the same time. Way back in 2006, online drawing tools were few and far between, especially anything with collaborative functionality for multi-user action. Back then, the choices were basically Groupboard and LiTha-Paint. Single-user drawing & painting tools Mr. Easily our favorite single-user drawing tool, Mr. Pros: simple and elegant with some great effectsCons: perhaps too simple, only black-&-whiteUnique Feature: Longfur brush FTW! ptzonline Harmony Just like Mr. Pros: Just like Mr. Slimber Pretty nice and simple online drawing tool. Pros: custom canvas size (up to 800×800), zoom function, toggle “smoothing” featureCons: better than MS Paint, but still pretty limited, max canvas size too smallUnique Feature: clean minimal design, pencil tool with automatic fill (makes cool abstract designs) Mudcube Sketchpad Queeky SUMO Paint Flame Painter Even more fun than Mr. ..into this (and beyond): open Studio
Le Web à la puissance 2
On ne présente plus vraiment Tim O’Reilly et John Battelle. Tim O’Reilly, des éditions O’Reilly, est devenu l’un des gourous incontournables du web. Initiateur – et promoteur – de la notion de Web 2.0 (voir notre traduction), il demeure l’un des plus fins observateurs du changement technologique. John Battelle, journaliste, auteur de La révolution Google est quant à lui l’un des spécialistes des moteurs de recherche. Il y a cinq ans, nous lancions une conférence sur une idée simple, qui est devenue un mouvement. Dans notre programme initial, nous nous demandions pourquoi certaines entreprises avaient survécu à cette bulle, tandis que d’autres avaient échoué si lamentablement. De Google et Amazon à Wikipedia, eBay et Craiglist, nous constations que le logiciel jouait un rôle facilitateur, mais que la valeur était créée par et pour la communauté des utilisateurs. Il est tout cela, et plus encore. Redéfinir l’intelligence collective : une nouvelle participation sensorielle ____________1.
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List of academic databases and search engines
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This article contains a representative list of notable databases and search engines useful in an academic setting for finding and accessing articles in academic journals, institutional repositories, archives, or other collections of scientific and other articles. Databases and search engines differ substantially in terms of coverage and retrieval qualities.[1] Users need to account for qualities and limitations of databases and search engines, especially those searching systematically for records such as in systematic reviews or meta-analyses.[2] As the distinction between a database and a search engine is unclear for these complex document retrieval systems, see: the general list of search engines for all-purpose search engines that can be used for academic purposesthe article about bibliographic databases for information about databases giving bibliographic information about finding books and journal articles. Operating services[edit] [edit] [edit]
Startups, This Is How Design Works – by Wells Riley
Beautiful web-based timeline software
