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Customized prints make great gifts! Purchase professional prints created from a high-resolution version of your customized creations. Prints are made on glossy or matte professional archive photo stock for a beautiful and durable product. The custom magazine covers and movie posters make great gifts for birthdays or anniversaries. Or use them to highlight activities or as a menu at your next event—and they're great take-home gifts for your guests. Here's how to order: Go to the Gift center to order personalized calendars, cards, holiday ornaments and other goodies. And remember, whether you choose to purchase a print or not, the images you create here from your own photos are yours to use however you wish. Reprints Go to the following page to order reprints of a previous order: Order Reprints. Shipping Standard delivery in 4-7 business days. The best way get an estimate for your order with shipping is to add some items to your cart and choose a shipping method. Pricing Posters Cards, Calendars, & Gifts More questions?

School Kids Needing Computers for Homework Buying a computer these days is certainly cheaper than it use to be. However, a computer is still an item that some families living in America can’t afford. Even if you can find a good used computer on sale, it is still costly to pay for an Internet service each month. Knowing how expensive it is to own a computer and be connected to the World Wide Web, I am shock what today’s school systems are doing. In a lot of households, you have a Dad and a Mom who both work full-time jobs. So asking the parents to take the kids to a local library, so they can have access to a computer is really showing a lack of respect toward these working families. School systems can’t expect all families to be able to afford computers for their children. I know in the perfect world, we would have a Mom or a Dad who comes home each evening from work and would spend hours and hours with their children on the computer. So why don’t schools just buy a computer for every student?

Best Free Podcasts Connexions - Sharing Knowledge and Building Communities Facebook's latest news, announcements and media resources - Announcements - Introducing Groups for Schools - Facebook By Michael Novati, engineer Today we’re announcing Groups for Schools, which allow people with an active school email address to join groups at their college or university. See what’s happening on campusYou can join a group for your major to discuss classes, for your sorority to plan upcoming events, or for your dorm to share photos. Photo of Wisconsin by Richard Hurd We are also introducing file sharing for these groups, to make it even easier to share lecture notes, sports schedules or class assignments. Groups for Schools will gradually be rolling out to colleges and universities around the world.

Audacity: Free Audio Editor and Recorder Teaching Online 3: Online teacher skills Friday 1 October 2010 by Nicky Hockly What makes a good online teacher? You can read more about each skill in my original blog post here. There are also a number of checklists out there which can be used for (self) evaluation by online teachers. QualificationsSubject matter knowledgeTechnical SkillsOnline task/materials design skillsSoft skills I notice that the original list of skills we came up with focused almost exclusively on soft skills. What do you think? Nicky

QR Code Generator, 2d Barcode Generator, QR Code A QR code generator is a software or online application that allows you to create QR codes. QR codes are probably the most popular and flexible two-dimensional barcode that is used by most businesses and individuals for anything from their marketing campaigns, education and even in ordinary lives and lets not forget just for fun! They’re widely used by any web design agency As QR codes gain popularity, more and more Web sites are offering free QR code generator services. With all the choices, and because they are all similarly free, most people just use the first QR code generator they find. But how do you distinguish one service from the other? 1. The best thing about QR codes is that it can contain a lot of different types of information behind it. 2. On the other side of the spectrum, there are generators that try to incorporate as many types of information possible, but the resulting interface is too confusing to use to be of any help at all. 3. 4. 5.

Online Learning Quiz Great! You’ll need to be able to download course material, get assignments and communicate with other students and your instructor. Fabulous! You’ll need to be able to download course material, get assignments and communicate with other students and your instructor. Contact a college advisor or counselor to help with other options. If you do not have a computer or access to a computer and the internet then online courses will not work for you. Good. It’s good you understand these basic skills and it would be wise to have a backup plan in case you have technology problems. Beware! Good. Consider how important this is to your learning and decide whether or not you are currently willing to challenge yourself to learn in a new way. Stop here! Great. Great, it’s good that you realize when it is important to speak up. It is important that you contact your instructor if you’re having any sort of problem. Super! Good. Reconsider. Just what you need to succeed! Keep sharp! Great! Great. Super!

10 Tools for Digital Storytelling in Class Digital storytelling is simply using computer-based tools to tell stories. There are many different ways to do this – from making movies, recording voices, creating animations or electronic books. In schools they can help to take a task that might be seen as mundane – write a report, write a story, explain a process, describe an experiment – and turn it into something a whole lot more interesting. There are a great many tools out there that could be used for digital storytelling. I am going to give you just a few: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. For more help and information on Digital Storytelling, take a look at this site from the University of Houston and for more tools you really need to take a look at Alan Levine (CogDogRoo) 50 web2.0 Ways to tell a Story wiki. Got any favourites?

gnitive Differences Between Adults & Children Author: Jeff Durham - Updated: 15 September 2012| Comment There’s an old saying that goes “you can’t teach an old dog new tricks” and, whether you believe that or not, the same principle cannot be applied to humans. In fact, adults can learn just as easily as children but there are several basic differences between what works effectively for adults and what works best for children. Experience Of Life As an adult, you’ll have had far more experience of life in general than a child and whilst this can help an adult more than a child when it comes to learning, it can also hinder them and a child’s lesser experiences can occasionally prove more beneficial. How Adults And Children Use Different Techniques For Learning For an adult learner, their experiences of life will have been far more vast and diverse than that of a child’s and their brain’s maturity will enable them to apply their learning through relating it to certain experiences they’ve had. The Significance Of ‘Purpose’ In Learning

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