Seeks Seeks is a websearch proxy and collaborative distributed tool for websearch. Content Seeks code provides: a web proxy,a websearch meta search engine that aggregates results and ranks them based on consensus.a plugin system and a set of default plugins, including websearch and ad blocking plugins.a P2P collaborative filter that enables decentralized collaborative searching and sharing. Installation Dependencies: libcurllibxml2libpcretokyo cabinetprotocol bufferslibevent (optional, 2.x preferred)opencv (optional)docbook2x-man (optionnal) From the root directory, run . Compilation options can be listed with . Running Seeks This is an early version of Seeks, it is recommended your run it from the repository you compiled it from. cd src . see . For example, by default seeks does not run as a daemon. Other important options can be modified in the configuration file, src/config By default, seeks runs as proxy on the local machine (127.0.0.1) on port 8250. Troubleshooting
ESL Vocabulary Lists Learning English as a second or foreign language (ESL / EFL) takes time, and building your vocabulary is an important key to improving your communication skills. Thus, students need to learn how to understand and use vocabulary in everyday situations. Each of the pages below is designed to build communication skills, with a Listening and Discussion activity. As you learn the vocabulary, try to use it in other situations. Use the worksheet below to keep record of your progress. Homework Sheet - Vocabulary (www.esl-lab.com) This sheet (in PDF or Word format) can be used to write down new vocabulary and their definitions from the vocabulary exercises on this site, and students are encouraged to then write sample sentences for each word as a way of learning how to use the vocabulary in context The topics above (designed mainly for upper-beginning students and higher) are designed to serve as a short, self-enclosed mini lesson.
Free ESL Worksheets, English Teaching Materials, ESL Lesson Plans Top of the Web Follow Springo on : Find top sites My top sites Top Sites News Music Video Sports Online Games Shopping Maps Photos Movies Select your setting: TRAVEL ENGLISH: English for tourists, English for travel, travel-related phrases Welcome to our Travel English section! If you're planning a trip, and would like to learn/practice common English phrases used by travelers, we offer 60 free exercises that will help you do this. This is much more than a simple English phrase book. It's a collection of interactive exercises designed to assist you in a wide variety of possible travel-related situations. TRANSPORTATION (TRAINS/CARS/ETC.)
abcteach: Printable Worksheets, Common Core Activities, Smart Board Interactive Heuristic A heuristic technique (/hjʉˈrɪstɨk/; Greek: "Εὑρίσκω", "find" or "discover"), sometimes called simply a heuristic, is any approach to problem solving, learning, or discovery that employs a practical methodology not guaranteed to be optimal or perfect, but sufficient for the immediate goals. Where finding an optimal solution is impossible or impractical, heuristic methods can be used to speed up the process of finding a satisfactory solution. Heuristics can be mental shortcuts that ease the cognitive load of making a decision. Examples of this method include using a rule of thumb, an educated guess, an intuitive judgment, stereotyping, profiling, or common sense. More precisely, heuristics are strategies using readily accessible, though loosely applicable, information to control problem solving in human beings and machines.[1] Example[edit] Here are a few other commonly used heuristics, from George Pólya's 1945 book, How to Solve It:[2] Psychology[edit] Well known[edit] Lesser known[edit]
Free School Building Flashcards, printables, bingo sheets, game cards and handouts School flashcards: preview these flashcards a classroom, the music room, the art room, the library, the gymnasium, the science room, the cafeteria, the lockers/the hall, the principal's office, the school grounds, the baseball field, the playground, the pool, the computer room, the auditorium, the boys' room, the girls' room, the bus stop, (the stair well, the locker room, the football stadium, the teachers' room/office, the parking lot) large flash cards, medium cards, small game cards, bingo cards, a handout same cards with b/w backings: medium cards, small game cards, bingo cards PowerPoint flashcards Tools for Educators is a website developed by MES with worksheet generators to make vocabulary and language building teaching materials, using the images from these flashcards. word serach generator crossword maker board gamespicture dictionary bingo boards 123 Listening is a website developed by MES with Dream English. listening worksheet makers listening test audio ESL games
Prepositions: Vocabulary for Beginning Readers Vocabulary for Pre and Beginning Readers Basic vocabulary is necessary for a child as they begin to learn to read. Children learn the meanings of most words indirectly, through their everyday experiences. While most vocabulary is learnt indirectly, direct vocabulary learning in addition to indirect vocabulary learning is useful. About 300 more words can be learnt each year as a result of direct vocabulary instruction, (Stahl & Fairbanks, 1986). Basic vocabulary for beginning readers include: colours; prepositions; common objects and locations; pronouns; parts of everyday objects; adjectives; occupations; quantity words; materials; shapes; and patterns. Prepositions: Basic Vocabulary Here is a simple activity for assessing and teaching prepositions. This activity can be done with two cups and any other single item you have on hand, e.g. a pencil. Placing Batman in various positions relative to the cup/s, I simply asked, “Where is Batman?” Teaching Vocabulary through Modelling About the author
how to be creative Accept that you’ve got the creative urge and it’s never going to go away. Make friends with it. Drink some tequila if you need to. Commit to the process. Engage! There is a gap between where you are and where you want to be. You eat the elephant one mouthful at a time. Creativity happens in the relationship between you and your medium, whether it’s the violin or writing or painting or puppetry or interpretive dance or start-ups or some combination thereof (interpretive dance puppetry, which I hear is wildly underrated). Find your tribe. Avoid toxic people. Seek constructive feedback. Master your tools. Master the difficult. Celebrate your progress, step by step by step. Embrace your limitations and constraints. If you don’t have any limitations, make some up. Develop creative rituals. Control your space. Be imperfect. Reframe failure. Go for bold heroic failures. Be solitary. Be social. Feed your head. Create conversation. Go where the conversation isn’t. Shift perspectives.
One Lesson at a Time.": MONDAY MORNING DIFFERENTIATION IDEAS! MONDAY MORNING DIFFERENTIATION IDEAS!Great ideas to differentiate and integrate the real world into your curriculum and create a rigorous learning environment! Before I begin sharing this week's samples of activities that have worked successfully for me; I wanted to share a poster I created with self-reflective questions for classroom teachers. State exams, new curriculum, and a multitude of new standards have presented an overwhelming amount of work, organization and restructuring of how we approach education today. There is no doubt that our public schools are spending millions of dollars in our classrooms on the development of interventions for struggling students because of the accountability on state exams. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.