The Self-Directed Student Toolbox: 100 Web Resources for Lifelong Learners Friday 1st March, 2013 No matter your age, profession, or abilities, there's always something new to learn. Lifelong learning, as this process is often called, can begin in childhood and extend branches into various experiences and careers. Most often, however, we hear about lifelong learning with respect to adults who have finished school or begun careers and are still striving to learn more. To help those ambitious learners, we've compiled a great collection of resources that can make it easier to head back to college, find learning resources on the web, or even pursue a different career path. Adult Education Guides The sites listed below will help you to prepare for lifelong learning practices, from developing positive attitudes about learning to providing information you'll need to gain credit for life experiences. AdultEducationPath : You'll find a lot of guidance in pursuing education on this site that can help you choose a program, find a job, or explore distance learning. Blogs
FontStruct | Build, Share, Download Fonts 6 Very Cool Uses for Google Spreadsheets « Tech to Live By In case you don’t know, Google Spreadsheets is basically an online version of Microsoft’s Excel. It’s got most of the basic functionality and a few of the advanced features with the added benefit of being hosted online and accessible to/editable by multiple users at the same time. If you need super hardcore analysis features, Excel is still your best option (though I’ve been known to start a document online then export to Excel at the end for the one feature I needed). I’ve used Google Spreadsheets for everything from making to do lists and managing projects to collecting information from friends. List View List view is a very simple, clean and fast way to interact with a spreadsheet. You can read a bit more about this feature here. Use Live Google Search Results in your Spreadsheet The GoogleLookup function has got to be one of the most under discussed but potentially powerful features in all of the Google arsenal. For now, you can read more about these functions here and here.
Bizarre Websites On Which You Can Kill Time With Style - Smashing Magazine Google Brings Global Science Fair Online STEM | News Google Brings Global Science Fair Online Google revealed Tuesday that it's launching the Google Science Fair, which the company described as the "first global online science competition." Google partnered with a number of organizations to launch the competition, including CERN, the Lego Group, National Geographic, and Scientific American. Students aged 13 to 18 are eligible to participate in the inaugural Google Science Fair singly or in groups of two or three. Registration is opening today and will be open through April 4. Judging criteria will focus on quality of the data, the writeup, and the significance of the concept for the project, as well as the quality of the video or presentation that the students must produce for the project. The initial round of judging in May will result in 60 semifinalists. Prizes will be awarded to the 15 finalists, along with a grand prize winner and a people's choice winner.
45 Cute Animal Photos That Will Cheer You Up! Our affection to animals is a great one. Apart from human begins, animals are also a favorite subject of photos because most of them look adorable, and we all love to capture their cute and funny movement. Even tho life gets hard every now and then, they remind us that everything will be ok. Studies have even shown that owning a dog or cat can reduce stress. Cuteness is best demonstrated through small babies who have all the key features that usually attract the eyes of all and sundry and make a person loveable yet there remains an ever so impossible burning desire to own the intangible aspects. For your inspiration, we collected the following cute animal photos that will cheer you up! Note: All photos were collected from Cutestpaw.com I Am Begging for Some Tuna! My Friend’s Hedgehog Gave Birth Poof Luke, I am Your…Dog… You Clearly Look Confused My People Need Me! Too Full Hugs Teacup Puppy They Call Me Billy the Pig Computers Are So Boring… Dreamy Wrinkles Just the Cutest Little Dance XiagnSui Chick
Contents, Interactive Mathematics Miscellany and Puzzles Since May 6, 1997You are visitor number E66B7E in base 20 Raymond Smullyan, a Mathematician, Philosopher and author of several outstanding books of logical puzzles, tells, in one of his books, a revealing story. A friend invited him for dinner. Having told this story, would it be wise to announce up front what this site is about? |Contact||Front page||Index||Store| Stolen Camera Finder - find your photos, find your camera - StumbleUpon DEN Blog Network » DEN March Madness Mashup ESPN has NOTHING on the DEN. We’re bringing you DEN March Madness Mashup. We asked the DEN team and our amazing group of professional development specialists for some of their favorite tools to use with Discovery Education. Here are their choices and your opportunity to select the Elite Eight, the Final Four, and the Champion. Sweet Sixteen Game 1 MovieMaker/iMove vs. Game 2VoiceThread vs. Game 3Animoto vs. Game 4Tagxedo vs. Game 5Blabberize vs. Game 6Wikispaces vs. Game 7Prezi vs. Game 8ujam vs. So, go check out these tools! Go on… get to voting!
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Physics Flash Animations We have been increasingly using Flash animations for illustrating Physics content. This page provides access to those animations which may be of general interest. The animations will appear in a separate window. The animations are sorted by category, and the file size of each animation is included in the listing. In addition, I have prepared a small tutorial in using Flash to do Physics animations. LInks to versions of these animations in other languages, other links, and license information appear towards the bottom of this page. The Animations There are 99 animations listed below. Other Languages and Links These animations have been translated into Catalan, Spanish and Basque: En aquest enllaç podeu trobar la versió al català de les animacions Flash de Física. Many animations have been translated into Greek by Vangelis Koltsakis. Most animations have been translated into Hungarian by Sandor Nagy, Eötvös Loránd University.
stemNRICH Biologists are increasingly using mathematical tools to aid in research. These problems explore different biological contexts where maths has an important contribution to make. Bird Watch Stage: 2 and 3 Challenge Level: Do you know which birds are regular visitors where you live? Terrariums Stage: 3 Challenge Level: Build a mini eco-system, and collect and interpret data on how well the plants grow under different conditions. Food Web Is this eco-system sustainable? Food Chains When a habitat changes, what happens to the food chain? Counting Dolphins Stage: 4 Challenge Level: How would you go about estimating populations of dolphins? Investigating Epidemics Stage: 3 and 4 Challenge Level: Simple models which help us to investigate how epidemics grow and die out. Solving the Genome Puzzle