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29 Sep 09

SharePoint Best Practices - Context is Everything - SharePoint Joel's SharePoint Land

  • Best Practices is about doing things the right way: the most efficient, effective ways to achieve goals, distilled into adaptable, repeatable procedures you can use.”
20 Sep 09

Abilene students face $15 fine for cell phones in school

  • Economic rough waters have prompted Texas schools in Abilene, TX to institute a
    district-wide cell phone fine. A new initiative will allow educators to
    confiscate any and all mobile phones, allowing them to hold the handset for a
    $15 ransom. After the first offense, students will have to ask a parent to come
    in and plunk down the $15 fine.

Top 10 Underhyped Webapps, 2009 Edition - Webapps - Lifehacker

  • Like previous underhyped champ Remember the Milk, Freckle doesn't require you to learn a new set of rules or input methods to track how you spend your time working for clients. If you type "Writing copy for Benderson Corp. 1h45m," it assigns a 1-hour-and-45-minute billing for Benderson.
  • Setting up a live video, audio, and screen-sharing chatroom for up to 12 people at once seems like something that might require a dozen software installations and point-by-point walkthroughs.
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13 Aug 09

Seth's Blog: When tactics drown out strategy

Most of us are afraid of strategy, because we don't feel confident outlining one unless we're sure it's going to work. And the 'work' part is all tactical, so we focus on that.

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27 Jul 09

Is Cursive Handwriting Dead? - Handwriting - Lifehacker

  • Cursive handwriting, a one-time mainstay of communication and mark of status, has become a rarity on the cusp of extinction. We're wondering if you think that's a good thing for all those future thank-you notes and other correspondence.
22 Jul 09

Top News - November: Drastically change ed-tech role

  • Despite the proliferation of internet access in U.S. schools over the past decade, November said, schools and colleges are often "technology rich and information poor," meaning students can use computers but lack the skills to find and use crucial information.
  • "Americans kids are just oblivious" to what is being studied in European and Asian classrooms and universities, he said, adding that U.S. students "could understand different points of view" through the web.
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SIMbook Holds Phone Numbers, Addresses on Old-School Paper Format - Simbook - Gizmodo

Notebook that looks like a SIM card.

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  • While SIM cards hold all the stuff address books used to, some people just can't part from that old ink-and-paper. The SIMbook lets people know that you're aware of modern technology, yet you choose to go retro.
13 Jul 09

The Best Free Algebra Homework Help Websites - MakeUseOf.com

The grade level where children make the transition from math to algebra can be very easy for some students, but difficult and confusing for others. Math concepts that are centered on clearly defined numbers and with all “factors” within the problem typically defined, are usually fairly easy for most students to follow and understand.

However, algebra concepts insert “unknowns” into equations and formulas that can really throw many students for a loop. Solving an equation for a factor that appears to be on the “wrong side” of the equal sign can feel like a very strange and impossible premise for those students.

As usual, help is available on the Internet, and the following list are some of the best free algebra homework help websites that can make the process of learning algebra a whole lot easier.

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