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Today we’re introducing the research pane—a new feature that brings the web’s wealth of information to you as you’re writing documents.

The research pane taps into Google Search directly from Google documents, so whether you want to add a cool destination to your itinerary for an upcoming trip to India or you're looking for the perfect presidential quote for a political science paper, you don’t even have to open a new tab.

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With public education currently under attack from many different sides, it is important that we as educators, become advocates for our profession.  We need to arm ourselves with the facts, with why we should be proud of what we do, and how well we do it. 
 
With that in mind, here is a list of ten interesting facts that teachers should be proud of.  Read them for yourself…and then share them with everyone you know!

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We must call out bullying when we see it.  Bullying doesn’t stand up well to the light.  Truth, honesty, and courage do.  This includes bullying in the modern context, cyberbullying where cowards hide behind the cloak of anonymity making threats or calling names and includes gang and mob behaviour where bullies hide behind pseudonyms in an internet group and discuss others nastily like an adolescent playground clique.  It’s still bullying and it hurts.

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The Technology Development Group (TDG) is proud to present a one-stop information website dedicated to the world’s most important and populous languages. We provide quality, dependable, customer-driven IT services including design, integration and support to Government and Private Sector clients.

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Infographic Labs studied the history of search engines and came up with quite an informative timeline of the history of search engines. If you think you knew them all, think again. Most of them I recognize, but there are some that are new, and I don’t know if all of them are in operation anymore.

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This elementary activity is great fun for all kids in the computer lab or at home! Children practice math facts by playing a fun game. Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division

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Ahead of the much anticipated launch of JK Rowling’s new Harry Potter site, Pottermore , Tom Kennedy looks at some of the facts and figures behind the author's phenomenal creation.

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Youtube is the most popular video sharing website on Web and the world's third most Visited website (according to Alexa). Youtube Founders - Chad Hurley, Steve and Jawed fot this idea during a dinner party in Steve Chen's Apartment in San Fransisco. Internet Search Giant Google - Bought Youtube in Novemeber 2006 at $1.65 billion which is equal to prices of Five A-380 , World's biggest passenger AirCraft. An Average Internet user spends 15 minutes i.e 900 seconds on Youtube Daily. 24 Hours of Video is uploaded on Youtube Every minute which is equal to 150,000 full length videos every week.

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he average YouTube user spends between 15 and 25 minutes a day on the site, but how much do we know about the world’s largest video sharing website? Do you know what the most watched YouTube clip is? Can you name all three founders? Do you know how many times per minute a YouTube link is tweeted?

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Science Chatterboxes are an innovative resource that will inspire and motivate the science teaching and learning in your class.

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Like making regular bathroom breaks during the night and awkward first kisses, we all have “blood” in common. As boring as it may sound, in Medical Assistant Schools, understanding the complexity of blood and its composite is as important as cutting up your first cadaver. See what interesting and fun facts you never knew about blood.

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Well, amongst other things, pretty much everyone said that 2010 was the year of the infographic, and we’ve seen lots of retrospectives usign data-viz. So, let’s have a look at some of the most interesting ones, and remember what happened in 2010!

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a fun way to share little-known facts about yourself with others
What’s something not many people know about you?

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50 Fascinating Social Media Facts infographic

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Is social media feeding into sloppiness? Are we getting lazy about fact checking? Tommy and Lisa take a closer look at the Washington Post situation that featured Michael Wise.

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Giving Canadian children tools to be media and life wise.

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Facebook Facts You Probably Didn’t Know

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Letters can be fun. Literally. F-U-N. Eh? Eh? Jokes aside, a little trivia about letter frequency in the English language will ensure you have a fun thing to talk about around all your letter-loving pals.

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