Twitter / KEN MCKINLAY: @crooneybrowne Had an acco … Had an account for a while, Ewan McIntosh's talk made decide to get of my ass and use it Programme for Week beginning 22nd February 2010 « Room X9 English – resources and notices Teacher using blog to share calendar overviews for students and parents

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Displaying schools desire to keep in touch with community – News – Haddington – Articles – East Lothian Courier KNOX Academy is keen to keep residents in touch with school events. . . by placing electronic 'information board' display screens in key town centre locations.

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Once more a Glasgow Herald journalist chooses 2% of an argument in his quotation from a McIntosh and leaves out the more positive 98% that he could have printed but would not have made such a ‘good’ story. Andrew Brown has indeed engendered “a new mood of collaboration” since he took over the Directorship of [...]

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British Airways · Travel · International Trade Support Companies VirtualCaseCreator – Birmingham City University The Virtual Case Creator (VCC) is software that supports rich, highly interactive, multimedia, online simulations. Designed to be used within blended, distance, work-based or classroom focused learning programmes, VCC simulations can be integrated within a VLE via a URL link or [...]

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Ten rules for writing fiction | Books | guardian.co.uk I'm inspired to write my own now! Get an accountant, abstain from sex and similes, cut, rewrite, then cut and rewrite again – if all else fails, pray. Inspired by Elmore Leonard's 10 Rules of Writing, we asked authors for their personal dos and don'ts Welcome [...]

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Internet freedom ‘helps pupils’ – UK & Ireland, Breaking News – Belfasttelegraph.co.uk Pupils given more freedom to surf the internet at school are less "vulnerable" to online dangers in the long term, an education watchdog said. Ofsted said "locked down" systems that barred access to websites were "less effective" overall in keeping children safe. A [...]

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BBC News – PleaseRobMe website reveals dangers of social networks A website called PleaseRobMe claims to reveal the location of empty homes based on what people post online. The Dutch developers told BBC News the site was designed to prove a point about the dangers of sharing precise location information on the internet. The site [...]

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cross-posted from Daily Kos My support for NCLB remained strong until November 30, 2006. I can pinpoint the date exactly because that was the day I realized that NCLB was a failure. This is a book review. Those words appear on p.99, which however odd a starting point is critical. I learned about this event [...]

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First of all, thanks to all of you who chimed in as to how to go about crowdsourcing this idea. Some great ideas that I’m going to try to navigate here in an attempt to offer a consensus plan. And just for the record, I’m struggling a bit with what the role of “Manager of [...]

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