BotW: Selena Gomez is too Good for Justin Bieber

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">The entire staff here at IWS would like to extend our most sincere condolences to Selena Gomez on the news of her breakup with Justin Bieber. While we all believe that this is for the best, and that Ms. Gomez is entirely too good for the smarmy little pipsqueak, we do understand her heartbreak and know how much it hurts.<br /><br />So, come on Selena, dry those tears and turn that frown upside down and find comfort in our warm and caring embrace as we name YOU our Babe of the Week!<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh53z1eJB48lwvqVga7iyBtUC8b25Rbqh_f6m0LZ_447IenPm0gF-d-512VQBnG-uEb5MCYYQye-v1k2abSLgv2MgXbM8wAhyphenhyphen1nvJWP5TZ-Iabv7OyNV6xDKkP456UC2AXQ8E8OXTGcu_g/s1600/Selena+Gomez+Face+Beautiful.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="392" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh53z1eJB48lwvqVga7iyBtUC8b25Rbqh_f6m0LZ_447IenPm0gF-d-512VQBnG-uEb5MCYYQye-v1k2abSLgv2MgXbM8wAhyphenhyphen1nvJWP5TZ-Iabv7OyNV6xDKkP456UC2AXQ8E8OXTGcu_g/s400/Selena+Gomez+Face+Beautiful.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBnpDIAFr2928Wps2jP8cru3a0O4_zV2vA6JMlnWBE5UxIUIxNmxR_Oqaju70jDpglER8QG2albS6vthamG72oz9AOi9siUEkuP9fPfybBd_dxGCNzXx28KYN93somjzKj_AIZVvWVY6E/s1600/Selena+Gomez+Cleavage+Boobs+Hot.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBnpDIAFr2928Wps2jP8cru3a0O4_zV2vA6JMlnWBE5UxIUIxNmxR_Oqaju70jDpglER8QG2albS6vthamG72oz9AOi9siUEkuP9fPfybBd_dxGCNzXx28KYN93somjzKj_AIZVvWVY6E/s640/Selena+Gomez+Cleavage+Boobs+Hot.jpeg" width="425" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGWcZbDCbzxZMEkdJNQAcBe0QeIme6nqFwqNMW-fBZ9qjBvLftEbtE7Ds3Lw2axeSSxyI8UGxyYVw5YTQl-CYXWp4vwgBX9ryPPsl88ajbdMpkJmYjX53nxRP7G1HPydJT3oXo1U8bJr4/s1600/Selena+Gomez+Bikini+Nude+Hot.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGWcZbDCbzxZMEkdJNQAcBe0QeIme6nqFwqNMW-fBZ9qjBvLftEbtE7Ds3Lw2axeSSxyI8UGxyYVw5YTQl-CYXWp4vwgBX9ryPPsl88ajbdMpkJmYjX53nxRP7G1HPydJT3oXo1U8bJr4/s640/Selena+Gomez+Bikini+Nude+Hot.jpg" width="466" /></a></div><br /><br /><div><br /></div><br /><br />Be sure to check out all the hilarity that is the I'm With Stupid podcast! <br /><br /><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.adobe.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,0,0" height="270" id="143577" name="143577" width="210"><param name="movie" value="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/btrplayer.swf?file=http://www.blogtalkradio.com%2Fim-with-stupid%2Fplay_list.xml%3Fitemcount%3D5&autostart=true&bufferlength=5&volume=80&corner=rounded&callback=http://www.blogtalkradio.com/flashplayercallback.aspx" /><param name="quality" value="high" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent" /><param name="menu" value="false" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><embed src="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/btrplayer.swf" flashvars="file=http://www.blogtalkradio.com%2fim-with-stupid%2fplay_list.xml%3Fitemcount%3D5&autostart=true&shuffle=false&callback=http://www.blogtalkradio.com/FlashPlayerCallback.aspx&width=210&height=270&volume=80&corner=rounded" width="210" height="270" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" quality="high" wmode="transparent" menu="false" name="143577" id="143577" allowScriptAccess="always"></embed></object><br /><div style="font-size: 10px; text-align: center; width: 220px;">Listen to <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/">internet radio</a> with <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/im-with-stupid">Im With Stupid</a> on Blog Talk Radio<br /><br /><br /></div></div>

BotW: Selena Gomez is too Good for Justin Bieber

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Teach This! Teaching with lesson plans and ideas that rock 11/10/2012

<ul class="diigo-linkroll"> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://123elearning.blogspot.com.au/2012/11/how-to-attend-global-education.html">E-Learning Journeys: How to attend the Global Education Conference!</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">My friend Julie has written a great blog post on how to attend the Gloal Education Conference. You'll want to use this as a reference.</p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/globaled">globaled</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/flatclass">flatclass</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/Tumblr">Tumblr</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/teaching">teaching</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/gec">gec</a></p> </li> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://www.globaleducationconference.com">The Global Education Conference Network - GlobalEdCon: Connecting Educators and Organizations Worldwide</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">Global Education Conference starts Monday - get in there and start putting these on your schedule. Some great sessions. I'm only doing one this year on Monday night at 10pm where Julie and I will share the most important stories from Flat Classroom projects around the world centering around 4 aspects: the Handshake, Creative Co-Creation, Celebration, and creative "flattening" (including other types of people besides students in projects.)  There are a lot of incredible sessions, so join in! "Our free, online conference starts Monday, November 12 and runs around the clock for five days. No registration is required but we do encourage you to join this network for email updates and to connect with presenters and participants. To see the conference schedule, or to attend a session or keynote, click HERE for the "Sessions and Schedule" page and follow the instructions to choose the page for your time zone. Information on using the conference software platform, Blackboard Collaborate, is also on this page. To comment on sessions or connect with the presenter or other attendees, see the discussion forum posts under GEC Accepted Proposals. If you have questions, please post them in the chat room (this shows up at the bottom of your page if you are registered and logged in) and people may respond if they are online at the time. Better yet, you can also post questions in our discussion forum."</p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/tumblr">tumblr</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/teaching">teaching</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/news">news</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/flatclass">flatclass</a></p> </li> </ul><p class="diigo-ps">Posted from <a href='http://www.diigo.com'>Diigo</a>. The rest of my favorite links are <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher'>here</a>.</p>

Teach This! Teaching with lesson plans and ideas that rock 11/10/2012

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Why not kickstart school and nonprofit building projects?

<br /><br /><a href="http://www.architizer.com/en_us/blog/dyn/57663/the-revolution-has-begun-how-kickstarter-is-changing-architecture/#.UJ5O-eTLTa4" target="_blank">Architizer</a> has a fantastic article about how new facilities are raising funds on <a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/" target="_blank">Kickstarter</a>. (Kickstarter is a funding platform for 'creative projects.')<br /><br />In <a href="http://www.architizer.com/en_us/blog/dyn/57663/the-revolution-has-begun-how-kickstarter-is-changing-architecture/#.UJ5O-eTLTa4" target="_blank">"How Kickstarter is Changing Architecture,"</a> they profile several instances of kickstarter being used to fund and implement needed buildings and projects:<br /><br /><ul><li>A "Peace and Quite Booth" in Times square"</li><li><a href="http://www.architizer.com/en_us/blog/dyn/50389/realizing-the-lowline-what-the-worlds-first-underground-park-might-feel-like/" target="_blank">The Lowline project</a> - an underground park built in Manhattan's Lower East Side (they met their goal in 8 days!)</li><li>A New York public pool gets a new <a href="http://www.architizer.com/en_us/blog/dyn/54430/parsons-students-complete-new-pool-pavilion-in-washington-heights/" target="_blank">Splash House</a> when grad students from Parsons decided they wanted to build it.</li></ul><br /><br />OK, let's take your mind and blow it with this one here. Two people wanted to create a special feature in a park, so they didn't take the typical route and propose to city leaders, etc. They created a Kickstarter campaign. Of course, you still have to get approval for things, but often it comes down to money, doesn't it? No one wants to be on the hook to raise more money for a dog of a project that the public doesn't support.<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.architizer.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/1280-lowline-05-600x337.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="180" src="http://www.architizer.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/1280-lowline-05-600x337.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">James Ramsey used Kickstarter to raise money for the <br /><a href="http://www.architizer.com/en_us/blog/dyn/50389/realizing-the-lowline-what-the-worlds-first-underground-park-might-feel-like/" target="_blank">Lowline Project</a> underground park project in Manhattan.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br />Now, imagine this - what if you had several potential projects at your school. You really needed some classroom space as well as a sports facility. Which do you build?<br /><br /><b>Well, why not kickstarter them?</b> Raise the money using kickstarter or some sort of kickstarter-type program to see where the most support is. The school can match the project to raise the first X amount and it is done!<br /><br />So many great projects lie dormant because the powers that be are disconnected from the moneys that be. ;-) (forgive my grammar error, but you get my point)<br /><br />I think this sort of thing can transform so many things we do and it is right here in front of us. We should start using kickstarter principles in our schools or to add the enhancements that so many people need. The nice thing about kickstarter, is that different levels of support include t-shirts and other goodies, so it helps you design the campaign as part of the process - these are things that we should do anyway, but often don't.<br /><br />Social media has many ideas that we can use to help cash-strapped schools. We don't have to sit on our hands and do nothing, maybe some of our projects just need a kickstart! ;-)<br /><br /><i>Oh, and if any of you are already doing this, or know of schools who are, please leave a message in the comments, I'd like to know more about successful school fundraising projects using this model and I think others would too.</i><br /><br /><br /><br />

Why not kickstart school and nonprofit building projects?

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Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 11/10/2012

<ul class="diigo-linkroll"> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://aweekinthelife12-2.flatclassroomproject.org/Class+Handshakes">aweekinthelife12-2 - Class Handshakes</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">Awesome class handshakes for A week in the life elementary project using Symbaloo. Great work! The project managers for this are Michelle McGarvey and Toni Barton. Awesome!</p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/news">news</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/flatclass">flatclass</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/tumblr">tumblr</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/symbaloo">symbaloo</a></p> </li> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://www.silverchair.com/about">About Us | Silverchair</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">I'm fascinated to look at this company, Silverchair, which is touted as one of the fastest growing companies in the world. They are doing things to transform scholarly publishing in a way that is sensitive to the user. I want to learn more about them, but for now, thought I'd mention their name as I'm reading up on the evolution of publishing. "Silverchair Information Systems develops products by partnering with scholarly publishers to transform content for a more valuable user experience on all devices. These products are then supported by a natively semantic platform and dedication to service we have worked to perfect over the last 18 years"</p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/news">news</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/publishing">publishing</a></p> </li> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://www.magellanmediapartners.com/index.php/mmcp/article/community_organizers1/">The Library within Us by Brian O'Leary</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">I quite enjoyed the thoughts in a write up of Brian's speech on the evolution of publishing. I like that this speech has evolved as his thinking evolved (so many speakers never change their speeches and they SHOULD). If this is something you ponder, and most of us teachers and definitely librarians, curriculum directors, and administrators are watching this closely, you'll want to read and think about this speech. While not easy to read in the bold black type, it is one of those worth taking the time. ""It’s time to think about content, not as a product or a service, but a vehicle to reach an outcome. Literacy is important as a step toward informing and empowering individuals, groups and communities, but on its own it is not enough. As reading experiences become both portable and increasingly universal, we need to reshape our sense of publishing and build "the library within us": a collection of tools and resources that individuals can draw upon to connect with and change the world around us."" His most telling words "A year ago, I was optimistic that publishers and supply-chain partners would soon see their mutual need for a data-driven reconsideration of why publishing exists and the purposes it can serve. I’m no longer optimistic. Another year spent wrangling over the role of libraries, another year spent kicking the can down the road with respect to the widespread and debilitating use of DRM, another year spent fostering the idea that we really have embraced “digital”: these things and more have convinced me that the “opportunity in abundance” will not accrue to the incumbents. This became all too clear to me last summer. In January, I had made the somewhat ambitious pledge to “post something useful every day”. By June, 180 or so posts in, the optimism well had run dry. I just didn’t believe my own story any more."</p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/news">news</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/publishing">publishing</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/writing">writing</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/authorship">authorship</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/Amazon">Amazon</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/cloudcomputing">cloudcomputing</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/tumblr">tumblr</a></p> <ul class="diigo-annotations" > <li> <div class="diigoContent"><div class="diigoContentInner"><ul><li>“Value is carried by abundance, not scarcity, inverting traditional business propositions.”</li><li>  “As networks entangle all commerce, a firm’s primary focus shifts from maximizing the firm’s value to maximizing the network’s value.”</li><li>  “As innovation accelerates, abandoning the highly successful in order to escape from its eventual obsolescence becomes the most difficult and yet most essential task.”</li></ul></div></div> </li> <li> <div class="diigoContent"><div class="diigoContentInner">: “As power flows away from the center, the competitive advantage belongs to those who learn how to embrace decentralized points of control.”</div></div> </li> <li> <div class="diigoContent"><div class="diigoContentInner"> “The intelligence that matters most exists in boundless variety at the ends of a network, rather than in the mediated systems in the middle”.</div></div> </li> <li> <div class="diigoContent"><div class="diigoContentInner">network protocols should be designed primarily as means for those ends, rather than to serve the parochial interests of intermediary operators.”</div></div> </li> <li> <div class="diigoContent"><div class="diigoContentInner">A shift to networked publishing lowers barriers to the creation of content, but it amplifies the return for content providers who can leverage two-way communication and create, refine and evolve content products around the needs of the readers they serve.</div></div> </li> <li> <div class="diigoContent"><div class="diigoContentInner">Some of those solutions will remain what we have come to know as books, but many more will be conceived, developed and delivered in forms and for purposes that we have yet to fully grasp.</div></div> </li> <li> <div class="diigoContent"><div class="diigoContentInner"><ul><p>Marc Andreessen and his view that “it has become economically viable to build huge companies in single domains.” I alluded to five bets that Andreessen had made in the last 20 years. At a high level, these are his bets:</p> <ul><li>  “Everyone will have the web” (1992)</li><li>  “The browser will be the OS” (1995)</li><li>  “Web businesses will live in the cloud” (1999)</li><li>  “Everything will be social” (2004)</li><li>  “Software will eat the world” (2009)</li></ul></ul></div></div> </li> <li> <div class="diigoContent"><div class="diigoContentInner">His idea reminds me of something Richard Nash asked last month at a NISO conference in Boston: “<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.magellanmediapartners.com/index.php/mmcp/article/new_algorithms/">What if the book is the algorithm?</a>”</div></div> </li> </ul> </li> </ul><p class="diigo-ps">Posted from <a href='http://www.diigo.com'>Diigo</a>. The rest of my favorite links are <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher'>here</a>.</p>

Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 11/10/2012

aweekinthelife12-2 - Class Handshakes Awesome class handshakes for A week in the life elementary pro...

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