Monthly Archives: April 2011

Jiffle – Scheduling Made Simple What is Jiffle? Jiffle is a web-based service that enables selective and secure sharing of your calendar to streamline the often-onerous process of scheduling meetings. How should I request an appointment or meeting? Select the desired time from … Continue reading →

Education Week Teacher: The Courage To Blog With Students On a group blog, the whole class participates together. Teachers provide the writing prompt, and students reply in the comments section. The most popular blogging platforms are Edublogs, Word Press, Blogger, … Continue reading →

Twilight – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia “Morning civil twilight (civil dawn) begins when the geometric center of the sun is 6° below the horizon and ends at sunrise. Evening civil twilight (civil dusk) begins at sunset and ends when the … Continue reading →

Khan Academy “The Khan Academy is an organization on a mission. We’re a not-for-profit with the goal of changing education for the better by providing a free world-class education to anyone anywhere. All of the site’s resources are available to … Continue reading →

Educational Jargon Generator “This fine academic tool was designed to assist in the writing of reports, grant applications, and other documents related to public schools. I believe that it will be particularly useful for people involved in writing reports for … Continue reading →

Measuring Up | The National Report Card on Higher Education College affordability continues to decline in the United States. Of all the performance categories in the Measuring Up report cards, the state results for affordability are the most dismal. Since … Continue reading →

Visualizing Friendships: Facebook Inventions … cannot, in nature, be a subject of property “If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which … Continue reading →

Is Sitting a Lethal Activity? – NYTimes.com James Levine, a researcher at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., has an intense interest in how much people move — and how much they don’t. He is a leader of an emerging … Continue reading →

Kindle Users Gain Access to Library E-Books – NYTimes.com “Amazon said on Wednesday that it would allow Kindle users to read e-books from more than 11,000 public libraries on the devices beginning later this year, a reversal of the company’s … Continue reading →

Compress, optimize and shrink PowerPoint presentations, Word documents and Excel spreadsheets using PPTminimizer “FILEminimizer Suite compresses PowerPoint, Word, Excel and image files by up to 98% without zipping. The software sports an intuitive interface and lets you optimize the size … Continue reading →