Back To School: Best Places to Save Money on Textbooks (9)
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College tuition is expensive enough, but hitting the campus bookstore with a shopping list of textbooks is where you can really get gouged—unless you know where to find the best discounts. With the start of the school year right around the corner, we asked savvy student deal hunters the best way to save money on textbooks. Over 100 responses later, we've compiled the best sources and tips to that will get you the textbooks you ...
China Universities: Pouring Shit Into Students’ Minds (2)
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Earlier this week, some Chinese noticed a strange piece of news on Tsinghua University’s website: “Tsinghua President Gu Binglin — China university education is pouring shit into students’ minds.” Clicking that link led to the following news article and interview: [English Translation] “Yesterday afternoon, Tsinghua University principal Mr. Gu Binglin expressed his worries about current university education conditions during an interview with a student reporter. He indicated straightforwardly that the university education system is in ...
Eight Great Back-to-School iPhone Apps [Back To School] (30)
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If you're headed back to school this semester with an iPhone or iPod touch in your pocket, you're in luck: The iTunes App Store is filled with applications to make your life easier as a student and as the hip young college type you are. Whether you're hitting the books or the bars, keep reading for a closer look at eight of the best back-to-school iPhone and iPod touch applications. (Not headed back to school? ...
Anhui Kids (”Fei Zhu Liu”) Are Mental Retards? (3)
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From KDS: I hear this is trendy in Anhui right now? Chinese Lesson Time非主流 = fei1 zhu3 liu2 = A “counter-culture” or “anti-mainsream” trend, fashion, or lifestyle popular amongst younger Chinese, usually (but not always) those born in the 1990s, possibly influenced by Japanese popular culture. The reactions: A group of mental retards. If I saw them on the street, I would drag them into a restroom and beat the shit out of them. I ...
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Paul Denlinger said:
The story of human history is the endless quest to find a floor to stupidity. Answer: No, there is no floor. Only new horizons of endless stupidity.
Featured Windows Download: SpeedRead Increases Your Reading Pace, Retention (18)
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Windows only: Free application SpeedRead is designed to improve your reading speed and retention by quickly flashing a few words at a time on your screen in quick succession. You can adjust features like playback speed and number of words to display at a time, and SpeedRead keeps track of your stats as you read. At first you may want to stick to one word at a time, but with practice SpeedRead could really boost ...
Back to School: Papers updated for the new term (3)
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Filed under: SoftwareTUAW's going Back to School! We'll be bringing you tips and reviews for students, parents and teachers right up until the bell rings in September. Read on for a timely app update useful for students. PDF management app Papers has been bumped to version 1.8.5, bringing what the developers claim are 100 improvements. Top on the list is a new sharing feature called Papers Archives, which lets you share a PDF file and ...
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Seth said:
I love Papers, any Political Scientist who uses JSTOR and a Mac has to get Papers.
Expand Your Brain with Evernote (161)
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A new school year is just around the corner, but this semester you're looking for a safer way to enhance your brainpower than getting all hopped up on caffeine pills Jessie Spano-style. This year, the robust note-taking software Evernote is your answer. Let's take a look at how you can use your computer, cellphone, and digital camera in conjunction with the free, cross-platform application Evernote to remember everything for the rest of your life—or at ...
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CtrlBreak said:
Absolutely stunning.
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Sean Blakey said:
Maybe I should give evernote another try. My first few attempts resulted in application crashes and lost data, but that was months ago...
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Derick Valadao said:
Yes, this is a very amazing service. I've been using it for about a month now and I've got hundreds of notes stashed away. The possibilities are limitless.
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potentato said:
I still haven't tried using Evernote, but this makes a pretty compelling argument.
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Derek said:
I wish I felt comfortable using evernote, but it would mostly be for work and I just can't bring myself to do it
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yooper1019 said:
Been using it for a while and Evernote is AMAZING!!
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ndench said:
I wish I could love Evernote. I've tried really hard in the past. Perhaps this new version is worth persevering with.
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Noah J said:
I loves me some Evernote!
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Matt Chandler said:
I use the heck out of this.
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Jeremy said:
@eingy I've been playing around with and love it as a concept. I keep trying to work it into my workflow and haven't been able to get it in completely. I keep telling myself it is because I don't have an iPhone so I can't take and note photos with it. The OCR is amazing!
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Nico said:
evernote regelt.
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Andre Siregar said:
Try it if you haven't. I've used Evernote for a few months and have been very happy with it.
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munir said:
I'm a big fan of Evernote, though I don't use it nearly to its fullest.
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Jon Host said:
ive heard good things and am giving it a try, starting with firefox and iPhone. if i like it, i'll blog about it.
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Jamie said:
Anyone have any personal experience with Evernote? It sounds good ...
YouTube Is Culture (3)
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Best Places to Find Deals on Textbooks? [Ask The Readers] (9)
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September's less than a week away, and students everywhere are heading back to campus to pick up their new class schedule—and face frightening prices at the university bookstore. As if tuition wasn't expensive enough, you know this semester's profs will assign textbooks that will cost a pretty penny. But with a little research and a few online resources, frugal students can save a whole lot of cash by finding better deals on textbooks this school ...
Speaking of Honor (1)
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I was honored to be asked to present the faculty perspective on our school's Honor Code at our annual Honor Convocation, a moment when all new students at the school are introduced to the Honor System and sign an Honor Pledge, committing themselves to that system.I only had a week to prepare, so I turned to a number of colleagues and some fellow alums for ideas. Tim O'Donnell and Claudia Emerson were particularly helpful in ...
Microsoft Drops Office Ultimate Prices For Students (2)
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Microsoft is offering Office Ultimate to students for the unreal price of $59.95. All you need is to have a .edu email address and be registered for at least 0.5 credit hours in case MS decides to come asking for proof of your enrollment for whatever reason. Office Ultimate retails for $679, so this is a very significant savings. The beauty of Office Ultimate is that it offers the complete Office suite of software allowing ...
Best Time for Students to Buy Office 2007 as Ultimate Steal is Back (6)
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Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007 normally costs around $700 but if you are enrolled as a student in any educational institute in the US, Australia, Mexico or Taiwan, you can buy the Office suite for $60 only. This is part of the “Ultimate Steal” scheme that was re-introduced today and will soon be extended for students of countries like Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Italy, Korea, Spain, Sweden and United Kingdom. Best Time for Students to Buy ...
It's the first day of school (2008)! (1)
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It’s the first day of school here in Ames, Iowa. The past two years at this time, I’ve posted the following checklist, wondering if schools have made any improvement since the previous fall. This year I changed the checkboxes to a scale of 1 (low) to 5 (high) and thought I’d try something a little different… You have two ways to participate… Download this checklist in Excel. Enter the name of your school organization and ...
Lost Flash Drive = 15,000 Identites at Risk (1)
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Image via Wikipedia Yet another example of lost or stolen data putting personal information at risk. In this case, names, addresses, credit card information, and social security numbers of 15,000 current and former students. Scary stuff! Wired Campus: Missing Flash Drive From Community College Puts 15,000 at Risk of Identity Theft Missing Flash Drive From Community College Puts 15,000 at Risk of Identity Theft A college, a flash drive, Social Security numbers, and a contractor ...
Student Develops Cheap Power Turbine For Developing Nations [Green Power] (8)
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It's one thing to tinker in your garage to restore that old gas-guzzling muscle car that you think will get you some action. It's something entirely different to invent an electricity-generating wind turbine out of scrap parts that could revolutionize personal power in developing nations, especially if you're in college. Max Robinson has done just that, designing a turbine out of spare parts that costs less than $40 to build out of readily available parts ...
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James Fridley said:
Now this is fantastic. My only issue is that the high energy consumers are in the developed countries' CBD and suburbs not in the developing nations. While it would therefore be easy to support the load demand in the developing nations, until the high energy users are covered, I worry that this sort of thing is a good idea for the wrong problem. At $40/device, the govt could easily support it to give to households in capital cities. Why not turn each house into a part of the energy network??
Psychological Research About Students Who Cheat Could Help Anti-Cheating Campaigns (1)
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Professors who use detection programs like Turnitin in the hope of dissuading students from cheating may be on the wrong track. New research by psychologists at Ohio State University at Newark focuses instead on profiling the students who are least likely to cheat, and the findings could help identify a target audience for anti-cheating campaigns, one of the researchers said in a news release from the university. The research is based on two studies that ...
Kids These Days: Can We Really Say They are “Dumb”? (1)
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In our local paper yesterday there was an article about Mark Bauerlein’s book “The Dumbest Generation”. Now, I’d like to start off by saying I have not read Mr. Bauerlein’s book. Based on the article, I probably still won’t read it. Mostly because I think it’s a load of crap. The article points to a few quotes from the book. “Something insidious is going on inside their heads.” “Young Americans today are no more learned ...
TEACHERS CARRYING GUNS? I HAVE A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS. (1)
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I came across this article on the Houston Chronicle website. NORTH TEXAS SCHOOL DISTRICT WILL LET TEACHERS CARRY GUNS HARROLD, Texas — A tiny Texas school district may be the first in the nation to allow teachers and staff to pack guns for protection when classes begin later this month, a newspaper reported. Trustees at the Harrold Independent School District approved a district policy change last October so employees can carry concealed firearms to deter ...
Help wanted: Moving Forward classroom wiki and podcast projects (1)
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Although we need some more lists of subject-specific blogs (which I’ll work on in future posts), the blogs page of the Moving Forward wiki is basically a pretty solid resource right now. The wiki and podcast pages, however, could use some work… If you know of an exemplary K-12 classroom wiki or podcast project, would you add the link to the appropriate wiki page? Classroom wiki projects Classroom podcast projects Thanks! [The Moving Forward wiki ...
