Sunday, September 13, 2009

One in 10 students below minimum standards

One in 10 students below minimum standards

One in 10 school children are failing to meet minimum standards for reading, writing and numeracy, according to the 2009 National Assessment Program Literacy and Numeracy report.


Simplify Messaging Insanity With Sendible

Simplify the high-tech messaging portion of your super busy life. If you’ve got messages coming in and going out from several directions all at once, it’s likely you’ll end up scattered and cranky. Or you’ll chuck all messaging devices and end up living on the perfect island I’ve already set aside for my [...]

Simplify the high-tech messaging portion of your super busy life. If you’ve got messages coming in and going out from several directions all at once, it’s likely you’ll end up scattered and cranky. Or you’ll chuck all messaging devices and end up living on the perfect island I’ve already set aside for my own future use.

Back off my island, chucklehead, and please try Sendible. Here’s what their site promises to deliver:

Schedule email, sms and social network messages ahead of time

Access all your email and social network contacts from one place

Remind yourself and others of upcoming tasks and events

Post status updates to your blogging and social network accounts

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Garrido's twisted path led often to God

Three decades ago, a convicted kidnapper named Phillip Garrido stunned a Leavenworth Prison psychologist by turning down an offer most prisoners would leap to take -- help with a transfer to a mental health facility. Continue reading ...

WorldWideScience

Science students and instructors will want to put this web address in their bookmarks because WWS provides a federated search of science sites around the world. By combining WWS with Scirus--plus a discipline-specific search and a general search in Google--a searcher will have made a serious first-pass at finding information. ____JH (Via the Development Gateway's E-Learning distribution.)

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"WorldWideScience.org is a global science gateway—accelerating scientific discovery and progress through a multilateral partnership to enable federated searching of national and international scientific databases. Subsequent versions of WorldWideScience.org will offer access to additional sources as well as enhanced features"

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