Via Professor Michael Wesch’s blog.
I am a fan of the Office and thought this was hilarious the first time I watched it. But as I watched it a second time I was more reflective. Watching the “teacher” move from writing on the white board with a marker to presenting with a PowerPoint, distributing content on [...]
Don Tapscott discusses the future of education at TEDxToronto. [20:55]
Experts practice common habits. Among them are…
Asking good questions
Breaking problems into parts
Looking for patterns
Relying on evidence
Considering other perspectives
Following hunches
Using familiar ideas in new ways
Collaborating with others
Welcoming critique
Revising repeatedly
Persisting
Seeking new challenges
Knowing yourself
Looking at this list, I can’t help but ask if we are explicitly teaching these habits to our students? How do you teach these in [...]
A colleague asked me how to delete every second row of data in an Excel spreadsheet that contains thousands of rows. Manual deletion in this case (holding the CTRL key on a PC) while selecting every second row would take too long.
A quick search turned up this tip in the Excel Forum.
If you were using GMail lately, you may have noticed a new link and icon beneath your Inbox link, Google Buzz.
Buzz lets you “go beyond status messages to share updates, photos, videos, and more. Start conversations about the things you find interesting.”
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