My Weekly Diigo Bookmarks (May 4, 2014)

• Free Mathematics Books

  tags: math ebooks mathematics e-books

• Stop Worrying About Your Child Getting Into College. Worry About What Happens Next.

  From The New York Times Parenting Blog

  tags: college collegeadmissions

• An Introduction to the New Google Drive iPad Apps That Offer Better Offline Support

  Great overview by Sam Morra

  tags: googledrive apps update

• A Simple Way to Create A Search Engine of Educational Videos for Your Class

  Here is how you can build your video search engine

  tags: videos search youtube

• 6 reasons to reject Common Core K-3 standards — and 6 rules to guide policy

  From Valerie Strauss in the Washington Post

  tags: commoncore standards

• Louis C.K. Against the Common Core

  tags: commoncore

• Not all scientific studies are created equal - YouTube

  A good quick look at research studies and how to judge their reliability.

  tags: youtube data research

• Long, But Good, Infographic: “Secrets of a Killer Blog Post: Images” | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…

  tags: infographic images blog

• Science Books Online

  Science Books Online lists free science e-books, textbooks, lecture notes, monographs, and other science related documents. All texts are available for free reading online, or for downloading in various formats.

  tags: science ebook reference textbook ebooks resources

• 12 Ways To Share Almost Any File With Your Students

  tags: filesharing paperless

• Easily Link to Translated Versions of your Website | Google Gooru

  tags: translation howto website google

• OER Commons

  tags: resources opensource curriculum lessonplans opencontent

• Getting Staff On Board With iPad Deployment | The GEDB Online Learning Platform

  Getting Staff On Board With iPad Deployment http://t.co/00wfvhbsyu

• Website Domains Help Students Learn How to Shape Their Digital Identities

  tags: resume

• Top 10 Tips for Close Reading Activities [Guest Post]

  tags: closereading commoncore tips reading

• Does it pay to obsess on where your kid goes to school?

  tags: college

• A Simple Visual Guide to Create Google Custom Search Engine for Your Class Blog or Website ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

  tags: customsearchengine search howto

• A Twitter Abbreviation Guide To Make Sense Of All That Crazy Talk

  tags: Twitter abbreviation guide howto

• Why PKM?

  Here is a short video introduction on why personal knowledge mastery (PKM) is becoming a required skill and mindset for professionals today. 

  tags: PKM haroldjarche

• What have we learned so far?

  From Harold Jarche's Personal Knowledge Mastery (PKM) Workshop

  tags: PKM haroldjarche

• I’ll Be Happy to Tell You What I Don’t Like — Common Core Annoyances

  tags: commoncore ela medium

• iPad Whiteboard Apps

  Google Doc of Whiteboard Apps

  tags: apps whiteboard

• Mercedes Schneider: Who Are the 24 People Who Wrote the Common Core Standards? | Diane Ravitch's blog

  From Diane Ravitch - Altogether, 24 people wrote the Common Core standards. None identified himself or herself as a classroom teacher, although a few had taught in the past (not the recent past). The largest contingent on the work groups were representatives of the testing industry.

  tags: commonccore

• Common Core propaganda fails: Well-financed education “reformers” fight common sense - Salon.com

  Big business and corporate media keep pushing the Core and charters schools. The pushback is heartening and real

  tags: commoncore propaganda education

• Future of Technology | Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project

  Non-internet users broken down by demographic: (http://t.co/4aEgaB9Lgl) http://t.co/stfnZDdIkW

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