Chris, Jamie and Michael discuss the articles of the week and share their tech tips.
Articles of the Week
- Monitoring students
Fantastic conversation starter. — Just as parents are grappling with how to keep their kids safe on social media, schools are increasingly confronting a controversial question: Should they do more to monitor students’ online interactions off-campus to protect them from dangers such as bullying, drug use, violence and suicide? This summer, the Glendale school district in suburban Los Angeles captured headlines with its decision to pay a tech firm $40,500 to monitor what middle and high school students post publicly on Facebook, Twitter and other social media. - ‘Cat pee smell’ forces Dell to replace thousands of new laptops | The Raw Story
Dell computer company agreed to issue replacement vouchers to thousands of customers who complained about a powerful smell of cat urine emanating from new Latitude E6430u laptops. According to the Guardian, customers in multiple countries complained about the odor, which Dell blamed on “a manufacturing process that has now been changed.” - Going Visual With Writing Should our students be visualizing the writing as a matter of course rather than independent from their written expression?
Tech Tips
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I have hips, and I’m a bit of a perfectionist. So when my jeans fit at the bum but have a big gap at the waist, it drives me completely bonkers – and adding a normal belt (with that huge buckle bump) is even less flattering. I decided to take matters into my own hands, and found women of different ages, shapes, and sizes to test dozens of “flat belt” prototypes. After nine months, we arrived at one that was comfy, adjustable, and invisible under tee shirts. I called it the Flatter:Me Belt, and launched in July 2011.
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Create, play and share text adventure games textadventures.co.uk is a community of interactive fiction game makers and players. All games here are either playable in your web browser, or as an app for your smartphone or tablet. Almost all are free, and you can even make your own, using our free software – Quest.
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Hans Rosling is memorizing in his use of hard, crunchy data to make profound and complex topics simple by using beautiful visual support. A master teacher by nature, he is a must-see.
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