sábado, 17 de marzo de 2012

On This Day: March 17

Updated March 16, 2012, 2:28 PM

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On March 17, 1942, Gen. Douglas MacArthur arrived in Australia to become supreme commander of Allied forces in the southwest Pacific theater during World War II.
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On March 17, 1902, Bobby Jones, the American golfer who was the first winner of the Grand Slam, was born. Following his death on Dec. 18, 1971, his obituary appeared in The Times.

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1776	British forces evacuated Boston during the Revolutionary War.
1905	Franklin D. Roosevelt married his distant cousin, Eleanor Roosevelt, in New York City. President Theodore Roosevelt, FDR's fifth cousin, gave his niece away.
1910	The Camp Fire Girls organization was founded in Thetford, Vt.
1941	The National Gallery of Art opened in Washington, D.C.
1942	Gen. Douglas MacArthur arrived in Australia to become supreme commander of Allied forces in the southwest Pacific theater during World War II.
1959	The Dalai Lama fled Tibet for India in the wake of a failed uprising by Tibetans against Chinese rule.
1969	Golda Meir became prime minister of Israel.
2005	Baseball players Rafael Palmeiro and Sammy Sosa testified before Congress that they hadn't used steroids; Mark McGwire refused to say whether he had.
2009	U.S. journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee were detained by North Korea while reporting on North Korean refugees living across the border in China. (They were freed in August.)
2009	The Seattle Post-Intelligencer published its final print edition.
2011	The U.N. Security Council voted to authorize military action to protect civilians and impose a no-fly zone over Libya.

Actor Rob Lowe turns 48 years old today.

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Actor Gary Sinnise ("CSI: NY") turns 57 years old today.

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1933	Myrlie Evers-Williams, Former NAACP chairwoman, turns 79
1941	Paul Kantner, Rock musician (Jefferson Airplane/Starship), turns 71
1944	John Sebastian, Rock musician (Lovin' Spoonful), turns 68
1949	Patrick Duffy, Actor, turns 63
1951	Kurt Russell, Actor, turns 61
1954	Lesley-Anne Down, Actress, turns 58
1960	Vicki Lewis, Actress, turns 52
1967	Billy Corgan, Rock musician (Smashing Pumpkins), turns 45
1972	Mia Hamm, Soccer player, turns 40
1974	Marisa Coughlan, Actress, turns 38

Historic Birthdays

Bobby Jones3/17/1902 - 12/18/1971American golfer; first to win the Grand Slam.Go to obituary »

69	Jean-Baptiste Oudry 3/17/1686 - 4/30/1755 French Rococo painter, designer and illustrator
87	Roger Brooke Taney 3/17/1777 - 10/12/1864 5th chief justice of the United States; noted for the Dred Scott decision (1857)
55	Kate Greenaway 3/17/1846 - 11/6/1901 English artist and book illustrator
80	Charles Brush 3/17/1849 - 6/15/1929 American inventor and industrialist
92	Walter Rudolf Hess 3/17/1881 - 8/12/1973 Swiss Nobel Prize-winning physiologist
75	Bayard Rustin 3/17/1912 - 8/24/1987 American civil rights activist
45	Nat King Cole 3/17/1919 - 2/15/1965 American musician
54	Rudolf Nureyev 3/17/1938 - 1/6/1993 Russian ballet dancer

viernes, 16 de marzo de 2012

THE COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO GOOGLE FREE TOOLS FOR TEACHERS AND STUDENTS

5:13 PMeducational presentations, free google tools1 commentsMed

Google has some of the best free educational resources for teachers and students. I am one of the biggest fans of some of his services such as Google plus, YouTube, Bogger, Google docs and many more. The question is do all teachers know about how to leverage these services in education ? Unfortunately not all of them do. Many still relate Google to a sole web engine where you can perform a search query. Yes Google started as a search engine but developed into a multi-task platform offering all the possible services users might think of while browsing the web.

Given the huge importance of Google services in education and the pressing need for us as teachers and for our students as learners to get to know and use these tools, I have compiled a thorough guide containing all the Google tools that we can use in education. I have been working on this guide for sometime now and it took me several days to check what some edu-bloggers have written about this topic because I do not want to repeat what others have already said. I am thinking I came up with a unique guide in that it is video based more than text based. For every single service I included I provide a video tutorial showing how to use it. The purpose is to get as many students to use it as possible. I know students attention when it comes to a lengthy guide full of paragraphs would very easily be distracted and chances are they would not read it all. This is why I included videos to spur them to discover all the tools.

Here is a List of the Google services I have included in this guide: ( Scroll down to read and download the guide )

1- How to create a Google Account
2- Getting to Know Gmail