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NASAcast - Livebrush - Noodle - NumberNut - Moving into Work - Health & Disability Documents - Chatting with Kids about being online

Note: For an audio version of this blog visit http://drop.io/wdlihblog to listen and/or download and/or subscribe to an RSS Feed or for  iTunes downloads.

Items included in this blog are also included in my website, http://www.acljohn.com/. Don’t miss the “IN-TOUCH” Live broadcast (12:45 to 13:15) on 14^th December 2009 which has a focus on Yola; it can be viewed at http://www.livestream.com/locus.

Yes it’s official – I’m a Granddad! Jack was born at 20:03 GMT and weighed in at 8lb 7oz.

Today’s Finds include…

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NASA_CAST is a podcast repository containing a growing selection of audio-visual resources across a wide range of subject areas related to...

• astronomy,
• earth sciences, and
• space exploration.

Audio topics covered include...

• the Solar system,
• recent NASA news,
• the Shuttle and International Space Station,
• NASA moments and
• earth science stories.

The video casts include similar topics plus videos of...

• space missions and
• archive footage.

Note: podcasts are available through iTunes, and visitors can sign up to an array of newsfeeds for their preferred subject areas.

Take a closer look at http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcasting/.

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I have no other comment than... "This is mind-blowing!"

Livebrush is a free drawing program available for Mac and Windows computers.

Livebrush...

• offers a wide array of drawing tools for creating beautiful shapes, drawings, and designs.
• has built-in tools that allow users to create a simple sketches with just one or two strokes of the paintbrush.
• allows users to combine as many brush strokes as they like in their drawings.

Yet another tool for artists, designers etc. Watch the video clip below

Find out more and/or download at http://www.livebrush.com/.

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Noodle is a module, downloadable by your Moodle administrator, which makes it very easy to add NLN Learning Objects to Moodle course pages.

By making a streamlined version of the NLN website available from within Moodle itself, it makes adding Learning Objects to a course page even easier than adding Word documents.

You don't even need an NLN account to use it - just your regular Moodle login.

Find out more at http://www.nln.ac.uk/?p=Noodle.

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NumberNut is a comprehensive site filled with maths information and activities for review and direct instruction.

The two main areas of the site are...

1: Basic Maths that includes topics such as...

• shapes,
• time,
• operations etc. and

2: Advanced Maths that covers...

• decimals,
• fractions,
• money (US$),
• percentages, etc. 

On each of these pages users can...

• locate the Topic Section on the right,
• click on your desired topic to view a page with both information related to the topic and activities to reinforce the skill. 
• when an activity is selected users have the option to “Magnify the Activity" which makes it larger on the screen.

Many of the activities work and present well on Interactive White Boards. 

Find out more by visiting the site at http://www.numbernut.com/.

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This publication is designed to alert employers to impending changes within the education system that aim to see more people with learning difficulties and disabilities employed.

This publication aims to publicise the aims of the LSC strategy and encourage employers across all sectors to play a part in ensuring that disabled people have a positive start to their working lives.

It suggests ways employers can do this by:

• offering work experience opportunities and nominating mentors to support disabled people on placements;
• developing partnerships with education and training providers;
• making adjustments in the workplace and in recruitment procedures;
• advertising vacancies in places where they will be seen by disabled people;
• involving current staff in discussions about disability;
• linking up with other employers for information on best practice.

Download the publication from NIACE at http://www.niace.org.uk/research/HDE/Documents/Employers.pdf.

and an information publication for those with learning difficulties, with appropriate text and images, at http://www.niace.org.uk/research/HDE/Documents/Learners.pdf.

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The NIACE website has free resources to help providers and practitioners in supporting learners with a range of learning difficulties and disabilities;

The resources consist of...

• a series of case studies - highlighting practical examples of providers with a wealth of experience in supporting learners with learning difficulties and disabilities in work-based learning
• seven briefing sheets - each highlighting a particular learning difficulty or disability, explaining how it may affect learners in work-based learning and signposting to more sources of information and support.

Also on the NIACE website are

Moving into Work: (in the Employment section)

'There are six information sheets aimed at a number of different key players who need to be involved in the process of supporting people in their transition to work'

Copies of the information sheets can be downloaded from NIACE at http://www.niace.org.uk/research/HDE/documents.htm.

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On Guard Online offers a fifty-four page PDF guide to talking with kids about being online.

Net Cetera: Chatting With Kids About Being Online offers numerous suggestions for having conversations with learners about online behaviours.

The guide offers differentiated suggestions based upon the age of the children with which you're talking. Net Cetera covers topics including...

• social networking,
• cyberbullying,
• sexting,
• mobile devices,
• peer-to-peer file sharing, and
• online privacy.

To download Net Cetera: Chatting With Kids About Being Online go to http://www.onguardonline.gov/topics/net-cetera.aspx.

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Math Proves Women Are Trouble

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Blog: Distant memories

Yesterday, some clever people were talking about the periodic table or somesuch weirdness. The kind of thing you learnt at school and then forgot because who uses it in real life? The best I’ve got is being able to remember the first 15 or so but just the letters not the name. I can remember Iron = FE and Tin = Sn. 

It’s a little like maths – who needs it in real life? Isn’t that what calculators and accountants are for? I feel the need to say that I was good at maths at school...  but I can’t remember anything now except 3.14 is Pi, 1+1=2 and pretty shoes = credit card debt.

There are lists from a long way back that still linger in my brain. The colours of the rainbow, counting to ten in Maori and twenty in French. The names of all the New Kids on the Block (although it’s about 20 years since I knew their birthdays, so I guess ‘I’ll be loving you forever’ was a bit of a stretch after all).

I can recite large parts of classic films like The Sound of Music and The Princess Bride. I can sing (badly) the theme songs of many kids shows from the 80s and explain to you who most of the characters on The Muppets and Sesame Street are.

What about you? Are you like my photographic memory friend Suzi? Feel free to boast about the stuff you can still remember or list.. everyone loves a bragger don't they?

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Arnahaal Nirupobz

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CaRMetal, ça dépouille !

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Games to help learn about fractions.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/numbers/fractiondecimalpercentage/fractions/comparingfractions/game.shtml#iframe_height=300

Follow this link to a site Aaron found with some games to help learn about fractions.

Post a comment to let him know what you think.

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A Maths Dictionary for Kids 2009 by Jenny Eather

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A quick way to find our Maths Dictionary!

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Too Old For This Shit

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They say if a mathematician doesn't do their great work by age eleven, they never will.

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Beauty Of Mathematics

source:http://www.mirroremage.com/beauty_of_mathematics.html

       

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