15 Ways Colleges Are Changing So Graduates Can Actually Get Jobs | Edudemic
Worldwide, there are hundreds of thousands of jobs left open, waiting for employees who have the skills necessary to fill them. At the same time, so many highly competent workers are left without jobs.
How can we have so many jobs but so many still unemployed?
The answer is a skills gap, where too many workers are not trained with the right knowledge and abilities to fill the jobs that are actually out there.
So what do we do to fix the skills gap and match these unemployed masses with the companies that so desperately need workers? We get more students to take on programs that result in jobs from high-demand industries. Read how experts think colleges can work to change the current situation…
OneNote for School
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Class assignments, schedules, homework, projects, and research can all be kept and searched in OneNote. In this short video, Doug Thomas shows students a few tricks about using images and how to share OneNote between multiple PCs, slates, Macs, and phones.
Why Ebooks Need Libraries | American Libraries Magazine
Why Ebooks Need Libraries | American Libraries Magazine.
There’s no question that reading enthusiasts are also sharing enthusiasts and it’s inconvenient at best to share a copyrighted ebook with a friend when the only way to do it is to lend your friend your entire portable library, or e-reader, so she can enjoy that one title you want to recommend. No wonder physical libraries continue to capture the public’s imagination, along with their contents.
In Evanston, Illinois, where the Friends of the Library fought long and hard to keep the South branch open but ultimately lost the battle with the city council, the Friends are celebrating the first anniversary of their makeshift volunteer-run replacement, the Mighty Twig branch. These steps forward wouldn’t be possibilities if it weren’t for the perseverance of grassroots support—and that culture of sharing that libraries embody.
App Store – iTunes U
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The iTunes U app gives you access to complete courses from leading universities and other schools — plus the world’s largest digital catalog of free education content — right on your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch. Whether you’re majoring in molecular biology at a university, taking Spanish in high school, or just interested in European history, you now have a valuable tool to help you learn anytime, anywhere.
Compound Words Montessori for iPad
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Montessori Compound Words makes matching root words to make compound words fun and challenging! Using a chain/step puzzle format, children (and adults!) enjoy making compound words to unlock the beautiful, original photos of real objects matching the words.
How to Start a BYOD Program
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Building a “bring your own device” program isn’t as daunting as it may seem.
Read this article for expert advice on how to run an effective BYOD program…
Is BYOD the New One-to-One?
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The “bring your own device” movement is altering the personal-computing landscape in schools in important ways. IT leaders are watching as BYOD and one-to-one continue to evolve and prosper.
A very informative article about new cultural expectations transforming the educational world…
Screening the Future Conference 2012 | May 2012, Southern California
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Taking place from May 21–23, Screening the Future Conference 2012 will bring people from all over the world to the University of Southern California, Ronald Tutor Campus Center in Los Angeles to talk and learn about the state of the art in digital audiovisual conservation. The event will assemble more than 250 leading archivists, production companies, filmmakers, TV producers, CTOs, scientists, vendors, strategists, funders, and policy makers to develop solutions to the most urgent questions facing audiovisual repositories. Conference participants will help set the future research and policy agenda for AV preservation, and will benefit from interacting with leading institutions.
Digital archiving is the link between our past and present and the future, and the conference will discuss realities that encompass topics as diverse as technology, standards, the expectations of users, archival costs, and the increasingly complex interaction between organizations, technologies, and funding models.
Building an Expert Network for the Promotion of Archives in Schools on the Balkan Peninsula.
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On the 3d and 4th of February 2012 Archives State Agency of Bulgaria in partnership with the International Council of Archives initiated a meeting for Building an Expert Network for the Promotion of Archives in Schools on the Balkan Peninsula. Read more…
OpenLearn – free educational materials from the OU
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OpenLearn is an Open University project which makes educational material available for free under a Creative COmmons licence.
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