My Favorite Book Site

There is never enough time for me to read all the books (much less Twitter, blogs, news sites, etc.) that I want to. Another problem is finding all the right ones for me. But one incredible site for me is Jeff Schechtman's "Specific Gravity" site that is filled with all kinds of non fiction books.

Schechtman covers so many topics. One hot one in my district is project based learning - so you know his suggestion (above) is going on my list. But other recent suggestions are one on Patty Hearst, how the world is accelerating in so many different facts, a book on the Middle East and on and one every few days with a new one. Each includes a summary and an author interview.

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Exporting a Blackboard Test To Word

For those of you who want out of Blackboard (the Microsoft of platforms), one of the hardest things to move are tests. A quick way that may work in most cases is on the video above, but here and here are guaranteed ways to fully convert a Blackboard file to a Word document. Of course if you want to go the other way, here is a post on how to convert a Word document into a Blackboard test.

What Does the Internet Look Like?

The internet is really a series of buildings housing data on rows of servers. If you want to see what it looks like, watch the short video above on the inside of a server farm.

Blackboard Test Generators

If you use Blackboard as does my county, you can find a series of Blackboard test generators here and/or watch the video above. These examples make it much easier to change a word document into Blackboard file.

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