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Easy Grade Pro

Easy Grade Pro is a suite of software, from Orbis Software designed for educators at all levels and institutions who want powerful but easy to use tools to manage their student results, homework, attendance, efforts and other information. This suite c... ...

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National Recovery Plan

11.26.2010 · Posted in Funding, Web Links, teaching tools

Well done to the SCC English team for quickly assessing our government's National Recovery Plan and creating a Wordle on its contents. A wordle, for those not familiar with the term, is a word cloud where the most common words used in a document are di... ...

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Learning Machines: Past, Present, and Future

10.13.2010 · Posted in Blog, teaching tools

Take some time today to view and reflect upon the fascinating evolution of pivotal “learning” devices through an interactive graphical timeline on the New York Times Magazine. Starting with the horn-book (c. 1650), a wooden paddle inscribed with letters and lessons and ending with today’s iPad, this timeline represents not only the development and progression ...

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