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Privacy Notice
Last Updated: December 16, 2019
QuinStreet, Inc. owns and operates each website that displays this Privacy Notice (each, a "Site"). QuinStreet is a publicly-traded company (Nasdaq: QNST; quinstreet.com) that operates in a variety of industry categories.
Your privacy is important to us. We created this Privacy Notice to explain how we collect, use, and share the information that we collect from and about you.
Data Collected
Data You Provide: We collect data that you provide to us when you interact with the Site or sites owned by third-parties with whom we have contractual relationships, including sites you visit prior to coming to this Site ("Media Partners"). In most cases when you come to the Site we will automatically gather or receive technical data about your prior journey, device and how you interact with our Site ("Technical Data"). Technical Data may include browser type, referrer URL, date and time of your visit, IP address, MAC address, device type, screen resolution, and OS version. Technical Data also includes "Cookie and Similar Data" described below.
We gather additional data if you elect to engage with the Site or certain sites owned by our Media Partners. This includes contact information you elect to provide (e.g., name, address, email address, telephone number) about yourself or third parties to us and our Media Partners. (For example, if you elect to click on one of our advertisements on a Media Partner's site that Media Partner may pass your contact information to us). We refer to the information you elect to provide as "Provided Attributes." In addition to contact information, Provided Attributes include age, gender, occupation, and education level. The Provided Attributes we collect are based upon the product and services you are inquiring about.
Third Party Data: In some cases, we may augment the Technical Data and any Provided Attributes with Third Party Data. "Third Party Data" includes information from third parties such as credit reporting agencies. (We will only obtain credit reporting information with your consent, and will not retain any Social Security number you provide). Third Party Data may also include information intended to validate the data you provide (e.g., phone number, Vehicle Identification Number, outstanding loan amount). Finally, Third Party Data may include instances where you authorize us to use social media account information to log into or connect to this Site. We may combine the Technical Data, Provided Attributes and Third Party Data.
Cookie and Similar Data: When you use this Site, we may recognize you or your device through use of a "cookie" or other tracking technology. These technologies act as unique identifiers and allow us to tailor this Site to your specified interests and track your activity on this Site. This information may be added to your user profile and used to deliver offers and advertisements that we believe are relevant to your interests.
We have contractual relationships with advertisers, advertising agencies and other intermediaries that have advertisers as clients (collectively, "Advertising Partners"). Our Media Partners and Advertising Partners (collectively, "Partners") may also utilize third-party cookies and other tracking technologies like clear pixel GIFs (i.e., web beacons) to identify you. We and our Partners may use these technologies to measure responses to emails and page views on this Site and our Partners' websites. These technologies are used to enhance this Site, to make this Site more relevant to you, and to measure the effectiveness of our email and other advertising campaigns and those of our Partners. You can opt out of some of our and our Partners' use of cookies and other technologies at: Google, the Network Advertising Initiative), Invite Media, and Clicktale.
Tracking Options and California Do Not Track Disclosures: Certain Sites require cookies to function efficiently. We may use cookies to deliver advertising we believe is relevant to you and to link data collected across other devices you use. You can adjust your setting to limit tracking or decline cookies, but, as a result, you may not be able to use certain features of this Site or take full advantage of all of our offerings. Please refer to your device or browser settings for more information on how to delete or decline cookies and control your tracking preferences. This Site does not respond to Do Not Track signals from most browsers.
Data Use
We use the data we collect from and about you through this Site primarily to connect you with Advertising Partners who can provide you with information about the products and services you are seeking. We generally do this using Technical Data and Provided Attributes, but in certain cases (e.g. lending products) we may also use Third Party Data.
For example, we may have an auto insurance Partner who is only licensed in certain states. We may use Technical Data or Provided Attributes to determine if you are a resident of one of those states. We refer to Advertising Partner requirements generally as "segmentation" and the alignment of consumer data and segments as "matching."
We may also use the data we collect from and about you to (i) respond to your requests (e.g., receive white papers, email, phone calls or texts); (ii) to keep you informed of our products and services (and those of our Partners); (iii) to allow you to send message through this Site; (iv) to improve our Sites and business; (v) to fulfill any purchase you make; and (vi) to use your data in an aggregated, non-specific format for analytic and demographic purposes. We use Technical Data to monitor this Site's performance, analyze traffic patterns and usage, ensure that this Site and any transactions function properly, and gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. We may use automated decision-making in segmentation and matching.
Data Sharing
In addition to the primary Data Use described above (i.e., sharing your data with Advertising Partners and third parties for the purpose of providing you with information about the products and services you are seeking), we may share your data as follows: (i) with other QuinStreet businesses; (ii) with service providers who assist us in compliance and verification activities (e.g., credit agencies), or provide services such as payment processing, IT, and data analysis; (iii) if you choose to send a message through, or contribute to public areas of, this Site (e.g., message boards, blogs); and (iv) with a third party in the event of a sale or transfer of all or part of our business.
We may also disclose the data we collect from and about you to (i) comply with legal processes; (ii) to respond to lawful requests from authorities (including public and government authorities outside your country of residence, and including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements); (iii) to enforce our Terms of Service and this Privacy Notice; (iv) to protect our business, rights, privacy, safety, or property or that of others; and (v) as necessary under applicable law (including laws outside your country of residence).
Other Websites
This Site may contain links to websites that are not owned and operated by us. We are not responsible for the content or practices of such websites, including their practices with respect to your data. We have no responsibility or liability for such practices, and such practices govern your use of those websites. If this Site includes any mapping features, those mapping features are powered by Google, Inc. and governed by Google's privacy policy, as amended from time to time.
We have taken certain physical, technical, and administrative steps to protect the data we collect form and about Site users. We use commercially reasonable efforts to encrypt sensitive data such as credit card number and personal health data. We use certain reasonable security measures to help protect your personal information. However, no electronic data transmission or storage of information can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Please note that we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us. You use the Site and provide us with your data at your own risk. If we share data as detailed in this Privacy Notice with a third party we will use all reasonable efforts to ensure that they keep the information secure and only use the information consistent with the terms of this Privacy Notice.
We do not knowingly collect, use, or share the personal data of children under the age of 13 and this Site is not directed to individuals under 13. If we are made aware that we have collected personal data from an individual under age 13 we will delete this information as soon as possible.
Choices and Access
Residents of certain countries, including European Union member states (and the United Kingdom), may have additional rights listed under "Information for European Consumers" below.
Marketing Emails: To stop receiving marketing emails from us, please click here and follow the instructions to unsubscribe. Even if you unsubscribe, we may still send administrative (i.e., non-marketing) messages. To unsubscribe from a third party's communications, contact that third party directly or follow the instructions to unsubscribe in the applicable marketing email.
Phone Calls and Texts: To opt out of receiving telephone calls or texts from us, please click here and follow the instructions to be placed on our Do Not Call list.
Please note that we will not be able to remove your data from third parties' databases, and you will need to contact them directly and/or use any available opt-out mechanisms.
Retention Period
In general, we will retain your data for as long as is needed to connect you with Advertising Partners who can provide you with information about the products and services you are seeking, which is typically 30-180 days. We will typically retain an archived copy of your data for six years as required or permitted by law for legal and compliance purposes.
Information for California Consumers
The California Consumer Privacy Act ("CCPA") affords certain rights and protections to California residents. This section is intended to further describe (i) the categories and sources of data that QuinStreet collects, sells or shares; (ii) the purpose for collection; (iii) the types of third parties to whom QuinStreet discloses that information; and (iv) details about how California residents can exercise their rights under the CCPA.
Categories of Data QuinStreet Collects.
QuinStreet collects the following CCPA categories of data: (i) identifiers, such as a name, email address, telephone number, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, IP address, account name, Social Security number, driver's license number; (ii) personal identifiers under Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e), such as insurance policy number, education, employment status, bank account information, credit card or debit card number, financial information, medical information, health insurance information; (iii) protected classification characteristics under California law, such as age, marital status, medical condition, gender, veteran or military status; (iv) commercial information, such as products or services obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies; (v) internet activity, such as browsing history and search history information; (vi) geolocation data; (vii) professional or employment information, such as consumer-reported current or past job history; (viii) inferences drawn from some of the information above (e.g., email open rates and time).
QuinStreet generally collects the above data as Technical Data or Provided Attributes. For example, QuinStreet does not create user profiles to determine the gender, marital status or employment status of consumers. QuinStreet receives each of those categories of data only as self-reported data from the consumer.
Data Sources.
QuinStreet: QuinStreet collects Technical Data and Provided Attributes from consumers who land on or engage with our Sites, our call centers or other QuinStreet owned-properties (e.g., in response to emails from or on behalf of QuinStreet).
Partners and Third Parties: Consumers who visit websites owned by our Media Partners may be redirected to our Sites. In some cases, we may gather data directly from Media Partner websites, or Media Partners or other third parties may post data to our Sites or otherwise transfer data to us. This may occur via display ads, click listings, inquiry forms or telephonic transfers from Media Partner call centers. Our Advertising Partners may also provide us with data.
Service Providers: QuinStreet engages service providers to perform a variety of functions (e.g., verifying consumer consent, validating email addresses or phone numbers).
Authorization: We require all parties from whom we receive data, whether they are Partners, Service Providers or other third parties, to represent and warrant to us that they have appropriately obtained the data provided to us and have the authority to share the data with us.
Purpose for Data Collection. As described above in "Data Use," QuinStreet primarily uses the data it collects to connect consumers with Advertising Partners who can provide information about the products and services those consumers are seeking.
Categories of Third Parties with Whom QuinStreet Discloses Personal Data. In addition to the sharing for the primary use described in "Data Sharing," we may share your data with other QuinStreet businesses, service providers, and third party websites.
Categories of Data Sold. As described above in "Data Use" and "Data Sharing," QuinStreet may transfer Technical Data, Provided Attributes and Third Party Data to Advertising Partners who can provide the consumer with information about the products and services they are seeking. We may receive a fee for the transfer of that data or when the consumer purchases a product or service.
CCPA Rights. The CCPA affords certain rights and protections to California residents including: (i) the right to request that we delete any "personal information" that we have collected from you ("Right to Delete"); (ii) the right to request that we disclose the categories and/or specific pieces of personal information collected and sold ("Right to Know"); and (iii) the right to direct us not to sell their "personal information" ("Right to Opt-Out"). "Personal information" is defined under the CCPA as "information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or household."
California residents who would like to submit a Request to Know, Delete, or Opt-Out should follow the links below. You may also submit a Request to Know by calling our toll-free number (844)-872-7854. Upon submission, you will be asked to verify your email address. If we are able to verify your Request to Know or Delete, (e.g., that you are a California resident and that we have or have sold, as the case may be, your "personal information"), we will respond within 45 days of your submission (or such additional time period as the law allows us).
Request to Know
Request to Delete
Request to Opt-Out ("Do Not Sell My Personal Info")
Information for European Consumers
Our Site and business are operated in the United States. If you are located outside of the United States any data you provide will be transferred to and processed in the United States. For residents of the European Union (and the United Kingdom), QuinStreet, Inc., is the data controller for your data collected under this Privacy Notice. We process your data pursuant to your consent, where legally required to do so, or where we have a legitimate interest, such as using your data for fraud prevention, analytics or to improve our Sites and business, and for our marketing purposes.
In addition, you have the following rights with respect to the data collected from and about you on this Site: (i) the right to request access to such data; (ii) the right to request the correction, erasure, and restriction of processing of such data; (iii) in some instances, the right to object to the processing of such data; (iv) in some instances, the right to request that QuinStreet export, in a structured, commonly used, and machine readable format, and transmit to another controller, such personal data; (v) the right to withdraw, at any time, any consent to the processing of such personal data.
To exercise these rights please use the "Contact Us" mechanism provided below.
Changes to this Privacy Notice
We may amend this Privacy Notice from time to time. When we do, we will post an updated version of the Privacy Notice and revise the "LAST UPDATED" date at the top. We will provide appropriate notice to you if we change the Privacy Notice in any material way. Using this Site after any changes are made means you accept those changes and the revised Privacy Notice.
QuinStreet Businesses
For purposes of this Privacy Notice, "you" or "your" means the person(s) using this Site or the products or services offered through this Site. "QuinStreet," "us," or "we" includes (but is not limited to) QuinStreet, Inc., QuinStreet Media, Inc., QuinStreet Insurance Agency, Inc., QuinStreet Properties, Inc. and QuinStreet PL, Inc. QuinStreet, Inc. is the party responsible for this Privacy Notice and compliance with it.
Dispute Resolution
You have the right to submit feedback about this Privacy Notice, or the practices described in it, to the applicable supervisory authority in your jurisdiction of residence. For U.S. residents this includes the Federal Trade Commission and your state Attorney General. For Non-U.S. residents this includes the Data Protection Authority in your country of residence.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Notice please submit an inquiry at the Contact Us page, here, and select "Other Consumer Issues" or by mail at:
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Ever lose your phone? I hope not. I never have, and I don't ever plan to, but as we all know accidents happen all the time. Seek Droid is a new app that helps you find your lost or stolen phone. It requires Android 2.2 and only costs 99 cents, which I think is well worth it to help you find a missing several hundred dollar phone.
Two Southern Methodist University students, the founders of GT Media LLC, have developed Seek Droid – a mobile application designed to provide a cost-effective solution to the eternal dilemma faced by a myriad of college students (and plenty of forgetful others): "Dude, where's my Droid?"
GT Media LLC – a Dallas-based mobile app development company founded by two SMU senior computer engineering students – developed Seek Droid as an online locator and protector of lost or stolen Android devices. Seek Droid, which requires Android 2.2 or greater and a data connection, allows users to remotely enable GPS in order to determine the location of a lost or stolen Android. Seek Droid also allows users to remotely – from anywhere in the world, locate the device, enable an audible alarm (even if device is in silent mode), lock the device with a custom code, and retrieve recent phone calls.
"There are some similar services out there, but many are bundled with antivirus packages and you have to pay a per-month fee to access all the extra features," said GT Media Developer, Amir Ghadiry. "With Seek Droid, we wanted to provide an online phone-locating application that has all the bells and whistles of our top competitors and also be affordable to the masses with a one-time fee. We also wanted to develop an app that did more than just locate, but also protect. We think one of the best features of Seek Droid is the capability to remotely wipe your phone clean."
Available at Android Market (Tools category) for $0.99 USD, Seek Droid features a secure website, seekdroid.com, which users can access from a computer or smart phone. The website enables users to pinpoint the location of their lost or stolen Android on a map and then choose the next step toward recovery and/or protection. The ability to wipe the device from a remote location provides an effective means of ensuring that users can protect their sensitive data even in the event of a lost or stolen device.
Features also include an audible alarm with customizable messages. Users may also disable the removal of Seek Droid or hide it from the app drawer to further ensure safety and security in the event of a lost or stolen phone. Seek Droid is easily installed, works without a SIM card, and uses virtually no battery since it does not need to stay running in the background.
"Yes (at GT Media) we're still in college – but this is a sophisticated app," added Ghadiry. "This isn't about hung-over college kids whose phones get lost with all the loose change and Fruit Loops hidden under the cushions of a frat house couch. This is about Android safety, security and convenience and our stats indicate the quality of our product."
Since launching in Dec. of 2010, Seek Droid (currently Top 25 in the Android Market's 'paid tools' category) has secured more than 13,000 downloads and an average 4.7 (out of 5) rating from the 516 users who have rated the product. For more information and to view screenshots and video, go to http://market.android.com/details?id=org.gtmedia.seekdroid


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A letter to Teju Cole:
Dear Teju,
Well, the euphoria is behind us and the hard work just beginning. I'm
sorry you weren't able to be in Washington, to experience the crowd and to feel
more American than you'd probably admit to. On the other hand, I suspect you
would have felt a part of yourself standing to the side, as I did. I didn't
find the inauguration as moving as election night, nor did I share the intense
catharsis so many people there seemed to feel. I guess I was aware of something else
out there, outside the security fences ringing the Mall, kept at bay for that
one day but still malevolently present on the periphery. Here we were, a crowd
of tree-huggers and children of slaves, old draft dodgers and peaceniks, and the
poorest of the poor – a mob of outcasts and sinners for sure – who for this day had been passed graciously through the gates to stand as witnesses on the frozen
turf of this symbolic home-ground of democracy.
And yet the memory returned, of another frigid day, not long ago in New York,
when we were herded into pens rather than being allowed to march in protest of
the soon-to-be Iraq War, controlled by mounted police, snipers on the rooftops
and helicopters overhead. And how many others in that inauguration throng had marched
in Selma, or endured the dogs and water cannons and rat-infested jails – those
lucky ones who didn't suffer worse? During Vietnam our photos had been taken,
our names put on lists, our passive bodies carried out of college
administration buildings.
The forces that held the hoses and threw the tear gas
canisters and shot the students have not, by any stretch of liberal imagining,
vanished just because someone who seems familiar and sympathetic has taken
over the chief office of the land.
This is no time to be naive.
After the election, Teju, you wrote that to you "there's nothing sadder
than what Jesus called 'white-washed sepulchres.' You wondered about the "psychic
weight of the more than 600,000 people we've sent to an early grave in Iraq," and
the plight not just of the middle class, but of the truly poor. I wonder too.
I wondered about it on this trip as we drove past some of New York's
high-security prisons, part of a system that now houses 1 in every 100 male
Americans – and 1 in 8 of all black Americans. What kind of karma is being
generated not only by Guantanamo, but by our own domestic prison worlds behind
the razorwire and moats? Or in the military hospitals where returning veterans
who've lost limbs, spouses, and sanity languish, mostly forgotten by fans singing God Bless America during the
seventh-inning stretch? I also think about the fact that in my 56 years of privileged white life I've only had two close friends who were black - you and one other - and the unspoken fact that some white Washington-area residents stayed away from the inauguration simply because they were afraid.
But the flags, the bands, the banner-strewn facades, the pat phrases about American exceptionalism – my God, I'm sick to
death of nationalism! Ultimately, the rhetoric has to change past those things
"every senior politician has to say," as the media puts it. Maybe there's a
chance it will. Maybe one day there will even be room for some humility, some
remorse, some redemption.
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Walking home from the inauguration on the eerily-empty highway, we
ended up walking right through the deserted parking lot of the Pentagon, past
the Pentagon Memorial on the side where the plane hit, and finally up the hill past Arlington National Cemetery. From the rise
there, crowned by the new Air Force memorial, you see an ironic panorama: the
rows and rows of white military grave markers on the left, the fortress-like Pentagon of the generals and admirals on
the right, and in-between, a gleaming white phallic symbol.
The problem is that I've seen too much in my lifetime, and it's broken down my
idealism...not into cynicism, which is like death, but into realism about both
human nature and political cycles. Our capacity for greed and violence is as
boundless as our capacity for love, and I sometimes see those being the two
weights in blind Justice's balance. We fall in love, and out of love; the
scales swing one way and then the other. Incrementally, society has become
somewhat more humane over history but for every step toward freedom, liberty, equality and
compassion there are opposing forces willing to fight to the death to hold onto
the status quo.
The day after Obama's election, we received quite a few emails from
friends saying, in different ways, "you can come back now." I understood
where that was coming from, and appreciated the sentiment, but we didn't leave our birthplace because of one man, but because of the pervasive values and choices of a society. The ascendancy of another, far better man isn't going to make us abandon
our new home in this gentler, more self-reflective place where we feel able to be citizens of the world and not merely of one nation, even though I am and always will be American, and want to do my part. I fervently
hope his keen intelligence and deep convictions about right and wrong
will be able to withstand the battering he'll begin to receive from those
hell-bent to resist change. The look on his face, as he came down that corridor
toward the sunlight and the waiting crowd on Tuesday, is for me the most haunting image from the day. He gets it, but do we?


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Alternatively, email or tweet me with an article request because not everyone knows how to edit wikis, and I can hopefully write it for you. This wiki is not related to the one with ads on Fandom (formally Wikia).
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Universe | Shinkaizoku |
Japanese name | ニミズ兄 |
Date of first appearance | 2010s |
Based on | Long snouted lancetfish |
Official links | [1] |
Mizuani is a Shinkaizoku character.
A long snouted lancetfish. A lean eater that eats whatever it sees, even though they look slender. It doesn't get fat because most of its body is made of water. It may be wandering in shallow seas.
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Syd Mead
Visual Futurist
A professional career that spans over fifty years started just out of high school in Colorado Springs, Colorado creating characters and backgrounds for animated cinema intermission trailers. After three years in the Army Corps of Engineers, Syd graduated with great Distinction from the Art Center School in 1959 and was immediately hired by Ford Motor Company's Advanced Styling studio where he began to be recognized for his futuristic style. This led to his being recruited to create corporate promotional books with Mead-Hansen Company in Chicago for US Steele and other clients over the next nine years. By 1970, Syd's reputation enabled him to found his own company, Syd Mead, Incorporated, to create industrial design and corporate graphics and, after a fortuitous move to Southern California in 1975, concept designs for the motion picture, television and electronic game industries. His cinema entrée was fortunate, starting with the creation of the V'GER entity for Star Trek: The Motion Picture followed by two cult classics: BLADERUNNER and TRON. His professional work continues to the present including numerous presentations to audiences all over the world. Syd considers his legacy to be the body of work that has provided day-to-day challenge over many years while offering clients his unique design and problem solutions. He has also provided inspiration to an audience of all ages, which has been the most satisfying of all. Syd considers the opportunity to be a guidepost for ambition in others as a priceless gift of fortunate circumstance.
"After nearly 50 years, Syd Mead's work continues to be the standard. His step-by-step methodology is the foundation for how to create new concept art that is imaginative, communicates clearly, and has substance. Needless to say, Syd Mead's design work has stood the test of time, because it has substance at its core, as well as being masterful."
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Many educators feel overwhelmed by new technology and may feel apprehensive when it comes to adopting it in the classroom. But I'm here to make the case that learning to use technology and employing it as part of your curriculum is actually easier than ever. Way easier.
Both hardware and software have never been more user friendly. Developers know that consumers want ease of use and have delivered in an unprecedented manner. Additionally, all producers are now compelled to provide free and easy how-to instructions – trust me, no more 1000-page manuals written in convoluted "tech speak" or a quick trip to the big box bookstore for the Dummies guide.
If you see a new project or idea that you want to bring to your own classroom that requires an unfamiliar software tool, do not hesitate to adopt it. With rare exceptions, you'll find introductory videos at the producer's website, tutorials by fellow educators at YouTube, and a community of users at the product's Facebook or social-network page who are eager to help. If you've developed a Personal Learning Network using Twitter and other social media (and if you haven't, now is a good time), you'll have even more potential sources of support.
Here are just a few methods that I use to teach myself new tools as well as provide my own "technical support."
Just Do it!
If I am interested in trying out a new (and most often free) tool in my classroom (Google Docs, Evernote, iMovie, Dropbox, or more) then as Nike taught me, I "just do it!" I download the software and start exploring. Most people are surprised at how easy these tools are to use.
I set aside one hour of uninterrupted time where I simply sit down and play with the program or tool. I try out the features and get creative! No one else is watching. This is time for me to get familiar with the designers' intentions, the user interface, and to brainstorm about its possibilities. I don't have to worry about colleagues, students, or anyone else looking over my shoulder.
Yes, you can "just google it"
When I was first learning about digital stories and exploring how to employ them in my classroom, I sat down with iMovie and tried to make my own documentary. While using this software, I found that I had a series of questions. For example: "How do I add a transition?" or "How do I insert credits?". How did I find my answers? I simply googled it. Google's algorithms are so user friendly now that you can simply type in the question: "How do I add credits in iMovie?" and your browser displays a series of instructional documents and videos. If you have a question, "google it." Googling is also a good way to search for examples of how other teachers using the same tool you're exploring.
YouTube is Your Friend
YouTube isn't just a place for silly cat and adorable dog videos. Amid the dreck there's actually an amazing repository of knowledge, including lots of helpful clips posted by educators.
A quick YouTube search, using nothing more than the name of the tool or program you're exploring, will turn up step-by-step instructions on how to troubleshoot common problems, use specialized features, and even more. (Videos with high numbers of views are a good place to start.)
I have a series of Ed Tech channels that I follow for my favorite webtools and programs, where I often learn about new and exciting features. I can honestly say that YouTube has become my go-to resource for any technology problem, question, or pursuit currently on my plate. It's so easy to find what you need and the information is usually offered in an easy to follow format, with little to no technical jargon. If you find that's not the case, try another video on the topic. There's seldom just one.
Ask the students
As an educator, I often go through some internal struggle before I look to my students for answers to technology quesitons. After all, aren't I supposed to be the font of knowledge? Then I get over it. They often know more than I do about available programs and features, and they also have the knack for figuring out the user interface quickly. I can tell you that they are never more excited than when they can show their classmates and me something new. Not only does it allow them to showcase their talents, but also it provides them key opportunities of leadership in the classroom. As a result, they become more confident and engaged in their academic environment.
Trust yourself
What I have learned over the years about employing technology in my classroom is that you have to stretch yourself, get over your fears, and trust your skills as an educator and your students as learners. The results I have gotten have far exceeded my expectations. The resources and tools now available for those who want to learn to use these tools is not only free, it's readily accessible and easy to use.
So go in your room. Close the door. Boot up (or wake up your iPad). Guess what. You can't break this stuff. And as your confidence and knowledge grows, you'll be amazed at how much these tools can actually make your teaching more engaging, more fun and more effective.
Jennifer Carey teaches at Trinity Valley School in Ft. Worth, Texas. "I'm a student of the human condition: history, philosophy, art, and culture. I am a passionate educator. I am a lover of new technologies and their ability to share knowledge." She blogs at Indiana Jen and you can find her on Twitter @teacherjencarey.
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About the research
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Links to the final reports and an overview brochure are available on the TRB project page.


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Hope you all have a great Christmas!!
which one is your favorite?
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The Defenders was the big event of the week. Considering what a major event it was, along with only being eight episodes and being released in the summer without much competition, I am going to assume that most who are interested have already viewed it and will vary from my usual practice of holding off on spoilers about Netflix shows until after they have been out for a while. Before getting into spoilers in the rest of the review, I will say that the series was mixed in terms of plotting and pace, but certainly worthwhile to see all four stars of the Netflix Marvel series together. Just hearing Krysten Ritter's wise cracks made up for slow moments. I would advise those who held off on watching Iron Fist due to its weak reviews to watch this first. The villains in The Defenders are from the Hand, with this story being largely a continuation of Iron Fist. While it therefore has some of the weaknesses of Iron Fist, it is improved by the character interactions of the other characters.
The Defenders starts with Danny Rand and rapidly makes the final scene at K'un-Lun almost irrelevant, at least for now, as he quickly returned to New York. Even worse, they quickly dispensed with the ending of Luke Cage as he was quickly released from prison. The show had all four leads in New York City, and there were enough connections between the four shows to make it plausible for their paths to begin to cross. Still, it wasn't until the fourth episode that all four were together as a team.
The series did benefit from cutting down from thirteen to eight episodes, but there were still problems with the plot. Dealing with the Hand did not feel entirely like a rehash of Iron Fist by bringing in Sigourney Weaver along with the other heroes. There was also good use of the supporting characters from the other series, most significantly with a resurrected Electra. It was surprising to see Sigourney Weaver's character only lasting through the first six episode, similar to the change in villain midway through Luke Cage.
The final fifteen minutes took place after the main event with the apparent death of Matt Murdock becoming the focus. This did not work very well as, even if it wasn't already know that at third Daredevil series was planned (including news earlier in the week of plans to start shooting in October),they would not be likely to kill off the most well known member of the team. Plus fans of the genre know that if you don't see a body, the character is undoubtedly alive–and in this series even being seen as dead is no guarantee that this state will persist. Finally, Matt Murdock was seen in the final seconds, likely setting up matters for the next series.
The belief that Matt Murdock was dead also placed Iron Fist in a situation where he was asked to protect the city, and he did appear like Daredevil in his final scene. We don't know for sure if the Hand is really destroyed, but this does provide for an alternative type of story line for his second season in a more traditional super hero role.
Being Marvel, there was even a scene after the credits (which I had to search for as my setup of Netflix on a Roku tried to skip past the credits). The scene involved Frank Castle, the Punisher. More on that scene at Screen Rant.
Entertainment Weekly interviewed Defenders showrunner Marco Ramirez:
Let's start not at the beginning, where Jessica likes to begin her interrogations, but at the ending. Is this the definitive end to the Hand? What can you tell me about the status of everybody in the organization who didn't get decapitated? That includes Gao, Murakami, and Elektra.
Well, in the Marvel world — and as Jeph Loeb, the Marvel TV head, would say — in the comic-book world, you can always find a way. The story finds a way, so who knows? But we definitely felt like we wanted this to be the end of this specific show, so while I don't know if it's the end of the Hand forever — who knows what will happen in the future — it just felt like it's the end of this story in the lore. Particularly for Iron Fist, we wanted to close that chapter [of the Hand's story]. I don't know what the future holds. That's a Jeph Loeb question [laughs] but for me and for the writers' room, it felt right to end the story here.That dragon skeleton — that wasn't Shou-Lao the Undying's, is it? It's just a pile of bones implying that there had been dragons all over the world and one wound up buried under New York?
Yeah, it's the second one. The idea of that was that there had always been this kind of mystery that the Hand can bring people back from the dead, but we never knew exactly how, and it made sense to connect the life-force idea of the chi in the Iron Fist to the idea of the life force [the Hand members] use for various purposes, so we're just saying it's dragon bone that they use, that that's the substance. That felt like the cleanest way to tie everything in.And it's been set up since Daredevil season 1; Gao operates in the background of New York with drugs made from that ground into powder. It felt like we could make back alley drug deals in New York and dragon mythology all part of the same story, so that was my way of trying to tie them all in.
But then, do we know where the city of K'un-Lun went? A part of me thought that was Shou-Lao only because K'un-Lun disappeared, and New York did have a conveniently huge hole in the middle of it.
That's a question for the Iron Fist showrunner, not me. Honestly, I don't know where they're going with that…I'm running with it. Moving on to Matt's near-death, why did he find it so important to stay behind to fight Elektra, knowing that he would probably not make it out alive?
To me, Matt and Elektra always felt like Edward Norton's character and Tyler Durden in Fight Club except with a more overt sexual dynamic. [Laughs] And so, in the end, it felt more like the end of Fight Club… Emotionally, Matt knows and has to embrace the fact that she's his burden to deal with, and though he's fought for three episodes alongside Luke, Jessica, and Danny, Elektra is his problem, his cross to bear. That's very Matt Murdock to say "Don't worry about it, I'll do this. I'm going to die for this."How exactly did he make it out alive in the end? Can you tell me?
I can't. I can't say anything.You're back to keeping secrets!
I know, I know.Well, can you confirm for me that the Maggie mentioned at the end of the series is Matt's mom?
[Laughs] I can't confirm anything! I can say that visually that shot at the end of Daredevil's story was definitely an homage, as were a couple of other scenes, to the comics. That's one of my favorite Daredevil images, so regardless of who any of the characters are, I went to the production meeting saying this is the image we're going for, we're going to feel like this, and that came from that image that I purposely borrowed from the comics.…Let's go back to The Defenders. Before the Midland Circle showdown, Elektra brutally murdered Sigourney Weaver's Alexandra, literally stabbing her in the back with her preferred sai. Why did you kill off who we thought was the Big Bad of the entire series at the end of episode 6?
Well, part of it was just about giving the audience a little something unexpected. Audiences I think sometimes expect that a major storyline or major character is going to end in the ultimate or penultimate episode so they go, "Oh all right, something's going to happen here at the end of the story," so it just felt like a jolt, and it was exciting to write. The second part was really in a way we introduced Sigourney's character a little bit to highlight Elektra's story. I like to think that we wrote a really fun cool character for Sigourney but really it was also a way for us to say this is the journey that Elektra is going on…Back when the series was still filming, Jeph Loeb had said this series could end with these characters telling each other they never want to see each other again. So to you, at the end of this season, what would you call the Defenders? Are they teammates? Friends? Acquaintances?
I think of them mostly as like people who were on the same bus when it got in an accident, and then they all filled out paperwork together, and they all went to the hospital together, and now they're going home. And it's kind of like, "This was a great adventure to have with you, I'd be okay with seeing you again, I'd also be okay with never seeing you again." It's more like a bond that happens in a crisis. People are intimate now, but it's not like you'll be inviting them over for dinner every Tuesday. [Laughs] We designed it so they could go back to their individual worlds, but it's not like they're apart permanently in any way.
This week's Doctor Who news overlaps with characters involved in The Defenders. David Tennant was the best of a handful of strong villains in the Netflix shows, and I had wondered if a second season of Jessica Jones will be as strong without him. There was surprise news this week that David Tennant will be returning to the second season, with no word as to the specifics. It is possible it could be as flashbacks or as something in Jessica's head. I also wonder if perhaps he only made Jessica (and the audience) think he was killed, or if surviving a broken neck is another one of his abilities.
David Tennant is also going to star with Michael Sheen (Masters of Sex) in an adaption of the Neil Gaiman/Terry Pratchett novel Good Omens on Amazon.
As I noted last week, David Tennant has been speaking out in favor of Jodie Whittaker being cast as the thirteenth Doctor. The Sunday Express also looked at that, along with the news on how her father was kept in the dark about the role.
Krysten Ritter discussed the second season of Jessica Jones with Bustle:
Ritter emphasizes that the key topic of the second season will be exploring "more of why Jessica is the way she's is" (which could also lend itself to some therapy sessions). She argued we shouldn't assume that the superhero's personality is just about Kilgrave: "Even in the source material, so much stuff has happened to her. You feel for her … Every time, you're just like, 'Ugh, she's been through so much.' Yet she still fights. Which is what we love about her."
And if you've been wondering what could have led to the character's pessimism and cynicism, it sounds like this is going to be the season we'll get plenty of answers. Which is a lottery win of a plot development, right? But the actor also warns audiences that while she has been hoping to recreate Season 1, that this is a radically different beast, summarizing the evolution in where each installment took place. "The first season was in her head and the second season is in her heart," offers Ritter.
Karen Gillan already has a character in the Marvel Universe in the Guardians of the Galaxy movies, and she has a definite role which she desires in the DC universe–The Joker. From ComicBook.com:
karen Gillan is best known across the pop culture landscape for her roles as Doctor Who's Amy Pond and Guardians of the Galaxy's Nebula. But if she had a chance to lend her talents to another corner of geek culture – the live-action DC Comics universe – there's one character she would like to play.
During a panel at Florida SuperCon, Gillan was asked what character she would be willing to play in another fandom. And to the surprise of comic fans, she had a noteworthy DC Comics antagonist – The Joker – in mind.
"Oh, can I say something DC?" Gillain asked. "Okay, I'm going to say something DC, and I'm going to play the Joker. Maybe a female Joker."
A fan then informed Gillan that there is comic precedent for a female Joker, with Martha Wayne taking on the mantle in DC's 2011 event Flashpoint.
"This is my calling!" Gillan said with a gasp. "Somebody make a call for me and let them know I'm available."
…At the end of the day, Gillan might not end up playing the DCEU's version of Flashpoint Joker, largely because she's busy filming Marvel's Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers 4, and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. But you have to admit that it's pretty easy to picture her playing the fan-favorite role in some capacity.
In other cross-genre casting news, Susie Abromeit, who played Jeri Hogarth's girlfriend Pam in Jessica Jones, has been cast to play Ray Palmer's mother on Legends of Tomorrow. The episode goes back to Ray's childhood in the 1980's
Last week I noted that Lana Wachowski is writing a third season of Sense8 in the hopes that it will be picked up somewhere. The porn site xHamster has made an offer to continue the series in a letter posted here. I have my doubts as to whether having fans go to a porn site will be an acceptable option, but maybe that would mean that the annual orgy scenes would be more explicit.
Two comedians who were otherwise quite different now have one thing in common–having died this weekend. Dick Gregory died yesterday. The Washington Post reports:
The comedian Dick Gregory rose to national prominence in the early 1960s as a black satirist whose audacious style of humor was biting, subversive and topical, mostly centered on current events, politics and above all, racial tensions. His trademark was the searing punchline.
"A Southern liberal?" he once said. "That's a guy that'll lynch you from a low tree." Another: "When I get drunk, I think I'm Polish. One night I got so drunk I moved out of my own neighborhood." On segregation: "I know the South very well. I spent 20 years there one night."
Mr. Gregory, 84, died Aug. 19 in Washington. His son, Christian Gregory, announced the death on Mr. Gregory's official social media accounts. The cause was not reported.
Jerry Lewis died this morning. Variety reports:
Jerry Lewis, the brash slapstick comic who became a pop culture sensation in his partnership with Dean Martin and then transformed himself into an auteur filmmaker of such comedic classics as "The Nutty Professor" and "The Bellboy," has died in Las Vegas. He was 91.
Lewis died at his home in Las Vegas at about 9:15 a.m. Sunday morning, his agent confirmed.
For most of his career, Lewis was a complicated and sometimes polarizing figure. An undeniable comedic genius, he pursued a singular vision and commanded a rare amount of creative control over his work with Paramount Pictures and other studios. He legacy also includes more than $2.5 billion raised for the Muscular Dystrophy Association through the annual Labor Day telethon that he made an end-of-summer ritual for decades until he was relieved of the hosting job in 2011.
But Lewis' brand of humor did not always wear well as times and attitudes changed. Over the last 10 years of his life, his reputation soured slightly as he was forced to apologize for making a gay slur on camera during the 2007 telethon, continued to make racist and misogynistic jokes, and didn't hesitate to share his right-wing political views.


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Game time is coming up and I have completed all my superstitious rituals that have helped bring me to a vision, of which I will share with you now.
But before that, this could have been a very literary SuperBowl, what with the Ravens named after the masterpiece of famed Baltimore homey Edgar Allen Poe.
What if the 49ers had been named after the work of a San Francisco literary figure. Kerouac? The Roadies? Jack London? The White Fangs? Danielle Steele? The Romancers?
No, no, no. Last night, the movie version of the great Dashiell Hammett classic was on. Imagine the Ravens vs. the Maltese Falcons.
OK, nevermore.
I'm feeling 24-20 for some reason.
Here's how it goes, 49ers score first with an Akers field goal (hooray!) , then add a TD, a run by Frank Gore, then another by Kaepernick. That's 17 in one half.
The Ravens come back after the field goal to go ahead 7-3.
Niners make it 10-7.
Then make it 17-7 at half-time.
In the second half the Ravens come back, scoring to make it 17-14.
Twice more they penetrate 49er territory, but get only field goals to go ahead 20-17.
In the final quarter, the 49er offense wakes up with some long passes to Vernon Davis.
And then sensing man coverage at the line, Kaepernick uses his legs to score a game-winnng touchdown.
49ers go ahead, 24-20.
That's my copyrighted vision of today's SuperBowl that I have licensed the 49ers to use as they wish.
If you're a better and take the Ravens and the points, or the 49ers giving, the line is 4, and what do you know, it's a push, a tie.
That should make the Harbaugh's parents' happy.
But the 49ers win the game.
BTW, I made a rare appearance on the KQED "This Week in Northern California" program where I joined a panel talking about immigration reform.
If you missed it, here's a link to the TV show.
LATE ADD: OK, my prediction, the game, nothing worked out quite the way I said. For the most part, Beyonce won the game, as the 49ers were lip-synching through three quarters. But then came that 34 minute delay due to a power failure. You mean a 49er power failure wasn't enough, now the Superdome had to be less than super? And though what usually is spawned by a power failure is a baby boom nine months later, this power failure birthed an explosion of energy from the 49ers who nearly made it all the way back from the dead. 28-6 certainly made us all more interested in whatever buffet was before us and not the football game. But then, the 49ers began to play, outgaining, outscoring the Ravens, topped off with a Kaepernick score to bring the 49ers to a 31-29 deficit. The Ravens added a field goal making it 34-29. Then, with the ball on the Baltimore 5-yard line, the 49er juggernaut hit a wall–the Ravens defense. Four plays, goal to go, and nothing. No runs, passes. Lots of penalties. Oh, those aren't penalties? Well then, the pistol was shot. The 49ers empty.
Oh, what could have been? From 34-29, the Niners go 36-34. Flacco and the Ravens still had a lot of time to drive for a game winning FG or a TD. Or maybe the 49er defense finally prevails. We won't know that ending. We're stuck with the one we've got.
A Super Bowl win you cherish and commemorate. A Super Bowl loss burns eternally.
You do learn from it, as team and as a fan. And you go on from there, perhaps to achieve or witness greatness again.
But until that happens, you can never quite turn off the lights on such a super loss.