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Here's a real-time look at the total count of likes for Mitt Romney's Facebook page. Mmm, sweet tasty schadenfreude!
I have never had a better audience for a presentation, nor have I ever felt prouder of the people I came up with at Yahoo. Gary Flake, Tom Hughes-Croucher, Greg Schechter, Steve Souders, Nicole Sullivan, Estelle Weyl, and Nicholas Zakas all gave stellar presentations, and reminded me why this sort of thing is so much fun to attend. Hope to be back next time!
Some generative Canvas magic, with a little help from the Twitter API and YQL's instant-data-URI converter. To try it out, enter your twitter nickname down there where you see mine.
Drag and drop files into your browser and immediately see their base64-encoded data:uris, with thumbnails.
Placeholders are sweet; they supply the reader with a hint about what he's supposed to enter in a text field, allowing for much tighter design. Sadly, placeholders only work with the most recent browsers, which do NOT include Firefox less than version 4 or IE less than version 9.
Random notes about the fine time we had in Austin, including my 20x2 movie and Mistakes I Made Building Netflix for the iPhone.
While I was away in Brazil, crackers released a large blob of information containing much of Gawker Media's user database.
After many fine adventures at Netflix, I'm off to do the next thing
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position:fixed support! Got fixed headers and footers with scrolling body working with zero per cent JavaScript!
Turns out @jeremiahg's Safari autocomplete exploit is trivially easy to implement.
Hey, neat! Flickr's launching HTML5 video for the iPad. Here's how to find it and get it for your site. (Webkit only, sorry!)
Shown at Revenge Of Kick-Ass Mash-Ups, SxSW 2010
Here's the hack that won me the very first Yahoo! Hack for Good award, way back in 2007. Sadly, this did not ship while I was a Yahoo employee; I am seeing encouraging signs that Phillip Tellis is working on it, so I now feel free to post this in public.
On 14 December 2009, Netflix quietly launched a pair of new widget builders, at
http://developer.netflix.com/widgets. Both builders create single-line JavaScript widgets that inject a big chunk of the Netflix experience onto outside pages with very little effort on the part of the site operator. Here are a couple of example implementations and a tiny peek at how they work.
Backchannel is a re-implementation of @jerrymichalski's Red:Green Cards. It's intended for use during seminars and other meetings where the audience needs to communicate a limited set of one-way messages to the speaker. While running Backchannel, your phone's screen will turn red while vertical and green while horizontal. This could be used for feedback (faster/slower, go/stop) or voting (yes/no). There's no technical reason why the colors couldn't be different, or programmable, or a third color added to the plus-ninety-degrees orientation. To try it out, fire up your iPhone and go here:
Once you're done flipping your device up and down to see the color change, try saving a local copy. To do this, touch the + button at the bottom of your browser and choose Add to Home Screen. The Add to Home panel should come up, with Backchannel's red-and-green icon and title. Touch Add and you should see it on your home screen.
After being absolutely floored by some really impressive new HTML5 demos--see the 9elements Twitter mash-up, for one--I figured it was time to give it a try myself. Here's the result.
A short while ago, something sucked the fun right out of Twitter. All of a sudden, replies from people who I was following to people who were a) not me, or b) not people I was also following, mysteriously quit showing up. Without knowing more about the underlying data structures I'm not certain I understand Twitter's explanation; it seems to me they'd have to go out of their way to find and remove tweets from people I'm following that were in reply to tweets from others that I'm not following, rather than just show me all the tweets from everybody I am following.
Anyway. I figured I'd go with it for a while and see if I noticed any difference ... and ... yeah, I do. Turns out the main way I found new, interesting people to follow was through those half-conversations. I haven't followed anybody new since replies broke, and find myself growing increasingly bored with Twitter.
At the top of this page, you'll see an entry box with my Twitter id filled in. If you click the button, you will see a list of tweets from people I'm following. Each of these tweets is the most recent one posted in reply to another Twitter user. If I'm not following that person, I won't see it when I look at my Twitter page. If you'd like to try it out and see some (probably not all) of what you're missing, fill in your Twitter screen name and click Go.
Twitter Search is turning out to be a very powerful force in real-time search. Instead of relying on a vaguely-defined, possibly-corrupt, almost-always-out-of-date algorhythm owned by somebody else, why not check out what your fellow Internet readers are marking as interesting and/or relevant?
Also included: my 15-slide presentation from the May 9th BayJax meet-up, detailing the development process.
Netflix, in case you didn't know, is a marvelous place to rent movies and television series on DVD, and watch an increasing percentage online. Over the last ten years, Netflix has accumulated a treasure trove of information about movies and the people who make them, and has recently opened it all up with the Netflix Catalog API. (Full disclosure: yes, I work there, and yes, it's awesome.)
Here's a handy tool to help you get your feet wet without having to worry about OAuth.
When I first encountered OAuth I bounced off the spec and a couple of libraries, which seem to be documented in a language created specifically to make guys like me give up in disgust.
Backup plan: I cracked into a couple of URL returns with Firebug, thought I understood what was going on, and plunged blindly in. (Famous last words: "It's just a string, right? How hard could it possibly be?") Here's my top ten list of horrible mistakes made while trying to reverse-engineer OAuth.
Updated 3/27/2009, 10:01PDT: looks like this may have been fixed a few minutes ago. Read on, to learn more about what was happening.
With a few lines of JavaScript it's possible to discover whether your Web site's visitors are signed in to Amazon, find out if they have a wish list, add the arbitrary items of your choice, and extract their names, all without their knowledge or permission.
News flash: there is a crapload of really bad JavaScript programming advice out there. I click into this junk a lot, and it bothers me. With a simple set of URL filters, I was able to build an add-on for Yahoo! Search that warns me away from all those lovely canned scripts from 1997.
As usual I'm late for the bandwagon. Here's my very first GitHub project, a case-hardened badge that allows a certain amount of surfing around between GitHub repositories, owners, and watchers.
The first thought I had after building Cleeper was "Dude, this is way too complicated. It should just copy straight to e-mail."
One of the iPhone's few glaring disappointments is the lack of proper copy and paste. If I'm on a page and I want to send a chunk of it over to Twitter, I have no choice but to memorize it, bring up Twitter's horrific little iPhone interface, and painfully bang it in there with my big fat fingers. After warming up with iClock, a toolbar bookmarklet that contains an entire Web page in a base-64 encoded
data: URL, I was ready to try something a bit more useful.
Cleeper will inject itself into the page you're on, wait for you to click an existing block-level element, and copy the text of the element into an entry box, where you can edit it. After you're done editing, click the Cleep button to send your message off to Twitter.
Once it's running, go back out to your Settings, turn off your network by going into Airplane Mode, and then come back and try iClock again. If all went well, you should see a working clock with your network disabled, because the bookmark itself contains everything necessary to recreate the page.
Until the release of Yahoo! Query Language, one of the key parts missing from del.icio.us (or "Delicious," as it's now branded) was a full-text search API. Delicious Search Exploder uses YQL, Pipes, and a couple of native feeds from Delicious to provide an on-page search-and-browse experience, for users, tags, and sites.
Added: native API calls, searching, sorting, Identica-like styling, home-page, reply-to and original-message links. Fixed: Unicode support.
For more about the project, see Marshal Kirkpatrick's Identi.ca: May A Million Twitters Bloom, Hugh McGuire's Why Identi.ca Matters, and Edd Dumbill's Why Identi.ca is Important.
For my SeedCamp talk I've built a small application using Yahoo! Query Language and oAuth. To try it out, enter the stock ticker symbol of your choice. (YHOO, MSFT, GOOG, and AAPL are a few of my favorites.)
Of particular interest here may be the compressed HMAC-SHA1 function; this was simplified from Paul Johnston's full-sized version, here:
Here's a single-line JavaScript include that will check all the links on your page for pointers to CrunchBase, heat 'em up, and pop up a badge full of lovely explanatory data when your reader mouses over and holds for a quarter-second.
CrunchBadge uses many of the techniques detailed in Case-Hardened JavaScript; please go there for technical details. If you want to poke at the CrunchBase API, which is pretty sweet, check out their Google group.
After the result renders, we're running everything back through the link detector, so you can continue to surf CrunchBase while remaining on the page you were interested in. Once you mouse over a second enhanced link, its title will go into the select box in the headline, and you'll be able to easily find your way back.
Here at last is my presentation from Web 2.0, which I've been criminally remiss in posting. It's live now because of L.M. Orchard's marvelous Firefox Download Day Mega Widget, which uses some of the techniques.
For a while now I've been hearing about various "data portability" initiatives, most of which will only allow you to make a copy of some small subset of the current state of your profile. Everything else--including historic transactions and top-secret personal information--remains online, per the terms of the TOS you ignored when you first joined up.
Remember, if you can't delete it, it's not portable.
I've been interested in FOAF for a long time. Abstracting out all my social relationships into a separate layer, just as I do with my presentation and behavior layers, really resonates. Future possibilities like being able to point marketers at my FOAF object so they will quit wasting their time trying to sell me timeshares seems like a very real possibility.
What changed today? MyBlogLog rolled out FOAF. And now, finally, I don't have to worry about keeping a file on my Web site. All I need to do is add people and services to my network on MyBlogLog, and it's taken care of for me.
This morning, the Pipes team launched a new feature, Pipe Badges. Using several of the ideas collected in Case-Hardened JavaScript, Pipe Badges allow the site operator to include a single line of JavaScript, hosted by Pipes, and see one of three handy badges--list, image, or map view--pop up instantly.
Over the past few months I've published articles documenting an extremely trivial weakness that allows any third-party operator to determine if its users are signed in to several well-known Web services. This is pretty clearly information that ought not to be shared; even if it's not explicitly stated in the service's terms of service, it's expected by the public.
Here's a toolbar bookmarklet that looks for a MyBlogLog identifier on the page you're on, and uses the MyBlogLog API to dig out information about its reader roll. You can try it here, or drag it to your bookmarks toolbar and run it anywhere else on the Web.
After much hard work, the team at MyBlogLog and the Yahoo! Developer Network--including but definitely not limited to Todd Sampson, Ian Kennedy, J.R. Conlin, and the one and only Chris Goffinet--have released the MyBlogLog API into limited public beta.
Suddenly there's a wide-open source of information about who lives where on the Web. With a minimum of fuss it would be easy to go grab a Twitter status, del.icio.us bookmark set, or Flickr feed for anybody listed below and slot it neatly into place, and that's just the beginning.
Think of it as a small-scale Sudoku board with a twist: you must place pieces on the board in the order that they're given to you. If you make an illegal move, by duplicating a color in any row or column, the move you made will stay while enough of the previous moves (row, column, or sub-board) will drop out and return to the end of the line. This may turn out to be smart strategy, depending on the layout you're faced with. To try this out on your iPhone or iPod Touch, visit http://kentbrewster.com/glint
Here's a list of notes-to-myself about hacking the iPod Touch. I'm posting it here in the hope that it may be useful to other owners, who are happy with their new toys but can't help thinking that there might be more fun to be had.
We're into the New Year, and not a word from Mr. Boyd besides the demand that I take this down. While I understand some folks would like more detail, it won't be posted here. Unless you're the sort of person who thinks "she pissed me off" is a good reason for a man to sucker-punch a woman, details are not important.
Back late last night from Defrag, which I hope to attend again next year. It's been noted elsewhere that most speakers at the conference repeated several main themes; this seems true to me. In this post is a long list of highlights, sorted in alphabetical order, which seems as good as any.
If you're like me and you prefer the "classic" Windows start menu and task bar--flat gray, minimal distraction, not so Teletubbies-looking--you may have already noticed that there's no easy way to tell the Classic version not to track and show your recently opened documents.
Had a bit of trouble today: one of Vickie's two-gig thumb drives went catatonic. All Windows could come up with was the scary message that the disk in drive E wasn't formatted, and did she want to format it now? (Answer: nooooooo!) After a bit of investigation--the usual stuff: reboot, pray, try it on several machines, sacrifice a chicken--we came to the conclusion that the thing's file system had broken. To the rescue: Christophe Grenier's TestDisk/PhotoRec suite, at http://cgsecurity.org.
Back from a week-long jaunt to the heartland: to Chicago, for Adobe MAX, and thence to Champaign-Urbana, for a lecture to Mike Woodley's class and the kick-off event for the UIUC chapter of Yahoo!'s University Hack Day.
In which our friends Structure, Presentation, and Behavior go on a New Adventure, outside the browser window....
Implementing the del.icio.us tagometer badge on the new site clashed with my main goal for the redesign: it had to be as fast as possible. So I cracked into it this afternoon, and wound up with a single 6k script that works, and does nothing to my YSlow score, which is currently a 96% on pages that don't have a bunch of external includes. (Bonus: there's even a way to recreate the del.icio.us logo without loading an image!)
A week or so back, Amazon released their Widgets page, which seems to be a corral for many existing widgets and services, plus some neat-looking new ones. What's most interesting to me is that the cool new toys all seem to be in HTML, and not Flash. Amazon seems to be going after a smaller, more-capable crowd (bloggers, hackers, small business operators) and not the denizens of the MySpace/Facebook walled gardens.
Because of the way Answers is set up, high-level users--and by "high-level," I mean "anybody level 3 and above"--are not powerful because of what they know, but because of the frequency and tone with which they communicate what they know. They're on the service a lot. They answer questions quickly and accurately. And they have high status because they write graceful, easy-to-digest answers that don't make the person who was brave enough to ask the question feel stupid for having done so in public. These folks are volunteer evangelists for whatever product or site they recommend ... and they are easy to find, using the Answers API.
I'm doing my best to bring all the old posts, content, and comments over, and have added something new. Here and there you'll spot a closed norgie next to a purplish headline, indicating that there's something behind the curtain that you might or might not want to see. In this case, it's the nerdish details of how the new site works. (Or, in the words of the folk singer: "I've suffered for my art; now it's your turn.")
Creating properly-sized vertical dividers between columns seems like it ought to be easy. It is, if you're using tables for layout: you bang out a couple of cells, put a border-right on the left one, and you're done. If, on the other hand, you choose to write standards-compliant HTML, you're heading down a harder road.
Recently I found myself in the position of needing to code a series of syndicated Web badges. To guarantee that they ran as consistently as possible, I started looking for ways to create stylesheets with JavaScript, instead of having to do an additional HTTP request, and--assuming the stylesheet actually loaded--worry about the possibility that my selectors could be overridden by an additional set of rules loaded somewhere else on the page.
A second case-hardened JavaScript badge. This one takes a Digg category (or a group of them, or none at all) and builds a full-featured search badge. Cute stuff abounds: mouse over the story to see details, the user to see profile, and the vote count to see the category and optionally add it to your list.
A case-hardened JavaScript badge. Grabs the Twitter feed for the ID of your choice; massages it into a neat little badge; allows continued interaction with your friends and their feeds.
Everybody likes a nice little Web badge. Here's a set of methods that will allow you to build and serve darn-near-bullet-proof Web badges from your network to anywhere on the Web, so your clients won't have to do anything but include a single line of JavaScript.


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Connections: Hidden British Histories
A project that documents the history and experiences of Asian, Black and Jewish people in modern Britain and the interaction between these groups.
In 1998 the Jewish Council for Racial Equality (JCORE), the Asian-Black-Jewish Forum and the Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations at Southampton University initiated a major history project, looking at the hidden histories of Asian, Black and Jewish immigrants to Britain and their comparative experiences.
The result of that project is the Connections website and a colourful and dynamic 24 panel travelling exhibition (particularly aimed at young people aged 11 - 14 but suitable for all), supporting teaching materials, activity sheets and an ineractive CD-ROM. Education consultation and participation in our outreach programme is also offered. The exhibition is available to hire free of charge for schools, small musuems, libraries and community centres but is now fully booked until September 2007.
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Specially designed for 11 to 14 year olds the activity guide enhances enjoyment of the exhibition for young people. There are 10 questions which encourage them to think about various issues including why immigrants came to Britain andd the contributions to society they have made.
How to obtain
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Connecitons CD-ROM
An interactive CD-ROM with lots of games based on the exhibtion and website to enhance the learning experience. Particularly for 11 - 14 year olds.
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Free of charge - by emailing, phoning or writing to project manager.
Outreach Pack - making the most of the exhibition
A 3 part document with ideas to help hosts enhance the experience of having the exhibition by bringing people together from different communities - through music, art, film, storytelling, food, writing, creating your own companion exhibition, researching your own family history and the history of your home and so on. Alos contains myths and facts about immigrants and asylum seekers, suggested reading and useful websites.
Teachers' activity guide
Resource to help teachers make the most of their time hosting the exhibtion or preparation before taking their pupils to see it at an other venue. Lots of ideas on related issues to think about and suggestions for a range of activities in the classroom. Suitable for key stage 3.
- English only
How to obtain
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You Can See It and Feel It. A More Confident Pelini Is, in a Word, Upbeat
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Tuesday was a pivotal, perhaps even a ground-breaking day in the Bo Pelini Era.
A number of words have been used to describe Nebraska's ultra-passionate head football coach, but on the eve of Nebraska's first 2010 spring football practice, a new one became part of the vocabulary when Eric Olson of the Associated Press had the audacity to tell a roomful of reporters that Pelini seemed "upbeat".
Everyone on the sixth floor of Memorial Stadium's press box seemed to chuckle when Olson made the observation. So did Pelini, who walked into the room as refreshed as a fitness instructor and walked out of it an hour later as upbeat as you'll ever see him.
I know it's just March, so no one was really expecting to see one of those patented Pelini glares that can accompany a suspect question. But Pelini was so comfortable and so confident Tuesday that he would have aced a Dale Carnegie oral exam on how to win friends and influence people.
He found something to like about every aspect of every question he fielded, and those behind the microphones and cameras could only reach a rather simple conclusion - Bo is more comfortable than ever with his team depth, more confident than ever with his coaching staff and more optimistic than ever with talent that is about to be woven into an ever-evolving culture that seems to get better with age.
Instruction is, perhaps, the key word for a coach who lives by what's taught and grades by what's caught. The class setting is right where Bo Pelini wants it ... hungry and eager players ready and willing to learn from an equally hungry and eager coaching staff.
How else do you explain Pelini's uncharacteristic burst of enthusiasm Tuesday, especially when he'd missed a plane from Chicago the day before and still saw sunshine through the lens of 15 spring practices that will give him and his staff the opportunity to hone what the Huskers showed at the Holiday Bowl in San Diego?
The Goal: Physical Domination in the Big 12
Twelve of those 15 practices, we should point out, will include pads, so Nebraska coaches can see what they crave most - which players are ready to stay focused on the process, to compete every day and to make the Huskers the most physically dominant team in the Big 12 Conference.
"In the end, we need to be a hard, high-effort, physical football team," Pelini said, "and that's the way we're going to practice."
When Olson asked Pelini why he was so upbeat, Pelini replied: "I don't know. I'm excited. I like spring ball. I love every aspect of it. It gives you the opportunity to really develop your team and find out about how guys learned. To me, this is big. I don't read too much into it, but I think it really gives you a chance to take all that work they put in the winter, put it on the field and really start getting your guys developed."
By guys, he meant veterans, redshirts, newcomers, touted recruits, scout teamers and walk-ons who would like to carve their names into a depth chart that will exist only in a locked bank vault somewhere in the backs of Bo Pelini and his assistant coaches' minds. That was the first point Pelini made Tuesday before climbing onto his soapbox of optimism.
Clearly, this is a head coach who now firmly believes that his players are properly immersed in a system that enables them to understand the big picture and to help develop and push their teammates every bit as hard as they will push themselves. Everyone who plays for Pelini embraces development in the winter, spring, summer and fall as a never-ending pursuit of conditioning, fundamentals and techniques that are required to compete at the highest level.
"It's not about scheme," Pelini said. "It's about how-to rather than what. That's just our philosophy as a staff, and it's not a time to have the pen last, and do all those things you do game-plan wise."
Spring practice is a time for Pelini and his staff to do what they enjoy most - teach and motivate. Frankly, they can't wait to see which veterans are ready to take their game to the next level and what younger players can take the baby steps necessary for them to even get on the elevator.
The lifting marks and the running numbers from winter conditioning were crucial, but they won't determine a depth chart that Pelini says wouldn't even be worth the paper it's printed on. Competition, especially in the spring, is much more than individual improvement. It's a collective drive for team improvement - a reinforcing philosophy that helps everyone understand, develop and embrace what it will take to beat the biggest and the best teams anywhere, any time.
He Likes His Team's Attitude and Leadership
For Bo Pelini, progress is this spring's most important product.
"Our team has a great attitude right now," he said. "I really like our football team. Forget about the talent and expectations and all that other stuff. I like the way they go about their business. I like the way they work. I like their attitude. I like their leadership. I like the type of football players we have on this team and the way they've come together.
"I think our culture is starting to take hold, and that's exciting to me," Pelini added. "You don't read about our guys for the wrong reasons in the paper (or) on ESPN, knock on wood. They represent this program the right way, and they're doing things in the classroom and the workouts and every aspect of their life here. They're doing things the right way right now, and that gets me excited about what we can do in the future."
The future starts Wednesday, and Pelini admits he can't wait to heat up the competition that will carry through the summer and give his team the momentum he wants to see when fall camp begins. He relishes the opportunity to develop players every day in practice and to teach them every day in meetings. "That's what this time of year is for," he said. "To me, that's what spring practice is all about."
Pelini covered every subject imaginable Tuesday (Check 2010 Husker Spring Football Headquarters) - from Zac Lee's recovery and Mike McNeill's move to wide receiver to injuries and how you can accelerate the development of junior college linemen. He talked about Rickey Thenarse, the competition at quarterback and the decision to remove green "non-contact" practice jerseys. He talked about position changes, an upcoming clinic for 1,000 coaches, depth at cornerback and who might emerge at defensive tackle after losing Ndamukong Suh.
In addition to elaborating on his running backs and the running game Pelini praised James Dobson, the Huskers' strength and conditioning coach, for helping the Huskers get into the position they're now in. Nebraska's head coach also talked about Olympic gold medals, how difficult it is to have Nebraska's women's basketball record and how he still keeps up with Big Suh.
Pelini made reporters laugh and after doing a radio interview with the Huskers Sports Network, he even camped at the pressroom doorway to watch team leaders handle their own media inquiries.
Amukamara, McNeill and Paul Describe Swagger
Make no mistake. Cornerback Prince Amukamara, tight end/wide receiver Mike McNeill and wide receiver Niles Paul all sat in the same interview chair as their head coach, and all followed his optimistic lead.
In fact, all three openly responded to a certain word that seemed to be part of the air in the press box.
No, upbeat was not that word. It was swagger, and Pelini had certainly laid the groundwork for something that makes others feel good because of his own charisma and presence.
"I think our swagger is what we call it nowadays," Amukamara said of the Huskers' overall team attitude. "I don't know if you guys know what that means, but our swagger for sure has been turned up. I think, it's a new, different style of energy and a different style of emotion that we play with, and I think that's what's helping us become successful."
McNeill was asked to elaborate. "I would say that the swag is high," he said. "I think people realize the potential we have. Obviously, right now, we haven't proven anything, but I think coming off the loss to Texas, which was close, and the big win in the bowl game, I think everybody realizes that we can do something special."
Paul, the Offensive MVP of the 33-0 win over Arizona in the Holiday Bowl, wasn't about to pull away from a theme that had been stated and reinforced.
"Everybody has a lot more confidence in themselves," he said. "It's not too much confidence. We all know that we still have to work hard, but everybody's confidence level is high. We know we're good. It's that type of feeling in there."
The frustration and the doubts that came with four losses have been replaced by the confidence and the commitment of a head coach who is so determined to go well beyond 10 wins that he's even willing to be upbeat, as long as that helps his players get to where they all want to go.
Voices from Husker Nation
It sounds good - not too cocky, but most definitely a belief in themselves and their teammates. A very good possibility of a BCS bowl this year. Lee Stephenson


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HootSuite Reaches 3 Million Signups and Releases Infographic ~ #3MillionOwls
It is a momentous day in HootSuite's history as we're proud to announce our 3,000,000th signup. The dashboard is riding an impressive growth curve having taken 24 months to reach our first million, eight months to reach two million, and six months to reach three million users.
In the time it took HootSuite to add three million users, we've released numerous versions of the dash, collected a slew of awards, and created quite the parliament of Owlys – growing from a bright eyed startup to a global industry leader.
Our secret to success? Anticipating the needs of the social media landscape and listening to our users. Through your insightful feedback and continued support, we've built a robust social media management dashboard used by a wide spectrum of owls. We're proud to have created a tool that has shaped how people interact online – and in turn are grateful for how our users have shaped the dashboard.
Measuring the Milestone
At present, over 700 million messages have been sent through over 6 million unique social profiles. To celebrate this occasion, we've released an infographic highlighting signup milestones and revenue (run rate), the top ten signups by country, daily usage percentages via web and mobile devices, newly added social networks, and effective reach of messages sent daily.
A Global Flock
Since reaching the two million user milestone, outreach to international markets has resulted in significant growth of accounts across the globe. HootSuite now offers localized versions of the dashboard in five languages – English, French, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish. When ranking HootSuite usage by geographic location, the top ranking countries include:
- Japan
- Canada
- Brazil
- Indonesia
- Netherlands
- Spain
- Mexico
- Australia
HootSuite in Your Hands
Currently 80% of HootSuite users access the dashboard via the web platform while the other 20% choose to access through their mobile devices. Usage on mobile devices show that 57% of users log onto the HootSuite dashboard using iPhones, 26% using Android smartphones, 3% using BlackBerry smartphones, and 14% using iPads. At the three millionth user milestone, the newly added social networks include 45% Facebook (Facebook features, pages, groups), 42% Twitter, 8% LinkedIn and 5% other. Regardless of which platform is used, HootSuite's users spread messages with the possibility of significant reach. When multiplying the 1.5 million users on the dashboard per day by the number of average followers on each social media account, the effective reach of each message sent can spread to 1.7 billion people.
Can't Stop, Won't Stop
HootSuite's current dashboard reflects a pattern of rapid iterations and release announcements. Since signing up our two millionth user we've made significant headway – here's what we've been up to:
- Integration of Facebook tools including search, groups, events, photos and geo-location
- Becoming a LinkedIn Certified Developer and adding deeper LinkedIn integration
- 3 million in financing plus acquisition of TwapperKeeper
- Acquiring location-based marketing tool, Geotoko, to social media management system
- Acquiring web service, What the Trend, which shares user-defined explanations of trending topics on Twitter
- Addition of YouTube, Flickr, Tumblr, and Get Satisfaction to the HootSuite App Directory
- Addition of Google+ Pages integration in dashboard
- Infographic from What the Trend analyzing Top Trending Topics on Twitter for 2011 (Part 1, Part 2)
- Addition of Constant Contact, Summify and Formulists to the HootSuite App Directory
- Continued enhancement and new feature development for Android, Blackberry, and iOS including iPad and iPhone optimizations
Social Media School
Given the ever-changing social media space and release of features, HootSuite has taken steps to continually improve its Social Media Certification program, HootSuite University. The increased desire for additional educational resources can be seen in the program's enrollment numbers. On HootSuite's one millionth user milestone, there were 211 certified professionals and practitioners. At the two millionth user mark, 480 were certified. In the past six months, the number of HootSuite University graduates rose to 1343 certified professionals.
Such Great Heights
From everyone at HootSuite HQ, we would like to extend a big thank you to all three million owls using the dashboard. We simply would not be here today without the support you've provided us. Moving forward, you can expect to see additional social media networks and HootSuite App Directory integrations, new strategic partnerships, further mobile development, new courseware through HootSuite University, continued expansion of our Enterprise offering, and of course more Owly fun. Once again, we appreciate you taking part in our culture and helping us shape social media.


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One & Two Story House Plans. The Good Planning for One Story House Plans — Do not underestimated planning for many things including in one story house plans. A plan is always important considering that there will be many things to be put in a house. The number of people living together, the lawn design, the room coordination and a lot other things need to be considered. When designing a house, many people will think about the basic things needed as well as a few things those are expected. For example some people may want a wide lawn for planting plants and flowers and some people want the large kitchen because of cooking hobby.
It will be difficult to just build the house without planning even if it is the one story house. If one has a problem in starting the plan, browsing internet or reading magazine about one story house plans will be a good step in acquiring ideas. The plans for houses can be found easily and studying them will help in giving fresh ideas. Some people may grab the whole plans to be taken and applied in real life. A good plan is about a house that will suit the needs of the households in many ways. It is not just about suitable but also about comfort for anyone in the house.
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House plans styles can be started with a simple browse to look at the available styles and what styles will fit each other when being combined. When it comes to style of house, a lot of people tend to go with the contemporary style. It is easy to choose this style instead of others because this style tends to go with the flow and suitable to be combined with many other styles. Of course, there are also other styles to be considered such as combining the rustic style with country style or combining the modern minimalistic style with the zen style.
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The plans for houses or buildings need to be considered and thought carefully. Some people may have no idea where they have to start in designing the house. If this is a problem, try to get photos or examples of two story house plans from many sources such as from internet or from the architectural magazines and tabloids. There will be a lot of ideas those can be used in the personal designs. It is also a good thing to consult with the contractors who will be in charge of building process and making sure that everything will go according to the plans.


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If your intellectual interests stretch across the boundaries of the established majors, Southwestern allows you to craft your own Independent Major (area of concentration). Designed in consultation with the chairs of the Division/School and the Departments involved, you can tailor an interdisciplinary course of study focused on a theme.
Recent graduates have pursued Independent Majors in a wide range of topics including:
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An Independent Major's course of study must show unity and coherence in examining a set of intellectual issues through the lenses of a range of disciplines. The major consists of no fewer than 48 semester hours, chosen in accordance with an overall plan: 1) 24 semester hours from one subject area (defined as one group of courses sharing a numerical prefix, e.g. 70-XXX-Studio Art), 18 of which must be above the introductory level; and 2) 24 additional semester hours from other subject areas, 18 of which must be above the introductory level.
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Quality Hostel K's House Tokyo Oasis
We are fully renovated in 'zen style' quality hostel and all the private rooms have an ensuite bathroom.
The sister branch in Toyko was voted BEST HOSTEL in Asia 2007.
Located in the center of Asakusa Tokyo,only 3min walk from Asakusa sta on Tsukuba Express line,
convenient for many restaurants,attractions & shopping near by.
Our concepts
Cozy,clean,inexpensive and friendly for all you global travelers.
We wish to offer you high quality accomodation with afordable price private rooms as well as dorm beds with air conditioning and individual showers with hot water 24 hours a day. We also offer a guest kitchen , cozy lounge, internet access, laundry facilities (washing machine and dryer) .
Our staff speak English and will help you with any travel information you need.
Please note our Twin room has one bunk bed for two people in a private room.
Backpackers Hostel K's House chain
K's House Hakuba alps (Nagano pref, Free pick up)
Located in Japan northern alps ,this is the place for your peaceful time when you get tired of big cities
K's House Mt.Fuji (Kawaguchiko area, Free pick up)
Excellent view of Mt.Fuji 3min walk from the hostel and good base for Mt.Fuji climbers
K's House Kyoto (station area 9min from JR Kyoto station)
One of the most popular travel destination in Japan
K's House Hiroshima (8min walk from JR Hiroshima statoin) easy access to the peace memorial park and downtown area.
Please visit these locations for your travel plans.
We look forward to welcoming you !
Availability & RatesTo view availability and prices please select dates and click 'Update Dates'
Hostel Facilities & Policies
- Adaptors
- Air Conditioning
- Breakfast Not Included
- Common Room
- Cooker
- Dryer
- Elevator
- Free City Maps
- Free WiFi
- Fridge/Freezer
- Hair Dryers
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- Iron / Ironing Board
- Self-Catering Facilities
- Laundry Facilities
- Linen Included
- Luggage Storage
- Microwave
- No Curfew
- Non Smoking
- Reception (limited hours)
- Towels For Hire
- Washing Machine
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Cancellation PolicyThis property has a 2 day cancellation policy. Failure to cancel within this time will result in a cancellation charge equal to the first night of your stay.
Must-Read Hostel InfoThis property has specific Terms & Conditions.
Check in time 16:00-21:30
Check out time 8:00-12:00
Reception hours 8:00-22:00
*Please Contact us if you're planning to arrive after 21:30 pm.
We are completely out of service after 22:00 pm.
Therefore, you may not be able to enter if we do not receive
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* For reservations cancelled between 00:00 and 23:59 the day before the scheduled check-in date, the cancellation charge will be 50% of the fee for the first night.
* For reservations cancelled after 00:00am on the scheduled check-in date the cancellation charge will be 100% of the fee for the first night.
*In case where no notice of cancellation is received (no-show), guests will be charged 100% of the total booking.
DirectionsShow MapHide Map
From Narita International Airport
by Train
Time : 75 - 80 min, Price : 1060 - 1240 JPY
1. Take a limited express train from the airport (NOT SKYLINER) and get off at Aoto station
2. Transfer to subway Asakusa line at Aoto staiton(at the same platform).
3. Get off at Asakusa Station on Asakusa line.
15min walk from Asakusa station on subway Asakusa line.
[[ Note ]]
Keisei Narita Sky Access for Haneda Airport or Misakiguchi go to Asakusa station directly from Narita international airport.
From Asakusa station on subway Asakusa line
1. Turn right at A4 exit and turn left on the first big street (Kaminarimon-dori street).
2. Keep walking (approx 10 min) on Kaminarimon-dori street unitl you get to the Kokusai-dori street.
3. Turn right on Kokusai-dori street and walk strgiht.
[ Note: You will see a bid advertising display ' Super DRY ' on the Kokusai-dori street. ]
4. After approx 5min walk, you can see ' Asakusa view hotel ' and supermarket ' Life ' on your left side and a small car parking on your side.
5. Turn right at the small car parking and walk into the narrow street.
6. We are just before the arcade on the right side of the street.
> *For JR pass holders
1. Take Narita express from Narita international airport.
2. Get off at JR Tokyo station.
Please refer to the direction below after JR Tokyo station.
From Tokyo staiton
Time : 20min ,
Price :130JPY for JR line and 200JPY for Tsukuba express line
1. Take JR Yamanote line(inbound/uchimawari/platform #4) and get off at Akihabara station.(2 stations away)
2. Transfer to Tsukuba express line (5min walk from Akihabara station on JR line) and get off at Asakusa station. (2 stations away)
From Asakusa station on Tsukuba express line
1. After going through the ticket gate, turn right and walk to the North bicycle paring lot exit
2. Pass through the bicycle parking area (basement level)
3. Turn right at the exit and walk into the narrow street. We are just before the arcade on the right side of the street
by Bus >
Time : 2hour 15 minutes, Price : 2700 JPY
1. Take a limousine bus for Asakusa View Hotel.
[[ Note ]]: Bus goes to Asakusa view hotel is available only twice a day.
Please check the timetable in advance. Time table → http://www.limousinebus.co.jp/en/platform_searches/index/2/244
2. Get off at Asakusa View Hotel and go to supermarket ' Life ' next to the hotel.
3. Cross the big street ' Kokusai-dori street from supermarket ' Life ' and walk into narrow street (1minute) next to car parking
4. We are just before the arcade on the right side of the street.
From Haneda International Airport
Time : approx 40minutes, Price : 600 - 640 JPY
1. Take Keikyu line from the airport.
They have many direct trains (approximately every 10 - 20 min) from Haneda airport to Asakusa station on subway Asakusa line until around 10pm.
Please catch an airport express(エアポート急行) or
an airport limited express(エアポート快特).
Please take trains which bound for following places
- Imba-Nihonidai(印旛日本医大)
- Inzai-Makinohara(印西牧の原)
- Narita Airport(成田空港)
- Keisei Narita(京成成田)
- Keisei-Takasago(京成高砂), and Aoto(青砥).
* The trains bound for other stations do not go to Asakusa.
2. Get off at Asakusa station on subway Asakusa line.
3. Please read From Asakusa station on subway Asakusa line noted above to check the direction from Asakusa station on subway Asakusa line to our hostel (15-20min walk).
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5min walk to Senso-ji temple


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Friday, June 18, 2010
New Location and New Releases!
Amariah Haute Couture has moved to a new location on Cheertopia Island! To celebrate our new location I've released several new items!
First is the Sweetie Sundress, shown above, it comes with a cute straw hat with feathers! Definitely a summer staple, great for a date or a walk along the beach.
Next is the Origami dress, this was inspired by a dress that Lady Gaga has been seen wearing. I've given it an SL twist with soft glow features and flexi ribbons added. It's really a stunning dress with an awesome silhouette! It is available in 4 colors and comes with both glowing and non-glowing options, all with sizer scripts to make sizing a snap! Shown below in blue and black! This is definitely a dress that shows off your uniqueness!
Next is a line of rushed tights that comes in 4 colors and a marabou feather shrug! Wear the shrug over a shirt or on it's own for a bold look! Tights shown below in black paired with the marabou shrug and simple heels.
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No, not Facebook... This is about our leading cultural institutions and their membership systems. Friends schemes are a wonderful thing if you're in them; and as public subsidy shrinks we'll be seeing more and more developing. But with demand for membership starting to outstrip the supply of seats, the most sought-after events can sell out before booking has opened to the general public.
Happy Monday, all. A few bits and pieces to tell you about today.
Andris Nelsons is conducting Mahler 9 and I will be giving a pre-concert talk. The topic is: "Musical endgames" and it's all about love and death, but will be a lot more fun than that sounds. Kick-off is 6.15pm. Do come along & say hi. More here.
There is nobody like Schubert. There was nobody like Menuhin. There was no pianist like Kentner. So, just because we can, just for the sake of incredible music and musicianship, here they are. For some reason the usual 'embed' code isn't working here at present, but just link through to Youtube, and there you should find the other three parts of the Fantasy in C major pop up too.
I couldn't interview Tchaikovsky about Swan Lake, but had a great time talking to Joby Talbot, who's written the first full-length original score commissioned for a new ballet at Covent Garden in 20 years. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland opens on 2 March and sounds, well, curiouser and curiouser. Joby tells me about writing a waltz that is like "Johann Strauss gone bananas" and what the White Rabbit will have in common with the Great Gonzo. All here in today's Independent.
Pity we went to print before I could grab @LondonBallerina Lauren Cuthbertson's latest tweets from rehearsals (she's dancing Alice on opening night), which involve the Duchess, a frying pan and a foot - hers. "Lesson learnt.... dont get your foot hit by a pan if you wanna get on point any day soon :(" and then "it wasnt hot.... the duchess did it in the kitchen scene!! Booooo!!!!" The Duchess is being danced by one Simon Russell Beale. Off with his head? (Pictured: Lauren in Balanchine's Serenade.)
Here's the video trailer at the ROH site. There's more info, too, in a section aptly entitled READ ME. And here is the site for booking.
Jessica Duchen is a music journalist and the author of four novels, two biographies and several stage works. She writes regularly for The Independent and BBC Music Magazine. Her latest novel, Songs of Triumphant Love, is published by Hodder.
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nh016 needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 40 designs submitted by 12 freelance designers.
This website will consist of only one page. It will have a paragraph or two of text and a simple form that collects five fields worth of data and emails the data to two email addresses. It should look very attractive and professional. We'd like it to convey a sense of trust and to show the user that we are a local bricks and mortar business with an address in their town. There are several image elements we'd like to use, including an image of the sign we put in front of houses (says "for sale 500 move in" in a handwriting font) and an image of our city's skyline. edit: If we can convey that we're in Greensboro without the skyline, that's fine. Its really important that people know we're selling houses rather than condos. 2nd edit: No skyline in the header!
We are a bricks and mortar company in Greensboro, NC that sells fully renovated homes. Our goal with this website is to generate leads for our 500 move in program. This program qualifies people who might not otherwise be able to buy a home to buy one of our fully renovated homes. We do this through manual FHA underwriting, occasionally combined with rent-to-own.
The images discussed in the following paragraph can be found at 500movein.info.
The design of the site should communicate that we are a trustworthy, local company with the ability to get the user into a professionally renovated home. For the most part, we are quite flexible on how the site should look. We definitely want to incorporate an image or images of the $500 move-in yard signs. We also have an image of the Greensboro skyline that it would probably make sense to use, however if you find an equally good way to communicate that we're local, you don't have to use it. I've included at the bottom of this description 2 testimonials that are optional to use. Other optional images we provide are pictures of some of our houses. Feel free to use clip art of houses, happy people, or whatever else fits. This is all about conversions so its OK to model it after mortgage or insurance lead generating pages.
As far as the functionality goes, the site is just going to have 5 form fields. Getting any 3 of the 5 filled in with verified data will be considered a conversion.
- The form fields are to be as follows: Name, Email, Phone, Desired Monthly Payment, and Comments. All are to be required and verified except comments.
- The completed forms are to be emailed to two addresses and we'd like to be able to change the addresses if necessary.
- We'd like the site to be set up for Google conversion tracking
- We want a privacy disclaimer very visibly near the form. The privacy statement in the site text.doc attachment should be adequate. Feel free to rephrase it if you need to.
- We'd like our contact info displayed at the bottom of the screen.
The following is the text we'd like to appear on the page:
Greensboro Investment Homes has properties and programs available for people wanting to recognize the American Dream of home ownership. If you've had difficulties qualifying for traditional bank loans, we offer alternative methods of buying a home, and are flexible enough to accommodate many situations. This program is perfect for most people, including those with credit issues or those who haven't saved enough down payment to qualify for traditional financing. All homes are newly remodeled and are available in a variety of price ranges to accommodate anyone's budget. First time Homebuyers receive a complimentary Home Warranty through First American Home Warranty company.
Our inventory goes fast due to our easy purchase program. If you don't find what you are looking for immediately chances are there will be a house in inventory soon that can meet your needs.
Fill in the following form as completely as possible and we will contact you when a home becomes available that meets your purchase criteria. All information provided will be kept strictly confidential. If you don't wish to buy a home now, you can contact us by email with any questions or comments.
Here are the two testimonials mentioned earlier in the description:
Thank You! for all of your help with buying our first home. I never thought I would ever be able to buy a home with my past credit problems.
Cheryl B.- Greensboro NC
What a great program. I have a brand new house for way less than I was paying for in rent. And I only had to put down 500$ !! Sincere Thanks
Deann J . Brown Summit NC
- The text discussed in the above description
- Some element of the 500 move in sign image
- The form with 5 fields
- The privacy disclaimer in the text
- Our contact info
- An element that makes very clear that we are a local company
- A professional eye-catching design
- I don't want this to look like an eBook
- Other than that, pretty flexible


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Onetime UFC heavyweight title challenger Gabriel Gonzaga (11-6) admits he wasn't really sure what he wanted to do.
An October 2010 loss to Brendan Schaub dropped Gonzaga to just 1-3 in his previous four outings, and the former Brazilian jiu-jitsu world champ strongly considered forever hanging up his gloves.
But Gonzaga returns tonight for a heavyweight title fight against Parker Porter (5-2) at the aptly named "Reality Fighting: Gonzaga vs. Porter" event at Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Conn. "Napao" admits he doesn't know what comes after that, but he's touched by those that encouraged him to return.
"There were a lot of fans and students of mine asking me to return," Gonzaga recently told MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) in his native Portuguese. "There were some e-mails that touched me – from people I've never met – talking about how I helped them in life. That was very gratifying."
And so the 32-year-old, who studied under Wander Braga from his grappling beginnings until he was awarded his black belt, turned to Marco Alvan, Alexandre Moreno and the rest of the crew at Massachusetts' Team Link and sought their advice.
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But returning to action wasn't such an easy proposition. For a variety of reasons, the 12-time UFC veteran saw five different planned bouts fall through. But Gonzaga didn't give up, encouraged by those for whom he had previously provided motivation.
And so on Saturday night, Gonzaga fights for the first time in nearly a year. The oft-jovial submission wizard who is best known for a highlight-reel knockout of Mirko "Cro Cop" Filipovic, as well as a highlight-reel TKO loss to UFC Hall of Famer Randy Couture, admits he's not sure how far this comeback will go, but he's excited to once again test himself in MMA.
"To be honest, I don't yet know what I want," Gonzaga said. "Life is very complex. I'm a Brazilian jiu-jitsu teacher first and foremost, and I've been doing this for 12 years. I've awarded black belts, and we've had many champions, such as Demerval "Naja" Jr. MMA was a way for me to earn money, and it's a sport I enjoy, but Brazilian jiu-jitsu is my passion.
"Every champion must defend his belt, but I haven't won yet, so I'm not thinking about that. I'm just very ready for my fight, and I hope to continue to be a good example and to build champions who can also be exemplary."
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Student Reading Out Loud
Evaluate student oral reading by letting them read into a tape recorder, then playing it back later. While not as personal, it allows you to listen to the tapes at your leisure, and frees up class time for other activities.
Squeeze Bottles Everywhere
We've all known for a long time about soap and shampoo bottles that can be put to use in the classroom holding glue, water, whatever. Having just started wearing contact lenses, we've discovered another: the cleaning solution bottle. Smaller in size than soap bottles, with a flip top cap that won't get lost, these are great for glue, but you may want to use a small drill bit or a red-hot nail to make the hole larger. Anyone who wears contact lenses goes through this solution regularly, so have them save the bottles for you.
Popcorn Day
Reward your students with popcorn when they finally make it through their multiplication tables, to illustrate how steam and pressure can have explosive results, as an incentive to go one day without getting in trouble in the lunchroom or simply because it's Friday. Popcorn is quick and easy to make, doesn't cost much money and, no, a microwave oven is not required. Hot air poppers use no oil and empty into a bowl while they're popping; if you like lots of oil and butter on yours get the motorized kind with the stirring wires where flipping the whole thing upside down turns the lid into the bowl. Dump your popped corn into a large bowl or bag, then walk around using a cup to pour popcorn onto paper napkins on your students desks. Be prepared to have someone ready to sweep the floor when you are done.
Sliding Extra Credit Scale
If you allow your high school students a way to offset that one test they bombed out on, consider making extra credit a proactive, rather than reactive, choice for them. Post at the beginning of the course, or hand out along with the syllabus, a list of projects or activities they can complete to boost their overall grade. But assign point value on a sliding scale: a project worth 10 extra points the second week of the semester might be worth 6 points halfway through, and only 4 points when there are two weeks left to go. It might force them to do extra work before they need it, or realize the value in not procrastinating.
The Nuts and Bolts of Sorting
A little real-world exercise for your kids: do you have one of those cans of bolts, nuts, screws and washers sitting around the house that you just keep intending to sort out so you won't have to dig through it when you are looking for a bolt to replace the one that just fell out of the lawnmower but you never get them sorted because you spend all of your time grading papers? Bringing it to school and getting your kids to do it isn't as far fetched as it sounds. A little time digging through those odds-and-ends can sharpen their visual acuity, teach them the difference between a metal screw and a lock washer, sharpen their sorting skills and help them see how a large task can be accomplished with persistence.
Dividing Students Into Teams
When dividing your class into teams, skip the unfair practice of having team captains pick favorites. Have students line themselves up chronologically by their birthdays, but make them use sign language to communicate their birthday. Then you, the teacher, can divide the group in half. This only takes a few minutes to accomplish. Thanks to L. Zydek (firstname.lastname@example.com) for this tip.
Get Well Puzzles
When a student has been absent long enough that someone has to stop in and pick up work for them, it's a good time to reach in your box of word puzzles and brain teasers to send along a little "fun" activity as well. In addition, you might want to keep a selection of get-well cards, or write a quick note to them on personalized stationery to make them feel special.
A Smooth Running Mouse
Probably the highest maintenance item in a computer system is the mouse. If yours is exhibiting erratic behavior, it may need a good cleaning. We use all Macintoshes here, and Apple has come up with some real losers over the years in the mouse department. An easy bit of maintenance is to remove the rubber ball and wash with soap and water to remove any greasy buildup. While it's out, use tweezers to pull all the lint you can see out of the inside.
After you've cleaned the ball, the second place to look if your mouse is acting jerky is the mousepad. We had been using a smooth plastic one, and discovered we had worn it out. Seems pads like those have a slight tooth or roughness on the surface so fine it really can't be felt. But when our mouse quit responding all the time, we noticed this problem by holding the mousepad up so light would reflect off the surface. Sure enough, there was a circular spot in the center that reflected light more than the rest. We changed the pad, and the mouse worked much better.
Self-Hardening Clay
Is available in five pound boxes at hobby stores, dries on its own when left uncovered in about a week, and is paintable. This clay is great for a first-time art project if no kiln is available, and dividing the five pound cube into eight equal sections gives students a large enough piece to make a small coiled pot. Note: when they say it air-dries, it really does. Open each box in the store and do a push-test with your finger to make sure the clay inside the sealed plastic bag is fairly soft (some boxes we found were much more stiff than others). Use it within a few weeks. Sprinkle leftover clay with water drops and remove as much air as possible before wrapping tightly in its plastic bag, and even then, don't expect too long of a shelf life after it's been exposed to air.
Animals at School
In the same week, we've seen a news report of the salmonella death of a toddler allegedly from contact with an iguana, and today two children in our own school were bitten by a "friendly" gerbil. It's probably safe to say that keeping rodents, reptiles, birds or even fish at school usually is harmless, as long as certain common sense precautions are taken: keep animals confined, don't try to handle them, and wash hands thoroughly after feeding or other maintenance chores.
Send Your Old Clothes to School
Keeping a box of old "dress-up" clothes in your room allows you to grab something special to dramatically introduce a special topic or chapter, let students dress up for any number of reasons, or protect what you're wearing when doing messy activities like painting.
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Use Students as Announcers/Writers:
Whether its recording a message for your class parent/teacher hotline, explaining a particular activity at open house or writing a note to send home with students, let your students do the communicating instead of doing it yourself. It will provide a variation, get students involved in the process and parents will enjoy hearing and seeing their children involved.
An Alphabetized Line Up
Take an extra couple of minutes when lining up your students to leave the room to let them alphabetize the line (or in reverse) among themselves.
Adopt a Class Pet
This works best if you have a parent who visits your classroom regularly to help out. If they have a pet they could bring with them, have them do so, just to wake up your students a bit. A dog, for example, kept on a leash, could lie quietly(?) in a reading corner, and students can take turns "dog-sitting" while they read. They'll be begging you to let them read.
Have a Party Jar
Find a jar and a bag of wrapped-up candy. Put pieces of candy in the jar when they accomplish certain things, like no gets in trouble during music class (one piece) or everyone passes their multiplication timed test (15 pieces). Let them know ahead of time what the activity is worth. When the jar is full, they get a party, and the candy. (A variation to this would be to keep the jar on a balance beam scale, with a weight on the other side. When the jar and candy tip the balance, they get the party. Turn it into an estimation exercise, too!)
The Ticket System
This is the third year for using the Ticket System in my room. The idea is that each student has a ticket they keep at their desk, a ticket I'll take from them as a form of punishment or discipline. I keep track of how many times each student loses a ticket during the grading period, and reward those with no lost tickets. The variations of how to use these tickets are endless; you will no doubt think of your own ways to use tickets to your students' advantage. The possibilities in constructing them are endless too. I use magnetic sheeting (the kind screen printers use for magnetic signs or that some people are using for promotional refrigerator magnets), but there are a number of ways to make a ticket that your students can personalize with their name and a picture. Magnets work well because they can be anchored to a metal desk, and double as a name tag for substitute teachers.
Before School Activities
Have everyone sharpen two pencils before school every day. This drastically cuts down on trips to the pencil sharpener during the day. Other things include: work on a brain teaser written on the board; do problems from the estimation corner; write letters to the principal; make a list of things to do later when they get home.
Activities for When Their Work is Done
Compile an assortment of word and number puzzles for when your students have their regular classroom work done. Newspapers, magazines or inexpensive books are sources for puzzles that they can have fun with for a while. Keep plenty of copies available, or laminate and let them use a washable marker. Even adult crosswords are usable; cut off the clues, and have them figure out words on their own that will fit. Don't forget to include some visual puzzles and simple art projects in your "challenge box."
Friday Afternoon Special
On Friday afternoons (the last hour of the day might work well), meet with another class or two for work and play. Students who have unfinished work from the week have a study hall time under the supervision of one teacher. Students with work caught up are with the other teacher(s) playing an organized game outside or doing something fun inside.
Pick out a surprise activity: an extra recess, candy at the end of the day, whatever. Then write "SURPRISE" on the blackboard, and throughout the day, as the classroom gets too noisy or people are out of their seats without permission, for example, erase a letter starting at the end of the word. Conversely, add missing letters when everyone is behaving well. If the complete word is still intact at the end of the day, they get the surprise.
Complaint Box
A traditional complaint box with a slot in the top can help you to stay on task with your teaching since students can complain all they want without taking up your time in doing so (they might even get some writing exercise in the process). Read through them at the end of the day; the important ones are kept to be dealt with as you see fit (hopefully you've been able to see and deal with hitting and other physical things immediately). The more insignificant ones are usually ignored since the student already achieved what they were needing to do: just get something off their chest. In those cases they likely forgot all about it by the time you read about it.
Gotta Do It I can't harp too much about responsibility in cleaning
up after oneself. Get a small dustmop (a custodian may be happy to give
you one) to keep in your room, and select a student each day to quickly
run it over the floor at the end of the day. Not only has this helped out
our very shorthanded cleaning staff (who have given our class some very
favorable comments) but the kids learn to get into a cleaning routine and
find that sometimes it's ok to clean up after someone else. This was part
of my Responsibility Corner.
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Job title: Choreographer and dancerCurrent employer: Murphy is currently performing in the original cast of Sleep No More with Kate Weare Company in New York City. He is also a choreographer creating and staging works in Ireland and the United States. He returned to Pittsburgh in November 2012 to showcase Drenched at the Kelly-Strayhorn Theater.Major and degree earned: B.F.A. in dance, 2009Hometown: Cork, IrelandNow living in: New York CityHobbies/interests: Architecture, tennis, rugby, art history
I was really interested in jazz and Point Park's dance program had a great reputation. When I auditioned I was very lucky to be accepted, as the standard of the other dancers was much higher. At the time it seemed like a risk and a challenge.
I started dancing in my late teens and I really took to it. At first I loved jazz and I always wanted to dance like Gene Kelly or Fred Astaire. My focus later shifted to contemporary and modern work. I felt that dance could communicate on a primal level, which I really believe in.
You can't possibly know what you want to do unless you know what's out there. My advice is to watch as many live and recorded shows that you can. The work that speaks to you most might be halfway around the world and you don't even know it exists. Never stop taking class. Dance is just as much a craft as an art, and you have to constantly keep your tools sharp.
The more I do and the more I learn, the vaguer my ambitions become as I realize how many more great options are out there. I love to choreograph, but I also love to perform. Finding a generous balance between the two is very important to me. I also really like dancing in New York, but I miss Ireland. There's so much great work in Europe that I think finding a way to maintain a career on both sides of the Atlantic will be a big focus in my future.
Point Park's dance program is very versatile because it is part of the Conservatory of Performing Arts. Students are immersed in performance and film from all sides and views. The potential to grow in that atmosphere is endless.
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