What’s actually in the Common Core?
The Common Core is a list of things students should know and know how to do at each grade level in math and language arts. The language arts standards include expectations for writing, speaking, and reading both fiction and nonfiction.
But, as we know, a picture is worth a lot of words.
Forte.net is a payment-processing service that handles web, mobile, and other types of online payments.
Their website has a nice stock photograph of a diverse group of people, each with their own blurb about why Forte is cool. Each person has an imagemap associated with his or her picture. Move your mouse over a person’s image and a speech balloon pops up. It’s a clever bit of Javascript.
As with any service, you want to pay attention to the fine print. In this case, Michelle might quarrel with her designation as a guy.
Some thoughts about things via my WISE Learning and Technology Blog: January 2015
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| Krista, with Joe, late 90s |
It costs more than three times as much to rid yourself of America citizenship as it does to obtain it.
The naturalization fee is $680, including the $85 biometric charge. (If you’re over 75, the biometric fee is waived.)
To renounce your citizenship, you must pay an exit fee of $2350, up from $450.
Not a lot of people are leaving, however. The Wall Street Journal reports that 1800 departed these fair shores in 2011, a sixfold increase during the Obama administration. Even though Rush Limbaugh gave us hope when he said he’d move to Costa Rica if Obamacare became law, he’s still rumbling among us.
Musing on weather at Medium: The weather’s nuts
You’re getting tired of this, aren’t you? Another week, another home automation scheme. This time, it’s another new-old configuration: mesh networking. Wireless mesh networks have been around for quite a while, even in the home automation market (see ZigBee).
Read the rest on my blog at All LED Lighting Will Better Networking Mean Better Lighting?
