Tech Tools to Help You to Stop Procrastinating – Practical

This is one of my favorite weeks of the year because it’s when a lot of us make resolutions to do something in the new year that we’ve been putting off. It’s time to stop procrastinating and start taking that new course, start writing that book, or doing whatever else it is that we’ve been putting off.

A couple of

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Three YouTube Studio Features You Should Know How to Use –

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Whether for sharing instructional videos or for sharing videos of school events, YouTube is the most convenient option for most of us. In fact, it’s so convenient that even teachers who have told me “I’ll never

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A Short Guide to Using Pictures from the Web – Practical Ed

This week’s newsletter topic was inspired by a question that a participant in one of my online classes asked last week. That question was “can I use the pictures I find on Google Images?”

Yes, But, Maybe

The question of “can I use the pictures I find on Google Images?” is a fairly common one. And the answer to it

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Seven-star energy efficiency ratings are a solid step – now

Energy-efficiency standards for new homes in Australia are being upgraded for the first time in a decade. New homes will be required to improve minimum performance from six stars to seven stars under the nationwide house energy rating scheme. Federal, state and territory building ministers agreed on the change last Friday.

The rating will also use a whole-of-home energy “budget”.

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PwC fined total of £5m over Galliford Try and Kier audits |

PricewaterhouseCoopers has received penalties totalling £5m for failures in its audit of the construction firms Galliford Try and Kier, in the latest fines imposed on a “big four” accounting firm.

The Financial Reporting Council, the accounting watchdog, also imposed a £136,000 fine on the head of PwC’s construction division and issued severe reprimands to PwC, which it said had failed

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High-street fashion needn’t be landfill fodder – if you

My favourite pair of black trousers came from Jigsaw almost five years ago. I can date them because I was on my way to the cinema to see the Frances McDormand film Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, which I remember because I left the bag containing them under my seat in the cinema and had to jump off the

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