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QR code technology for everyone! Get your QR code and profile
Connect with your friends, classmates, workmates, and your community. Codee is the perfect way to tell people what you think about pretty much anything, simply by having them scan your codee with their smartphone.
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An Innovative Way To Share Lesson Plans With Your Entire PLN | Edudemic
ClassConnect is a relatively new website for finding and sharing lesson resources. It supports multiple file types, including documents, website URLs, and videos. Users can either upload their own files or embed files from Google Docs or video sharing sites such as YouTube. Each account comes with 512 MB of storage, which includes files that you’ve linked to from other users.
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100 Mac Apps To Rule Them All | Mac.AppStorm
This post is the answer to the first question that any new Mac user will ask: which apps are the best? The next time someone asks you this question, don’t think twice, just send them here.
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Educational Technology Guy: Top 5 Apps for Administrators to learn and use
I do use a lot of other apps on a daily basis, but I think that these are the top 5 apps that administrators should learn and use, especially if they are new to Web 2.0 and Social Networking.
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Student Safety in the Age of Facebook -- THE Journal
"If one life is saved, then it's worth it."
That is the clichéd argument frequently used to justify banning electronic communications, websites, and other forms of technology in schools. The common belief is that these prohibitions will prevent, among other things, the sexual assault of minors or suicides related to cyberbullying. -
3 Ways to Easily Print Documents from your iPad or iPhone | Mac|Life
iOS has been crafted into the ultimate mobile work station, especially with the addition of the iWork mobile suite for the iPad. You can create and edit documents in Pages, make a slideshow for an important meeting in Keynote, and put together graphs and stats with Numbers. When you're finished, you can print everything out with AirPrint. Clearly, you don't need your Mac with you to get work done on the go.
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Web 2.0 was the factor that changed the Internet from a passive environment for consumption of data to the current interactive read-write web. There are many online sites for children that provide unique learning opportunities for kids. Many of the websites are geared to learning at home online.
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Education Week: Q&A: Khan Academy Creator Talks About K-12 Innovation
Salman Khan, a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Harvard Business School, was working as a hedge fund manager when he began posting videos on YouTube six years ago to tutor young family members in math. That led to the 2008 creation of the Khan Academy, a nonprofit organization that has built a free, online collection of thousands of digital lessons (nearly 3,000 of them created by Mr. Khan himself) and exercises in subjects ranging from algebra to microeconomics.
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3 Tips for Using Technology in the Classroom - The Learning Partnership Blog
If I were back in the classroom today, following many years in developing and planning for 21st century learning environments, the top 3 things I would do with technology would include:
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Students Demand the Right to Use Technology in Schools | MindShift
We’ve heard arguments from ed tech experts about how using technology for learning may in fact deepen the divide between wealthy and low-income kids. Students who have access to technology and are encouraged by teachers and parents to leverage it for new ways of learning, the argument goes, will leap even further ahead than low-income students who are forbidden to use it in public schools.
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Game-Based Learning – Without Video Games | MindShift
Remember Math Blaster? Careening through space, shooting apple cores to learn about multiplication? That’s the most common correlation to the idea of “educational games.” But there’s a completely different way of using games for learning.
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Can You Learn Faster Without School? « Scott H Young
Can You Learn Faster Without School?
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Blended Learning: Adding Asynchronous Discussions to Your F2F Classrooms | Edutopia
We have all done it: "participated" in a face-to-face discussion, nodding along in agreement, but not really present. Many of us have sat in discussions, afraid to throw in our two cents because we might sound silly. On other occasions, we have had a fantastic idea to share, but the conversation passed by before we had a chance to contribute.
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The Ultimate Professional Development | GothamSchools
Nobody would accuse Scott of being an ineffective teacher. He has a clean-shaven head and well-pressed dress shirt and tie. His calm demeanor and busy students make it seem like he effortlessly expands minds on a daily basis. It was my great pleasure to meet this particular teacher and his particularly high-functioning classroom on a visit to Brooklyn International High School in October of 2010.
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Twitter Advertising : Sponsored Tweets
Sponsored Tweets is a Twitter advertising platform that connects advertisers with tweeters. The site provides robust targeting and detailed analytics.
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