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Never Used Pinterest? This Post’s For YOU! | - Your Social Media Mogul : Your Social Media Mogul
This post has a few very short “how-to” videos to show you exactly what you need to do turn off e-mail notifications, and follow or unfollow boards or partial boards on Pinterest. Why do I include videos? If you’re like me, and 65% of the rest of visual learners out there, these videos will help you learn Pinterest and the other social media platforms I write about.
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Is texting making us more creative? Canadian researchers think so - The Globe and Mail
Some call it a universal form of English. Others argue it’s most definitely ruining the language and producing a generation of illiterates.
But researchers at three Canadian universities studying text messaging think we may have become more creative because of this new form of communication. -
INFOGRAPHIC : The Internet In 2020
The Internet is progressing at such a blistering pace that by 2020, we are probably going to see a lot of changes, hopefully for the better. For example, right now here in 2012, we’re seeing a vast amount of data being uploaded to the cloud, as more and more people abandon concepts such as hard drives and CD/DVD disks, in favour of cloud services such as Google Music and Evernote. We’re also seeing file storage solutions offer us even more space in the gigabytes and terabytes, while wireless Internet connections continue to proliferate everywhere in homes, bars, coffee shops and other public places
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When you share with Facebook friends, you share with all the apps they use - Boing Boing
Raganwald describes a Facebook privacy-leak that's creepy even by Facebook standards. When you sign up for apps, the app-maker has the power to extract all your friends' personal info, assuming they've shared it with you. So anything you share with your friends can be hoovered up by any app they trust. If you'd prefer not to do this, there is a setting buried in the Facebook preferences, and Raganwald walks you through checking it off.
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James Cameron Shows What Really Happened to the Titanic [VIDEO]
sing a new computer-generated animation, James Cameron and fellow researchers fine-tune their theory of how the Titanic looked as it sank into the freezing Atlantic on April 15,1912. The two-night television event entitled Titanic: The Final Word With James Cameron starts on April 8 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on the National Geographic Channel.
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Quick Response codes also known as QR codes are similar to barcodes. When you scan QR codes using apps such as i-nigma, with your smartphone, ipad and computer (if you have a web camera) it links information to you. The information can be text, videos or websites etc. I believe with bring your own technology coming to many schools, I see QR codes becoming more popular in the classroom because they can be read on many devices and it is a real world application now. Here are some ways you can use QR codes in the classroom…
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Is Reverse Instruction Education Technology’s Perfect Storm? | Emerging Education Technology
Flipping the classroom is a technology-enabled technique that can make a significant difference in student learning and academic success, and is well suited for gradual widespread adoption.
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The 21st century pedagogy teachers should be aware of
Interpersonal learning , personalized learning, second life learning , 3d learning, collaborative learning and virtual learning , these are just some of the few buzz words you would be hearing so often in today’s educational literature.
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The Adventures of Library Girl: The 10 Web 2.0 Tools/Apps I Use Most As A Teacher, Learner & Leader
The 10 Web 2.0 Tools/Apps I Use Most As A Teacher, Learner & Leader
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BYOD Questions to Consider | 1 to 1 Schools
The buzz in 1-to-1 right now is about BYOD - Bring Your Own Device - and it's not a fad and it's not going away. There's a convergence of factors causing it including:
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There may only be a few months left in the 2011-2012 school year around the country, but that’s no reason not to brush up on a few of the best apps for teachers. There are all kinds of apps that can help teachers keep track of students’ grades, attendance, and even their overall performance; some even come complete with the ability to add specific notes on each student.
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For all of the school administrators and/or school policy makers who are hell bent on making sure that resources that can assist in learning remain off the table in their schools, you may need to add to the ever-expanding list of things to which you deny learners access if Google’s latest innovation (see video above) or anything like it hits the market. Then again it really isn’t a matter of when these types of technological advances will become available, it’s really a matter of how soon.
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Ten Fun Ways to Use YouTube Videos in an Online Literature Class | Faculty Focus
Here are ten ways literature instructors can use YouTube in class. However, regardless of the discipline you teach you’ll likely find that YouTube has similarly appropriate resources for you.
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Flashback on track to be worst Mac malware in decades
Despite some initial skepticism, a Russian company's claim that over 600,000 Macs have fallen prey to Flashback seem to be holding up.
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Apple Patches Up Massive Java Security Leak | Mac.AppStorm
Apple has pushed two critical security updates to Java for Mac OS X this week in order to patch up some critical security loopholes found in the previous release of Java, version 1.6.0_29. The updates, which were released on Tuesday and Thursday of this week, are available via Software Update for Snow Leopard users running OS X 10.6.8 and Lion users running OS 10.7.3.
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Finding fun Easter eggs in old Microsoft software - Neowin
It used to be that saying you found an Easter egg meant that you found a colored oval-shaped object produced by a chicken in your backyard. Now when many people think about Easter eggs, they think about finding some cool hidden features inside a software program or game.
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8 Best Alternatives to Microsoft SharePoint | ZoomZum
Microsoft share point can be basically defined as a web application platform. It was developed by the well renowned company Microsoft. This software so developed is basically associated or related to web content management and also document management systems. But apart from all these, it can also be considered as a much wider and broader platform for web technologies. In addition this software can also be configured to suit a wide range of solution areas.
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Tech Beat: Get on board with mobile learning - Times-Standard Online
What exactly is mobile learning? Mobile learning (often called “mlearning”) is any learning or instruction that takes place at a specific location but relies on a mobile device to access the information or event.
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Questions for curiousity development | CanTeachWriting
Questions are at the heart of education. The public in general tends to see public education in terms of teaching students to answer questions. That’s one reason standardized tests have so much public support.
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