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News from Microsoft Corporation
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CartoonStock - Cartoon Pictures, Political Cartoons, Animations.
CartoonStock is a searchable database of over 250,000 gag cartoons, political cartoons, cartoon pictures, illustrations and animations by more than 700 of the world's best cartoonists, all available for instant licensing and download.
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Collection and resources for fiction reading - including a Kids Read section
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19 Climate Games that Could Change the Future « Climate Interactive — The Blog
The prevalence of games in our culture provides an opportunity to increase the understanding of our global challenges. In 2008 the Pew Research Center estimated that over half of American adults played video games and 80% of young Americans play video games. The vast majority of these games serve purely to entertain. There are a growing number of games that aim to make a difference, however. These games range from those that show players the complexity of creating adequate aid packages and delivering them to places in need to games that require people to get out and work to improve their communities to do well in the game.
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An Elementary Classroom in the 21st Century by Jen Deyenberg on Prezi
An Elementary Classroom in the 21st Century
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101 Cool Things You Can Do With A Social Intranet (Like Noodle) -
To give you an idea, here’s a list of 101 cool things you could do with a social intranet, such as Noodle. As you will see, a social intranet is worlds away from the traditional intranet of yester-year.
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Computer Science Circles | 01000011 01010011 01000011
This website teaches computer programming. This skill is very useful: with programming you can automate computer tasks, make art and music, interpret and analyze survey results, build tools for other people, create custom websites, write games, examine genetic data, connect people with each other, and the list goes on and on.
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107 Favorite iPad Apps for K-8 « Ask a Tech Teacher
Tablet computing and mobile devices promise to have a dramatic impact on education. A growing number of schools across the world are jumping on the digital bus and embracing iPads (less often, other tablet products) as the latest tool to teach literature in multimedia, history through games and simulations, and math with step-by-step animation of problems.
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Instagram: From Zero to $1 Billion in 17 Months [INFOGRAPHIC]
When Instagram launched its first app in October 2010, it did not strike most people as the kind of startup that would be acquired for $1 billion.
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16 Ways Educators Can Use Pinterest [INFOGRAPHIC]
Teachers are known for their organizational skills, so chances are they’ll love Pinterest‘s intuitive and logical design.
The social network’s user experience has helped it earn a top spot among today’s most popular social networks. Therefore, we predict that teachers will give it a gold star, too. -
Wolfram Alpha now does literary analysis, breaks down the Bard's work -- Engadget
Literary geeks rejoice! Wolfram Alpha has given you the tools to examine the works of William Shakespeare in ways you've never cared to imagined.
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All the Awesome Spotlight Shortcuts You Didn't Know Existed
OS X's Spotlight is a great tool for finding that file you lost or launching apps, but it can do a lot more than just find the occasional file. Here are some of the coolest Spotlight tips, features, and shortcuts to make your Mac a time-saving, file-searching powerhouse.
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30 Great Open Source Mac Apps | Mac.AppStorm
In light of this, I have compiled a list of 30 of the best open source applications for Mac. I encourage you to download and have a play with each and, where possible, replace over-priced commercial software.
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Infographic: The Value of Financial Literacy | Edutopia
Students who learn financial literacy skills gain knowledge that will yield returns well into their future.
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Apps in Education: 10 Animation Apps
I have blogged previously about the power of apps that tell stories as an educational activity. It stimulates higher order thinking skills, it provides opportunities for reflection and it enriches the learning experience for our students. So here I have listed apps that allow your students to create animations. I love the simplicity with which animations allow difficult concepts to be easily explained. These apps provide you with another set of tools to enhance your students learning.
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Is It Better to Shut Down, Sleep, or Leave a Mac Turned On When Not Being Used?
When it’s not in use, do you shut down your Mac, put it to sleep, or just keep it turned on? Is one choice better than the others? Why and why not? These are great questions, so let us review the choices and why you may want to choose one over the other.
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Intel Reveals Multi-OS 'Studybook' Tablet for Education -- THE Journal
Intel is launching a new tablet reference design geared specifically for K-12 education. The "studybook," as it's called, is capable of running both Google's Android (Honeycomb) operating system and Microsoft Windows 7.
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5 Ways To Use StumbleUpon In Education | Edudemic
Do you need another time-sucking website that will entertain, educate, and enhance your day-to-day life? Of course you do! Lucky for you, there’s StumbleUpon and it’s more than just another LOLCat-powered site. It’s actually useful for education!
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Can Microsoft Come Back? Dan Lyons’s Month Without Apple and Google - The Daily Beast
The iPhone was stowed, the Google Docs left unopened—Dan Lyons spent 30 days using nothing but Microsoft products to see whether the company could win consumers like him back. And they could pull it off, he says.
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iTunes: Time to right the syncing ship | Macworld
When Apple introduced iTunes in 2001, it served one purpose: As a music jukebox app. Later that year, it added its most important feature: The ability to sync tracks with the just-introduced iPod. Originally, you could just drag tracks onto your iPod and they’d copy over. iTunes had automatic music-sync features that were rudimentary, but they did the job.
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