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A new company - the NOLA Media Group, which will include The Times-Picayune and its affiliated web site NOLA.com - was announced today by Ricky Mathews, who will become its president. The change is intended to reshape how the New Orleans area's dominant news organization delivers its award-winning local news, sports and entertainment coverage in an increasingly digital age.
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The new (ab)normal [infographic] - Holy Kaw!
Wondering what’s to blame for the ever-expanding waistlines of America? The CDC thinks serving size is partly to blame and has a few tips for resisting the urge to wipe the plate (or carton) clean.
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The Facebook IPO: Here's What All The Buzz is About [infographic]
With Facebook going public and a driven founder focused on long-term success why isn’t everyone frantically buying it up? Since the offering the value has dropped slightly. Maybe this was just a correct valuation by Facebook and that’s why the price hasn’t risen. Maybe people see Facebook as a fad, and no threat to Microsoft, Google and other big tech stocks.
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Kid's Journal for iPad on the iTunes App Store
Asking children to reflect on their day is an important learning activity. Kid Journal easily allows children to focus on the content of their reflection with an easy-to-use interface.
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Facebook Camera App: This Is Why Instagram was Worth $1 Billion
The app — which was in development before the social network made its offer to buy Instagram about six weeks ago — gives us a glimpse at how Facebook was planning to compete against the young mobile-first startup.
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.NET Gadgeteer can be used in schools to help students make gadgets and learn C# programming along the way. These lesson plans give teachers all the material needed to run 8 1-hour sessions using .NET Gadgeteer. You will also need the hardware, details of which are given at http://netmf.com/gadgeteer.
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Educational Technology Guy: Livescribe SmartPen - 5 years of smartpen use and my review
This is Livescribe's 5th anniversary. Happy Anniversary!
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Educators Use Mobile Devices More Than General Public - Digital Education - Education Week
School principals and district administrators are more likely than the general public to be adopters of smartphones and tablet computers, according to a new report based on data from the 2011 Speak Up survey.
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Teaching and Learning with Social Media: Social Media 101 for Faculty « PROFESSORJOSH.COM
The course description: Participants will explore teaching and learning strategies utilizing social media to enhance student learning. This course will showcase various applications and how they can be used to enhance communication, collaboration, and student engagement. Social and legal issues relating to the use of social media in higher education will also be explored. Participants will develop a plan to appropriately integrate social media into a specific course.
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CheatSheet Instantly Displays All the Keyboard Shortcuts for Mac Apps
CheatSheet Instantly Displays All the Keyboard Shortcuts for Mac Apps
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Unbelievable: Apple Applies for Stylus Patent
Apple has filed an application with the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office for an optical stylus patent.
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Education Week: Use Technology to Upend Traditional Classrooms
The most impressive technology-rich classrooms don't look like classrooms. Instead, they look like creative businesses on deadline—like advertising agencies pulling together a big campaign, architectural firms drawing up blueprints, or software companies developing new programs.
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In an attempt to unify that variety of high school subjects, Meyers has put together a semester-long multidisciplinary course that requires students to apply the spectrum of their education in a cohesive way. To do it, he picked maybe the most multidisciplinary of focal points: the city.
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TextMe turns your iPod into a phone with today’s launch (exclusive) | VentureBeat
Given the chance, you would probably turn your iPod Touch into a fully working iPhone, right? TextMe is launching in the U.S. today with an app that will get you close to that dream.
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Yahoo! TimeTraveler: a travel app whose time has come | VentureBeat
Yahoo, which seems to be on a bit of a roll in the past few weeks, releasing “killer” mobile browsers and reinvigorating Flickr groups, released TimeTraveler for iPhone and iPod Touch today. With TimeTraveler, I’d have had a much better chance of seeing the best of Amsterdam that fit in my 6-hour slice.
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Google Copyright URL Removal Requests Top 1.2 Million - Search Engine Watch (#SEW)
Google receives more than 250,000 requests to take down URLs accused of copyright infringement each week. In the past month, Google has received 1.2 million requests from 1,000 copyright owners to remove pages from 24,000 websites from its search results.
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Miss Google’s Moog Doodle? Here’s an app you should download - The Next Web
Did you enjoy Google’s tribute to the late Robert Moog yesterday? If so, you may want to download Mobeat, a nice retro synthesizer iOS app with a Moog feel.
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