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7 Web 2.0 Animation Tools | Mark Brumley
Animation projects are a great way to integrate technology, encourage project-based learning and have a lot of fun. This month let’s take a quick tour of seven Web 2.0 animation sites for students young and old.
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Taking Diigo Beyond the Bookmark
The response to my initial Diigo post has been overwhelming. Many of you discovered the benefits of Diigo’s bookmark features so I wanted to share a few thinking-outside-of-the-box ideas for doing more with Diigo.
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Oxford Dictionaries Spelling Challenge
Oxford Dictionaries Spelling Challenge - British English and US English - "Fiendish" is really difficult!
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Is it time to rebrand ICT? | Teacher Network Blog | Guardian Professional
Including computer science into your curriculum might be intimidating but it IS necessary, argues Matt Britland
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Google launches Chromebook, Chromebox & gets it right — Tech News and Analysis
We often joke Google is like the old Microsoft — getting things wrong, bumbling its way into new markets, and getting things right on the third try. This seems to be quite true of Google’s efforts to develop a cloud PC. Google and its partner, Samsung, are launching a new Chromebook and Chromebox today, targeting them at the educational and corporate customers.
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Can Music Really Aid Math Learning? | Getting Smart by %author_name% | %tag%
Most of us heard of the correlation between math and music – musical structures are mathematical in nature, of course, but can learning, or listening to, music really help us to learn math?
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The majority of online education is poorly designed and extremely boring.
We’ve all attended Webinars that make root canals seem more exciting! -
YFile » York will not enter into Access Copyright licence
After careful review, a decision has been made that York University will not be entering into the Access Copyright licence agreement that was negotiated by the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (AUCC).
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Much of the media coverage on Quebec’s student protests have dismissed the students as cranky middle and upper-middle class children clinging to the advantages they already have. But the fact that the vast majority of today’s university students come from relatively well-off families indicates that we have a serious problem with access to education. A problem that would only be exacerbated by tuition hikes.
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Piazza – An Example of Free Learning Tool Targeted at Faculty / Student Adoption
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8 Ways to Use Edmodo Over the Summer | Edmodo – Safe Social Networking for Schools
As the school year ends, many educators are sharing the great ways they plan to use Edmodo over the summer. If you’re looking to stay connected with colleagues and engage students over the summer, here are eight ideas to help you get started, as shared by members of the Edmodo community:
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Best Learning Apps for Kids' Summer Learning - Parenting.com
Technology entices most kids, right? If you have a phone or a tablet, engage your kids with a learning app. Playing an educational game is a great way to reinforce concepts over the summer. Here are some of my favorite apps
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How To Fail A Test: Students Give Hilariously Incorrect Answers (PHOTOS)
But some students turn the common conundrum into an opportunity to flex their creative muscles and, hopefully, tickle their teachers' funny bones with hilariously incorrect answers to test questions.
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Our schools and libraries are being radically re-imagined for the digital age, but what about our museums?
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Apple's Crystal Prison and the Future of Open Platforms | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Two weeks ago, Steve Wozniak made a public call for Apple to open its platforms for those who wish to tinker, tweak and innovate with their internals.
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ClippyJS - Add Clippy or his friends to any website for instant nostalgia
Add Clippy or his friends to any website for instant nostalgia. Our research shows that people love two things: failed Microsoft technologies and obscure Javascript libraries. Naturally, we decided to combine the two.
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Ubuntu Vancouver Simplifies Your Life…Again « French Fortune Cookie
With the release of Ubuntu 12.04 and many changes to the look and feel of the Unity interface, Ubuntu Vancouver decided a new guide is in order.
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Ubuntu Linux is a debian linux operating system for computers, It’s a free and open source software using its own desktop environment. Although there are loads of other linux os out there Ubuntu stands out as the best and most beautiful of them. It was named after a southern philosophy of Ubuntu(humanity towards others).
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Google Searches Surge After Knowledge Graph Launch - Search Engine Watch (#SEW)
If one of Google’s goals in launching the Knowledge Graph was to increase the number of searches being conducted, then it seems the mission has been accomplished. Google report an unspecified surge in search queries since it launched May 16.
OTR Links 01/23/2018 – doug — off the record OTR Links 01/23/2018 https://t.co/nJKZXGIJCa tags: via:packrati.us Sergei Eisenstein - Google Search Sergei Eisenstein https://t.co/AO6acACKzD — Doug Peterson (@dougpete) January 23, 2018 tags: IFTTT Twitter via:packrati.us Ontario minimum wage hike having ‘trickle up’ effect on paycheques of higher earners | Financial Post Ontario minimum wage hike having 'trickle up' effect on paycheques of higher earnershttps://t.co/x28xegyu9UShared from my Google feed Ontario minimum wage hike having 'trickle up' effect on paycheques of higher earnershttps://t.co/x28xegyu9U Shared from my Google feed — Doug Peterson (@dougpet
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