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TalkTyper - Speech Recognition in a Browser
Free speech to text dictation software in a browser.
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K-12 Equal Access Program :: App Inventor Online Course
Android App Training is committed to teaching all people how to create great mobile applications without having to learn computer programming. With that in mind, we’re pleased to announce our App Inventor K-12 Equal Access Program.
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Quip is a Gorgeous Twitter Browser for Conversations
I’ve had the opportunity to test out the result of their work, Quip, which is launching today on the iPad. It’s a beautifully crafted experience that turns the Twitter timeline on its head, delivering tweets, replies and conversations in readable, chronological order.
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One of the best ways to prepare students to be prepared for the world is to help them use the tools of their world responsibly. Allowing students to bring their own devices is a terrific way to do just that, but even though some schools may have the wireless capacity and infrastructure, the admins / teachers may want to have a policy in place.
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How to Enable and Use Text to Speech on iPhone & iPad
The newer versions of iOS include a fantastic text to speech engine that lets you select any text and have it spoken to you. This basically means you can have an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch read you the content of any web page, notes, text files, or even eBooks and iBooks. Before you can use the text to speech function though, you have to enable it.
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25 years of HyperCard—the missing link to the Web | Ars Technica
I opened the app and read the instructions. HyperCard allowed you to create "stacks" of cards, which were visual pages on a Macintosh screen. You could insert "fields" into these cards that showed text, tables, or even images. You could install "buttons" that linked individual cards within the stack to each other and that played various sounds as the user clicked them, mostly notably a "boing" clip that to this day I can't get out of my mind. You could also turn your own pictures into buttons.
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Online learning students ‘process information faster’ « Online Learning Update
Students who use online learning can take in information faster than those who only take part in classroom-based sessions, new research has indicated.
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iPad Only No More: Inkling Debuts HTML5-Powered E-Book App For The Web | TechCrunch
Inkling, the San Francisco-based startup that’s known for making super slick interactive digital versions of college textbooks and other educational titles for the iPad, has debuted its first ever platform for the web browser.
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for the love of learning: Before the computer could change School, School changed the computer
We owe it to our children to stop and seriously question whether technology and hyper-personalization should drive our education reforms.
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Microsoft updates SkyDrive apps for Windows and Mac | ZDNet
Microsoft is adding support for a new Windows 8 ‘fetch’ feature, due to be part of the upcoming Release Preview, to its SkyDrive cloud-storage app.
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30 Geeky Artworks Created Using Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Excel, my boss loves it, I hate it to bits. It’s deadly effective as a tool to organize data, but it’s overwhelmingly boring as well. Honestly, what can I do with Microsoft Excel? Previously, there was only Microsoft Paint and heck, Minesweeper in my Windows 98 work computer. It wasn’t until I surfed the web with IE6 that I stumbled upon the realization that you can actually use Microsoft Excel to draw!
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15 Surprising Things You May Not Know About Texting | teacherstech.net
Here are 15 scholarly facts about texting that you may not have suspected.
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Cybergogue: A Critique of Connectivism as a Learning Theory
Having explored a “learning theory” that George Siemens (2005; 2006a) and Stephen Downes (2005; 2007) developed for a networked and digital world called connectivism. Fascinating and extensive conversations in the blogosphere and in educational journals debate whether connectivism is a new learning theory or whether it is merely a digital extension of constructivism.
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7 Study Habits that Online Students Must Develop | About Online Degrees
7 Study Habits that online students must develop
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