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Educating students about Internet safety can be difficult, especially with constantly changing technologies and classroom time constraints. These resources can help.
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iPhoto: the ultimate guide for Mac and iPad | News | TechRadar
No photo is perfect straight off the camera. Whether you need to brighten an outdoor scene, sharpen up a smile, or crop out other holidaymakers on the beach, a few quick edits can work wonders. And you don't even need a heavyweight program, such as Photoshop, for this (having too many options can work against you if you don't know how to apply them, anyway).
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Do You Suffer From These 4 Tech Afflictions?
How many devices do you have on-hand at this very moment? How often have you checked your social media accounts in the last hour? When was the last time you played a video game?
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Make ANY USB Storage Device Wireless! Everything you need to connect USB data with your iPad, iPhone and more!
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Blowing away bloatware: a guide to reinstalling Windows on a new PC | Ars Technica
Blowing away bloatware: a guide to reinstalling Windows on a new PC
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Make a Mark, Not a Grade « The Smaller Office
My son Ben and his two classmates discovered the reality of film work this week, realizing that a HUGE number of stills need to be taken to make the 30 second stop animation PSA they are creating in their grade 8 class
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Technology Skills We Should Be Teaching in College
Technology Skills We Should Be Teaching in College
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Free Search Tools Every Educator Need to Know about
One of the basic aims of education in general is to teach us how to be a life long researcher, how to discover new fountains of knowledge and illuminate our lives. Knowledge itself is based on research and every discipline be it philosophy, science, technology, art or humanities, they all have one common pillar which is research.
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Why antivirus companies like mine failed to catch Flame and Stuxnet | Ars Technica
Mikko Hypponen is the Chief Research Officer of F-Secure. He has been working with computer security for over 20 years and has fought the biggest virus outbreaks in the net, including Loveletter, Blaster, Conficker and Stuxnet. His TED Talk on computer security has been seen by almost a million people and has been translated to over 35 languages.
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5 Ways Twitter Strengthens A School’s Learning Community | Connected Principals
This year, our K-6 staff began learning in a new virtual way using Twitter. After a couple staff in-service trainings and after school workshops, parents and teachers ventured into this new educational Twitterverse. As we enter the final week of school, I’d like to share it’s initial impact on teaching and learning from my principal’s lens.
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Why Teachers Need Social Media Training, Not Just Rules | Spotlight on Digital Media and Learning
Under a new set of social media guidelines (pdf) issued by the New York City Department of Education, teachers are required to obtain a supervisor’s approval before creating a “professional social media presence,” which is broadly defined as “any form of online publication or presence that allows interactive communication, including, but not limited to, social networks, blogs, internet websites, internet forums, and wikis.”
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10 (more) ways for teachers to learn… « What Ed Said
I once posted 10 ways to grow as an educator, based on my reflections on my own learning and growth at that point in time. This week, I’m fortunate to be at an IB workshop in Chiang Mai, Thailand, training to be an IB workshop leader. Reflecting at the end of the first day, I have some ideas to add my list of ways teachers can learn…
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Figuring It Out: Grading Practices That Inhibit Learning
For the past 4 years I have been giving teachers at our school a copy of the following resource to start the year. What I find interesting is the date the original resource was published (1989). As we all head back to school soon I thought I would share it on my blog.
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Why Every School in America Should Teach Entrepreneurship | Business | TIME.com
Why Every School in America Should Teach Entrepreneurship
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BBC News - Microsoft previews Windows 8 operating system
Microsoft has launched the most complete preview yet of its forthcoming Windows 8 operating system.
The company said that tens of thousands of improvements have been made to what it calls the most important redesign of its interface since Windows 95.
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