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Teachers and IT professionals from across Canada share how technology enables classroom collaboration and encourages new ways to learn
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The Beginner's Guide to Social Media
To digital natives, it may be difficult to imagine a world where these tools aren’t at our fingertips, but the fact is, new users join these services every day. For the uninitiated, check out our beginner’s guides to get started on Tumblr, Twitter, Reddit, LinkedIn and Facebook.
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Ontario’s two biggest school boards are grappling to balance their budgets for 2012-13, accusing the Liberal government of not providing near enough funding for programs and services for schools and students.
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How the New Mac OS Could Kill 5 Beloved Third-Party Apps | Gadget Lab | Wired.com
In 2001, Karelia Software released an Internet search utility called Watson. It was a great utility — but it didn’t last long. In 2002, Apple released Sherlock 3, a search utility built directly into Mac OS that mirrored many of Watson’s functions.
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New in Bing Search Results: It’s Qwiki-pedia! - Search Engine Watch (#SEW)
Bing’s search results now feature Qwikis – short, captioned videos that turn text on Wikipedia pages into words that are spoken by a robotic female voice, as you’re treated to a scrolling slideshow of related images, videos, and maps.
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8 Ways Anyone Can Learn To Code Their Own Software | Edudemic
There’s a lot of talk about hardware, devices, and tools for the classroom. But if we learned anything from yesterday’s WWDC Apple keynote, it’s that software is king. It’s what makes or breaks a new product or device. Gone are the days of hardware-first, software-second such as when phones with color screens were viewed as revolutionary.
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Tips For Quality Control Of Online Learning: The eLearning Coach
Our best defense against these high-risk scenarios is to conduct thorough and systematic Quality Control (QC) reviews and testing before any deliverable is released. Although QC and testing are related terms, they refer to different procedures. Compare the definitions below. This article focuses on Quality Control.
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The eLearning Industry Blog: How to use audio in eLearning?
If the voice/audio should not simply have the repeat the words on the computer screen, what kind of content information should it relate? I tend to relate specific examples. What do you do?
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Educational Technology Guy: 10 Technology Skills Every Educator Should Have
Overall, educators need to understand some basics about technology and that it is not a be-all-end-all solution to everything in a classroom. Technology can help teachers differentiate and provide new experiences for their students. Technology can also help students better understand a concept and provide extra help for them. Educators need to start with good pedagogy and lesson objectives and activities and then look for technology that can enhance those lessons, improve teaching and learning, and help students learn.
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Check out This Massive List of Google+ Shared Circles
A platform is only as good as the people who are on it, right? While Google+ does a pretty good job of surfacing cool people to follow through its suggested users list, shared Circles are an even better way to find people to engage with.
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New Program Pairs Educators with Free iPad Apps -- THE Journal
For a kids’ app to be noticed in Apple's iTunes store, says app developer Patrick Larsson, "it's almost like winning the lottery." After he and his business partner Jens Ode, founders of the ad-free kids app company Happi Papi, struggled to get their apps noticed amid the clutter, they created the App Evaluation Program for Schools.
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7 Habits of Highly Effective Tech-leading Principals -- THE Journal
The conventional wisdom in education is that any school reform--be it curriculum, instruction, assessment, or teacher professionalism--is most likely to take hold in schools that have strong leadership. The same holds true for technology. Any educator will tell you the most successful implementation of technology programs takes place in schools where the principal sees him or herself as a technology leader.
Superior Alternatives to Crappy OS X Software Macs come bundled with a lot of software out of the box and while most of it is at least passable, much of it lacks the feature set power users need. That's the catch with a lot of default Mac software, it's easy, but the second you want to do something more with it, you're out of luck. We've compiled a list of our favorite replacements for the usually workable, but generally boring OS X default software. tags: mac software alternatives os x osx lifehacker apple tools Apps in Education: 6 Apps for Creating Outlines on the iPad: Capturing information quickly and efficiently in a classroom is an important skill. So much of what we do in the classroom needs to be documented either b
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