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First Ever Monaco Grand Prix (1929) - YouTube
"First Ever Monaco Grand Prix (1929). Great footage of the first ever Monte Carlo grand prix. Organised in 1929 by Anthony Noghes, the race sees British driver William Grover-Williams driving a Bugatti 35B taking the title. He beat the great German driver, Rudolf Caracciola. "
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How to Develop Digital Literacies in yourself and others
"A presentation for JISC Regional Support Centre West Midlands' event, Discover-e 2012: Preparing Learners for a Digital Future"
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World Map with each country filled in with its currency - 22 Words
"We’ve seen a world map made of each country’s coins before. Here’s another currency map that uses images of each country’s bills…"
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ICTmagic - Languages, Culture & International Projects
Languages, Culture & International Projects
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"The Mobile Access to Supplemental Learning Objects (MASLO) system is an open source solution for authoring content packets and distributing them to learners on mobile devices."
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Infographic: The Gamification of Education |
"Adaptive learning and education technology company Knewton published an infographic titled The Gamification of Education, drawing on sources from MIT’s Education Arcade."
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Fix This App: Twitter - TechHive Beta Blog
If anyone would know how to build a mobile Twitter app, it should be Twitter, right? After all, it’s operating the service. The company should have the insight to build an app that really optimizes the experience for your mobile device.
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Digital Learning: Why has Dr. Michael Fullan Gone into the Stratosphere? | voicEd.ca
"Leading Canadian school change theorist Michael Fullan has, until recently, remained curiously silent on the 21st century digital learning movement. His 1982 book, The Meaning of Educational Change, put him on the map as an expert on “school change management”, but his strategies tended to be “top-down” and focused inside the system. "
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Owning BYOD: Don’t Forget the PD
"The Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) discussion continues. Some are in favor, some aren’t, and some are somewhere in the middle -- or at different points along that journey. While most are looking to the clouds, classroom teachers still have four walls and close to 30 students. "
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After Epic Hack, Apple Suspends Over-the-Phone AppleID Password Resets | Gadget Lab | Wired.com
"Apple on Tuesday ordered its support staff to immediately stop processing AppleID password changes requested over the phone, following the identity hacking of Wired reporter Mat Honan over the weekend, according to Apple employees."
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Classroom Cheating in the Digital Age - Teaching Now - Education Week Teacher
"Digital technology has made it both easier for students to cheat and for teachers to catch offenders, according to a recent piece in The Chicago Tribune—but overall cheaters maintain the upper hand."
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SeoCustomer 5 Reasons to Use Infographics on Your Website
"Statistics, dates, facts, anecdotes, graphs, charts, images…the Internet is saturated with data. I guess it shouldn’t be a surprise that our time is often called the “Information Age.”"
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Carrying Conversations: 10 Lessons Learned from Learners : Teacher Reboot Camp
"One of my favorite reads growing up was Chicken Soup for the Soul. I learned how to be the kind of educator I can be proud of by reading these short inspirational stories. One of the anecdotes that left a great impression was about a teacher who had a student she did not like"
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Google interactive doodle highlights Olympics hoop dreams | Internet & Media - CNET News
In another keyboard event from the Web giant, a virtual athlete lets would-be Dream Teamers try to shoot as many free throws as possible in 24 seconds.
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Make Your Google Search Results Always Open in a New Tab
"If you're doing more than a simple search on Google, you probably want those links to open in a new tab instead of the current one, so your original results are always available. Here's how to make Google open your results in a new tab every time."
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Inspiration for World Changers
"We often need inspiration to get us through because it's a tough mission we carry. Hope you get your dose of inspiration from these places I get inspiration! Let's continue our battle to transform the world :-)"
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How Do We Make Online Education More Than Video Lectures? - Education - GOOD
"In the past year there's been a real boom in online education platforms, but what sets these models apart from the average lecture-on-demand model? According to Stanford professor Daphne Koller, whose startup Coursera launched in February and has 640,000 students from 190 countries, if they really want to reach the masses, online learning platforms have to provide more than just video lectures."
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Why Digital Learning Is Just Different | TeachThought
"Digital learning is different than non-digital learning from the moment an experience starts."
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Website Proves You Were on Twitter Before it Was Cool
"There’s a particular phenomenon popularized on the Internet wherein users who consider themselves early adopters look down on those who were late to the party. Now, thanks to idego.co, you can figure out exactly how much cooler you are than everyone else in the web world."
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Google Chrome now used by one in three web surfers
"Google's Chrome web browser is going to turn four years old in less than a month. According to web analytics service StatCounter, approximately 33.8% of web surfers are using Chrome to look at kittens, puppies, and to see how many likes their last status update received. That's absolutely astonishing when you step back and realize that it wasn't too long ago when Firefox was considered the browser to beat. How many people still use Firefox? About 23.7%, which is certainly nothing to sneeze at, but let's be honest, when was the last time you actually set Firefox as your default browser?"
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Google's Olympics Doodles: The Inside Story
All you wanted to do was a simple Google search, and 20 minutes later you’re still trying to beat your best time — and your friend’s top score — on today’s Google doodle game, which puts you in the shoes of an Olympic hurdler racing for gold.
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Microsoft IT: How we rolled out Windows 8 to 30,000 users | ZDNet
"IT pros and C-suite execs worrying about the learning curve Windows 8 may present to users might be able to take a few cues from Microsoft's own IT organization."
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How To Enable 2-Factor Verification On Gmail (And Avoid Getting Hacked)
"If there is one lesson to be learned from Wired writer Mat Honan’s "epic" hacking last week - a hack that wiped years of digital memories including emails and photos of his daughter - it’s the importance of Gmail’s two-factor verification security feature."
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London street photography walk | Travel | guardian.co.uk
"A new guided walk of east London includes a hands-on photography lesson – and lunch thrown in – all for £30"
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