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Google Launches 3D Interactive Tour of Versailles
"Google created an interactive 3D tour of Versailles that utilizes WebGL to guide users around the iconic parts of the French palace. This Chrome Experiment, entitled “Chaos to Perfection,” brings history into the digital age, helping to both teach and engage the user."
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pastelink.me | the easiest way to share files online
"Do you really need another thing to log into or register for? How about memorizing another password? With Pastelink, registering an account is strictly optional. Feel FREE to share files up to 250MB with your friends, family and coworkers."
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Adobe Education Exchange: The 2012 Educators' Choice Awards
The Adobe® Educators' Choice Awards celebrate teaching and learning resources that unleash students' creativity. Impress the judges (who will select the Finalists) and your peers (who will vote for the Winners) by submitting your best projects, lesson plans, curricula, and tutorials.
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Drive Blog: Page Navigation in Google forms
"Today, we’re excited to announce that we’ve expanded our logic branching capabilities in Google forms. Previously, a form creator had to add an extensive amount of multiple choice questions to the form to ensure that respondents were directed to the correct pages of the form. Form creators can now use a simpler page navigation feature to direct respondents to relevant pages regardless of their answers. Instead of using “dummy” multiple choice questions, form creators can now use “Go to page based on answer” multiple choice questions in conjunction with the new page navigation capabilities to make a simple, easy-to-follow form."
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Collection of visual writing prompts and ideas. Very impressive.
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GamingEdus Open House & Minecraft Mayhem at Academy of Impossible
August is shaping up to be a busy month for the GamingEdus, the collective of gaming teachers I belong to. We have two big events for educators curious to learn more about using video games like Minecraft with their students.
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Grazing for Digital Natives - Infographics
Infographic
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Education Week Teacher: Five Practices for Building Positive Relationships With Students
Can you have a good lesson without having a positive relationship with your students? Yes. But can a strong relationship lead to an even higher level of academic success? Absolutely!
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"Most people know Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel) as a writer and illustrator of some of the world’s most-beloved children’s books. And while it’s true that some of his characters have not fared well since his death in 1991, his legacy as a playful moralist is secure with parents and teachers everywhere. "
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"ToS;DR aims at creating a transparent and peer-reviewed process to rate and analyse Terms of Service and Privacy Policies in order to create a rating from Class A to Class E. We need more legal expertise, please also join the working-group. We also need people to contribute source code. Everything is JavaScript and JSON. The data is freely available (CC-BY-SA) and ready to be used for other tools, like browser extensions."
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Online test prep, Study for college :Grockit
"Grockit is the social learning company that makes products that help people learn from other people"
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Why Curation Will Transform Education and Learning: 10 Key Reasons
"Content curation will play a major role both in the way we "teach" and in the way we educate ourselves on any topic. When and where it will be adopted, it will deeply affect many key aspects of the educational ecosystem."
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Top 5 iPad apps for Educators - HOME - Edgalaxy: Where Education and Technology Meet.
"It would be remiss of me not to put together an obligatory iPad story that is loosely linked to education so here are some top iPad apps for educators who feel as though they need to do something work related on it after they have finished playing with all the fun stuff on it"
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How to Create Pro Slides in Less Time: Don’t Worry, Be CRAPpy
Presenters, teachers, and students all resist design-centered slide design on the basis of a perceived lack of time. Since I know that the visually-driven, Zen approach works, I am not deterred by this resistance; instead, I use one simple phrase to help cultivate strong design from presenters whose time is limited.
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Creating a Visual Dictionary on the iPad | Langwitches Blog
"Today, as I was planning with our first grade Hebrew teacher, how to upgrade a traditionally taught vocabulary project (creating a dictionary of their weekly vocabulary words in Hebrew), we saw the opportunity to use PicCollage with students in the classroom."
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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning: 10 Excellent Alternatives to PowerPoint
"Practical tips and tutorials about using web2.0 tools and mobile apps in education .The best free web, adnroid, smartphone,iPhone, and samsung applications to help you better enhance your mobile learning."
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Pinterest Finally Ditches Invitations, Now Lets Anyone Sign Up | TechCrunch
"Calling all chefs, wedding planners, stylists, and crafty-types: Pinterest has just opened registration to the public after two years of requiring an invite to join. "
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Life of an Educator by Justin Tarte: 10 reasons to get educators blogging...
"5 reasons educators should start reading blogs:"
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Why Teachers Want Technology [Infographic] | EdTech Magazine
"According to this PBS Learning Media infographic, which we first encountered on the online news site Mashable, teachers are just as eager, if not more, than students to embrace technology as a tool for learning."
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Rewards of teaching young children to blog SmartBlogs
"When I first started blogging, I thought the posts would be the primary focus of the blog. I quickly realized that the comment section was where the blog came to life. As a class, we set high standards and expectations for writing, agreed to always have an adult proofread before publishing, and created a video to help teach commenting skills."
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Teaching Teachers to Tweet - EdTech Researcher - Education Week
"It is not intuitive to most educators how one would use Twitter as a meaningful part of professional development."
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Catholic teacher deal could affect student achievement, school boards say - thestar.com
"At the eye of the labour storm gathering over Ontario schools are quiet little tests in the 3Rs. Most parents have never heard of them, but school boards say they’re key to discovering when a child needs extra help."
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NYPD and Microsoft team up for launch of advanced crime-fighting system | Digital Trends
"Crime fighting has stepped up a gear in New York with the NYPD teaming up with Microsoft to create what’s called the Domain Awareness System (DAS), a sophisticated crime prevention and counter-terrorism tool that aggregates and analyzes a slew of incoming and existing data quickly and efficiently, enabling officers to make better informed decisions about how to proceed with a line of inquiry."
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The Content Marketing Universe [Infographic]
"The fabric of the universe are basic chemical elements that create the stars and planets. The fabric of the Internet is content, which can be broken down into sections such as copy, images, and video."
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15 Grammar Mistakes to Avoid (Infographic) « Grow With Stacy
"When people read what you’ve written they will inevitably judge you on your use of grammar. The spell check will only go so far in catching your mistakes."
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Charting the Underground Twitterverse [Infographic]
"How bad is the underground Twitter economy? According to security vendor Barracuda Labs, pretty bad."
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Stuxnet: The New Face of 21st Century Cyber Warfare Infographic
"In June of 2010 the Stuxnet worm made it’s debut to the world. Joint engineered by the United States and Israel to cripple Iran’s nuclear efforts, it wasn’t long before the worm was altered and turned loose on the internet spawning a number of variations of the original worm and affecting computers around the world!"
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Install LibreOffice 3.6.0 Final in Ubuntu
"LibreOffice 3.6.0 final was released on Aug 8, 2012. It contains many exciting new features, improvements and bug fixes. Read new features"
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The challenge of converting MOOCs (or anything else) into college credits
"This article takes a careful and detailed look at different ways that students might convert MOOCs into formal university or college credits, using prior-learning assessment, e-portfolios or competency-based approaches. In the examples given, it’s possible but not easy or cheap. In other cases, it isn’t even possible."
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Kno Brings Interactive Textbooks to K-12 for $9.99 -- THE Journal
"Through a deal with publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, education software developer Kno, which provides e-textbooks for higher education, is adding interactive K-12 textbooks to its iPad, Android, Windows, and Web platforms. According to the two companies, the price to rent a textbook for a year will be $9.99 "or less," the equivalent of $50 or less for a print textbook based on a five-year refresh cycle. (That pricing is introductory, however, and post-introductory pricing has not been announced.) The cost of a textbook through Apple's iBooks platform is $14.99 per student per year, or $75 over five years."
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elcome to Oman Collective Intelligence©...W
"Here you can find all most popular (and less popular) social networks' statistics including Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and many more."
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Social Media "Worst Practices": Making People Laugh | Social Media Today
"Laughter is one of the most wonderful gifts bestowed upon us by our Creator. But humor in Social Media is a tricky thing. My sense of humor is admittedly a bit nerdy and peculiar - and to many people, decidedly un-funny. Yet I persist in trying to make people laugh - or at least crack a smile. So if you want to try to be funny in social media - go for it (carefully) - the world needs more laughter."
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Digital Citizenship WebQuest - Digital Citizenship
"When you're done discussing what you have learned, it is hoped that you will have understood the importance of modeling digital citizenship and cybersafety and where you stand as an educator, as well as sharing your understanding with your peers and students."
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