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Google maps ancient Mexican ruins - Cosmic Log
"Google is expanding its Street View offerings to include dozens of 360-degree photo tours of ancient Mexican monuments such as Teotihuacan, Chichen Itza and Palenque."
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Pay-it-Forward-for-the-Blind - * Resources for Teachers
"Teachers will find a wealth of resources here - free to be used as required. Please adapt them to suit your needs. I hope and trust you find them useful to your classroom and subject."
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ICT Bingo for teachers! | salwal's stuff
"In an attempt to embed ICT into all classrooms, we have just started a game of ICT bingo for our staff. Has anyone tried this? I would love to hear how it went! If anyone has creative and engaging ways to do this, please comment."
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Educational Technology Guy: Black Menu - access all of your Google apps from here - Chrome ext
"I'm a huge user of Google's many apps and services. I use Sites, Blogger, Chrome, Chromebook, Android, Search, Reader, Calendar, Gmail, Tasks, and much more. While I have shortcuts on my new tab page in Chrome and on my Chromebook, I can't fit all of them on one page. iGoogle is also being shutdown so I won't have that either. But, I just found out about a new Chrome browser extension that is even better from Chrome Story. Black Menu."
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CodeLesson - Instructor-led online technology learning for professionals
"CodeLesson instructors develop curriculum (which mostly entails preparing reading and coding activities for students). Instructors also answer students' questions during the course and evaluate their work. Once your course is prepared, the total time commitment is typically a few hours each week, depending on the complexity of your subject and the number of students in your course. Click on a course below to apply; we'll get back to you via email."
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QR Codes - Technology Inter-twined
"What is a QR code? It's short for "Quick Response" and is usually a square. What do you do with a QR code? When you see one, you can use your smartphone or any mobile device with a camera, QR code reader app and internet access to scan the square. Once you scan it, the code will take your device to the web-based location set up by the code creator. So how can these be used in education? Here are some ideas."
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Eight Crazy Things Spam Makes Bloggers Do
"Let me start by saying there are some reasonable actions to take against spam, like spam fighting plugins and moderating blog comments. The problem is that nothing seems to effectively squash the headache of clearing our spam boxes daily. So what’s one to do? Get a little crazy, that’s what…"
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15 of the Meanest CAPTCHAs ever - Oddee.com (funny captchas)
"You've seen them all around the web, CAPTCHAs are those distorted images of letters and numbers used to prevent the automated use of websites. They are supposedely random, but sometimes they seem to be "telling you" something; others are just plain ridiculous or humanly impossible to read. Here's a collection of the strangest, most bizarre tests agains spam bots. "
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How to Look Better in Personal Google Results [Infographic] | inspirationfeed.com
"Quite simply, bad search results hurt you, and good search results help you. Your first impression on the web is drastically improved when you make sure you have more positive content in your results. The following infographic showcases useful tips that you can use in order to look better in Google’s search results. Enjoy!"
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5 Big Prezi Updates You Should Know About | Edudemic
"Prezi, a free interactive presentation creation tool, has just added a couple new features that will be really fun for teachers to try out when they head back to class. Prezi also announced some other fun news that’s worth knowing about. It’s all wrapped up in nice, easy-to-digest bits below:"
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Why Creative Geniuses Hated School| The Committed Sardine
"Thomas Edison once said that his greatest blessing in life was his lack of a formal education. Had he been educated, he said, he would have realized that what he accomplished was not possible to do. Beethoven’s teachers told his parents that he was too stupid to be a composer and Isaac Newton’s parents were told by his teachers that he was the most unlikely student they ever had. It seems one commonality that creative geniuses have is their contempt for public education. Following are the thoughts of three of our most highly-acclaimed creative geniuses about school."
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Developers Are Pissed, Frustrated by New Twitter Decree
" Claiming a desire to deliver "a more consistent Twitter experience," today the San Francisco company announced a laundry list of changes, many of them vague, to how developers can access tweets, prompting outrage, confusion and frustration from the third party developers who piggyback on the microblogging site's ecosystem. "
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iLearn Technology » Blog Archive » PowToon: AMAZING free animation tool
"I have discovered my new favorite creation site. Holy wow this is a cool tool. Basically, it makes you (and your students) look like rockstars when they present. You know all of those super cool animated videos that tell a story through drawings on a whiteboard? Now you can make those all on your own with a super simple drag-drop tool. Meet PowToon. It is awesome. I’m a little addicted to playing with video creation…no joke."
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"Earlier this year the folks who created the YourTeacher math tutoring and test prep system teamed up with KIPP Academy to gauge how well the iPad performs in the classroom. As noted by Jim Dalrymple of The Loop, the results are overwhelmingly in favor of the iPad."
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100 Inspiring Pinterest Pins for Back to School | OEDb
"To jumpstart your back-to-school season, check out Pinterest for some amazing ideas to make this fall one of the best ever for you, your students, your kids, or any young academically inclined person in your life. We've collected just a few of the thousands of pins out there for back-to-school that we think are fun, inspiring ways to get ready to head back to school this fall."
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26 Internet safety talking points | Dangerously Irrelevant
"For Leadership Day 2012, I thought I would gather in one place many of the talking points that I use with principals and superintendents about Internet safety…"
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Back to School: An Evernote Scavenger Hunt [Education Series] | Evernote Blogcast
"When we first heard about how librarians at North Carolina State University were using Evernote to help new students get acquainted with the university library, we knew we wanted to learn more. Turns out, Anne Burke, Adrienne Lai, and Adam Rogers came up with a clever scavenger hunt, leading students to discover the nooks and crannies of the library, as well the library’s digital archives, staff, and various resources. They did all of this using Evernote and a fleet of iPod Touches. Read on to learn more about the NCSU Libraries Scavenger Hunt and see how you could recreate it at your school!"
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The truth about the “crisis” in education | People for Education
"There has been a lot of talk in the media in the last week about discussions between the province, teachers and school boards. In some cases the information has been misleading. Teachers’ contracts will expire on August 31st, but it is very common for bargaining to start in earnest only at the end of a contract. In these cases, everyone keeps working under the terms of the old contract, no one goes on strike, teachers (for the most part) do not get salary increases and students are not affected."
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5 Edmodo Activities for the First Day of School | Edmodo – Safe Social Networking for Schools
"As you head back to school and get your students set up on Edmodo, consider trying one of the following activities your first day of class:"
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Tee Up the New School Year with Tips from Connected Educators | Edutopia
"Educators who appreciate the value of professional networks have a keen understanding of the old adage, "The wisdom is in the room." For this growing community, "room" means any space -- virtual or physical -- where colleagues connect, exchange insights, and push each other's thinking."
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Deathmatch: Apple’s OS X Mountain Lion vs. Microsoft’s Windows 8 – MacDailyNews - Welcome Home
"“With the final version of Windows 8 now complete, how does Microsoft’s great hope for reinventing itself for the post-PC world compare to Apple’s new flagship?” Galen Gruman reports for InfoWorld. “The short answer: not well.”"
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Microsoft's Windows 8: Will it breathe new life into older PCs? | ZDNet
"With Microsoft making available the final released to manufacturing (RTM) Windows 8 bits to some customers starting on August 15, it's a good time to contemplate whether it's worth grabbing them. Yes, Windows 8 is a touch-centric operating system which will work best -- or, at least, most like the way its designers intended -- on touch-enabled tablets, PCs and monitors. "
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Seven Online Infographic Builders That You Have to Try | Design Shack
"There are a host of tools out there though that can help you turn information into pretty good (and Pinterest-friendly) infographics in a matter of minutes. Here we take a look at some of the top contenders, how they work, what they cost and if they are worth your time (and money)."
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Browse music by composer, performer, instrument, period or form | Music | Musopen
"This page allows you to browse our music by composer, performer, instrument, form and time period"
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Twitter: A Day in the Life [INFOGRAPHIC]
"Tweeters share photos more than anything else, and pics make up more than a third of all links shared on the social network. Articles make up just 16% of shares, while videos come in at just under 10%. Predictably, YouTube dominates there, making up six in 10 video posts. Among photos, most people share directly from Twitter, while Instagram clocks in at 15%."
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