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"This is an experimental service for badges, powered by Open Source. Check the FAQ! Submit suggestions!"
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"Learning today happens everywhere. But it's often difficult to get recognition for skills and achievements that happen online or out of school. Mozilla Open Badges helps solve that problem, making it easy for any organization to issue, manage and display digital badges across the web."
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The Amazing Facts Educators should Know about Facebook
"Facebook is said to be the biggest nation in the world. It has almost a huge database of users that amounts to a billion. Almost everyone who has access to internet has a Facebook account or at least heard about it somewhere.For us in education the importance of this social networking platform lies in the fact that we can leverage it for educational purposes and our Teacher's Easy Guide on The Use of Facebook in Education has alot to offer you in this regard."
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Make strip cartoons in seconds with our fun and simple--to-use resource!
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"Welcome to these pages of resource links, rubrics, work samples and ideas for your tech integration and IB needs"
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"Google Docs has many useful features for helping students develop writing skills. When I recently opened a Google Document to plan a teacher training on Using Google Docs to Facilitate a Writing Workshop I was pleasantly surprised to find a new and powerful integrated research feature which couldn't be easier to use. Just pull down the Tools menu, click on Research and search for information in the research pane that appears on the right side of the screen. Users never have to leave the page."
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"e-Portfolios are platforms for students, teachers, alumni, and professionals to showcase their work and ideas. They are archives of learning, discovery, progress, achievement and reflection. A few uses of e-Portfolios include assessment, admissions, interactive resumes, student galleries, teacher resource sites, collaborative project portfolios, and research presentations."
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Managing Your Facebook Security Settings
"Social networks like Facebook are open to phishing, malware and other unwanted problems. While there is no perfect solution, you can change your Facebook security settings to help increase your privacy and safety."
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OER Repositories & Directories
"So there’s openly licensed content available on the Internet. So what? How do I find it? How do I know it’s useful? (And more accurately in this case: so how do I create a directory that are actually useful to teachers and learners?)"
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Topic Pages Need An Open Network Too - And Quora Is It
"This week I'm exploring why topic pages are getting traction on the social Web. But one potential flaw in topic pages is that they are typically closed networks. Wikipedia, The New York Times, Branch, Medium - these are all tightly controlled, essentially closed knowledge networks."
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Chrome for iOS Now Lets You Share Pages on Facebook and Twitter
"Google has announced its first update to Google Chrome for iOS, adding the ability to share pages from the browser directly on your favorite social network, including Facebook and Twitter."
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The Battle for Bandwidth| The Committed Sardine
"The Battle for Bandwidth"
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From 0 To 70 Computers With No Money And Open Source Software | Techdirt
"Robert Litt, a 6th grade teacher from Alameda County, faced just such a predicament. He needed to provide his students with computers but had no money and little support from the administration. So he set about building the computer lab his students needed using donated computers and the Ubuntu Linux operating system."
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For Educators, the Importance of Making Meaningful Connections | MindShift
"As schools gear up and prepare for a new school year with technology increasingly ubiquitous, now’s the time to consider how schools can create a positive impact with technology."
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10 Must-Reads for a New School Year | EdTech Magazine
"To help you get back in the groove, our editors have assembled this primer, featuring some of the best and most interesting content found on the Ed-Tech Focus on K–12 web site over the last three months."
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How To Best Use Social Media In The Classroom
"The prominence of social media in everyday life has also had an impact in the classroom. There are a number of different ways that social media is being used by teachers across the country."
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India’s Answer to M.I.T. Presents 268 Free Online Courses (in English) | Open Culture
"Today, the IITs stand atop the Indian educational system and, like their peer institutions in the US, they’re making a point of putting free courses on the web. "
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Parents: Do Your Kids Use Their Mobile Devices to Cheat At School?
"Some students use their mobile phone for more than texting with friends or playing games."
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HCL Launches Online Education Platform, Learn On Cloud - MediaNama
"HCL Learning, the education and talent development division of HCL Infosystems, has launched a new (beta) version of its cloud-based learning initiative, called ‘Learn On Cloud‘ which offers various personalized learning courses in the IT segment to students."
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"The eLearning Guild announces the release of a free eBook, 52 Tips On Best Practices for eLearning Development and Implementation. These 52 tips come from the 12 presenters of the upcoming (September 13-14, 2012) eLearning Guild Online Forum, eLearning Development and Implementation: Best Practices."
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How-to ‘Retrofit’ an Online Course | online learning insights
"With the pace of new educational tools and technologies – retrofitting is a given."
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The Key Planets of the Social Media Universe (Infographic) | Business 2 Community
"There is a myth circulating that if you have a Facebook page for your business then that is all you to need to succeed at social media. If that is your paradigm then you need to rethink your social media strategy."
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Cracking passwords from the Philips hack – an important lesson | Naked Security
"As you may know, Philips recently suffered a data breach, when a hacking group exfiltrated a bunch of small databases and dumped them on a public drop site. One of the databases included about 400 password hashes - a handily compact but real-world sample set for demonstrating some important points about password choice, use and storage."
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Bing adds Quora results in search sidebar - Neowin
"In a post on the official Bing blog, Microsoft announced that its search sidebar will now offer answers to questions based on contributions from the Quora knowledge sharing service. Quora, founded by two former team members from Facebook, first launched to the public in 2010."
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