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"Excited by the potential of tech in class, Adam Webster explores how mobile, internet-connected devices allow teachers and students to make lessons international and collaborative experiences"
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Chicago Teachers Union To Strike For First Time In 25 Years | Edudemic
"The Chicago Teachers Union says its members will go on strike Monday for the first time in 25 years."
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BBC News - Google Maps uses Ground Truth project to battle Apple
"A new front opens up in the smartphone battle between Google and Apple this week when the search giant's mapping technology is dropped from iPhones and iPads' Maps app when they are upgraded to the latest version of the iOS operating system."
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6 Apps That Let You Text for Free
"With mobile carriers charging anywhere from $20 to $30 a month for unlimited plans, smartphone users with a love of texting might feel like coughing up this kind of cash is their only option. In reality, there are several great apps available that allow users to text for free."
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Lisa's Lingo: The First Week of School for the 29th Time
"Twenty-nine times I have suffered - yes suffered - through the first week of school, wishing it away quickly so I can really start the year. But this year, I decided to do things differently and it was the best first week of school ever! So what did I do?"
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Around the Corner-MGuhlin.org: It's the #iPad App Ecology - Be iNCORRECT
"In a twitter exchange with EdTechSandyK, as well as in reading an article entitled The iPad will not save your school, and considering the best approach to put technology in schools, I've found myself engaging in "soul-searching" about these solutions."
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"For the past year, my first Monday of the month have been filled with insights and inspiration from the worlds top leaders who faithfully gather on Twitter for one of the most powerful and productive chat streams on Twitter"
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Creativity and Instructional Design | Usable Learning
"I’m listening to the most recent toolbar episode with Judy Unrein, Brian Dusablon and their guest, Connie Malamed. They talk about a number of things, but there’s a lot of discussion of creativity – how to be creative, the importance of creativity for problem solving, and the unfortunate lack of creativity that can happen in learning design."
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3rd – 5th Grade Search Lesson | The Thinking Stick
"We will use the great fake site thedogisland.com. Students in this age love this site and easily get sucked in to all the great pictures and writing about how great this island is for dogs. A fun place to start the conversation on authenticating your resources."
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‘Girls Who Code’ Graduates First-Ever Class | Edudemic
"That’s where Girls Who Code comes in. The New York City-based nonprofit just graduated its first-ever class of 20 girls (between the ages of 13 and 17). The organization helps teen girls from low-income backgrounds get the skills they need for the jobs they want in the future. Plus they’re closing the computer science gender gap."
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Educational Origami - Digital Citizenship – Alberta Style
"Education Alberta (Canada) has published a Development guide for Digital Citizenship Policy. This is an extensive document which includes some of my work and that of my esteemed colleague Dr Jason Ohler. This is a great resource and well worth downloading and working through. It is about 80+ pages so you do need to put aside a little time to do this."
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"Which companies have the highest number of Twitter followers? According to research conducted by Go-Gulf.com, Google has 4.3 million, WholeFoods has 2.2 million and Starbucks has 2.1 million. Who leads in the Facebook Fan race? Coca-Cola has 40 million, Starbucks has 28 million and McDonald’s has 17 million."
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Adam Kirk Edgerton: Why I Quit Teaching
"Today, I walked into a high school where I am not an employee. Where I have no classroom, no agenda on the board, no lesson plans, no books, no exit slips, and no first-day-of-school icebreakers, because I am no longer a high school English teacher."
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10 Great Free Web Tools for Teachers
" We are adding this list to the section we have previously created and labelled Educational Web Tools where we feature some of the most important web services that are of direct relevance to education. We are hoping that teachers, particularly those busy ones who do not have time to go online and dig for web resources, would use this section as a repository of the technology tools they might need in their work."
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Teach Students What They Don’t Know But Are Ready To Learn | The Creativity Post
"In 2011, Rena F. Subotnik, Paula Olszewski-Kubilius, and Frank C. Worrell published a landmark article for the field of gifted education titled “Rethinking giftedness and gifted education: A proposed direction forward based on psychological science” in the journal Psychological Science In The Public Interest."
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Canada Unemployment: Here Are The 10 Best Cities To Find A Job
"StatsCan’s latest unemployment report shows the country’s unemployment rate steady at 7.3 per cent, but dig deeper into the data and you find a country with wild disparities in its employment situation."
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Tumblr Done Right: 5 Businesses Who Use Tumblr Successfully | Hubze Blog
"Tumblr’s platform allows for creating captivating content, while simultaneously remaining conscious of dispersing this content at a rapid rate. Perhaps this is why virtually any industry can find a niche in Tumblr. From major publishing companies, to both indie and mainstream artists, politicians, and design houses are all finding interesting ways to share and spread their brand’s internet reach."
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4 Top bloggers and how they struggled when they started blogging // Eddie Gear
"Did you know that almost every big blogger today struggled at the very beginning? Yes, its true, they did have a hard time with little or no comments and zip social shares. blogging is difficult and it does take time to work, but if your persistent and put your best foot forward your bound to succeed."
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Ubuntu Reaches 220,000 PCs in Schools in Spain | The VAR Guy
"Canonical’s recent efforts to promote desktop Ubuntu on the workstations of large organizations have focused primarily on the business world. But perhaps the company’s greatest prospects lie in the education channel. That’s where 220,000 Ubuntu-based PCs are now running in Andalusia, Spain. Here are the details, and what they say about desktop Linux’s viability in the education market."
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Top Offline Blog Editors for WordPress | Blogoola
"For bloggers who couldn’t use the Internet 24/7 but needs to update their blog regularly, offline blog editors is best for you, because it allows you to create blog posts without an Internet connection."
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10 Tips for Conquering Twitter
"Social media is an essential business tool, and Twitter is a powerful way to spread your message. Creating a Twitter account is very easy, and it only takes seconds to do. Unfortunately, this means that most businesses only take a few minutes to work on their Twitter account. Solo entrepreneurs and large companies both are guilty of this. They do not learn the ins and outs of the social media site, and they do not use it to its fullest, which is a shame. Here are 10 tips that you can use to get on top of Twitter for your business."
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