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15 Great iPad Apps for Special Education Students
"Students and kids with learning disabilities have also the right to benefit from this surge in the use of educational apps on mobile devices particularly iPad. There are actually several iPad apps that can help your students overcome their autism and speech issues, develop both their communication and social skills, and enhance their literacy capabilities. "
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Quick Guide: How To Enjoy eBooks Without A Tablet Or An eReader
"Alas, not all of us own an eReader or a tablet. Getting such a device requires a one-time investment of $100-$200, which not everyone is willing to make. So are you to give up on eBooks until you get your hands on such a device? Not necessarily. There are many convenient ways to enjoy eBooks right on your computer, without paying for an extra device, and without having to venture to the book store every time you want a new book. It might not be as convenient, but it’s still a great option."
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Create Games for iPhone, iPad, Android & HTML5 - GameSalad
"There's no faster or easier way to get started building a game than with GameSalad Creator. Its visual, drag & drop based style requires absolutely no coding whatsoever. Avoid spending hours poring over code, and spend more time finding the fun."
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A Cleaner Internet - Browser Extensions and Add-ons
"We make browser extensions and websites that declutter the Web"
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Weather Wiz Kids weather information for kids
"Welcome to Weather Wiz Kids®. I'm meteorologist Crystal Wicker. I designed this website especially for kids to allow them to learn more about the fascinating world of weather. It’s also a wonderful educational website for teachers and parents to give them the right tools to explain the different types of weather to children."
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Google Flip Packs - Active Guided Learning Presentations - Tech Niche
"Combine Google Presentation, to deliver the learning, with Google Forms, for students to explore and reflect on the material - for an engaging, active lesson and activity. Google Presentation is a natural for assembling multi-media lessons for learning. Take a Google Form and embed an active learning exercise. Put it together and you've got a Google Flip Pack. The student work is assembled in a Google Spreadsheet for easy access, assessment, and analysis. Your classroom workflows are streamlined, students are active learners, and you'll have more time to teach."
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Free Technology for Teachers: Pinnacle Studio for iPad - Excellent Video Editor
"Pinnacle Studio for iPad reminds me quite a bit of iMovie. In testing Pinnacle Studio I found it to have a more intuitive interface than iMovie (and I've used iMovie on my Mac for years). Within the first thirty seconds of using the app I was applying zoom effects, trimming and combining video clips, and adding a sound track to my project."
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PicView iPad App Lets You Add Voice Tags To Your Pictures
"PicView’s iPad app lets you add voice tags and annotations to pictures to tell your story"
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Highs and lows of browser development
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What Teachers Make Final Moviebk2 0001 - YouTube
"Taylor Mali's inspirational poem cleaned up a bit (aka censored) for a teacher's inservice audience. Original show by Ethos3.com located at http://www.slideshare.net/ethos3/what-teachers-make-515731"
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Quiet at the back: classrooms around the world – in pictures | Education | The Guardian
"From the Russian pupils in Prada to the Nigerian children who sit four to a desk, photographer Julian Germain takes us on a journey around the world's classrooms"
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Schools to teach children the dangers of Facebook - Telegraph
"Schools will teach children about the potential dangers of Facebook and the internet from this spring."
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Distributing Your Blog Content: The Best Auto-Posting Services
"Are you a blogger? What about a blogger of multiple blogs? Some of us just have one blog, but perhaps you have a personal blog along with others in niche areas such as technology, cooking, fitness, and so on. Even if you have two blogs, you can be quite busy keeping up with writing, connecting with your followers and of course researching what you’re going to write about next. Oh, and there’s one more thing that you “have to” do — share your posts to social media."
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Whack Your Phone to Silence it
"Whack off to silence your pesky smartphone: Microsoft’s awesome mobile patent application"
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Google Apps Says Goodbye To Internet Explorer 8, Pulls Support For the Browser | TechCrunch
"Today, the Google Apps team announced that it will no longer support Internet Explorer 8 (and lower). Thank goodness. This will affect everyone using Google Apps: businesses, educational and government institutions. The drop of support officially starts November 15th, a few weeks after Internet Explorer 10 launches."
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Step away from the computer screen - The Globe and Mail
"On the second day of school, 11-year-old Oscar Judelson-Kelly was asked to find the population density of Hong Kong and the German word for “horse.” The assignment seemed easy enough, but then his teacher introduced an unusual caveat: No using the Internet."
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TwoFingerScroll Dramatically Improves Windows Touchpads
"Windows: More often than not, the touchpads on Windows laptops frankly suck. They tend to be unresponsive and clumsy. TwoFingerScroll greatly improves the Windows touchpad experience, with new features such as three-finger swiping and horizontal scrolling and, most importantly, smoother performance."
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Learn To Code, Get A Job: Treehouse Offers Free Courses To 2,500 College Students | TechCrunch
"Treehouse launched last November with an admirable (or terrifying) goal: To teach the world how to design and develop for the Web, iOS, and now Android. Essentially the lovechild of Lynda.com and Codecademy, Treehouse is building an educational platform that employs video, quizzes, and a little gamification to help aspiring programmers and app developers learn the trade — whether or not they have any prior experience."
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YouTube Launches ‘American Idol’ Search For The Best Teachers | TechCrunch
"YouTube is looking to give some much-needed celebrity status to the most engaging teachers in the world. They’re conducting an Internet-wide competition of the best video lessons, which will be judged by an all-star panel of online educators, such as Sal Khan of Khan Academy."
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Ten Secrets To Surviving As A Teacher | TeachThought
"Between the sheer work load, diversity of tasks, brutal pace, and seemingly divergent initiatives pulling you in a thousand directions, education can break even the most noble spirits. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Below are ten tips to keep you ticking when things get tough."
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The Past, Present, And Future Of The iPad In Learning | TeachThought
"When Apple started dropping hints about a coming “tablet PC” in 2009, it would have been difficult to see the way it might change the way we interact with digital media. The first-generation iPad was introduced in April, 2010 and in lieu of some significant hardware limitations, was a world-beater, garnering $1 billion in sales in just 4 months. The iPad 2 was released 11 months later, and the iPad 3 is currently rumored for a Spring 2012 release. While discussing the “history” of a product less than two years old may seem a bit premature technology moves at a dizzying, humming pace."
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Almost 1,600 Windows 8 apps now in Windows Store - Neowin
"Earlier this week, Microsoft announced that it had increased the number of countries and territories that can sell Windows 8 apps from the Windows Store to a total of 120 international markets. As one might expect, this has caused a big increase in the number of Windows 8 apps to be made available on the Windows Store feature."
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Facebookers Do Not ‘Like’ Back-to-School Posts [Infographic] - SocialTimes
"To come up with the infographic, social software company Expion graded 18 of the top department stores, mass merchandisers, pharmacy stores, internet retailers, warehouse stores, and even dollar stores on their fans’ reactions to their posts during the month of August."
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What Is The One True Android & How "Open" Is It?
"Ironically on iPhone 5 day, Google finds itself about to be embroiled in a fresh debate over how much it controls “open” Android as well as what Android actually is. It’s well past time for “Android” to mean the mobile operating system that Google largely controls while some other name is found for the entirely separate open source mobile OS project that Google supports."
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Top 20 Things Every First-Time Android User Should Know
"Choosing a new device like a new phone or tablet should be fun. But there are so many choices out there, and it can be hard to know where to start. If you’re thinking about an Android device, or if you’ve just bought one and want to get the most out of it, we have some basic tips to get you started."
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New Versions Of Google Chrome Will Finally Support Do Not Track | Gizmodo Australia
"If you’re paranoid about ad networks tracking your behaviour and compiling a file on your tastes somewhere, there’s good news. Google Chrome’s developer build finally got built-in Do Not Track functionality, meaning Chrome will finally join the club with Firefox, Safari, and Internet Explorer."
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One-Click access to all of Google Chrome’s privacy settings
"There are numerous reasons to make sure that your web browser does not leak information to the Internet or the browser maker if that is not required for functionality that you use. Preferences that handle features such as third party cookies or prefeteching are usually not found in a single location where they can be easily managed."
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CristinaSkyBox: Curation - Why, Because and Then
"My focus today, though, is on curation. Just as writing may be regarded as a talking cure, reflecting on the why-s and because-s of curation seems relevant in order to establish what real role curation may have in todays' classrooms. "
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5 Must-Have iOS Apps For Writers | Edudemic
"For students, essays are a necessary evil of the experience of getting an education. For teachers, helping students write their essays can be time consuming, and once the students go home, they may lack the support they have in your classroom."
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