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When creative machines overtake man: Jürgen Schmidhuber at TEDxLausanne - YouTube
"Machine intelligence is improving rapidly, to the point that the scientist of the future may not even be human! In fact, in more and more fields, learning machines are already outperforming humans"
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A Presentation Skills Guidebook For Beginners
"Use this Presentation Skills Guidebook – Beginner’s edition as your handy checklist to refer to in the days leading up to your presentation. It’s the perfect companion to the recently released Presentation Design Guide. So, check out the guidebook below, and then be sure to check out the Top 10 Presentation Disasters (listed below the presentation)."
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TES iboard: Interactive activity finder
Interactive Activity Finder
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"Marisa Constantinides is one of project partners of aPLaNet and she gave a concurrent keynote entitled “Autonomous Professional Development Begins at Home”. In this session, Marisa outlined ample opportunities that could be found on the internet for professional development of teachers and discussed various ways of getting involved in networks of community of practice."
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Pencil Camera HD: Get Visually Appealing Real-Time Photo & Video Effects
"Photo effects and filters greatly enhance your digital images and add to their visual appeal. While there are numerous applications that offer you photo effects, very few offer video filters in the same package. One of these few good apps is a tool called Pencil Camera HD."
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New Tool Tells You If Your Favorite Web Tools Make Money
"There’s a new tool available that lets you see how some of the biggest web tools you use every day actually make money (or don’t). From Amazon (very profitable) to WordPress (not profitable), there’s a bevvy of information at the new website by Seer Interactive."
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A Must-Have Guide To Gaming In The Classroom
"Gaming, wikis, blogs, social media, interactive polls and QR codes: just some of the technologies that teachers are bringing into the classroom. The dizzying pace of tech evolutions offers some challenges as teachers and administrators race to keep up with the latest tools. The research discussed here shows the payoff for schools that become “friends” with educational gaming."
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8 ways to archive your tweets now that Twitter blocks IFTTT | VentureBeat
"One of the most useful applications of the geeky utility If This, Then That (IFTTT) used to be saving Twitter posts."
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Google's Motorola goes after Apple maps in new ad | Technically Incorrect - CNET News
"Motorola is rather amused by Apple's maps problem. And what do you do when you're amused? Like Samsung, you do an ad."
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How Apple’s Obsession with Google Is Hurting Apple | Cult of Mac
"Every once in a while, a company becomes so obsessed with a competitor that it loses focus on its own customers. They start designing and positioning their products more to hurt rivals than thrill users. And I fear that now it’s happening to Apple."
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10 Educational Facts You Probably Don't Know
"What follows are 10 factoids that I didn’t know but feel a teensy bit smarter for now knowing. I hope you also feel similarly enhanced thanks to the following facts. Enjoy!"
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SkyDrive Is Great and No One Has Noticed
"We’ve been using it for two weeks and it is awesome. Stunningly awesome. Perfect. We can work in the browser and that’s fine for short things, but the beauty is we can download the doc into Word and it automagically keeps our edits in sync on the server."
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Sunflower Science : IWB resources for Science
"Sunflower for Science is a suite of programmes designed to help teachers tackle tricky topics in secondary biology, chemistry and physics. I’ve known about Sunflower Science for a long time, but can’t believe I’ve only written about them on this blog just the once, back in 2009!"
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Four Reasons Why School Tablet Rollouts Can Stumble - Or Fail| The Committed Sardine
"Nothing's perfect. In creating my map of the 120+ back-to-school iPad and tablet deployments this fall, I learned a few things about what can cause trouble for schools and students. These are good lessons for businesses and other types of organizations thinking about going mobile."
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Interactive Whiteboard #101 : A short primer
"So if you are a newly qualified teacher soon to be embarking on their teaching career at their new school, an existing teacher moving schools, or simply having an interactive whiteboard installed in your classroom over the summer for the first time, then here’s a couple of handy tips to get you started."
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The Reach of Google Technology – Infographic | Aliens Money
"Google is known for its dominance in the world of online searches. The search engine giant has a reserve of cash on hand that exceeds $44 billion. You may wonder how that money is used, and you might be surprised at the variety and focus of Google investments."
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The History of Web Clone Industry [Infographic] | Daily Infographic
"COPY CAT! No one likes to be thought of as a rip-off artist, but some ideas are too good to be kept to themselves. If you think about it, originality and conformity have been combatants for as long as humans have been on this earth."
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Infographic: The History of Digital Storage | FlexProcess Cloud ERP
"The whirring hard drives that once occupied entire university labs held but a fraction of the data we carry in our pockets every day — and that’s only 50 years of progress."
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What Is Special Ed? A Cool Infographic for Special Education Month | To The Max
"If you have a child who’s in a special education classroom, you know all about the world of special ed (sometimes, too much so). But if you don’t, you might not have a good sense of what exactly special ed is, or what a means to be a kid in it. The field has changed a lot since you were a child."
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HTG Explains: Why You Shouldn’t Log Into Your Linux System As Root - How-To Geek
"On Linux, the Root user is equivalent to the Administrator user on Windows. However, while Windows has long had a culture of average users logging in as Administrator, you shouldn’t log in as root on Linux."
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Top 5 Mobile Apps for the Techie Traveler | Social Media Today
"He's noticed 4 apps that just about all of his guests with smart phones use. I added a 5th in this post."
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