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Applications, tutorials, ideas, educational games, mobile apps, and web tools to help you integrate technology into education and enhance mobile learning
http://educationaltech-med.blogspot.com/2011/08/twittv-watch-twitter-trending...
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A web-tv channel programmed by what's currently trending on Twitter.
http://trendingtopicstv.com/
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Firefox is packed with useful, built-in features you might have missed. Customize Firefox with these five helpful tips. Read this blog post by Sharon Vaknin on How To.
http://howto.cnet.com/8301-11310_39-20096318-285/5-awesome-mozilla-firefox-se...
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Building a custom system lets you tailor the components to meet your needs, while holding down the costs. Justin James offers advice about some of the
http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/10things/10-things-to-consider-when-building...
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Apple released a letter from Steven P. Jobs as it announced that he was stepping down from the post of chief executive.
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/24/text-of-jobss-resignation-letter/?pa...
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Amidst all the hubbub about social media referrals this week, Google has finally made the +1 button useful. It now works the way we all thought it would, and it takes full advantage of Google Plus's rich formatting in posts. Visitors can now share links to Web pages with their Google Plus circles by clicking +1. It opens a box for adding a comment, and it allows the reader to customize the snippet (also known as a +Snippet) of text and images that will appear in his or her stream. It also adds the option of in-line annotations, like Facebook...
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/googles_1_button_now_works_as_intended_o...
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Google has upgraded the +1 button with several new features, including the ability to directly share a webpage to Google+.
http://mashable.com/2011/08/24/google-1-google-plujs/?utm_source=feedburner&a...
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Outlook 2010 has a cool but obscure feature that might save you some time: Insert Screenshot, which lets you quickly create a screen grab and insert it into the body of your email.
http://lifehacker.com/5833915/quickly-add-screenshots-in-an-outlook-email
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http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/how_buy_hard_drive_essential_guide
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You can hide your real email address from Facebook applications, games, events and third party apps on developer sites. This helps reduce email spam sent from Facebook apps and games and the application developer wont have any record of your real email address
http://www.ampercent.com/avoid-sharing-email-address-facebook-games-apps/9685/
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You cannot restrict kids from using your iPhone or iPad but you can easily prevent them from purchasing apps from the iTunes App store.
http://www.labnol.org/software/prevent-kids-from-buying-apps/20023/
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Gayle Berthiaume, first grade teacher from Becker, MN, shares 100 ideas for using digital cameras in the classroom.
http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=3122
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Google Docs are an excellent way to collaborate, not only can you share a document with multiple people but you can share multiple documents with multiple
http://www.addictivetips.com/internet-tips/watchdoc-notifies-you-when-google-...
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Google is continually improving its search engine. Not only do they work meticulously on the search algorithm change, but also the graphical user interface and its features constantly receive upgrades. Many changes are subtle and thus easily missed. Likewise, many advanced features are well hidden.
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/3-hidden-features-google-advanced-search/
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We are approaching the era where students don't have to carry stacks of thick heavy books to school anymore. Everything will be digitized and available at the tip of students' fingers, inside the iPad. Not wanting to waste any more time, some schools have already adopted the iPad as their learning tool, while students and educators are slowly figuring out the best way to utilize the iPad for education.
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/7-ways-ipad-students-excel-school/
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http://blueblots.com/tools/online-note-taking-tools/
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Firefox has a lot going for it, but its interface feels a little dated next to sleek browsers like Chrome. Here's how to make Firefox look and feel more like Google Chrome without giving up your favorite aspects of Firefox.
http://lifehacker.com/5833994/how-to-make-firefox-look-and-feel-more-like-chrome
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PicPick is a feature-rich, desktop image manipulation tool to capture screenshot, edit images, share them via Facebook, Twitter, email, ImageShack, Min.us and
http://www.addictivetips.com/windows-tips/capture-screenshots-edit-images-sha...
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The latest survey by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse says teens who spend time on social networks are more likely to drink, smoke, and take drugs. But social networks aren't causing this behavior.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/238733/sorry_you_cant_blame_social_networks_fo...
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http://www.cognitivetechnologies.net/why-is-e-learning-so-boring-let-me-count...
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Apple's board of directors announced today that Steve Jobs has resigned as the company's CEO. Tim Cook has been named CEO and Jobs has taken a position as chairman of the board.
http://gizmodo.com/5834141/
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Thanks to granular privacy controls and a unique interface for controlled sharing, schools that have previously banned social networks are looking at Google+ as a viable alternative.
http://thejournal.com/articles/2011/08/24/google-may-open-social-networking-f...
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The reform movement is already failing. Its remedies don’t work. It ignores poverty, which is the root cause of poor academic performance.
http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2011/08/23/the-reform-movement-is-alrea...
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http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2011/08/activities-for-introducing-google-to...
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https://sites.google.com/site/richardbyrnepdsite/rsu-35-challenge-activities
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http://tjhouston.com/2011/08/have-google-grade-your-tests-for-you/
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How does speech recognition work? What is the future of speech technology? This infographic has an explanation.
http://mashable.com/2011/08/23/speech-recognition-infographic/
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