EdTech Resources July 9, 2011

Most active Internet users are tab-fanatics. We have lots of active tabs open at a time and we are constantly looking for more ways to better manage and organize them. No wonder then that we have had so much tab-related advice shared so far, including learning how to organize your Firefox open tabs with Tab Groups.

Would you ask Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerburg about Google+? Here's one reporter who did in this comic from The Joy of Tech.

As the size of its network grows, LinkedIn is steadily getting more useful. But how are people really using the fast-growing service?

Google+ users may have experienced what looks to be one of the first major Google+ bugs; multiple email notifications.

Starting next week, SpongeBob SquarePants will come to Twitter with a story specially made for the micro-blogging platform. Here's the pitch from Nickelodeon: "The Ice Race Cometh: A Twitter-Tale, was conceived and developed for Twitter by the SpongeBob SquarePants writing team and will run from Tuesday, July 12, to Friday, July 15. The story will be told via multiple tweets and images throughout each day to set scenes and advance the action involving SpongeBob and his friends as they prepare for The Bikini Bottom Great Sleigh Race." Tune in, or retweet, or something. OK, I realize that ReadWriteWeb is not...

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Share False dichotomy: aka. the either-or fallacy, fallacy of false choice, black-and-white thinking or the fallacy of exhaustive hypotheses) a type of logical fallacy that involves a situation in which only two alternatives are considered, when in fact there are additional options (sometimes shades of grey between the extremes). How many times in education do [...]

While Google's new social network, Google+, is barely a week old, it's already received a lot of attention from tech pundits and the social media community. And as with any new online service, understanding how to control your information is essential.

With the launch of Google + there are a whole host of features that users will not understand. In order to get most out of the social network video

Amazon's Cloud Drive service now lets you store previously purchased music for free and any music for free with a paid subscription. Anyone who signed up via

Guest post by Lindsey Wright Rigorous use of educational technology has become something of a buzz expression over the past decade. As more and more people...

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A ninth-grade physics teacher at the private Westminster Schools in Atlanta uses the addictive game to teach the laws of projectile motion.

We are happy to present a free tool called Classic Shell, which can help you fix some of the most annoying bugs in Windows Explorer: the jumping folders in the navigation pane and the missing sorting headers in list view. Also, it can replace the navigation arrows introduced by Windows Vista with the crosses and lines from Windows XP era.

How do you whitelist email addresses or web domains in Gmail such that messages from these senders are never marked as spam and delivered to your Inbox always.

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The easiest way to share music playlists with friends. Upload playlists directly from iTunes (M3U, TXT, PLS) and share with friends on Facebook and Twitter.

I’m always on the look-out for web tools that can mimc a key instructional strategy I use with students in the classroom — having them use post-it notes to