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YouTube Facts: 10 Things You May Not Have Known
he average YouTube user spends between 15 and 25 minutes a day on the site, but how much do we know about the world’s largest video sharing website? Do you know what the most watched YouTube clip is? Can you name all three founders? Do you know how many times per minute a YouTube link is tweeted?
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Teaching and Learning Critical Pathways Resource
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Open Photoshop Files Online with Google Docs
Designers, for both web and print media, mostly use tools like Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator for doing the creatives of a project. They’ll do the prototypes in PSD format but, for approval, the designs are delivered as PDFs since their clients may not have the software (Photoshop in this case) that is required to view PSD files.
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Key Facts Publications : Science Chatterbox Teaching Resource : KS2 KS3
Science Chatterboxes are an innovative resource that will inspire and motivate the science teaching and learning in your class.
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Computer Science Teachers Association – CSTA CS & IT Annual Conference
CSIT Symposium 2011 – Rough layout at present – look for the complete details and registration to appear shortly.
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list.it – a place to stash your information
list.it is a simple, free and open-source note-keeping tool to help you manage the tons of little information bits you need to keep track of each day.
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FlexLists – Create Simple Free Database and Lists Online
You can share the list with others, invite them to edit the list or just keep it for yourself. Lists can be monitored using RSS, imported and exported from and to CSV files (compatible with Excel) and integrated in your website/weblog.
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Web conference software for conferencing & meeting online
Fuze Meeting is a web conferencing tool that lets you share everything on your screen in high resolution with anyone, anywhere, on any device… on any continent, on any planet, in any of the neighboring galaxies. Okay, not quite. But one day.
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Collaborize Classroom – Online Education Technology for Teachers and Students
Collaborize Classroom™ allows teachers to extend their classroom discussions to a structured and
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UJAM is a cloud-based platform that empowers everybody to easily create new music or
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Classroom Conference: Using the Internet to Teach – Conference Calls Unlimited
The Internet is an awesome tool for teachers in the 21st century. Along with saving time for students and teachers, the Internet provides a vast variety of information that was previously next to impossible to reasonably obtain. There are sites for creative learning methods, communication, and travel. Using the Internet in the classroom is a priceless tool, and there are a variety of topics that help enable learning online.
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Toddlers know counting rules at 18 months – life – 17 February 2011 – New Scientist
Months before they begin to count, toddlers are teaching themselves the rules of counting. A new study suggests this starts sometime between the ages of 15 and 18 months.
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A community of Earth and space science blogs
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KATE, the Kentucky Academy of Technology Education, collects the most innovative and successful technology practices in K–12 education and makes them available to the teachers and students of Kentucky — the United States — and the world.
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Get the Math is a multimedia project about algebra in the real world. See how professionals working in fashion, videogame design, and music production use algebraic thinking. Then take on interactive challenges related to those careers.
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SnapHow.Com – Best Web, Computing Tips & Tricks
Snaphow.com focuses on publishing user friendly PC Guides and tutorials which appeals to the regular internet users and non-geeks. This well known site belongs to Debajyoti Das, a Comp. Sc. Engg. student from Kolkata who founded this tech blog in 2009, with a vision to promote awareness about the internet and computing among non-web users.
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Google Docs Viewer adds 12 new file types
Google Docs is getting better and better at replacing desktop office software. Today, Google added support for 12 new file types in Google Docs Viewer, including all remaining Microsoft Office file types, Apple’s Pages format, and Adobe’s Photoshop and Illustrator files.
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Top 10 Ways to Annoy with Retweets | Garious Blog
Just this morning, my friend got @reply from one of his Twitter followers to stop the habit of retweeting other people’s tweets. The request was so hilarious he had to post it on his Facebook wall. I never knew retweeting can be offensive as it is like an act of spreading goodwill in the twittersphere. There’s so much that my friend needs to learn when it comes to twitter netiquette without getting burned for posting innocent retweets.
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Underheard in New York enables the homeless to use Twitter | Sync™ Blog
A program called Underheard in New York has provided prepaid cell phones to the homeless so they can use social media to help their voices be heard.
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