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Reed College has conducted two studies of e-readers. ‘During fall semester 2010, students in an upper division course are using the iPad to read the assigned books and articles. The course, Political Science 422: Nuclear Politics — The origins and effects of the spread of nuclear weapons, is one of the classes that took part in Reed’s study of the Amazon Kindle DX during fall 2009.’
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Google Templates for Student Projects
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The visual word clouds created by Wordle and other word cloud services on the web aren’t anything new, they’ve been around for a few years. However, like a great many newer web 2.0 tools, I quite often see a lot of ineffective use of these tools in the classroom. That’s not to say I think the teachers themselves are ineffective, in fact it’s usually the most tech savvy and educational effective teachers that are using tools like Wordle.
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The National Broadband Map is a tool to search, analyze and map broadband availability across the United States.
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The Twitterverse is abuzz with news that Twitter suspended popular mobile apps such as UberTwitter, UberCurrent, and twidroyd today. The services had not recently changed anything about the functionality or behavior of the apps, which leads one to wonder why Twitter suddenly decided to shut them down.
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The internet is a big place. But when you rely on people, and not algorithms, you get a chance to see things differently. Take a peek
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National Science Digital Library
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FREE makes it easier to find teaching and learning resources from the federal government.
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Twitter announced Friday that it has suspended popular third-party Twitter clients UberTwitter and Twidroyd for policy violations.
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Cool collection of interactive experiments.
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Welcome to the iPads in School Livebinder
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The message describes what was a method of hacking a Facebook account via a phishing attack where the scammer sets up a website to look exactly like the Facebook login page in order to fool users into entering their Facebook password and username which are duly stolen by the scammer.
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1-click meetings are here. Public and viral, or private and secure.
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Use this for a smarter Twitter search
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Welcome to Java WIDE, the place where individuals and teams can freely make and share Java applications and applets, all without installing any software. JavaWIDE is being used across the United States and around the world. Click on a pin to see who is using JavaWIDE near you.
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Interesting simulation of Twitter followers
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Pixable, maker of a tool for organizing images on Facebook makes a great case for its product by pointing out that the social network will have 100 billion photos by this summer, based on current growth patterns.
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Layout can both be one of the easiest and one of the trickiest facets of web design. Sometimes a designer can bust out an amazing layout in minutes and sometimes that same designer can struggle for the better part of day with the same task.
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Here is some news that I’m sure you gadget geeks will appreciate, especially if you’re lacking memory space or need to take your saved data with you for whatever reason. Warner Bros. have teamed up with Mimoco to produce a series of Batman USB flash drives.
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Ken Jennings, the 74-time winner of the popular trivia quiz, and Brad Rutter, a 20-time champion, have gone head-to-hard-drive with an IBM supercomputer called Watson three times in the past three days. Unlike in The Terminator, they lost each time.
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Tag yourself at the concert!
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Listen, create and share
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Julie centered her talk around a model of curriculum development called TPACK (Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge), which involves deliberate conceptualization of the pedagogy behind lesson planning, understanding of area content, consideration of the impact of the technological tools on learning outcomes, and reflection on the ways that these areas may or may not overlap.
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Zoom in on this graphic in which the world's 7 billion population is depicted by 7,000 human figures, each representing a million people.
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