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http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2011-Horizon-Report-K12.pdf
The 2012 Horizon Report
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Netflix Now The Largest Single Source of Internet Traffic In North America
Netflix video streaming is now the single largest source of peak downstream Internet traffic in the U.S., according to a new report by Sandvine. The streaming video service now accounts for 29.7 percent of peak downstream traffic, up from 21 percent last fall.
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18 Best Tools To Analyze Your Twitter Hotness | Bit Rebels
Once you have mastered the simplest of guides, you will of course want to see the impact you are having on your followers, and how much they appreciate you on Twitter. This is not such a hard task cause there are a bunch of tools out there that are just waiting for you to use them. Some are free and others operate for a small fee (if you want to have the more advanced features available).
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Facebook Book Club: Engaging Intermediate Readers
A really exciting way to motivate readers. It will be interesting to follow and see how this project works out.
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LAUSD librarians: The disgraceful interrogation of L.A. school librarians – latimes.com
If state education cuts are drastic, the librarians’ only chance of keeping a paycheck is to prove they’re qualified to be switched to classroom teaching. So LAUSD attorneys grill them.
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Why Don’t You Have an Internal YouTube Video Sharing Service? | trainingwreck
Clearly, as a consumer society, we are beginning to evolve both our sharing and viewing habits. Sure, much of the content on YouTube may be coming from traditional media (clips of TV shows or movies, music videos, commercials, etc.) but it doesn’t negate the point that we are sharing the content in the first place and viewing it at our convenience through our favorite YouTube player on whatever device suits our fancy.
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Facebook Book Club: Engaging Intermediate Readers « Mrs. D’s Flight Plan
As spring rounds the corner, most intermediate students take on a new focus, which often does not include classroom work. So it’s important to find activities that keep these adolescents engaged in their learning. As a result, Marc Westra, from Brussels P.S., and I have introduced our students to the “Facebook Book Club”.
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3 Awesome Twitter Apps Built in 3 Days Using Infochimps API Calls
Last month at SXSW, Infochimps, the self-described “Amazon of data,” unveiled thousands of new API calls. The API calls, or plug-and-play bits of code that developers can insert into their applications, were released in hopes of soothing the headaches inherent in making data-dependent applications.
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100 Things You Need to Know About WordPress by Anthony Montalbano & JTPratt
Anthony Montalbano and JTPratt recently gave a presentation at WordPress Ann Arbor on WordPress Best Practices entitled “100 Things you Need to Know About WordPress“. Their presentation features a comprehensive list of useful WordPress tips, tricks and other essential WordPress-related resources. If you weren’t able to attend the event, don’t worry because these guys have made their presentation available online.
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A fun, easy way to clean up your follow list.
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HowStuffWorks “10 Real-life Crimes That Became Fictional TV Episodes”
Ever since the success of “Dragnet,” other television shows throughout the decades have attempted to imitate it, dramatizing stories that are “ripped from the headlines.” What makes fictionalizations of real stories so popular? Well, for one, many of the true stories are fascinating and hard to believe. They represent the limits of what human beings are capable of — both for good and for evil — even more that pure fiction can.
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Tags: They’re Not Just for Prices Anymore
Tags: They’re Not Just for Prices Anymore
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http://www.isetl.org/ijtlhe/pdf/IJTLHE55.pdf
Critical Thinking Framework for any Discipline
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Creating 2D Games with JavaScript & HTML5 – The official Google Code blog
Impact is a JavaScript game engine that uses the HTML5 Canvas and Audio elements for graphics and sound, instead of relying on any browser plugins. Impact’s main focus is on classic 2D games. Examples include the Biolab Disaster Jump’n’Run game and the Z-Type Space Shooter. These games, like many other 2D games, draw sprites in front of multiple background layers.
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Will Chromebooks for Education Be a Good Deal for Schools?
Having long wooed the educational market with its Apps for Education suite of productivity tools, Google is now poised to bring to students and teachers the hardware necessary to take full advantage of these Web-based apps and of the Web itself. Google’s Chromebooks for Education announcement at Google IO this morning could provide schools with a huge opportunity to equip their students with computers, at a $20 per student per month rate.
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http://www.peopleforeducation.com/schoollibraryreport2011.pdf
School Library Report 2011
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Fun iPhone Learning Applications for Kids from PCSA
The partners in PCSA Ed have a strong interest in education. Our mission is to provide quality educational software to enhance learning and exploration. As parents and educators, we recognize the essential role that challenging educational tools play in developing skills and mastering concepts.
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Collection of ideas for the use of iPads, etc.
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
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