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You never need to leave home again [infographic]
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A YouTube Channel specifically for teachers
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Youtify is now Open Source, Available on GitHub!
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Pixable is a unique photo discovery experience. Browse through feeds of photos customized to your taste and connections.
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Magisto is an amazing service that takes your unedited video and turns it into a beautifully edited and produced clip perfect for sharing. And it does it all in a click. The magi is that there are no people involved in the process.
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Huddle is the safe choice for your leap into the cloud. It offers secure external access across the firewall, lower TCO than on-premise competitors and is available on mobile devices including iPhone, iPad and BlackBerry.
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Download Dragontape for iPhone/iPad and have your favorite mixes always with you!
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The process by which instruction is improved through the analysis of learning needs and systematic development of learning materials. Instructional designers often use technology and multimedia as tools to enhance instruction.
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Google Earth 6.1 has just been released, and it comes with a handful of very nice features. You can download the new version here.
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Here's a list of some of what I consider to be the preeminent 'worst practices' related to the large scale use of ICTs in education in developing countries, based on first hand observation over the past dozen or so years. I have omitted names (please feel free to fill them in yourself). The criterion I used for selection was simple: The given worst practice was easily observable in multiple prominent initiatives, with (one fears) a high likelihood of re-occurrence, in the same or other places.
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Forty-nine million or so American children have returned to public school classrooms that are, according to many critics, ever more boring. Preparation for increasingly high-stakes tests has reduced time for social studies and science. Austerity state and federal budgets are decimating already hobbled music, art, library and physical education budgets.
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In this community, you can submit ideas, vote on existing ideas, or add comments.
To submit an idea, please click the new idea button below. You will then be asked to add a title and choose a campaign for the new idea. You will also have the option to add tags to the idea. To vote on an idea, simply click the up or down thumb to the left of the idea title/description. And to add a comment, click in the box below the idea.
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It's hard to watch her leave every morning at 6:30am and know that if I'm lucky I'll see her at 7pm that night. Once in a while she's out by 4pm, but usually I don't see her until after dark, and there are times – frequently – that I get that call from school saying 'go ahead and eat, I won't be back until after 10.'
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Great story about the creation of the popular LMS package. Necessity becomes invention.
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Numbers like this are just so hard to get my head around. Other companies would have shut down.
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Fifteen paperless mathematics strategies
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We have students in our classrooms who struggle academically and others who learn at an advanced level and accelerated pace. We can meet the needs of all learners by differentiating instruction.
