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You knew Twitter could keep you updated on your friends’ activities, but did you know it’s capable of so much more? Did you know it can teach you to cook, remind you to water your plants, or instantly poll your friends? Here are 25 wacky, fun and sometimes useful ways to use Twitter:
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ScootPad :: Practice. Learn. Succeed!
ScootPad is the ultimate way to engage students in mastering skills
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Classroom Resources for Interactive Whiteboards.
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Tips Every Teacher should Know about Google Docs in Education ( Great Easy Guide )
Google has recently released a new service to the public called Google Drive. This is basically an online storage system that provides up to 5GB for free.
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HTML5 Rocks – A resource for open web HTML5 developers
HTML5 is the ubiquitous platform for the web. Whether you’re a mobile web developer, an enterprise with specific business needs, or a serious game dev looking to explore the web as a new platform, HTML5 has something for you! Choose your path:
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iMovie for iPad – Storyboard help sheets for trailers | Tech-Info-Maths T.I.M.
iMovie for iPad – Storyboard help sheets for trailers
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There is a weather app for the iPhone that is getting a lot of press lately. WTHR is said to be inspired by Braun design… best known for simple and easy to use interfaces. You knew looking at their devices; what they did and how to use them. The WTHR app is iPhone only and is having GPS issues so you may want to explore the next version for your iPhone (not a universal app).
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Bill Hammack’s Video & Audio on Engineering
Make called Bill a “brilliant science-and-technology documentarian”, whose “videos should be held up as models of how to present complex technical information visually” Wired called them “dazzling.”
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Old and New Dogs – New Tricks | doug – off the record
The Computer Science Teachers’ Association recently posted an entry entitled “Who Teaches CS?“. That caught my eye and set me about thinking. Some of the facts presented in the post are:
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Readability Introduces Curated Reading Lists Plus Various Enhancements — AppAdvice
Readability, my read-later app of choice, has just received a substantial update. The update improves its core functionality and enhances its capacity for quality content discovery.
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Pinterest Traffic Passes Google Referrals, Bing, Twitter & StumbleUpon | TechCrunch
Online sharing service Shareaholic just released new data showing that Pinterest is now beating out Twitter, StumbleUpon, Bing, and Google in referral traffic (not Google organic, of course). The study is based on Shareoholic’s network of over 200,000 publishers, which reaches more than 270 million people monthly.
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10 reasons Apple, Facebook & Google chose North Carolina for their mega data centers
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School is too easy, students report – USATODAY.com
Millions of kids simply don’t find school very challenging, a new analysis of federal survey data suggests. The report could spark a debate about whether new academic standards being piloted nationwide might make a difference.
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12 Essential Social Media Cheat Sheets
Getting around a social media site is not always easy. For some users, it’s a matter of getting used to social media. For others, the issue is keeping up with constant updates and changes to features, privacy settings, and account specifications. This, of course, is why social media cheat sheets exist.
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iPads More Fragile Than Expected and Other Lessons From First Year of Zeeland High Schools’ iPad Program
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Welcome to the new website! As you have noticed, several changes have been made in order to improve speed and maximize the performance of the website. If you find any bugs, receive any error messages, or have any suggestions/recommendations, please contact me at bucky_roberts@yahoo.com and let me know. Thank you and enjoy the new site!
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