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Websites Like – Alternatives to your favorite websites
Find websites siilar to ones that you know.
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Welcome to The Open Academy | The Open Academy
Lecture Videos and Course Material from Top Universities and Scholars
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Teaching with MinecraftEdu – MinecraftEdu wiki
Teaching with MinecraftEdu
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BBC News – Commodore 64 turns 30: What do today’s kids make of it?
It is 30 years since the Commodore 64 went on sale to the public.
The machine was hugely successful for its time, helping to encourage personal computing, popularise video games and pioneer homemade computer-created music.
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8 Effects Every Photographer Should Know About
Photography students and enthusiasts must educate themselves with many technical terms such as aperture, shutter speed, focus and exposure. You’ve probably read enough about that elsewhere, so how about a few photography effects? In this post I will share some photography tips and effects. They can enhance the beauty of your photos and they can be very fun to do, too.
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Connected Educator Month – get involved
August 1st is right around the corner, and with it comes the kickoff of Connected Educator Month. For 31 days, the internet will be flooded with awesome free content, activities, webinars, chats, and even more ways of getting connected, learning about Web 2.0 tools, and finding out what it means to be a Connected Educator.
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Tweets That Will Get You Kicked Off Twitter
Here’s a checklist of things to avoid if you want to keep using Twitter.
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Will Massive Open Online Courses Change How We Teach? | August 2012 | Communications of the ACM
In the last decade, the Creative Commons philosophy of freely sharing information and the pervasiveness of the Internet have created many new opportunities for teaching and learning. MIT OpenCourseWare spearheaded the sharing of high-quality, university-level courses. While these materials were not originally designed for individuals engaged in self-study, approximately half of OCW’s traffic is from these users.6 Recently the use of learning management systems (LMSs), such as the proprietary Blackboard or open-source Moodle software, has become ubiquitous
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Getting Started Using Learnist In The Classroom | TeachThought
Learnist organizes information Into “socially-driven lessons.” Reminiscent of MentorMob, Pinterest, and Grockit, Learnist is the latest in a line of digital tools that are designed to leverage the power of crowds to provide resources and informal learning opportunities. Each have their own niche and ideally wouldn’t be seen as competitors, but most educators don’t have time for equity in learning platforms–they need something that’s effective, flexible, and easy to use.
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10 reasons game based learning isn’t so hard |
I thought I’d drop a post about games-based-learning, as there seems to be total confusion about it, and where it sits with social-media. I’ll try to just make points.
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What Economists Don’t Understand About Educators – The Tempered Radical
In yet another example of economists churning out crappy research that will have a negative impact on #edupolicy, Harvard professor Roland Fryer and Freakonomics co-author and University of Chicago professor Steven Levitt recently released a study touting the #edupower of “loss aversion” merit pay programs.
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20 questions (and answers) about MOOCs » Dave’s Educational Blog
I was asked by the excellent Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach to speak to her PLP class about MOOCs, and, while we had what i thought was an excellent forty minute chat, there were tons of comments that i never had the chance to address. As i look over the questions they asked, I see that in answering their questions i have a chance to lay out many of the thoughts that I have had about MOOCs while they have been all the rage here on the internet in the last few weeks.
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22 Top Blogging Tools Loved by the Pros | Social Media Examiner
Great list of tools to help your blogging efforts
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the blogging pyramid decoded | Makeunder My Life
Today I’d like to return back to The Blogging Pyramid and discuss each level in more detail. After reading all of your amazing thoughts on being truly successful in blogging, I urge everyone to go back and read the thoughts presented in the comment section. They are outstanding.
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The Best Fomatting For Your Resume | Come Recommended
You want your resume to stand out to recruiters and hiring managers – but for the right reasons. When it comes to the formatting of your resume, size and font matter.
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Aerial Data Visualisation Reveals Life In The United States | The Roosevelts
PBS is exploring the hidden patterns and rhythms that make America work. They are taking this data and visualizing it in a series being called, “America Revealed.”
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An interactive version of XKCD 1071: Exoplanets using data from Planetary Habilitability Laboratory (via @ProfAbelMendez) and adapted code from the d3.js Bubble Chart example (by @mbostock).
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Who are the World’s Richest Rockstars? [Infographic]
Imagine having all the money in the world. There’s nothing that you can’t do and fun is at your disposal. Take Bono for example; he is the richest rockstar in the world cashing in at $1 billion and followed very closely by Sir Paul McCartney with $800 million. In 2009, Elevation Partners – Bono’s investors, acquired a 1% stake in Facebook for $90 million. This year alone, Facebook is now valued at $100 billion, meaning Bono’s stake will be worth one billion.
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How to Choose Wine Infographic | Wine Folly
Flow chart on How to Choose Wine. You’ll never have to think too hard again.
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Health Data Visualization Contest Winners | Visual.ly Blog
The Visual.ly Health Data Visualization Contest is over and the vote is in! If you missed it, rest easy — there will be more Visual.ly contests!
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How To Develop Effective E-Learning Infographic
Developing effective elearning requires expertise in Project Management, Computer-based Instructional Design, Multimedia Design, Instructional Technology and Quality Assurance. It is rare for a single person to have mastered all of these skill sets. Therefore, developing effective elearning often requires a team approach which leverages the unique skills of each contributor.
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Microsoft drops Hotmail, rebrands webmail to Outlook.com | News | TechRadar
Outlook.com, which has launched in preview form, brings elements of Microsoft’s Windows Metro design to your email and aims to fight spam and irrelevant greymail right out of your inbox.
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Sony’s Microsoft Surface Rival Revealed in Leaked Slideshow
It looks like Sony may be giving Microsoft’s Surface tablet a run for its money. Leaked internal slides suggest the company is working on a new Xperia tablet that would have an optional keyboard cover/kickstand similar to Microsoft’s Surface.
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Reminder: The Dangers Of Texting While Driving [Infographics] | Cult of Android
By now, we should all know that texting while driving is a danger not only ourselves and our passengers, but to everyone we share the road with. With over 1 million new mobile users a week in the U.S., that makes for a scary number of possible distracted drivers. The temptation is there, especially in young drivers, but as AT&T has shown us, “It Can Wait.”
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