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Infographic: The Google yourself Challenge – HOME – Edgalaxy: Where Education and Technology Meet.
“Forget egosurfing for a second and ask yourself, how much can people learn about you by simply Googling you? The idea behind the Google Yourself Challenge is: friends, relatives, recruiters, hiring managers, and even strangers may be searching for you on the web, Google yourself first and control what people can learn about you online. “
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Five Things to do NOW if You Are Deploying iPads in the Fall | Terice T. Schneider’s Digital Home
“August 1 is here, and in Texas that means school starts this month. As we prepare the buildings and new teachers, we are making sure every detail is covered for our next deployment of iPads: 2500 at our largest high school. These are the things we are working on, and I thought that they might help you too.”
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Teachers Definitive Guide To Google Search Skills
“The 21st century education is all about cultivating such important skills as critical thinking and digital skills. Technology has radically transformed the way we teach and knowledge is no longer stored primarily in print. There is now much more knowledge online than you would find in all libraries of the world taken together. To tap into the potential of this vast repertoire of online resources, our students definitely need a bit of instruction on how to effectively use web search techniques to search for academic sources. They need to be taught how to fish instead of being given a fish everyday. In short, we have to teach them how to be independent learners.”
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10 Real-World BYOD Classrooms (And Whether It’s Worked Or Not) | Edudemic
“With budgets tight, many schools are hoping to bring technology into the classroom without having to shell out for a device for each student. A solution for many has been to make classes BYOD (short for “bring your own device”), which allows students to bring laptops, tablets, and smartphones from home and to use them in the classroom and share them with other students”
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100 words of wisdom from 7 Online ELT Teachers | A journée in language.
“Some say that the largest English language school in the world is the one made up of independent teachers like the 7 below. I thought I’d ask them a very simple question so that we can learn from their experience and shake up a discussion on best practices in online teaching. Here are their 100 words on:”
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California Classroom Science » Tips for New Teachers: Back to School
“As a brand new teacher, setting up your new classroom and preparing for that first day of school can be an emotional roller coaster. You’re excited to meet your students and you’re brimming with new ideas, yet you also feel a little nervous and don’t want to forget anything important. It’s easy to begin with the most obvious needs, and you’ve probably already been obsessing about how you’ll set up your room, prepare the seating arrangements, what to put up on your walls, and the organization of your teaching materials and supplies.”
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“Tomorrow I will be presenting at the CPS Leadership Tech Summit about how to “Googlize Your School.” I began gathering some ideas in the post below, but wanted to have a paperless take-away for my participants. In the past I’ve created a Google Site, but my beef with that is it isn’t really interactive. So, I’m going to try to practice what I preach.”
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Infographic: History of Google Chrome
“Launched in 2008, Google Chrome has already become the world’s favorite browser. Its lightning speed, low consumption of resources, healthy addon features and Google’s name have all played their parts to make it the phenomenon it is today.”
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Blogging Statistics, Facts and Figures in 2012 – Infographic | Jeffbullas’s Blog
“Social media has provided many options for bloggers. You can now blog with Tumblr. You can now be a video blogger on Blogger.com. If you like a Facebook “page” can be the the public platform of choice for expressing yourself. If you want to keep it short and sweet then Twitter is the micro bloggers paradise. We all don’t have to write 1,000 words epiphanies.”
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4 Drop-Dead Gorgeous Gnome Themes [Linux]
“As an avid Linux user I know quite well how customizable my desktop really is. Whether it comes to the desktop shell, or the window borders, or the menu colors, or even the icon theme, all of it can usually be changed pretty easily. I’ve also gone over plenty of Gnome Shell themes, such as Faience or Alternative.”
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“NEWS ANALYSIS: Microsoft has officially launched Outlook.com, ending the days of Hotmail Internet email and launching a new cloud email platform linked to its desktop Office productivity applications. Here’s what users know about the new service.”
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10 Free Online Teaching Websites For Online Education
“In this article, we have listed top 10 free online teaching websites where users can learn many useful things without paying joining fee. All of these websites offer free online training. “
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