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Nowadays QR Codes are widely used in smartphones, they are very simple and easy to share, and you can also very easily decode them, just out your smartphone above it and your phone will read it and then decode it and you will get whatever the content is in it.

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April 22 is Earth Day and in recognition of this, I’m highlighting several of the greatest Earth Day sites for kids and teachers. According to the United States Census Bureau, Earth’s population recently surpassed 7 billion. Teaching awareness of our environment to children has never been more important. Here are 6 great sites to assist.

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A while back I did a top 10 sites for finding images and clip art for education.  However, a lot of things have changed since then and a few of those sites no longer exist.  That being said a handful of new and exciting sites have been developed for education for finding images which led me to creating a new list.

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The use of mobile technology has opened up a whole new world in education.  Terms like BYOD (bring your own device) is a common place occurrence.  These devices has allowed educators and students to learn, teach, and study in a whole new way.  Learning is no longer limited to the classroom and can occur in real-time almost anywhere.  I've decided to list my favorite sites that can be used w/ mobile phones for educational purposes.

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Web 2.0 was the factor that changed the Internet from a passive environment for consumption of data to the current interactive read-write web.  There are many online sites for children that provide unique learning opportunities for kids.  Many of the websites are geared to learning at home online.

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The Internet is a vast resource of tools, activities, and games for children to explore.  Here are sites that I have recently found that will catch a child’s interest along with providing a learning opportunity.

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Building a kind of "web business card" for yourself doesn't have to be difficult or expensive. There are several professional nameplate sites that give you the tools to build a page you can put on your business cards or in your email signature that anyone—employers, friends, and business partners included—can visit to learn more about you, how to reach you, and even see some of your work or connect to you through your social networks.

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SharePoint is one of the most successful products ever launched by Microsoft. Creating a branded SharePoint site involves understanding both traditional web design techniques as well as topics that are typically reserved for developers. Things like creative design, the experience visitors have navigating your user interface, ease of use etc; these are all important branding considerations. Here are the top 10 best SharePoint sites of 2011. Have a look!

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Finding images on the internet for classroom use has been a problem problem for many educators, for reasons such as copyright privileges, inappropriateness, etc.

While there are a number of paid solutions for finding images such as Nettrekker or Discovery Streaming, there are a number of free alternatives that work nicely as well.

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This year, we introduced over 100 new features to Google Docs to make creating, sharing, and collaborating in the cloud an even better experience.

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You can easily embed Google Groups discussions into your Google Site by embedding a group gadget:

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Here are 39 sites for using one of Jobs' greatest innovations: THE iPAD.

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It's a web-based Twitter reader that displays the updates of the people you follow in relation to the frequency of their tweets. It aims to amplify the people that don't usually get heard, and scale back those with frequent updates.

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Good infographic here comparing the Top 10 social networking sites. It says they account for closing on 1.5 billion users between them, but more than a third of that, of course, belongs to one company. As well as the big names of Facebook and Twitter it looks at some of the smaller ones that still have millions of members each. The surprise is maybe that MySpace still boasts 100 million members.

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Using page-level permissions, you can make some pages private for certain users while keeping other pages public for everyone to see. For instance, let’s say you have a Google Site that you’ve shared with your team and your manager. You can allow your team to see one set of pages, let your manager edit another set of pages, and keep yet another set of pages private for only you.

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Google+ Project vs Facebook
“Will Google+ Compete with OR over take Facebook? Does Google+ spell the end of Twitter?”

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As summer kicked off in the last few years, I’ve been sharing tips and tools to help young students hone schools skills while having some fun. We learned about these 10 games in 2009, and these tips for keeping math skills in shape over the summer break in 2010.

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Following an iPad in Education workshop led by Meg Wilson (@iPodsibilities on Twitter) that was held at Apple last week, I asked an Apple employee to share with me useful materials for follow up.

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