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Seeing as how mobile devices and related technologies have completely overtaken a good chunk of society already, naturally the education sector has followed suit

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Revealed: Hundreds of words to avoid using online if you don't want the government spying on you (and they include 'pork', 'cloud' and 'Mexico')

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What is high-tech cheating exactly? Is it really a problem, or do our old-school definitions of cheating need rethinking?

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By combining the linguistic analysis systems of TweetPsych with Twitter’s geo tagging data (which isn’t great yet) and the Google Maps API, I was able to plot tweets on specific latitude and longitude codes based on their emotional content.

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Social media resources like Google Plus offer a great opportunity for growth in education through collaborative work, communication, and camaraderie. Many of today’s universities have recognized this incredible potential, and have put G+ to work on campus.

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My students have been loving Skitch so much that they have been trying to find ways to use it all the time. This past week we used it when we were working on developing descriptive words. Using descriptive words is something we have been discussing as a way to make our stories more interesting.

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We think one of the best ways for students to learn is through hands-on opportunities. That’s why we love the possibilities offered by interactive projectors and whiteboards—the touch-and-drag, enlargement, and pointer capabilities have the feel of a cool video game or electronic toy. Here are some of our favorite “out of the box” ideas for learning games using an interactive whiteboard or projector

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TechCrunch reports that Apple has begun rejecting iOS apps for the use of a unique device identifier known as the UDID. The site notes that several developers have reported rejections for the use of the UDID in the past week, and Apple is said to be ramping up the enforcement of this policy over the next few weeks.

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Pinterest is the newest member to arrive on to the social media scene, and it has taken social media users by storm – quickly becoming one of the most popular social media platforms today. However, this site is not solely to be seen by educators as yet another classroom distraction. Pinterest can actually be highly beneficial for a number of reasons:

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Measuring the value of social media has been a challenge for marketers. And with good reason: it’s hard to understand exactly what is happening in an environment where activity occurs both on and off your website. Since social media is often an upper funnel player in a shopper’s journey, it's not always easy to determine which social channels actually drive value for your business and which tactics are most effective.

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Yesterday’s post, Is Twitter the Driving Force Behind Upcoming Educational Change? examined the ways in which Twitter is a potential driving force for change in education.

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If I were back in the classroom today, following many years in developing and planning for 21st century learning environments, the top 3 things I would do with technology would include:

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As a language teacher and teacher trainer, I try to find the best tools to help my learners communicate effectively. For this reason, I am a huge supporter of using cell phones and mobile devices for learning. They are powerful learning tools, because:

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Just change the table to be your own headings and numbers content (you may make more, or less, rows and/or columns).
Resultant table is editable. Click any cell to change its value. Then click outside the table and all other charts change dynamically.

Interesting way to create dynamic visualizations

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If your students have access to a cell phone (or any digital device i.e. iPad, laptop) that can take and send/email pictures, they can make and publish their own books quickly and easily using Flickr.  This is a great way to bring student books to life by publishing them digitally in a format that can be easily shared with the world or printed as a book for the classroom or school library.  

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Here are some specific strategies to ponder as you select a graphic novel or comic to read, or as you consider how students might create their own. Thinking about them will help you focus your purpose in your instruction. All of them are useful, as long as the purpose is clear to the teacher and the learner.

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Google Chrome has a built in wav file player built in and you can leverage that power to play your voicemails right from your browser!

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For me, YouTube has become one of the first places I look to get a great "hook" to get my students attention at the beginning of a new unit (and throughout). When I'm in the drivers seat, I can control what my students see.  However,  more and more my students are driving and this year I am offering an online course to my students,  therefore, I have been paying a lot more attention to the content on YouTube.

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Smart phones might be getting the green light in more schools around the country, but social networking is still getting the yellow in many schools: Parents are worried about bullying, teacher-student online relationships are questioned, and school security can be compromised all too easily, some critics fear.

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

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