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Check out "10 Quick Creativity Hacks" and illustrations after the article itself.

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"The veteran technology commentator argues that a better understanding of how we connect our attention and intentions online can help individuals and society" (Ellis, 2012.05.11, deck, retrieved 2012.05.17).

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Press release about Skype in the classroom

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"free tutoring contract ... for independent contractors who may be providing tuition or coaching in a variety of subjects" (Tutoring Contracts, ¶1, 2012.05.14)

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"Embracing Digital Youth (a program of Center for Safe and Responsible Internet Use) promotes approaches that will best ensure all young people become “Cyber Savvy” and address youth risk in a positive and restorative manner" (Embracing Digital Youth, ¶1, 2012.05.14).

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"The Horizon Project Navigator is a dynamic social media platform that allows users to fully exploit the Horizon Project's extensive collection of relevant articles, research, and projects related to emerging technology and its applications worldwide" (What is Navigator, ¶1, 2012.05.11).

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"Introduction to and directions for using Google Drive and Google Documents" (deck, 2012.05.08)

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"More and more multinational companies are mandating English as the common corporate language ... in an attempt to facilitate communication and performance across geographically diverse functions and business endeavors" (Neeley, ¶1).

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"[C]reate any size wall posters from any size images[.] Totally Free To Use!" (2012.04.22) 

Thanks to Richard Byrne for pointing out this printing tool on his blog, <a href="http://www.freetech4teachers.com/">Free Technology for Teachers</a>, in How to Print Posters Using a Standard Printer (2012.04.20).

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This excerpt (Israel, 2012, Ch. 5) mentions abuses and tedium of slide presentations, as well as advantages of, and strategies for supplementing talks with slide shows.

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"Empathy, cooperation, fairness and reciprocity -- caring about the well-being of others seems like a very human trait. But Frans de Waal shares some surprising videos of behavioral tests, on primates and other mammals, that show how many of these moral traits all of us share" (blurb, ¶1, retrieved  2012.04.11).

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Peter M. Nardi, Skeptic's Cafe, 2012.03.22

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"The speech accent archive is established to uniformly exhibit a large set of speech accents from a variety of language backgrounds. Native and non-native speakers of English all read the same English paragraph and are carefully recorded. The archive is constructed as a teaching tool and as a research tool. It is meant to be used by linguists as well as other people who simply wish to listen to and compare the accents of different English speakers" (About page, ¶2, 2012.04.10).

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Yesterday I sat down and built a new guide, Google Documents for "Teachers. The 40 page guide (embedded below) is designed to help teachers who have never used Google Documents" (Richard Byrne, 2012.04.09, ¶1).

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"This website is ... for EFL and ESL teachers who want to use activities that work on specific language points (grammar, functions, topics and vocabulary) while having students do things that positive psychologists find are connected to happiness and well-being" (Home, ¶¶1-2, 2012.04.10) 

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"Transclusion refers to the process by which the entire contents of a page are inserted on to another page for the sake of convenience, speed of editing and/or tidiness of the source wikitext" (Wikimedia Meta-Wiki, ¶1, 2012.04.03).

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"MoodleReader allows students to prove that they have done their reading via a short quiz of 10 randomized questions. If they pass the quiz, they are rewarded with the book cover added to their stamp collection on their MoodleReader page" (¶4, 2012.03.30).

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"a summary of the new features, followed by instructions on how to upgrade" if you've already installed a Google script in your spreadsheet

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