No More Printing: Teachers Using Dropbox

Dropbox is an online file-sharing and folder-syncing web 2.0 tool that enabled these teachers to share resources with their students and provides an option for students to turn in work online. Previously, students’ options for turning in work electronically were …

5 Best Practices for Educators on Facebook

Students are already very familiar with Facebook and spend a lot of time on the site. Because of this, there is usually a good amount of activity [in class related Facebook discussions] because students receive notifications of new group posts …

Top 25 Android apps for education

The iPhone and iPad don’t get to have all the fun. Android is among the leading smart-phone technology, and there are over 70,000 apps available for it. Though we can’t claim to have reviewed all 70,000 of them, here are …

Graphing Comes to Google

Google has added graphing functionality to its seemingly ever-growing list of search bar capabilities: now, when users type in a function — for example: sin(x) — the first search result will be an interactive graph allowing users to explore different …