These three email tricks for Gmail will literally save hours of your life every single week.
http://thenextweb.com/lifehacks/2014/07/14/3-gmail-tricks-can-save-hours-every-week/
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Presentation of the Week: Designing Effective Presentations
What’s wrong with your pa$$w0rd?
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Google announces Google Educator Groups – great resource for educators
Google has announced the launch of Google Educators Groups. This is a program made up of communities of educators who can connect with each other to learn, share, and help each other. While it is mainly online, there are real-world …
Why Google Classroom won’t affect institutional LMS market … yet
In the near-term, Google Classroom will likely be a factor for individual faculty adoption (innovators, early adopters) at schools with GAE licenses or even as secondary LMS. But not as a replacement.
http://mfeldstein.com/google-classroom-wont-affect-institutional-lms-market-yet/…
10 of the Most Popular Linux Distributions Compared
Linux isn’t a complete operating system — it’s just a kernel. Linux distributions take the Linux kernel and combine it with other free software to create complete packages. There are many different Linux distributions out there.
http://www.howtogeek.com/191207/10-of-the-most-popular-linux-distributions-compared/
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Good Tools to Collect Anonymous Feedback from Your Students
There are a variety of web tools that teachers can use to collect anonymous feedback from students. Unlike traditional clicker systems, these tools are web based and do not require any software or hardware purchase. They are free, easy to …
How to Share Files Between Windows, Mac, and Linux PCs on a Network
Home file sharing used to be a nightmare, even between different versions of Windows — never mind Mac and Linux! These operating systems can now talk to each other and share files without any special software.
http://www.howtogeek.com/191116/how-to-share-files-between-windows-mac-and-linux-pcs-on-a-network/
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6 Tips For Creating An Unbreakable Password That You Can Remember
The following are a few more tips that might help you develop passwords that are especially complex, nearly unbreakable, but also memorable.
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/6-tips-for-creating-an-unbreakable-password-that-you-can-remember/
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Three Working Models to Integrate Technology in Your Teaching
An important step in the process of effective integration of technology in education is having a pedagogical approach supported by a theoretical framework to ground your technology practices inside the classroom. Of course there are several frameworks to help you …
20 Apps For Writing On The iPad
The iPad is more than adequate for all but the most demanding writer, even more so when using apps that are designed to be used on the iPad. Below, listly user Rabab Khan offers 20 apps for writing on the …
How Flipped Classrooms Are Growing and Changing
The teaching method is approaching “mainstream” status, according to the report.
http://www.edtechmagazine.com/k12/article/2014/06/how-flipped-classrooms-are-growing-and-changing
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Create, Publish, Promote: An iPad Workflow For Learning
1:1 devices also provide opportunity in the form of apps. Word processors, social media channels, image libraries, publishing platforms, and more that provide an almost endless array of tools of both creativity and knowledge.
http://www.teachthought.com/apps-2/create-publish-promote-ipad-workflow-for-learning/
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Presentations Evolved: 4 Alternatives To PowerPoint & Keynote Compared
Even though you can create effective PowerPoint presentations with ease and do some cool things with Keynote, these apps are passé (not to mention relatively expensive), and it’s time to try something new. Fortunately, you have a number of great …