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5 Crazy Ways Social Media Is Changing Your Brain Right Now
How to Integrate Tech When It Keeps Changing
How do you coordinate knowledge, instructional practices, and technologies in order to positively influence academic achievement?
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/integrate-tech-keeps-changing-todd-finley
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Pixlr, a Great Online Photo Editor, Is Now Free on the Desktop
If you haven’t tried out Autodesk’s fabulous Pixlr, a capable photo editor in the browser, you should. It’s good. And now, it’s available as a free desktop program for Mac and Windows.
http://gizmodo.com/so-long-photoshop-pixlr-is-finally-available-on-the-d-1628360391
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Bookless library opened by new US university
Florida Polytechnic University’s enormous facility promises to make many more books available for the students’ in digital form.
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Dropbox Pro Gives Subscribers 1TB of Storage as Cloud Wars Heat Up
The company’s new pricing matches similar moves by Google and Microsoft and makes Dropbox Pro one of the cheapest ways to get a terabyte of storage, though still more expensive than Microsoft OneDrive for Business.
http://mashable.com/2014/08/27/dropbox-pro-1-terabyte/
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10 great obscure Google tricks for school, life
Google’s products are widespread, so knowing all of them are next to impossible. Here are 10 you might not know that can help your classroom or life.
http://ditchthattextbook.com/2014/09/01/10-great-obscure-google-tricks-for-school-life/
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Educator’s Guide to LiveBinders
LiveBinder is your digital binder for all of your online content and learning. The aim of this article is to provide all the information you need to learn how to use Livebinder effectively for yourself and with your students.
Cloud Storage Showdown: Google Drive, Dropbox, iCloud and More Compared
Cloud storage bigwig Dropbox just slashed the price of its plans, offering 1TB of storage for $10 per month. And it’s not alone. Over the last year, most of the major players have been cutting prices and upping sizes. So …
Readers absorb less on Kindles than on paper, study finds
Research suggests that recall of plot after using an e-reader is poorer than with traditional books.
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Western Digital Adds Wi-Fi to New Portable Hard Drive
Western Digital’s new My Passport Wireless is designed to be a portable storage drive for all your devices, whether it’s a mobile smartphone or tablet, computer, and even a digital camera.
http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/offload-files-devices-western-digitals-portable-drive-wi-fi/…
A Flipped Classroom? Or Should It Be Sideways?
The traditional model of teach we’re familiar with is that of the teacher in front of the class, lecturing and assigning homework for students to do once they leave the classroom. The teacher has full control over their learning process. …
How Does the Brain Learn Best? Smart Studying Strategies
Being self-aware about what’s effective learning and how it happens, I think, gives you a real edge in making those choices.
http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/08/how-does-the-brain-learn-best-smart-studying-strategies/
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