Here are 10 awesome ways you can use Instagram in the classroom.
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Apps That Rise to the Top: Tested and Approved By Teachers
With the thousands of educational apps vying for the attention of busy teachers, it can be hard to sift for the gold. Michelle Luhtala, a savvy librarian from New Canaan High School in Connecticut has crowd-sourced the best, most extensive …
Visually Explore Current Events 100 Images at a Time
Every hour the top 100 news stories from around the world are linked to images on a ten by ten grid. The stories are ranked according to traffic to the articles. Clicking on an image will provide you with more …
Mohiomap Turns Evernote, Google Drive, And Dropbox Accounts Into Mind Maps
Mohiomap is a web app that turns your Evernote into mind maps. Mohiomap also recently added support for Google Drive and Dropbox accounts.
http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/03/mohiomap/
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Skype For Learning: The Taxonomy Of A Technology-Based Conversation
A helpful taxonomy to guide teachers on how to plan, evaluate, and execute a Skype conversation for learning. It starts off at the bottom with forced, awkward conversations, and eventually grades to the top, where authentic, free-flowing conversations occur.
How giant websites design for you (and a billion others, too)
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Presentation of the Week: Digital Curation: Definitions, Tools, and Strategies
MultCloud Provides a Single Dashboard for All of Your Cloud Storage Accounts
If you’re like me you probably have accounts on more than one cloud storage service. I have accounts on Box, Google Drive, Dropbox, and SugarSync that I use regularly. MultCloud is a service that allows me to tie them all …
4 Innovative New Tools to Try Next Year
Here are a few of the new products that stood out at the ISTE 2014 Conference:
http://www.graphite.org/blog/4-innovative-new-tools-to-try-next-year
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8 Ideas That Will Permanently Break Education As We Know It
Below are 8 ideas that will permanently “break” education as we know it–in the best possible way.
http://www.teachthought.com/trends/disrupting-education-8-ideas-will-break/
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10 Free Education Apps for iPad
Finding a handful of free and useful education apps on diverse contents requires some amount of research and that is exactly what we help you to do here. Here below we are introducing 10 free education apps for iPad.
10 Emaciated Terms That Keep Education In A Box
Society and industry has had to invent thousands of innovative terms to capture new trends, attitudes, behaviors, and relationships. But education might as well be using rotary phones. So much of our vocabulary speaks to the past, not the future. …
6 Online Tools to Help Students Build Bibliographies
There are a lot of online bibliography tools out there that can help students learn to build bibliographies and ensure that their citations are correct, without them (and you) spending hours pouring over MLA, APA, or Chicago handbooks.
http://www.edudemic.com/6-tools-to-help-students-build-bibliographies/
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9 Characteristics of A Leading Educator
The concept of educator as a maker is further illustrated by 9 roles that should be present in every teacher who is to lead a successful learning experience. These roles are :
http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2014/07/9-characteristics-of-leading-educator.html
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A sneak peek at the new Google Classroom
There’s a whole new classroom management tool on the block and it’s designed to streamline the tools you’re already using. It’s called ‘Classroom’ and it’s by the education team over at Google.
http://dailygenius.com/a-sneak-peek-at-the-new-google-classroom/
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