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Evernote is definitely a great utility to have in your EdTech toolkit. Evernote combines a bastion of  powerful features all in one single platform: you can use it to create notes, add reminders to your notes, separate your notes into …

Here are 12 books about education and learning you should look forward to reading this year:

http://www.opencolleges.edu.au/informed/features/12-must-read-books-on-learning-for-2015/…

The following things have been identified by educational researchers and teachers alike as the most powerful uses of technology for learning. Take a look.

http://www.innovationexcellence.com/blog/2015/03/30/10-most-powerful-uses-of-technology-for-learning/

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Adding annotations to YouTube videos is a good way to add little bubbles of information to a video or to create a series of choose your own adventure videos.

http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2015/03/how-to-add-annotations-to-youtube.html

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A few tricks to make Google Forms even better for you and your students.

http://www.alicekeeler.com/teachertech/2015/03/21/5-things-you-did-not-know-about-google-forms/

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Gone are the days when you had to enroll in expensive computer training classes as now exist a plethora of web-based courses that will help you learn programming at your own pace in the comfort of your web browser.

http://www.labnol.org/internet/learn-coding-online/28537/…

Popular chats move quickly and it can sometimes be overwhelming to keep up or get involved. There are several tools that exist that can make participating easier. All are free and they are in no particular order.

http://instructionaltechtalk.com/3-tools-easily-participate-twitter-chats/

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Here are some suggestions (based on input from question-friendly teachers, schools, programs, and organizations) on how to encourage more questioning in the classroom and hopefully, beyond it.

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/help-students-become-better-questioners-warren-berger…

Udemy has launched the Teacher Tech Initiative, a program designed to make computer technology courses available to K-12 teachers in the United States for free and at reduced cost.

http://thejournal.com/articles/2015/03/23/udemy-launches-free-computer-tech-courses-for-teachers.aspx

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We hear a lot about blended learning from an instructor’s perspective, but what about from a student’s perspective? In what ways can students use technology to support learning inside and outside their course sessions?

http://www.opencolleges.edu.au/informed/features/blended-study/

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