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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.

http://www.teachthought.com/technology/skype-for-learning-the-taxonomy-of-a-technology-based-conversation/…

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 …

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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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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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. …

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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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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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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Based on our experience working with with leading universities and colleges across the world, here are five simple strategies that institutions seeking to engage the Netflix Generation can adopt.

http://www.teachthought.com/technology/5-strategies-engaging-students-with-video/

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Privacy is a hot-button issue in the tech world. How will it fare in the age of pervasive computing – a world of billions of connected devices, systems, and services exchanging personal data?

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jul/28/internet-of-things-privacy

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