A great list of articles showing the benefits of using social media in education.
Tackk: Create Simple Webpages for Assignments and Announcements
Tackk is a free service that you can use to quickly create simple webpages. Using Tackk you can create a page to announce an important event, to advertise an event, or to show off your best digital works.
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2013/10/tackk-create-simple-webpages-for.html
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New Tool Lets You Visualize Just About Anything in 5 Minutes (Maybe Less)
A new open source tool called RAW makes it remarkably easy to visualize any data that you can copy and paste from a table.
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The Best Web Publishing Tools and Services
The best tools, web apps and resources for any independent web publisher.
https://web-publishing.zeef.com/robin.good
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A Chromebook 101 for Teachers
A great introduction on Chromebooks, personal computers running Chrome OS as its operating system. The devices are designed to be used while connected to the Internet and support applications that reside on the Web, rather than traditional applications that reside …
A List Of 50+ Teaching Strategies To Jumpstart Your Teacher Brain
Teaching strategies are among the most important ingredients for highly-effective learning environments. Knowing the right teaching strategy for the right academic situation may not be a matter of expertise or training, but memory.
http://www.teachthought.com/teaching/50-teaching-strategies-to-jumpstart-your-teacher-brain/
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Semi-automatic method for grading a million homework assignments
Organize solutions into clusters and “force multiply” feedback provided by instructors.
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Curate or Be Curated: The Coming Age of the Curation Economy
Raw data is growing at a rate we can hardly imagine — and it will only grow as devices and behaviors become more adept at raw-content creating. The Curation Economy is built on some important, but I would argue inevitable, …
8 Next-Gen Devices Students Will Be Using In A Couple Years
A great article and infographic profiling a handful of the next-gen tech devices students will be into in likely just a few years.
http://fluency21.com/blog/2013/10/12/8-next-gen-devices-students-will-be-using-in-a-couple-years/
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25 Tips and Tools to Make Google Drive Better
Get the most out of Google Drive with these 25 tips, tools, and tweaks for power users.
http://www.infoworld.com/slideshow/122661/25-tips-and-tools-make-google-drive-better-228176
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10 Excellent Tools to Add Text and Watermarks to Images
Watermarking is basically done to protect original pictures from being used by others under another name. Through a watermark added to the image, the original owners of images make sure their brand name is kept in the image wherever it …
The Code: The Wisdom of the Crowd
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Presentation of the Week: Never Use a USB Key Again: How to Manage your Files in the Cloud
6 Tools for Connected Educators
Here is an interactive graphic that identifies the 5 characteristics of a connected educator with links to examples and resources to help make those connections.
http://gettingsmart.com/2013/10/6-tools-connected-educators/
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The Complete Guide to YouTube Optimization
Learn new ways on how YouTube ranks videos as well as the areas that you should be properly optimizing in order to adhere to these ranking factors and plenty of tips on how you can optimize your videos/channel.