Many educators say that Twitter is the most effective way to collaborate and that they’ve learned more with Twitter than they have from years of formal professional development. Here are some of the specific ways educators are using Twitter to …
A Startup Finds a Better Way to Mine Your Facebook Past
The Trove search engine feeds on everything you and your friends have shared.
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/429547/a-startup-finds-a-better-way-to-mine-your/…
The Teacher’s Guide To Wikipedia
A simple guide to the basic terminology, usage, and details of Wikipedia. It’s organized in a simple question-and-answer format so feel free to scroll through the questions you already know.
New Programming Language Makes Social Coding Easier
The language, Dog, is designed to reduce the complexity of existing programming languages.
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/429544/new-programming-language-makes-social-coding/…
The Ultimate Guide To Infographics
Information graphics or infographics are graphic visual representations of information, data or knowledge. Learn more about how to use them with this practical guide.
http://edudemic.com/2012/10/what-are-infographics-do-they-really-help/…
Chrome Extension Protects Your Privacy on Facebook, Google
A Chrome extension called PrivacyFix will walk you through your privacy settings and let you make changes so advertisers cannot track what you do on the web in order to make ad revenue. It also ensures that friends you’re connected …
10 Cool EdTech Incubators Aiming to Change Education Forever
Here, we highlight just a few of the edtech incubators that are making waves in the world today, a list that’s sure to grow rapidly over the next decade.
http://www.onlineuniversities.com/10-cool-edtech-incubators-aiming-to-change-education-forever…
40 Quick Ways To Use Mobile Phones In Classrooms
Your students have smartphones. If you’re looking for some simple and straightforward ways to easily integrate these powerful little devices into your classroom, look no further. The following 40 tips are simply that: tips. So use a few and toss …
Report: Students On Facebook Study 10 Times Less Than Non-Users
Students who are Facebook users spend 1-5 hours per week studying, and non-Facebook users spend 11-15 hours per week studying. Effectively, it would seem like students are losing 6+ hours per week of study time to Facebook!
50 Free Android Apps Being Used In Education Right Now
A great list of Android apps being used in Education.
http://edudemic.com/2012/10/50-free-android-apps-being-used-in-education-right-now/…
YouTube’s Official Guide for Educators
A great guide designed specifically for teachers and educators. This guide is created by YouTube itself and has a detailed explanation together with some awesome tutorials on everything a teacher needs to know about the use of this video platform …
Shimon Schocken: The self-organizing computer course
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Presentation of the Week: The Best Web 2.0 Tools for Teachers – 2012 Edition
80 Ways To Use Google Forms In Your Classroom
Google Apps are some of the most widely used tools in education today. This extremely powerful tool can do so much and it’s all free. Lucky for all of us, Tom Barrett has built a crowdsourced Google Doc (of course) …
The Flip: End of a Love Affair
The flip’s gradual disappearance from our learning space hasn’t been a conscious decision: it’s simply a casualty of our progression from a teacher-centred classroom to a student-centred one.