Daily Archives: July 27, 2010

Should Teachers Track Students Via Their Smart Phones?

If your students like to play hooky, wander off, or just not show up to school…would you try to find them? What if it were very easy to find out where a student is depending on their phone’s location? As you know, students are very …

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How To Blog By Calling Your Website

It’s happened to all of us. The night starts off innocently enough with a little gin and tonic, maybe a mojito, then next thing you know you’re doing tequila shots with the bartender and the girl from Brazil and you find yourself thinking it would be a treMENdous idea …

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The EdTech Canon: 7 Must-Have Resources For Users, Producers, and Teachers

Studying Web culture and learning, I feel like I’m on the cusp of something big, and futuristic and important.  It’s like the space race of the 1950s, only instead of looking to outer space, celestial bodies, and distant life forms, we are peering into cyberspace, …

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Coming Soon To Your Twitter Stream: Pictures, Videos, and More!

Your Twitter stream might soon look a bit more like Facebook. Last night, Twitter temporarily rolled out a new setting called “Tweet Media,” an option that allows you to decide whether to include photos or videos from everyone on Twitter, or just the people you’re …

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How To Use Apple's New Magic Trackpad In The Classroom

This may be the first time you’ve heard of the newest product coming out of Cupertino and you might be asking yourself ‘what the heck is a Magic Trackpad? Let me Google that.’ Hold that search! Here’s the details direct from Apple’s site: The new …

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