I’m a huge fan of Pinterest. But I just deleted my account because of a startling realization about the service. Pinterest is doing something to cover their butts that could cause major problems to some less-than-cautious pinners.
Now over a decade into the 21st century, there is tremendous pressure for education to “globalize.” What this means exactly isn’t universally agreed upon. This short eBook is a start.
This Friday, March 2, 2012 is the birth date of Theodore Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss. In honor of his revolutionary early reader books, his birthday has been adopted by the National Education Association as National Read Across America Day.
If social media platforms were nations of the world, and the world was a game of Risk, what would it look like? And how might in change over the next 5 years?
In an effort to raise awareness of bullying in schools, Lady Gaga and Oprah are taking to the stage at Harvard’s Sanders Theatre today (2/29/12) at 4pm EST. They’ll address their concerns with the current state of bullying and also launch the Born This Way Foundation,
The next generation of the iPad is nearly upon us. Whether it’s called the iPad 2S or iPad 3 is not too important. What is important is if you should bother buying one. So if you’re looking to upgrade, replace, or are a first time buyer…there’s a lot to know before Apple’s announcement on March 7th.
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Pinterest is (apparently) here to stay. The social bookmarking site is seeing exponential growth and is quickly being adopted by users young and old. That includes teachers and students.
Technology has given teachers a giant toolbox of resources for the classroom. However, sometimes it’s outside the classroom that you can make the most difference. The internet is a powerful tool for you to extend your reach to current, past, and potential students.
My webcast recording is a mess and I have been suffering in silence. Perhaps my nightmare will help others avoid similar situations.
“The Creative Commons copyright tools…give everyone from individual creators to large companies and institutions a simple, standardized way to grant copyright permissions to their creative work.”
While there are both pros and cons to using digital textbooks to replace printed texts, the use of digital textbooks is definitely on the rise. Check out these stats about e-texts.
This is one of the biggest apps to be released in 2012 for educators. I’m not just using hyperbole either. I was at Adobe MAX where CTO Kevin Lynch unveiled the plethora of new apps Adobe is releasing. The one that blew everyone in the audience (fellow geeks, educators, etc) away was Photoshop Touch.
Have you had your eye on the Adobe Digital School Collection? What about today’s release of the Adobe Photoshop Touch iPad app? If you love awesome technology but hating paying for things, listen up! Edudemic is proud to be partnering with Adobe to give away …
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Got a minute? Literally just a minute or so? Take a look at this infographic with some surprising stats courtesy of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation via Socrato. In the below image (you’ll wanna click it to enlarge it) you can see that the vast majority of teachers agree that technology helps in the learning process. Heck, the teachers they polled even agree that ANY multimedia can help in the process of learning. That includes magazines and newspapers.
Sure, there are plenty of apps you can use in education. There are even apps created specifically for use in education. Apple has a whole category dedicated to education in the App store. But how do you really know which ones are worth downloading, or possibly even paying for?
We are working on a new feature for the upcoming issues of the Edudemic iPad Magazine. We’ll be featuring teachers from around the world in an effort to help others learn more about what they’re doing. So that means we need your help!
Augmented reality is a concept that looks like it might finally be reaching its considerable potential with Google glasses.
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Does your head spin when someone writes something like “I hope you’re day is going great!” or “Are their others like you?” If you’re anything like me, you loathe bad grammar and internally judge people when you receive a poorly worded e-mail.
Ever wondered where all your Twitter friends are? Do you think you actually know where every single one of your ‘tweeps’ are? (Man, I hate that term.) I recently stumbled across a one-click service that shows you exactly where each of your Twitter friends are located.
On the surface, setting up a blog is simple. While it’s really not complex no matter how you view it, there can be small hangups and confusing steps that leave you uncertain how to proceed. Good thing you’ve got Edudemic.