Why School Leaders Should Build An Intentional School Culture

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For school leaders, defining a school culture – the core values, practices and organizational structures – is a necessity.

5 Powerful Social Media Tools For Your Classroom

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The best social media tools for your classroom are free, easy to use, and right here. We break down some of the newest and noteworthy for you.

The 5 Biggest Education Technology Trends To Know About

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There are some major education technology trends that are disrupting the current education model. Here's the breakdown.

New ‘TED Talks Education’ Brings Big Names And Big Ideas

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Sir Ken Robinson, Bill Gates, Geoffrey Canada and more take on big topics in the all-new TED Talks Education. Full feature presentation is here.

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How Many Teachers Use LinkedIn? The Official Answer Is In.

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LinkedIn is huge with teachers and education professionals. According to today's release from the social network, there are now more than 100 Million users on LinkedIn. Just how many of those are teachers? Turns out a LOT.

Project #1: EduXchange – Online Courseware Builder

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Funding Goal Jonathan Woahn hopes to raise $20,000 in order to fund the development and technical build of EduXchange. Funding will be open for 45 days. Project Description The world of online education is developing...

How To Properly Provide Credit For Images

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If you've ever written a paper, you know that citations are important. But for whatever reason, if you write that paper online (as a blog for example) then citations and image credits somehow become, well, less import...

Google Goes Back To School To Get Students Excited About Science

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Googlers love using their computer science (CS) and engineering skills to solve some of world’s most interesting and important problems. They also know that not enough students are pursuing careers in CS and that th...

100+ Teaching Resources About The Japan Crisis

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The tragic events in Japan have offered many teachable moments. From understanding nuclear reactors to earthquakes to tsunamis, there are countless lessons you can use in the classroom. Here are just a few. Interact...

Apple Launches iPad School Donation Program

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This is big news for the world of education. Apple is  asking owners of first-generation iPads to donate them to schools. Apple will take those donated iPads and give them to Teach For America who will in turn provide...

The Incredible Numbers Behind Twitter

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Five years ago this week, a small team of people started working on a prototype of the service that we now know as Twitter. On March 21, 2006, Jack Dorsey (@jack) sent the first Tweet. Here's the first-ever tweet: (no...

Applications Now Available For 'Edudemic Projects'

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Ever had a great idea for an innovative education tool but didn’t have the resources to follow through? What if a little bit of seed money was all it took to get you from thinking about an idea to having a real to...

Blogger To Get Major Redesign [Preview]

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I know many of the people in my PLN use Google's Blogger as it is an easy-to-use system for getting your thoughts online. While other sites like Posterous and Tumblr are making increasingly easy publication systems, ...

Calling All Innovative Teachers In Need Of Funding

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As Edudemic 2.0 gets slowly rolled out, I wanted to alert readers and partners to a new initiative taking place behind the scenes right now. Here's the skinny: Problem There are countless great ideas being thrown arou...

Edudemic Has Gone Mobile

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In honor of today's launch of the iPad 2, I am happy to announce that the new Edudemic site is completely mobile-friendly. While the full site loaded in mobile web browsers, it was slow and not designed for smaller screens.

The Japan Earthquake: 10 Quick Ways To Get Real-Time News

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The quake and subsequently devastating tsunami in Japan has readers and viewers around the world reeling. It's a terrifying spectacle, for sure—but it's important to stay calm and take action. Here's 10 easy ways to stay updated.

Welcome to Edudemic 2.0

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You may notice something a bit...different...about the Edudemic site. First off, there's a fancy new logo (see above)! Second, it's completely overhauled to take advantage of my extraordinary PLN and network of educ...

What If Social Networks Were Students?

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Each social network is unique. Just like students. What if those social networks were actual students attending the same school? They would surely have their own unique features, styles, and characteristics. Rather th...

Most Expensive App Being Given Free To Law Students

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The most expensive app (source) in the Apple App Store is being given away for free to the Class of 2011 at Harvard Law School.  BarMax, a start-up company bringing bar exam prep to the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad, an...

Use This Puppet To Explain Twitter To Skeptics

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If you're reading this, you likely know the power and potential of Twitter. However, if you or a friend are still skeptical about the service ("I don't wanna hear about what you're eating or that you have to use the b...