10 Creative Ways To Use Google Tools To Maximize Learning

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While there are hundreds of tools and devices available, we have found 10 creative ways to use Google tools and services to help improve learning.

25 Things Teachers Should Know About Gamification

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There are dozens of things teachers and students should know about gamification. Here's a handy simplified list to quickly learn from!

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.

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Teaching Tool Upgrade: Google Earth Now Shows Live Weather

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Google just can't seem to take a day off. Google Earth, one of the most popular online tools in the classroom, now shows live weather. It does so by displaying preset animations over targeted areas. In other words, it...

Why Teachers Must Know Their Students [VIDEO]

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If you teach a class of just a handful of students (where the heck do you work!?) then you might not be able to relate to this video. However, if you are like the vast majority of teachers and are in charge of a large...

How To Use Facebook Questions In The Classroom

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The gloves are off. Facebook is taking aim at Yahoo! Answers, Quora and Mahalo with its latest feature. Facebook Questions will allow users to get crowdsourced answers to almost any question from the 500 million-stron...

Google Makes Premium Apps Free For Teachers

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What do Alex Trebek, teachers and Googlers have in common? Last week, these individuals and groups all came together at the Googleplex in Mountain View, CA to celebrate exploration and learning. Google hosted its ...

A Chilling Must-Read For Social Media Users.

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[caption id="attachment_4092" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Image: San Francisco Chronicle"][/caption] I understand the risks involved with social media. I get that putting more information about yourself...

White iPhones Delayed Again, Possibly For Antenna Fix

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Every time Apple makes an announcement about, well, anything... the rumors start to swirl. The tech company's latest announcement that it will be delaying shipments of the white version of the iPhone 4 until an unspec...

A Terrible Name For A School.

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Your favorite time-wasting site has not failed you. The inimitable Failblog has shared with the world one of the worst names I've ever seen for a school. It's nothing offensive or even repulsive...it's just...well...y...

Should Teachers Track Students Via Their Smart Phones?

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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,...

How To Blog By Calling Your Website

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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 yo...

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

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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 dist...

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

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[caption id="attachment_4055" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Let's hope people share these delicious cupcakes!"][/caption] Your Twitter stream might soon look a bit more like Facebook. Last night, Twitte...

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

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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 dire...

Introducing Socially Learning

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You may have noticed the more infrequent updating of EduDemic and EduDatum over the past week or two. That's because I have been tinkering away with a new way to grow your PLN. It's a new educational social network th...

Are E-Books Ever Going To Beat Printed Books?

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Amazon announced that its June 2010 Kindle e-book sales nearly doubled its hardcover book sales (180% higher). While many of those e-books were self-published books for as low as $1 (and even though traditional pap...

How Twitter Helps Researchers Visualize The Moods Of Americans

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Are your students cranky during the afternoon? They might not be alone. According to a new study by a group of researchers at Northeastern University and Harvard, people seem to be in the worst moods of the day during...

Facebook In 2004: The Harvard Crimson’s First Article

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In honor of Facebook welcoming its 500 millionth user today, we thought it would be fun to see how the Harvard Crimson, the university's leading newspaper, portrayed TheFacebook during its infancy. It's well-known tha...