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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Tired of the way Twitter and Facebook look? While there are a host of add-ons, plug-ins, and other tweaks you can make, it's hard to get it just right. Flipboard, a new iPad application, has leveraged many of the popu...
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These sites offer a place for educators to find open educational resources as well as provide a place for those who want to share their ideas or work collaboratively on projects.
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Childhood obesity is quickly affecting more and more students as they progress through school. While there is very little information suggesting the trend will get better, it can help to understand the problem. We've ...
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While we thoroughly acknowledge that using Twitter should not be about gaining followers, it's certainly fun to see that more and more people are enjoying what you're saying and therefore following you. Aside from thi...
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Never wanting to take a break or stop reinventing the wheel, Google has just unveiled the new design for Google Images. It gets ride of a lot of the text, urls, and other miscellaneous data and focuses instead on maki...
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Leave it to the Internet to clean up Apple's messes. A user on Etsy is gaining some real traction today after people started noticing Antennaid's solution to the iPhone 4 antenna problem. The solution? Simply place a ...
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According to Harvard Magazine, final exams are "going the way of the dodo."
Last spring, a mere 23 percent of the school's 1,137 undergraduate courses gave exams, the magazine reports. And a new faculty vote dicta...
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Facebook will be welcoming its 500 millionth user this week, making it the most successful and largest social network worldwide. Does this make Facebook too big to fail? Could the social network soon go public and ju...
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Want to know more about current college students and recent grads? Do they like to use Twitter? Do they worry about having a successful marriage or being famous? The answers might surprise you.
If you were born betwe...
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Whether you're an avid Foursquare checker-inner or simply know of the product (it allows people to gain points and other virtual prizes by checking into almost location using a smartphone), you might want to be caref...
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You've probably heard of the popular Old Spice Guy commercials that have made waves over the past couple of weeks. Just as the sun rises every day, there is sure to be parodies made. One parody from Urlesque is actual...
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2 years ago
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Let's face it (ha! face!), FaceTime is only fun if you and your friends have iPhone 4s and are both on reliable wi-fi connections and in good lighting. If you don't routinely have this kind of setup, there is another...
