Added by Jeff Dunn
2 years ago
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POP QUIZ!
What's the first app you check in the morning on your phone? What's the first website? How do you find out what your friends have been up to?
If you answered 'Facebook' to any or all of those questions, ...
Added by Jeff Dunn
2 years ago
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It's the busiest travel time of the year and there's going to be a record number of people on the road. That doesn't mean you have to be unsafe though.
Thanks to the latest generation of apps, you can have everythi...
Added by Jeff Dunn
1 year ago
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The allure of a high-paying and respected job has been a big reason many people go to law school. But what if the higher salaries are getting fewer and far between? What if the respect earned by attaining a law degree...
Added by Jeff Dunn
2 years ago
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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,...
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6 months ago
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It’s election time. This week’s top ten Learnist Boards will provide some resources to learn more about or teach the election. They were particularly tough to choose this week because there is so much political material on Learnist, much created by experts.
Added by Jeff Dunn
2 years ago
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Google has become ubiquitous in the realm of online apps in education. While they have certainly enabled more online learning, what about the safety of users venturing out into these relatively uncharted territories f...
Added by Jeremy Chan
6 months ago
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What do you get when you mash up the familiar structure of varsity sports with the popular appeal of creativity competitions like "American Idol", and top it off with a heavy dose of digital youth culture? Web startup "The Media League" tries to answer that question, claiming the title as the world's first online varsity creativity competition.
Added by Jeff Dunn
2 years ago
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You may have a new e-mail client starting on Monday. Get ready for Facebook Mail. Facebook is rumored to announce their secret Project Titan — a web-based email client that is unofficially referred to internally as the “Gmail killer”. Facebook Mail is set to be unveiled on Monday during Facebook's special event (invitation on the right). It is expected to allow you to have e-mail addresses that end in @facebook.com.
But will it be more than POP-enabled webmail? Chances are good that it will be all that and more. If Facebook is seriously trying to take on GMail with a new product it will have to have some impressive features.
Added by Jeff Dunn
2 years ago
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If you're wandering around the Jersey Shore or any other popular destination for college students this summer, you will likely see many people (mostly men) carrying around a bottle of Smirnoff Ice. That bottle will be...
Added by Jeff Dunn
6 months ago
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It's a web app that tries to "simplify the time-consuming office referral process while simultaneously helping to calm the student using videos on mobile devices" according to their blog.
Added by Jeff Dunn
3 years ago
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According to Don Tapscott, author of Grown Up Digital, today's students are the smartest ever. In the video below, he discusses how students, or the 'net generation,' are growing up digitally and are having their bra...
Added by Jeff Dunn
2 years ago
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If you've ever wanted to share a paper or project that you're particularly proud of, chances are good that you've used Scribd. At an event today, the document sharing site has just announced some handy new features th...
Added by Jeff Dunn
2 years ago
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If you went to ISTE or any other conference, you know how tough it is to get everyone's contact info while still having productive conversations. What if all you had to do was launch an app and then all the contact in...
Added by Jeff Dunn
3 years ago
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The typical way for a school to use social media is to set up facebook pages, start a twitter account, and slowly build a following. Poughkeepsie Day School in Poughkeepsie, New York, has already done that, but they'v...
Added by Jeff Dunn
2 years ago
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Does it actually work to write 'Please Retweet!' at the end of some of your tweets? It turns out that many Twitter users are more than happy to retweet your tweet if it's something worthwhile.
Added by Jeff Dunn
5 months ago
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Improve your (and your student's) memory with Fruitiny, a new app from Totano Corp. It's a vintage and beautiful app that from Briano Casotto.