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Check Out This New Way Students Can Virtually Collaborate
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Students typically have insufficient training in project management and enter the working world with inadequate collaborative skills. Furthermore, academic research indicates that faculty guidance can make a huge imp...
30 Incredible Google Doodles Drawn By Students
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Here is a display of the top 40 Regional Finalists for the Doodle 4 Google competition. Public online voting on these 40 Regional Finalists is now open here through May 13, 2011 11:59 p.m. Pacific ...
Do College Professors Use Facebook?
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Social media is playing a bigger and bigger role in college education. From connecting students to enhancing the educational experience, it's popping up everywhere. Does that mean college professors use Facebook? Y...
Is Social Media Ruining Students?
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Here's a pop quiz for you: are students more or less distracted because of the Internet? Does social media help or hurt students? According to information gathered from several sources by OnlineEducation.net, Faceb...
15 Ways Pixar Is Creating The Art Classroom Of Tomorrow
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Pixar is a lot more than a money-making box office powerhouse. It's an innovative artistic studio that's coming up with very cool solutions to new problems. One of those problems is figuring out how to realistically render certain things using a computer.
30+ Creative Ways To Use Twitter In The Classroom
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If you're a fan of Twitter and teaching, hold onto your seatbelts. Thanks to Tom Barrett and his many collaborative Google Docs, you don’t need to worry about coming up with creative ways to use Twitter in your class...
30 TV Shows That Are Actually Educational
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If you're like me, you can identify at least half of these shows by characters alone. Childhood television shows are (sadly) quite clear in my memory and it's easy to recall some of my favorites. That's why I'm contin...
50 Innovative Ways To Use iPads In School
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Imagine if you will: your school turns out to be sitting atop a long-lost priceless treasure and your district is suddenly extremely wealthy. Each student is given an iPad because it's touted as being a great way for ...
The Evolution of Classroom Technology
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Here's a brief look at the evolution of classroom technology. Do you have a piece of technology that you think should be included? Tweet @edudemic or let me know in the comments!
40+ Free Premium Social Media Icon Sets To Spice Up Your Website
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There's no denying the importance of social networks.Whether you run your own website, blog, or just need some high resolution icon sets for a presentation...look no further. These free premium social media icon sets ...
10 Reasons To Use Digital Textbooks
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The future is here. If you're looking for ways to cut costs as either a student or teacher, why not consider digital textbooks? There's cheaper, easier to use, and a lot easier on the back. I remember my old L.L. Bean...
The Incredible Numbers Behind Harvard Extension School
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As a soon-to-be graduate of the Harvard Extension School, I have nothing but good things to say about the program. That's why I was delighted to see that there is a new article on the school's blog that showcased some...
Twitter Makes 6 Big Changes To Its Homepage
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Just when you probably got accustomed to the homepage for Twitter.com, the times they are a-changing. The new Twitter homepage is designed to make it more enticing for people to search Twitter without being a member. ...
15 Google Pranks You May Have Missed Today
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It's a big day for Google. They pretty much always come up with surprising and hilarious pranks for April Fools Day. The most shared and popular one for today is definitely Gmail Motion. But there's been 15 other pran...
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...
Does Collective Bargaining For Teachers Hurt Students?
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[caption id="attachment_7033" align="aligncenter" width="568" caption="Click to zoom map"][/caption] Right now, only 5 states do not have collective bargaining for educators and have deemed it illegal. Those...
