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Online learning appears to be a classic disruptive innovation with the potential not just to improve the current model of education delivery, but to transform it. Online learning started by serving students for whom there was no alternative for learning. It got its start in distance-learning environments, outside of a traditional school building, and it started small. In 2000, roughly 45,000 K-12 students took an online course. But by 2010, over 4 million students were participating in some kind of formal online-learning program. The preK-12 online population is now growing by a five-year compound annual growth rate of 43 percent-and that rate is accelerating.

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"Comic Life, the award winning photo comic creation software, has been redesigned for the iPad. It's the funnest, easiest and fastest way ever to create photo comics on a mobile device. Your comics come to life with our integrated reader on the brilliant iPad display. It's simple to get started with full page templates and panel layouts. Bring in photos from Photobooth or your library and use our powerful editing and design tools to get exactly the look you want. "

"webdoc enables you to mix the web to create interactive posts on-the-fly and start rich social conversation."

Time now for Pingdom's look at the Internet stats for 2010. This will give you an idea of the massive Web presence as it continues its infiltration of our daily lives. I'll be curious to see the differences at the start of 2012. In the meantime, enjoy. posted by Ian Jukes Feb 9, 2011

iRead is a group of teachers in Escondido Union School District dedicated to the idea that digital audio can be a powerful learning tool for all students. iRead will give you a chance to create meaningful, curriculum-centered audio projects with your students. Teachers are using digital audio tools (iPods, mics, Garageband, iTunes, Keynote, etc. and various accessories) to improve reading processes. Teachers meet on a monthly basis to exchange ideas and strategies. We started in 2006-07 by collecting data about fluency rates - this has been very promising.