If you were on Twitter | Dangerously Irrelevant | Big Think - 2 views
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Twitter is the back fence you share with your neighbors. Except your neighbors are people all over the world
open multiple pages in one window
How to Browse the Web Using Tabs - Lifehacker - 2 views
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new window
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can clutter up your desktop quickly
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Excellent explanation of how tabbed browsing can increase productivity...or at least making your browser windows more managable.
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I like opening tabs by clicking the scroll wheel on the mouse. Uber efficient
Atomic Learning: Google Docs - 0 views
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BGSU students and faculty/staff only. Contact TSC for login info.
Atomic Learning: Google Docs - A Focus on Spreadsheets - 0 views
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Atomic Learning: Skype 4.0 - 0 views
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Google Docs for Android Turns Your Photos into Docs - 0 views
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Google Docs for Android. Still no native editor but you can take a picture of physical document and it will convert it to a digital google doc. neat http://on.mash.to/iQ6fIA
How To Record Skype Calls on Your iPhone or iPad - 0 views
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Using Skype for student/teacher conferences? You can record those sessions on your iPhone/iPad!
The Social Layer - 0 views
An interesting video discussing the "Social Layer" and video games: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn9fTc_WMbo
Atomic Learning: Web 2.0 Workshop - 0 views
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BGSU students and faculty/staff only. Contact TSC for login info.
Royal Wedding: A Two-Screen Experience Like You've Never Seen - 0 views
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What we’ve come to realize more and more through major events — elections, major celebrations, breaking news events and tragedies — is that the two-screen experience is becoming more and more ubiquitous,” says Morse. “More people are interacting, watching while using their tablets and their iPhones, and we want to create the richest two-screen experience we can.
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Most unusually, two-dimensional barcodes will appear on-screen throughout the day, prompting viewers with smartphones to scan the code to load additional CNN coverage on their smartphones.
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networks are beginning to understand the importance of an engaged audience across multiple channels
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Social media and multi-platform media outlets change the way we experience and interact with history.
Why Career & Technical Education Should Be a Priority for the U.S. [OPINION] - 0 views
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Students enter a world cut off from their own where they are asked to turn off all electronic devices. They can feel trapped
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At all levels, businesses need employees that are more creative, more technical, and more connected than ever. This means that technical literacy is no longer “nice to have,” but a requirement for success.
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At the same time, a recent study found that 14% of employers in the U.S. reported having difficulty finding employees to fill high-skill positions, including jobs like technicians, sales people, office support, and skilled tradespeople.
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Wiki Example: BGSU Orientation Station - 0 views
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Great example of how multiple departments worked together to create an excellent resource for students. This wiki is a constant work in progress.
Einstein, YouTube, and New Media Literacies in the Connected Age | DMLcentral - 0 views
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Moving to a discussion of how attitudes and habits apply to digital literacies, she uses Twitter as a tool that can be a "representation of what the Web seeks to be," namely a source of personal, customized, community-filtered data -- but only to the person who knows how to use it and approaches it with the right mindset.
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Social media in education, according to Maiers, is "a mindset challenge, not a skill set challenge."
DIGITAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS: Tools and Technologies for Effective Classrooms - 0 views
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Part 2
DIGITAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS: Tools and Technologies for Effective Classrooms - 0 views
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Part 1 in this series.
Smithsonian Oral and Video Histories: Steve Jobs - 0 views
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I've helped with more computers in more schools than anybody else in the world and I absolutely convinced that is by no means the most important thing. The most important thing is a person. A person who incites your curiosity and feeds your curiosity; and machines cannot do that in the same way that people can. The elements of discovery are all around you. You don't need a computer.
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Computers are very reactive but they're not proactive; they are not agents
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What children need is something more proactive. They need a guide. They don't need an assistant
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Steve Jobs on the importance of education and the computer's role.
Online Courses, Still Lacking That Third Dimension - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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Those relationships — with humans in the flesh — help students to persevere. Online courses are notorious for high dropout rates.
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There is something motivating about the student’s relationship with the instructor — and with the student’s relationship with other students in the class — that would be absent if each took the course in a software-only environment.
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We should focus on having at least one great course online for each subject rather than lots of mediocre courses
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FERPA and Social Media | Faculty Focus - 0 views
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FERPA requires schools to maintain control over certain student records
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medical information, social security numbers, and grades
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Some people think that students cannot release any personally identifiable student information, but this is also not true
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College 2.0: 6 Top Smartphone Apps to Improve Teaching, Research, and Your Life - Techn... - 0 views
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Taking Attendance
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building a personal virtual library
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allow readers to highlight and take notes on any PDF saved to the system
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