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At edSocialMedia, we like to encourage our bootcamp attendees to practice using social media in their daily lives. If the user sees it naturally fitting into their social lives, we find that they are way more likely to use the tools in the professional careers.

Ideas for using Thinglink

Alliance | Celebrating 90 years as the most prestigious recognition and scholarship program for teenage artists and writers in the U.S.

D own the English Grammar 101 highway, language proficiency awaits. Our program will take you through the basics of English grammar, giving you a foundation for further learning. Writing and grammar skills are essential in any line of work, at any age, and for any reason.

A direct link to the #edtech hashtag on twitter in order to follow and discover educational technology resources.

EdTechTeacher invites applications to present at Leading Change in Changing Times: EdTechTeacher iPad Summit USA. We welcome all education levels, content areas, and specialties, as well as industry and technology experts. Your proposal should fall under one of the following conference strands: Classroom Integration, Leadership, and Technical. Application deadline is August 15, 2012.

Watch full episodes of your favorite PBS shows, explore music and the arts, find in-depth news analysis, and more. Home to Antiques Roadshow, Frontline, NOVA, PBS Newshour, Masterpiece and many others.

Free music to use in presentations and projects.

What is neoclassicism? How can teachers and students define this term quickly but correctly? Neoclassicism was a revived interest in classical forms and ideas that saturated European and American intellectual thought, fine arts and politics during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Neoclassicism was a transatlantic phenomenon.

Transforming media into collaborative spaces with video, voice, and text commenting.

Wes Fryer just published a blog post about a Google Search tips presentation given by Lucy Gray. Included in Wes's post he included this seven minute video of a conversation between Dan Russell (Google's Search Anthropologist) and Udi Manbar (VP of Engineering at Google) about strategies for formulating better Google searches.

Wordle is a toy for generating "word clouds" from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like.