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Facing the Consequences: Poor Social Media Choices Lead to Lost Opportunities | Talk Te... - 0 views
Open Badges. Learning Technologies (#LT14uk) | Doug's Conference blog - 1 views
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A slide presentation by Doug Belshaw and Tim Riches where they explain how the Mozilla Open Badges can verify and recognize skills and achievements. These are digital and an individual can be display them on various sites, be they job sites, social networking places, websites etc.
Apps in Education: Ultimate list of Minecraft Guides, Cheats and Video Tutorial Apps - 4 views
Teacher Tools ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning - 6 views
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This is a list that steers you towards lists that have been created for specific uses - eg. top tools to learn about copyright, top timeline creation tool, top infographic making tools for teachers. There are 30 lists identified and linked to the post.
Now You Can See Which Websites Are Tracking You in Real-Time | Motherboard - 8 views
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"Mozilla launched a tool that shines a light on the mysterious under-workings of the web economy. Its browser extension, Lightbeam, follows your digital footprint as you surf the web and shows you a real-time visualization of all the websites that are clandestinely tracking and sharing your data."
10 Criteria Teachers Should Use To Find The Best Apps - Edudemic - Edudemic - 6 views
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"From Edudemic: an effective chart that actually ranks education apps according to a few critical criteria. The visual from Grasping For Objectivity details 29 different 'edutainment' apps that are both free and paid. I like how each one is laid out and ranked accordingly. The apps are each given an overall score and it's based on a plethora of criteria:" The chart looks at iOS apps but the criteria can be used for any app therefore to work out which Android apps would work for your classroom too.
All Can Be Lost: The Risk of Putting Our Knowledge in the Hands of Machines - Nicholas ... - 1 views
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Unquestioning reliance on automation can, and has, led to disasters. This is one of the major reasons why teacher-librarians, librarians and other information professionals need to very diligently to ensure digital information literacy skills are learnt by everyone in the community. We all need to be in control of our technologies, not allow our technologies dictate to us.
Digital Documentation of Art workshop and fighting bit rot | HASTAC - 2 views
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A useful cheat sheet synthesizing the best file formats to work with, provide access to, and to permanently archive digital artworks.
Make the web faster, more private, and more secure | Disconnect 2 | Disconnect - 2 views
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The original product, Disconnect, was created by a former engineer at Google and its subsidiary, DoubleClick, Brian Kennish, and a former consumer rights advocate, Casey Oppenheim. It shows users the invisible sites that track their actions on the web and blocks them. According to Kennish, it not only cuts the advertising umbilical cord, but it also reduces the use of bandwidth and increases browser speeds by as much as 27 per cent. A more recent product, Disconnect Search, essentially makes your search terms anonymous.
Try Freehand Mind Mapping With MindBoard Free - 2 views
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"A mind mapping application for Android devices. The app allows you to create mind maps through freehand drawing and or by typing on the screen. All of the mind maps that you create in MindBoard Free can be saved to your Google Drive account. Once the mind map is in your Google Drive account you can open it on any other device. One of the more thoughtful features of MindBoard Free is palm-input rejection which rejects accidental input from brushing your palm on the screen while writing."
Create Amazing Interactive Presentations From Your Browser With Emaze | PowerPoint Pres... - 4 views
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Emaze might be a tool worth investigating if you are seeking to create interesting presentations
The Maker Movement Finds Its Way Into Urban Classrooms | MindShift - 1 views
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Another interesting piece about makerspaces. This time how one teacher librarian (librarian and English teacher) in the US used robotics kits in her library to respond to their reading. Her students to created characters from the stories they read and then brought them to life. Innovative and engaging hands-on learning - what's not to like. Other examples are discussed as well.
Nik's Learning Technology Blog: Evaluating authentic mobile apps for learning - 1 views
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Nik Peachey's post that discusses how you can evaluate apps. He clearly sets out the criteria for evaluating authentic apps that would be for use in educational settings.
Edublogs Releases A New Android App - 2 views
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This new app means that Edublogs can be used by almost all of your students. This service offers a good option for classroom blogging and can be on BYOD devices as well as our class tablets.
Education Rethink @edrethink: Ten Ideas for Using Instagram in the Classroom - 4 views
Classroom Games - Microsoft Office Games PowerPoint Games - 6 views
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EdGames contains downloadable games, game templates and utilities that can be used to enhance any lessons. Powerpoint, Excel and Word templates provided.
How Technology Has Transformed the Classroom [#Infographic] | EdTech Magazine - 3 views
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"How Technology Has Transformed the Classroom [#Infographic] Infographic compares educational technologies of yesteryear to the classroom resources of today."
Top 100 Apps for Teachers, Students and Researchers ~ Educational Technology and Mobile... - 2 views
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From the Educational Technology and Mobile Learning blog - post "the apps cover a wide variety of skills including writing, presentation making, mind mapping, referencing, and many more. In fact, I could not offer you any better than this great list for back to school. "
9 Great Book Creator Tools for Teachers and Students ~ Educational Technology and Mobil... - 3 views
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An annotated list of web tools that teachers can use with their students to create books.
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