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Contents contributed and discussions participated by Ian Quartermaine

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Grammar Check | Grammarly - 3 views

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    Grammarly makes you a better writer by finding and correcting up to 10 times more mistakes than your word processor.
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Free Technology for Teachers: 7 Tools for Adding Questions and Notes to Videos - 3 views

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    Short videos from YouTube and other sources can be quite helpful in introducing topics to students and or reinforcing concepts that you have taught. Watching the video can be enough for some students, it's better if we can call students' attention to specific sections of videos while they are watching them. The following tools allow you to add comments and questions to videos that you share with your students.
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The Not-So-Distant Future When We Can All Upgrade Our Brains - Alexis C. Madrigal - The... - 1 views

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    "Magna Cortica is the argument that we need to have a guidebook for both the design spec and ethical rules around the increasing power and diversity of cognitive augmentation," said IFTF distinguished fellow, Jamais Cascio. "There are a lot of pharmaceutical and digital tools that have been able to boost our ability to think. Adderall, Provigil, and extra-cortical technologies."
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Reflector - AirPlay mirror your iPhone or iPad to any Mac or PC - 6 views

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    Mirroring for MAC or Pc. Change of name. ios7 capable.
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9 Ways Parallels Access Makes Your iPad Better - 1 views

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    Access allows iPad users to run applications on remote OS X and Windows computers through Apple's tablet.
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Download "Own Your Space--Keep Yourself and Your Stuff Safe Online" Digital Book for Te... - 0 views

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    "Own Your Space--Keep Yourself and Your Stuff Safe Online" Digital Book for Teens by Linda McCarthy
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Watch Videos | Genero.tv - 4 views

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DERN - 5 views

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    DERN is the Digital Education Research Network. DERN is managed by the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) in Melbourne, Australia. DERN is a network for, leaders, researchers and educators interested in the use of digital technologies for learning. Users of DERN may have an interest in ICT, media, pedagogy, emerging technologies and related areas and are probably well briefed in the area of elearning research, as well as scholars seeking details about what research has been done, possibly for their own research purposes.
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Learning objects repositories - EduTech Wiki - 5 views

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    This entry lists various well known learning objects repositories. See the learning object repository article for a definition. Most repositories don't provide learning objects in standardized formats (such as IMS Content Packaging).
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http://edudemic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/learningtheories-full.jpg - 1 views

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The Best Funny Movie/TV Clips Of Bad Teachers | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of ... - 4 views

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    Here are my choices for The Best Funny Clips Of Bad Teachers:
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Paint or Paint App? Value of Creating Digital Vs. Traditional Art | MindShift#more-28669 - 3 views

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    hile it may be easy to imagine how iPads can support classroom studies with reading, history, or science, some of the most groundbreaking - and creative - work with digital tools may be happening in arts classes. Schools using iPads are incorporating them in art and music classes, too - and not only as tools for measuring and remembering, but for creating as well.
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David Pogue: 10 top time-saving tech tips | Video on TED.com - 2 views

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    Tech columnist David Pogue shares 10 simple, clever tips for computer, web, smartphone and camera users. And yes, you may know a few of these already -- but there's probably at least one you don't.
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The good, not so good, and long view on Bmail « The Berkeley Blog - 1 views

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    Many campuses have decided to outsource email and other services to "cloud" providers. Berkeley has joined in by migrating student and faculty to bMail, operated by Google. In doing so, it has raised some anxiety about privacy and autonomy in communications. In this post, I outline some advantages of our outsourcing to Google, some disadvantages, and how we might improve upon our IT outsourcing strategy, especially for sensitive or especially valuable materials.
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Free Technology for Teachers: Create Quizzes in Edcanvas - 4 views

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    Edcanvas is an excellent tool for creating digital packets of information for your students to read, watch, and listen to. Now you can have students check their understanding of the materials in those digital packets by having them take a short quiz.
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Are Education Innovators Channeling B.F. Skinner? - Living in Dialogue - Education Week... - 0 views

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    What is remarkable in listening to Dr. Skinner is how familiar these promises seem. Here we have the promise that students can work at their own pace, through curriculum presented in a coherent order. The student interacts constantly with the author of the program, and the result is that learning proceeds twice as fast. The word "personalized" is the only thing missing - but the idea is there for sure.
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Microsoft's IllumiRoom - 2 views

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    The demo, which is an extended version of the previously released video, highlights numerous effects including snow, lighting, grids, and other ways in which IllumiRoom changes the user's playing space. Reports continue to suggest that Microsoft is likely to implement the concept into its next Xbox design, although no official confirmation has been granted just yet.
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Cel.ly Supports Schools: Group texting for education - 3 views

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    Cel.ly is primarily a free group texting service. Group texting saves time, improves communication, provides documentation of texts, and sets the stage for easily using many other cell phone tools. The Cells referred to in Cel.ly are instant mobile networks. With Cel.ly, you can have open group chat, one-way alerting, or a hybrid where curators can approve messages
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Major Players in the MOOC Universe - 3 views

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    Millions of students have signed up for massive open online courses, and hundreds of universities are offering some form of Web-based curriculum. Most students aren't paying much for these classes, if they're paying anything at all. So where is all that knowledge-and all the cash-coming from?
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