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shared by Antonio Amores Ortiz on 10 Nov 13 - No Cached

BookWriter: Turn your Digital Storytelling into Printable Books!
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Book Writer ($3.99) is an educational iOS app designed for the iPad/iPhone for creating multimedia digital books.
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This is a fantastically simple app to use for students that has them creating dynamic digital books by the tap of a button. A user can add video, images, music, and even record their own voice to narrate a book.
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Children can take photos on a field trip, add text to demonstrate their learning, and annotate their voice to pages to bring learning alive in real time.
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shared by rmissel on 25 Oct 13 - No Cached

some of the inconsistencies we see in children can be attributed to motivation and memory, much of it is directly related to difficulties with generalization.
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shared by Antonio Amores Ortiz on 12 Nov 13 - No Cached

A New Role for Avatars: Learning Languages
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with  more sophisticated technology, another theory around language learning is being tested: the use of avatars to practice speaking.
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Companies like Second Life and Middlebury Interactive Languages both offer digital avatar programs to give language learners a chance to practice their skills in virtual environments.
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Teachers and students can give their character a voice by using one of three methods: text to speech, recording by microphone, or uploading their own pre-recording audio file. Voki characters can speak in over 25 languages, and 150-plus voices, according to Eric Kiang, Voki’s Product and Marketing Manager.
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shared by marathonman1313 on 12 Nov 13 - No Cached

A growing body of research shows that play is fundamental to kids' development by promoting social interaction, exploration and creativity. There are no recent national studies or fresh numbers on recess time, but 2005 data from the Education Department survey and a 2006 report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that about 9 in 10 elementary schools regularly schedule recess, with times ranging from 24 to 30 minutes a day.
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School districts that are cutting back on recess or physical education to save money or add instruction time should think twice, Goodman says. "It's penny wise and pound foolish to cut back recess and put in academic time. Because, in the end, the kids won't be prepared for academic time.
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shared by Antonio Amores Ortiz on 30 Oct 13 - No Cached

When you’re viewing or working on something in Google Drive and somebody else opens the same file, you’ll see his or her Google+ profile picture appear in the top-right corner of your browser window. (If the person doesn't have a Google+ profile picture, you'll see their first initial. If the person's viewing the item anonymously, they'll be assigned an animal name and image.) As more people open the document, more profile images appear. If you hover over a profile image, you’ll see information about the viewer pulled from his or her Google+ profile, and you can add the person to one of your Google+ circles with a click.
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shared by Antonio Amores Ortiz on 30 Oct 13 - No Cached

Create and Manage Student Blogs in 5 Simple Steps
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Step 1 – Create a class blog
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Step 2: Set up My Class
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Step 4:  Add Class blog widget to sideba
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Step 3:  Create your student blogs
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The class blog widget provides a handy link to all student blogs attached to My Class.  Students just need to click on the link to easily go to a class mates blog.
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Step 5:  Check student posts and comments
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