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This is a news letter you may want to subscribe to. It is free and chalked with good tech information. I tried to reproduce the news brief I received today which talked about the fallout Apple and Google had over Google's involvement with the Android operating system (Iphone's major competition) and how Apple did not renew its license with Google to include the You Tube app on their phones and IPads. Here is s snippet from this week's most read stories: Apple and Google have played a key role in education over the years. With the news earlier this week that Apple will not pre-install the YouTube app on their latest iOS upgrade, coupled with the news that they will have their own map app, you have to wonder how secure their relationship is. It seems that Apple wasn't too pleased about Google's purchase of the Android operating system, which now runs on half of the world's smartphones. If these are indeed the first steps in severing that relationship, what does this mean to districts that support both Apple iOS devices and Google? My district would fall into this category and I have to say both companies have something in common with end-users: their ease of use. Could this break-up actually make usability worse in the future? If I email a link from my Apple map app to my gmail account, what will open when I click on it? If I post something on YouTube, how will I view it on my iPhone? (for the record Apple says it will support in-browser YouTube) I don't have the answer yet, but let me Google it on my iPad and get back to you. - Carl Hooker, SchoolCIO advisor

This a youtube video that teaches you how to use Diigo in the classroom. It talks about how you can use it with your students. Shows how you can share information with your students as a group discussion and use it at home for homework purposes.

YouTube is a resource site where you can host, tag and share videos. If you want to use a video, you can either link to it on the YouTube site or embed it into a web page or blog. It is therefore a useful resource of user-generated video content.

A powerful tool for finding short clips for every class.

Great video tutorial to create a mindmap

This screencast demonstrates how SMART notebook can be used to create a review game based on the six levels of Bloom's Taxonomy.

Teacher explains why she flipped her math classroom - not enough time for effective differentiation.

I think this is may be an easier tutorial to follow (at least it was for me) to learn how to use Jing, both the screen capture and video applications. For more flexibility, upgrading and paying the nominal annual fee may be well worth it if you plan to use this application a lot.

Thanks, Barb!

Michael Wesch's visual explanation of Web 2.0

A collection of clips from the Plain English series explaining the main tools and strategies on the Internet over the past few years. Now Playing: Social Media in Plain English uploaded by leelefever at youtube.com A simple story that illustrates the forces shaping social media.