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But the past couple of weeks there’s been a rolling stone gathering lots of moss- and that stone is Scoop.it.

Well, I haven’t seen much happen with Scoop.it and educators for the past few months, but then something big happened: Scoop.it launched Scoop.it for Education.

I know many educators are fond of Paper.li, another link/newspaper tool, but I’ve never found  that paper-like experience to be of much value, because it’s so… bland.

November 1995

survey of journal editors in education, little enthusiasm for the idea of creating electronic versions

changing ideas about what constitutes a publication

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