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"Classmint helps to score well in exams and life through research-proven scientific techniques like Cornell Notes, Flashcards, Active Recall and timely repetition of study notes. Classmint lets anyone create interactive, audible, annotatable and beautiful study notes that can be folded like paper. It also maintains automated study list to aid in timely repetition."

"Are you a Google Drive / Google Docs fan? Do you take notes, compose papers, construct spreadsheets, and build presentations in real-time on the web while collaborating with others? I'm not necessarily promoting Google Drive; just merely pointing out a few of the powerful ways the free tool can help you save time and keep you better organized."

"Lapse It allow you to take the best time lapse videos with your mobile device !"

Amazing stats in Real Time

Time Magazine

By middle school, children spend more time with digital media than they do with their teachers or even with their parents, according to a recent study. Is the internet a good teacher? Apparently not.

An emerging group of leaders in Canadian education has attracted thousands of followers. They've made Twitter an extension of their lives, delivering twenty or more tweets a day that can include, for example, links to media articles, research, new ideas from education bloggers, or to their own, or simply a personal thought. At their best, edu-tweeters are adeptly leveraging Twitter to brand themselves, to reinvent teacher PD, and perhaps to accelerate the transformation of our Canadian education systems. Twitter is being used to extend formal PD conferences beyond their venue to followers on Twitter in real time; it's facilitating informal discussions ("unconferences") among educators with common interests; it's allowing best practices to "go viral" on the Internet; and it's allowing innovative classroom teachers to challenge the status quo.

"Are teenagers losing their social skills? Parents and pundits seem to think so. Teens spend so much time online, we're told, that they're no longer able to handle the messy, intimate task of hanging out face-to-face. "After school, my son is on Facebook with his friends. If it isn't online, it isn't real to him," one mother recently told me in a panic. "Everything is virtual!""

"A survey of 2,462 Advanced Placement (AP) and National Writing Project (NWP) teachers finds that digital technologies are shaping student writing in myriad ways and have also become helpful tools for teaching writing to middle and high school students.  These teachers see the internet and digital technologies such as social networking sites, cell phones and texting, generally facilitating teens' personal expression and creativity, broadening the audience for their written material, and encouraging teens to write more often in more formats than may have been the case in prior generations.  At the same time, they describe the unique challenges of teaching writing in the digital age, including the "creep" of informal style into formal writing assignments and the need to better educate students about issues such as plagiarism and fair use"

"Kik describes itself as, 'the fastest, simplest, most personal smartphone messenger out there.' It is an app that can be downloaded onto a smart phone, an iPod, or iPad and users can text others for free. This is one of its allures! At the time of writing 19 million had joined Kik Messenger. It is fun, effective, cheap so what are the dangers?"

"Oh boy do I love me some keyboard shortcuts.  They are fantastic time savers and you only have to know a handful of them to increase your efficiency and productivity "

"You can't throw an angry bird these days without hitting someone talking about video games in education. The interwebs are buzzing about the possibilities and potential downsides. With the ninth annual Games for Change conference in New York and the eighth annual Games+Learning+Society (GLS) conference back-to-back in just a few weeks, now is a perfect time to check out some videos about games for learning."

"Apparently Code.org's successful "Hour of Code" event in December was just a warm-up act. The Seattle-based nonprofit on Thursday is announcing the rollout of its computer-science education programs at 30 school districts around the country. Altogether they'll reach more than 2 million students - nearly 5  percent of all K-12 students in the country - starting this fall."

"Want to see something amazing? Visit a college classroom. You'll be amazed, perhaps astounded to learn that today's classrooms look completely - like the ones you sat in five, 10, or even 50 years ago. Despite revolutionary technology, the information explosion, and an interconnected planet, not to mention improved teaching and learning methods, the typical college classroom is fixed in time like a museum diorama."

"Maybe you have the situation of one student dominating the Q and A time, leaving others searching for their chance to answer. You've tried the pull a name out of the hat trick, popsicle sticks, and notecards. Maybe that worked? Maybe not? Better yet, when that student answered the question were you really able to remember by the end of the day if he or she answered it correctly? It's simple. Pick Me! will randomly pull a students name for you to call on and after they answer you record whether or not it was correct using the thumbs up or incorrect using thumbs down. The data is saved and ready to export to your email account at the end of class. "

"A superb time lapse video creator app from Instagram. It uses your device's positioning system to produce a stunningly smooth image and you can change the speed of your videos in post-production. It's a 'must try' tool for both educators and students."