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"Minecraft is showing up with increasing frequency in education technology related social media and blog content. The gamification of education is a hot topic, ripe with possibilities for increased engagement and learning, and Minecraft is a highly creative and flexible application that is well suited to classroom adoption."

"Are you new to creating online courses? Would you like insights into what we learned about ours? Checkout our Online Course Kit to help you plan and design your online course. Jump to the Quick Start to get started immediately. See Insights for our collection of articles and blog posts about our own experiments in online education."

"While many of you may be heading for the beach this week, it won't be long before you're ready to start exploring some new tools to help your students be better creators and collaborators when you go back to school in the fall. This week we published a new video on Nicole Dalesio, a fifth-grade teacher who uses all kinds of free technology tools in her class to keep her kids engaged, and it inspired me to go hunt down the best tutorials for all these great, free Web 2.0 tools. Did I mention most of them are free?"

"Atmosphere of Innovation: What's Your 20% Project? September 27, 2012 - by Adam Renfro You don't want to be the one who can't breathe in this atmosphere of innovation. I've had the great opportunity to work with some impressive leaders who always encouraged innovation and creativity. One went on to lead the 18th Airborne Corp, another became the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, another went straight from principal to superintendent, and others went on to start, resurrect, and transform state-level virtual schools. I'm lucky indeed."

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"Here are some web-based papers and articles you might read if you are interested in learning more about Dr. Seymour Papert's theory of constructionism."

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"50 resources for iPad use in the classroom By Charlie Osborne | May 3, 2012, 6:00am PDT Summary: A roundup of educational articles, apps and tutorials for educators looking to integrate iPads into the classroom. The transition to the more extensive use of technology in classrooms across the West has resulted in the integration of bring your own device (BYOD) schemes, equipping students with netbooks and tablet computers, and lessons that use social media & online services."

"Free Resources and Lesson Plans for Teaching with Technology"

"NEW HOW-TO-DO-IT MANUAL HELPS SCHOOLS AND DISTRICTS AVOID COPYRIGHT PROBLEMS Tuesday, Mar 10 2009 General Announcements Laura 3:47 am Provides essential guidelines for creating, enforcing and maintaining copyright compliance in the 21st century "

I keep getting questions on how to create EPUB from InDesign, so am pointing out some resources on Adobe.com on how to create EPUB eBooks using Adobe InDesign. There are quite a few resources on Adobe.com, and you can use to bring yourself quickly up-to-date, and start publishing EPUBs. I'm adding links to a few videos and PDFs here:

More ideas on apps for the classroom.

"It was about five years ago when I got into visualization. Before I actually made anything, I read books and guides that made suggestions and preached a handful of design principles, but when it was time to make a data graphic for publication, I didn't know what I was doing. Theory is great. Being able to apply it to your own data is better."

How online educators are changing education

"WiredSafety's volunteers have been doing this since right after the Web was launched. For more than 16 years we have been helping people who need our help online. Our sites have had different formats, approaches and lots and lots of coders, editors, writers and webmasters. We are all volunteers, and our online presence looked different every time someone added something or took something away. The site and our other sites grew, but not always in the right way. Our haphazard sites and navigation would be modified to adapt to a need we discovered, and new topics shoe-horned in when they emerged. No one overall vision for the site. And it stopped reflecting our One Vision, One Mission, One WiredSafety rule. We never had enough time to plot our site, update everything and adopt the newest technologies to help us address the needs of the public or even all our volunteers. Please accept our apologies. That was before. This is now. With the generous support of Google, Spectorsoft and a couple others we have ripped everything down and started from scratch. Only about 10% done, we launched with the new site to clean things up. Expect daily changes and improvements. "

"Open courseware offered by top universities allow self-learners to access high quality educational materials for no cost. Whether expanding your knowledge on a variety of topics or sampling the programs offered at universities, free courses can benefit you."

"f you've got school-age kids, you know when they're working on reading and math. But if their homework includes loops, goto commands, and branches, don't be alarmed. They're probably learning to code, and that's a very good thing. From Code.org's Hour of Code to coding camps and afterschool classes, computer programming is hot -- and, in a technology-fueled world that's only going to grow, coding is an invaluable 21st-century skill."

"BUILDING THE FUTURE NOW We are dedicated to the proposition that educators themselves-whether in schools, library, museums, or community organizations-are central to the task of reimagining education in an era of Connected Learning. Educator Innovator gathers educators, partners, and collaborating organizations to support and invest in building this future together."

Great ideas on how building deeper understanding of readers and writers in order to by analytical thinkers.

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