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Carol Furchner

Teens, Cell Phones and Texting - Pew Research Center - 0 views

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    Some insights on teen behavior using cell phones, from a 2010 study. A third of teens who text send 3000 or more text messaged per month!
Carol Furchner

How to build a Personal Learning Network - Classroom2.0 - 0 views

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    Video about building a personal learning network - simple steps
Carol Furchner

Using Social Media in Schools - watch video clip - 0 views

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    This video clip is a panel discussion by three educators about how they use social media to form personal learning networks and to excite students in their schools. These guys are passionate about it!
Carol Furchner

'iGeneration' requires a different approach to instruction - 0 views

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    The author mantains that students born after1990 need a different approach to teaching, in order to keep them engaged.
Carol Furchner

Doodle: easy scheduling, quick polling - 0 views

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    Free tool that allows you to schedule an event by creating a set of possible times and then asking recipients to click on the ones when they are available. ("Schedule an Event") Also allows creation of a one-question poll ("Make a Choice"). See "Help" for instructions. Extremely easy to use. You need to create a free account.
Carol Furchner

Free Live Web Events! | The Edublogger - 0 views

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    Edublogger - tips, tricks, ideas and help with using web2.0 technologies and edublogs
Carol Furchner

Classroom 2.0 LIVE! - Educational Webcasts and webinars - 0 views

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    Classroom2.0 offers frequent (just look!) online webinars about a large variety of educational topics, mostly those involved with using technology. This calendar lists them. Click on the Agenda tab to see full listings of titles. Go to this website for more information about participation: http://live.classroom20.com/
Carol Furchner

National Education Technology Plan 2010 | U.S. Department of Education - 0 views

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    Draft for comment issued March 5, 2010.
Carol Furchner

How Privacy Vanishes Online, a Bit at a Time - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • In 2008, a pair of researchers at the University of Texas showed that the customer data released for that first contest, despite being stripped of names and other direct identifying information, could often be “de-anonymized” by statistically analyzing an individual’s distinctive pattern of movie ratings and recommendations.
  • By examining correlations between various online accounts, the scientists showed that they could identify more than 30 percent of the users of both Twitter, the microblogging service, and Flickr, an online photo-sharing service, even though the accounts had been stripped of identifying information like account names and e-mail addresses.
  • Alessandro Acquisti and Ralph Gross reported that they could accurately predict the full, nine-digit Social Security numbers for 8.5 percent of the people born in the United States between 1989 and 2003 — nearly five million individuals.
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    Scary how much information can be gleaned about you by mining the data in your profiles and what your "friends" and "networks" say about you. This is a real consideration for using social networking tools in education.
Carol Furchner

Google Search Options - 0 views

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    GREAT collection of tools supplied by Google to enhance search strategies. Move cursor around image to select each one. Also see "other search tools" for a link to a wiki with information about more search tools.
Carol Furchner

Free and Useful Online Resources for Designers and Developers @ SmashingApps - 0 views

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    List of 69 FREE Web Apps - some real gems here.
Carol Furchner

R2D2: A model for using technology in education - 0 views

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    Read, Reflect, Display, Do - a model for using technology in education. Good for online and f2f classes. Helps organize tasks for presentation to students - useful framework.
Lynne Williams

Thinking Outside the Classroom - 0 views

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    Lynne Williams's List: Thinking Outside the Classroom - A group of tools for taking your own settings with you anywhere!
Carol Furchner

U3 USB- Software Central - 0 views

  • And when you unplug it, it leaves no personal data behind.
    • Bill Gilson
       
      games and pr0n at work FTW!
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    Take your desktop with you on a U3 enabled USB drive!
Lynne Williams

Xmarks Features: Overview - 0 views

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    Take your bookmarks with you everywhere!
Carol Furchner

Diigo Tutorials - 0 views

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    A collection of tutorials about Diigo - using Google Notebook rather than Diigo to compile the list. (It's a good illustration of the use of Google Notebook, too!)
Carol Furchner

Students Unimpressed with Faculty Use of Ed Tech -- Campus Technology - 0 views

  • According to new research released Monday, only 38 percent of students indicated that their instructors "understand technology and fully integrate it into their classes." Students also rated that lack of understanding as "the biggest obstacle to classroom technology integration."
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    Students and educators are in agreement that technology is an important adjunct to education - but students are not impressed with how well instructors understand and integrate technology into their classes.
Carol Furchner

The Educator's PLN - The personal learning network for educators - 0 views

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    A large PLN with lots of members, links, discussions about education, especially education and technology
Lynne Williams

RoboForm Features: Fill In Forms, Automatic Forms Completion, Save Forms, Search Toolbar - 0 views

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    Never use a sticky note for your passwords again...
Carol Furchner

New Features in Diigo 4 - Classroom 2.0 LIVE! - 0 views

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    Overview and demo (skip about 1st 10 minutes - it's setup for the webconference session that was recorded; just drag the slider at the bottom of the video). Ends after an hour, but then questions follow. Also a lot of links related to diigo underneath the video on the page.
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