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Thanks Ryan Rosenthal for sharing this article - Ryan says ... Interesting article talking about a small study that was done in Canada. I liked how they said that most tech instruction in the schools they looked at was focused on how to use the tech not on higher order thinking. It also mentions that the teachers on the forefront of tech teaching are not the new teachers but the ones with experience under their belt. Those teachers know how to handle the classroom and are therefore more comfortable taking the challenge of managing the students as they use tech. 

Free online typing tutor optimized for classroom use.  And it just got better with improved teacher management tools.

New feature to help with e-mail management/productivity

ntroducing a Hangouts app for Virtual Classrooms If you use Hangouts on air (or consider using them) for education, and miss any of the features below: - A full featured registration module to manage attendees - An all-in-one Event Planner/Scheduling/Conferencing app - A comprehensive e-mailing system with fully custom automatic invitation emails, reminder emails and follow up emails - Allow non-plussers attend your classrooms signing in with their Facebook or LinkedIn profiles - Run private HOAs (directly generate unlisted YouTube recordings) - Give the mic to a viewer on-the-fly and make them participant, the time of a question - Get fixed URLs for your permanent virtual classrooms (with or without scheduling) - View a map with geolocated attendees - View your attendees as avatars in a 3D virtual classroom , create a sense of presence, see who's raising hand,... - A unified & moderated chat for participants and viewers engaging in the same chat then you should look into +Business Hangouts : Business Hangouts is an app built for Google Hangouts by Altadyn using the Google Hangouts API (not built by Google ).

Christian Computing magazine (PDF) for October 2013 - Church Management System overview, Accordance 10, E-Sword, Volunteers, The City, Bible Study App by Olive Tree

Another option for online Learning Management Systems. Seems geared more towards higher-ed/professional development. Lots of really great tools, though!

All in one collaboration center. Group email, text, voice, meetings, conference calls, chat rooms, calendars, files, polls, and project management. Best of all, FREE!

Anyone want to play?

Suggested by CoolCatTeacher Vicki Davis; She uses it for multiple things in her classroom: 20%/Genius Hour projects/tracking, Suggestions from kids on what they want her to teach, etc. Mentioned here: http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/2013/04/7-key-ingredients-in-successful-21st.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CoolCatTeacherBlog+%28Cool+Cat+Teacher+Blog%29

Part of a series on how to use Google Apps in the classroom, both for students and teachers.

Wondered how to have my LastPass extension log off automatically after a certain duration of time, etc. Otherwise, if someone stole my laptop, I'd still be logged in to LP and they'd have access to all my passwords. Good, simple options in LP Preferences...