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• in Technology
  Offline Apps: The Next Big Market?
  Offline apps may become the next big investment opportunity for savvy developers and profit-hungry investors.
  by csedev / on Jul 6, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “educational technology”

 

• Family Tablets

  
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  Last September Top Ender got a tablet. We decided that it would be a suitable gift for her, as we could download books for her to read onto the tablet, she could access her own blog to update (Sorry its family only), she could play computer games or surf the web and we thought it would be helpful for her School work ...
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• Week in Review - Get On Your Bike and Ride

  
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  Good morning from the Free Technology for Teachers world headquarters in Greenwood, Maine. This week I did not travel so I was able to spend some extra time writing and planning for the workshops I have scheduled for this summer. Part of that planning included exploring some of the biking and hiking trails around ...
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• Typing Club Helps Students Learn to Type

  
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  This month Typing Club became a financial supporter of Free Technology for Teachers. As I do with any new supporter I like to share a quick post about what they offer to teachers and students.  Typing Club is a popular website offering free online touch typing lessons for students of all ages. Whether you use the ...
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• Enhanced Vision Introduces the Acrobat HD

  
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  For the last five years, Enhanced Visions popular Acrobat CCTV has been a mainstay in classrooms, offices, and homes, providing visually impaired individuals with effective up close and distance magnification. Taking this proven solution one step further, theyve now introduced the Acrobat HD, giving the low vision ...
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• Create iPad and Android Magazines on Flipboard on the Web

  
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  Last month the popular iPad app Flipboard added a great feature that allows everyone to curate their own digital magazines. Today, Flipboard made that option available on Android as well in web browsers on your computer. Flipboard Editor allows you to create and curate digital magazines through your web browser. ...
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• Silk - Collaboratively Create Digital Portfolios

  
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  Silk is a free service for creating webpages organized around a theme or topic. Silk is intended to be a place where you can share collections of materials as well as write text directly into your webpages. Your Silk dashboard provides a place to organize your materials into collections and subcollections. Your ...
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• Memofon - Create Mind Maps from Outlines

  
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  Memofon is a new mind mapping tool that makes it possible to create mind maps from typed outlines. Memofon uses the same concept as Text 2 Mind Map which I really like. To create a mind map with Memofon you just have to type an outline. It takes some time to figure out the outline formatting tricks. Once you have ...
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• The FAFSA and Financial Aid in a Nutshell

  
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  The FAFSA and financial aid packages offered by universities can be difficult for the first-time college student to navigate. And if youre a first generation college student it can be even more difficult because you may not know who to turn to for advice. Fortunately, a lot of high school guidance departments are ...
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• Week One

  
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  What did you learn this week that you will use immediately in... The post Week One appeared first on Martin Ray Vaughan .
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• eduClipper Is What Teachers Want Pinterest To Be

  
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  My friend and fellow ed tech blogger Adam Bellow has relaunched his start-up company eduClipper . Some of you may remember that Adam launched a private beta of the service last year . Well after a big investment from some venture capital firms and ten months of testing and revising features eduClipper is better than ...
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• Tech Tuesday screencast: Choose Your Own Adventure stories

  
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  Choose Your Own Adventure stories allow readers to pick the course of the story they read. The story changes based on the decisions that they make. These stories can be great fun for students as wrap-up activities to stories they’ve read (how does the story progress from here?) or simply as a creative writing ...
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• Why aren’t we using web-based tools with our students?

  
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  Sean Dowling , an Educational Technology Coordinator, looks at why the uptake of Web 2.0 tools in the classroom has been slow, and offers some solutions. On a daily basis, many of us are using web-based tools. For example, we are using Facebook and Twitter , watching YouTube and accessing a variety of other ...
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• Back to Square One

  
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  So yes. Textfyre could be seen as trying to push a particular solution onto a non-existent or poorly defined problem. I can admit that I may have missed an important part of this process, especially if I plan to approach schools for money. The part that I believe has been missed is the education side and the business ...
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• ISTE: Standards

  
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  One of my Educational Goals: Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity... The post ISTE: Standards appeared first on Martin Ray Vaughan .
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• My Macbook is driving me crazy – or the case of the missing pocket drive

  
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  Original image : sr trends For the second time in a year my MacBook has lost access to my pocket drive. The first one disappeared off the desktop and from the Disk Utility about 6 months after I got it last year. All my precious back ups. Gone. I couldn’t retrieve anything, I couldn’t get the drive to be ...
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• Digital Literacy Twitter Chat and Workshop

  
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  From the inbox a few hours ago – note the event for tomorrow morning. Chat Join us tomorrow, Sunday May 5, at 10am PDT for a Digital Literacy Twitter Chatto share ideas, resources and strategies. Use #digitaliteracy and #edtechbc for the chat. For those of you from far away, use the time zone converter. Meet [...]
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• Minecraft in class

  
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  I got this link via a paper.li link on my Twitter feed. I have used Minecraft in class but only with individual students who could show me they knew what they are doing and only if they told me exactly what they intended to do. Nothing grand. I have had older students take me on virtual tours of their home in ...
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• New Tools Added to Wideo - Create Better Animated Videos

  
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  Wideo is a video creation tool that has impressed me since the first time that I tried it in February . Last month Wideo added a voiceover option . This week Wideo added two more options that I think youll like. Now you can quickly rearrange the sequence of the scenes in your videos through a new drag and drop ...
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• Educational Technology: Current Trends and Future Directions

  
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  I am excited to be today’s keynote speaker at the LearnIT Conference at Northern Illinois University . I’ve enjoyed spending the past several days visiting innovative schools in the greater Chicago area. The classroom visits and conversations with the students, faculty, and administrators have been enjoyable ...
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• The Week in Review - Time to Swim

  
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  Good morning from the Free Technology for Teachers world headquarters in Greenwood, Maine. The last few days have been gorgeous spring days. Yesterday, I took my boys (Max and Morrison) on a hike near the location of the Practical Ed Tech Summer Camp . They had a great time on the trails and Max enjoyed splashing in ...
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