VIRGINIA BEACH Local educators are working on a plan to enable students to graduate from high school with associate degrees or certificates of general studies from Tidewater Community College.
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Less than three hours after the last Google Drive update, Google has announced a very useful feature: automatic syncing of all your Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides. You can now also create and edit drawings offline. The two features are rolling out over the next “few days” so you should see them soon if you haven’t yet. . To take advantage of offline access, you’ll need to use Chrome OS (it’s all set up for you) or Chrome. If you’re using the latter, here are the steps you need to take: In Google Drive, click More on the left-hand side of the screen.Select Offline Docs.Click the blue button that says Get the app.You’ll be taken to the Chrome web store. Click Add to Chrome in the upper-right corner of the browser window.Once the app is installed, you’ll be taken to a Chrome page with the Google Drive app icon. To return to Drive, click the Google Drive icon.On the right side of the dialog on the Offline Docs page, click the blue button that says Enable offline.If you change your mind, click the gear icon in the upper-right corner of your browser window and select “Stop using Docs offline.”
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For generations, a picture was worth a thousand words. Now, in the social network age, a picture is worth a few hundred likes, some +1's, a handful of retweets, stumbles, tumbles, pins, and shares of all sorts. Via Lowther Hall AGS 
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The problem is that the decision makers often don’t have the marketing skills to differentiate between different addressable audiences. External adult learners may not want a long-winded, over-engineered, six to ten week course on anything. Life’s too short. Yet academics are used to producing courses of this semester length. What many may want are mini MOOCs. They may want them to be asynchronous starting and ending when convenient for them. This, of course, is exactly what’s happening. All in all, however, the good news is that MOOCs are forcing HE institutions to change. MOOCs may very well be the force that makes them more open, transparent and relevant. There will, of course, be a backlash, but the digital genie is out of the bottle - MOOCs are here to stay. Via Nik Peachey 
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May 1, 2:50 AM
The pressure is on traditional Education.....from......? 
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Nice Infographic and article on MOOCs - who is the target audience(s)?
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May 2, 3:22 AM
Intereesting infographic on Coursera (I have an account too). I'd be interested to know if anybody else is actively using a MOOC right now ...? Delete the scoop?
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Jennifer Roberts created a video tutorial on how to use Voice Comments on Google Docs. Via Barbara Bray 
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I use Google docs to write and also help teachers. This new feature can be a life saver. Check out the video tutorial. Delete the scoop?
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Free online ScoopIt tutorial for teachers and students. TeacherTrainingVideos.com provides free step by step camtasia screencasts that take you through a whole range of ict and web2.0 tools Via EdTechSandyK 
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This is where it all started! Nice Intro to ScoopIt which is what all these pages were created from. Obviously, ScoopStealer Mead didn't read this tutorial first :) Delete the scoop?
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I think it's interesting that #BlackEdu has been around for over 2 years, but not even recognized. #racism #exclusion
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..round-up of the various tools that helped users manage their Twitter accounts by finding who to follow, following new people, unfollowing many people at once and organizing groups of users they follow into lists. Via Frédéric DEBAILLEUL, Rui Guimarães Lima, Maria Margarida Correia, Heiko Idensen, Robin Good 
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If you are looking for tools that can help you cleanup, and unfollow useless or unworthy people, here is an updated list of the best free tools you can use for this task as many have shut down since Twitter latest API update. No longer functional are Untweeps, Just Unfollow, Twit Cleaner, Who Follows Whom and Tweet Effect. Useful. 7/10 (Image credit: TimeandDate.com) Delete the scoop?
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Everyone wants to be happy, but did you know that you should prioritize it as a business goal? Here are four ways that your happiness can be used to advance... Via Jay Cross Delete the scoop?
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Users of the open-source learning management system Moodle will now be able to access course information and other features from their mobile devices. Via Peter Mellow 
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But what learners also want is rich interactive resources they can download to their mobile devices. Web dependence is a drag. Delete the scoop?
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http://www.feedsapi.org is a webservice that makes it easy to create, read and share Ad-free full text rss feeds and deliver news into email inboxes in real-... Via Robin Good
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If you use RSS feeds like I do to subscribe to your favorite news sources you know exactly how frustrating is to have partial, truncated RSS feeds that bring to you only the opening part of an article. FeedsAPI comes to the rescue by offering the ability to instantly convert any truncated RSS feed into a full one and making it as easy as possible to get any of those RSS feeds directly into your email inbox. From Lifehacker: "Truncated feeds can be a bummer, especially if you really enjoy reading your favorite blogs via RSS. FeedsAPI is a service that will take any truncated RSS feed, expand it to a full-text feed, and then deliver the resulting stories directly to your inbox, or to your preferred news reader. Best of all, it does this in real-time, so you don't have to wait hours for stories to process. The video above shows you how the service works. Once you're signed up, you'll get an access key that you can use to add and expand any feed you want to your profile. Just give the service the feed URL you want expanded or added to your collection, your access key, and some details about how you'd like FeedsAPI to handle links in the text. From there, the service will do the rest of the work." (Source: Lifehacker) Free trial available. More info: https://www.feedsapi.org/ + Pricing: https://www.feedsapi.org/plans.htm Delete the scoop?
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For generations, a picture was worth a thousand words. Now, in the social network age, a picture is worth a few hundred likes, some +1's, a handful of retweets, stumbles, tumbles, pins, and shares of all sorts. Via Lowther Hall AGS
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Preview and download the course iTunes U: A Course Creation Guide for Educators on iTunes U. (RT @sjunkins: An iTunes U Course on How to Create an iTunes U Course from the brilliant mind of @TresslerTech. Via Jon Samuelson, Dean Mantz 
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Excellent, this looks to be really useful and quite timely. Delete the scoop?
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Here are 14 famous Internet firsts that were monumental in shaping web history. Via Luciana Viter, Donna Murdoch Delete the scoop?
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TechCrunch is a leading technology media property, dedicated to obsessively profiling startups, reviewing new Internet products, and breaking tech news. Via tom jackson
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Nice summary of important topics in a one-pager! Love the #hashtag lists! Delete the scoop?
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gClassFolders is a Google Drive script that will create folders for you for as many course sections as you need. The concept behind it is this; students have a "dropbox" folder in their Google Drive accounts that you have shared with them. To submit work students drag files into that "dropbox" folder. From there gClassFolders sorts submissions to the correct folder for each student. Via Heiko Idensen Delete the scoop?
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Fantastic compilation of librarian, teacher, administrator blogs and educators to follow on Twitter as you develop your PLN for connecting and learning. Delete the scoop?
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Moodle's Open Badges plugin. Still in alpha and planned for a Moodle 2.5 release (I think).
Have managed to have a play with it on a friends install and it is AWESOME.
See the other Scoopit entry for details on the documentation. Via gideonwilliams, Nadav Kavalerchik, Gisele Brugger, michel verstrepen, Rui Guimarães Lima, Juergen Wagner 
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April 14, 10:45 AM
Badges on Moodle, ok gamifying courses here wme come. 
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Badgets as a new form of competence-improvement. Also availble in Moodle soon. Very interesting topic! 
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I am finishing a class Games In Learning and Assessment through UW-Stout. The class was a game, the player had to earn both quest and reward badges. It was created in Badgestack. Very cool way to learn.
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Stampy is a new, iPad-based web publishing platform, which allows to create simple and professionaly-looking multi-page web publications with maximum ease. A Stamp is the unit of content you create on Stampsy and it is equivalent to a "page" or "screen". A Stamp can have up to 10 pages. Fonts come in carefully selected pairs and in a range of sizes to make Stamps look "professional" no matter what you do with them. Final "stamps" are published directly to the web, and can be immediately shared on Twitter and Facebook. Ideal for art galleries, profiles, image portfolios and other visual-based short showcases. Free to use. Example: http://stampsy.com/1657 More info: http://stampsy.com/ App Store Download: http://appstore.com/stampsy Delete the scoop?
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Social networks, Twitter in particular, provide an odd sort of communication dichotomy: while it is very much public with a wide audience, the isolated nature Via Karl Wabst 
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April 11, 11:10 AM
Working in a cloud means always being connected to your job. That may be for better or worse. This is another aspect of social business transformation.
Firms should have policies in place that address who can speak for the company. Another good idea is a policy on how such incidents are to be handled. Policies do not stop this sort of behavior. They do show some level of due diligence and provide a better chance at punishing offenders and protecting your reputation.
Every employee, ex-employee, and many others may be seen as having some inside track on information about your company. Trying to hide information, with so many ways to get to company employees is more difficult now. This is an argument for transparency.
People may be contacted, or speak, from work or personal accounts. Damage and opportunity may arise from either. This is why trying to ignore social, or thinking you are safe by banning connections to personal accounts at work are ineffective tactics.
Education is the best defense, but not 100% effective either.
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"The state legislature is requiring all community colleges in Virginia to hammer out such plans with their public school divisions by April. TCC got the ball rolling in December in a joint meeting with school leaders from Norfolk, Portsmouth, Chesapeake and Virginia Beach.
It went well, said Edna Baehre-Kolovani, the president of Tidewater Community College. She added she hopes the process will present opportunities for a positive side effect: finding ways to lower the number of students who land in remedial classes at TCC.
'I was really energized," she said. "I was very encouraged.'"