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Cisco Systems brings blended and virtual education to classrooms across the United States and aboard. Delete the scoop?
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Emaze vision – to change the way people create presentations through a simple, fully automated process that generate powerful and engaging showcases. Via Baiba Svenca, Gust MEES 
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We're often astounded by the ability of children to pick up, use and master the latest technological innovations. Via Digitives Delete the scoop?
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Blog post at Two-Sided Perspective : With the advent of the Internet, more and more people today are working as “freelancers”. By the way, what’s a freelancer? Well, the[..] Via Herbert Kikoy Delete the scoop?
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May 24, 7:31 AM
Reminds me of the 'attention economy' in Geert Lovink's book "No Comment" I am reading just now for my research:
"In the attention economy, value is measured in the amount of time you happen to spend with any given media object or person. This can bea web site, watching your favorite show on television, text messaging afriend, talking on the phone, or blogging about the concert you attended-last night. For a long time the attention economy remained a hyped-upconcept, launched during the speculative 1990s to point to the shift fromthe production of tangible goods to immaterial services. The point thatmakes attention such an interesting commodity is the fact that it is soscarce. As Michael Goldhaber Writes in his 1996 Principles of the NewEconomy: "Attention is scarce because each of us has only so much of it to give, and it can come only from us-not machines, computers or anywhere else. Attention is another way of saying "time," as in "Where I choose to spend my time."
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A website dedicated to informing secondary students and their teachers of copyright law, plagiarism policies, and caveats in order to uphold literary integrity and digital ethics through a compilation of various media. Via Naomi Harm, EdTechSandyK, Sophia Mavridi, Pilar Pamblanco 
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"Dear Lifehacker, I have been tasked to make a slideshow for an event at work. I don’t want to make a generic PowerPoint with just boring text or pictures. What are some ways I can enhance the slideshow so it looks impressive and knocks the socks off my audience?" Via Baiba Svenca, Nikos Amanatidis, michel verstrepen 
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I agree with you, Elke. PPT is more customizable and powerful.
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This appears to be an effective and practical article. 
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Oke - if you work in the corporate world there is just no escaping from having to create powerpoints at one point or another. You might as well create amzing one's while your at it. Here are some handy tips, do's & don'ts worth looking at Delete the scoop?
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There are some amazing examples of how colors actually affect our purchasing decisions. After all, sight is the strongest developed sense in most human beings. It’s only natural that 90% of an assessment for trying out a product is made by color alone. So how do colors really affect us, and what is the science of colors in marketing, really? As we strive to make improvements to online products, studying this phenomenon is key. Find some of the latest, most interesting research on the subject at the article link... Via Lauren Moss 
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Colors seem so innocent but its not as innocent as it seems! The psychology of branding colors! Delete the scoop?
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Grace Windsheimer teaches Computer Applications Online at Columbia Gorge Community College in Oregon. Grace recently designed two new introductory computer applications courses in 3D GameLab, a que... Via Ana Cristina Pratas Delete the scoop?
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How Online Education is Making it Easier to Pursue a Degree http://t.co/RNkiKgoLNc via @textbookmommy Delete the scoop?
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Robin Good: Here is a handy short guide to nine free infographic creation tools that can be utilized to create enticing visuals, word charts and data-based infographics without having special technical skills.
Useful. 8/10
Check them all out: http://www.infographicsarchive.com/create-infographics-and-data-visualization/ ;
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I have yet to make my first infograph, but am eager to get going. 
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I'm so in love with tools that help visualize what you do. This is a great list. I can't wait to try the ones I'm not familiar with.
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Liked the list. My personal favorite is Piktochart. Delete the scoop?
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Social Media - Among online women, 75% use social media sites, whereas only 63% of online men do. To find out more about women's online social media activities and influence, check out the ... (Interesting and true... Delete the scoop?
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Vous souhaitez réaliser du dessin vectoriel, avec un outil efficace, complet, gratuit et compatible avec les tablettes graphiques… Alors rien que pour la gratuité oubliez Photoshop ;-) Et non, ce n’est pas de l’excellent the Gimp que je vais vous parler non plus! Si en plus vous souhaitez faire des montages vidéo, de la retouche photo, publier des Flyers ou des cartes de visites, réaliser des photos panoramiques ou vous mettre au scrapbooking, j’ai la suite de logiciels gratuits qu’il vous faut! Via Frédéric DEBAILLEUL, Patrick W. 
Christelle Bianchi's comment,
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oui c'est évident, d'ou, pour ma part plus de libertés à donner et partager si un revenus de base permettrai à chacun d'être plus libre de partager du coup en vivant désâment. Rien ne nous empêche d'avoir plus avec un "travail" (perso déjà signé)
Claudia's comment,
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Si c'est si évident, alors pourquoi faut-il toujours expliquer notre démarche éducative ? :-)
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pardon, quand je parle c'est bien pour moi... mais je pense que ton sourire montre ta compréhension. Un jour la balance basculera de l'autre côté ! :-)
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YouTube has a firm place in the current classroom. From Khan Academy's videos to YouTube EDU and beyond, there's a reason all these videos are finding a home in schools. In an effort to help keep the Via Ana Cristina Pratas Delete the scoop?
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As with any behavior involving kids, mistakes will be made with online behavior -- and that’s a vital part of the learning process. Via Alfredo Calderon, Gust MEES Delete the scoop?
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A backwoodsman went to a home improvement store and purchased a chainsaw to replace an old, worn-out saw. After a month, the backwoodsman returned the saw to the store, complaining, "It doesn' Via Grant Montgomery Delete the scoop?
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Curating and sharing stories should be understood as part of a knowledge economy. If stories are tribal currency, then curators are money handlers. Via Robin Good, gdecugis
Martin Debattista's curator insight,
May 24, 7:31 AM
Reminds me of the 'attention economy' in Geert Lovink's book "No Comment" I am reading just now for my research:
"In the attention economy, value is measured in the amount of time you happen to spend with any given media object or person. This can bea web site, watching your favorite show on television, text messaging afriend, talking on the phone, or blogging about the concert you attended-last night. For a long time the attention economy remained a hyped-upconcept, launched during the speculative 1990s to point to the shift fromthe production of tangible goods to immaterial services. The point thatmakes attention such an interesting commodity is the fact that it is soscarce. As Michael Goldhaber Writes in his 1996 Principles of the NewEconomy: "Attention is scarce because each of us has only so much of it to give, and it can come only from us-not machines, computers or anywhere else. Attention is another way of saying "time," as in "Where I choose to spend my time."
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Semantic search is a game changer. As the web makes the change into a fully semantic web the biggest challenge for webmasters lies in beginning to think diff... Via Jan Bergmans, michel verstrepen Delete the scoop?
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For Wired's 20th anniversary, we investigate the first generation born into a world that has never not known digital life. If you want to understand the past two decades, they are perhaps the perfect subjects. Via Digitives Delete the scoop?
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Dana's simple hack of using humor to dial down reading anxiety for her son Wenxin could apply to any struggling reader. Via GoogleLitTrips Reading List 
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April 17, 1:55 PM
Though this article is not terribly deep, it does strike a bit of gold that I've been giving much thought to recently.
There is a huge elephant in the literary reading classroom. No, it's not in the desks where the kids who are struggling with basic literacy are sitting. No, it's not in the front rows where the future English majors are sitting. It's right there in the middle of the classroom where those kids who can read, but either have never taken a strong enjoyment from reading or who once enjoyed hearing stories and even reading them by choice have somehow, frequently somewhere during middle school, begun to lose that essential element of literary reading called enjoyment.
The gap between the various levels of enjoyment derived from reading and their enjoyment of reading the kinds of assigned stories for which they have not previously developed much appreciation, combined with the requirement to analyze literary devices, to pass quizzes, and write essays may be a fairly obvious set of circumstances connecting the reading of "good" literature to a gradual, and if truth be told, often steep decline in literary reading.
Do we need to "dumb down" expectations for these kids? I don't think so. But, we really ought to keep in mind that if, in our good intentions, we inadvertently kill the enjoyment of just reading a good story about things they like to read about, we may actually be contributing to losing them as life long readers.
As I look back on my own experiences with learning to appreciate the value of quality I clearly recall that in every instance it was a transitionary process.
I loved comic books, Mad Magazine, and junky reads before those interests widened into an appreciation for great satire and great story telling.
I hated Romeo and Juliet as a pimply-faced teen age boy before I came to appreciate Shakespeare. Of course I read R&J as a freshman at a time when romantic love just wasn't anything I was interested in reading about. I never had a girlfriend; never had so much as a sister, a female cousin or even anything like a friendship with a girl that was as rich as my deep friendships with my guy friends. And, like it or not, I truly believe that Shakespeare's language was a barrier that I just wasn't all that interested in overcoming. The language combined with my lack of having discovered any other reason to read the play pretty much made for a miserable experience.
Ironically, because of my wobbly-at-best connection to my Jewish heritage, and a couple of years of maturity, I found myself much more receptive to the storyline in The Merchant of Venice.
It's a pattern that takes some transition time...
I also enjoyed junk food before I enjoyed fine food, and long before I appreciated healthy food.
I enjoyed the Three Stooges before I enjoyed dramatic films. In fact, I still remember the paradigm expanding impact of seeing The Graduate. Funny and thought-provoking! A perfect bridge.
I enjoyed having trendy clothes and cars before I found the shallowness in devoting huge chunks of money and concern to giving a darn about such superficial things.
So what's my point? Instilling, nurturing, and encouraging an ongoing LOVE of reading comes before, and perhaps in the long run is even more important than the development of an appreciation for literature. This may be particularly so if the appreciation for literary reading rests upon experiences that are deadly to pre-existing levels of reading enjoyment derived by many of our struggling and reluctant readers.
And, I wouldn't be surprised to find out that like myself, if my pre-existing enjoyment of reading, junky as it might have been is built upon, we just might find that, as was also true in my case, that we might wind up with far more life long readers than we currently do; and perhaps even far more English majors as well.
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