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2 recent surveys about children and digital books generated headlines hinting that, for kids, paper books are preferable to ebooks. Via Carisa Kluver 
Carisa Kluver's curator insight,
June 13, 12:26 PM
Excellent deconstruction of recent research findings ... 
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June 15, 9:04 PM
Interesting article and we do need more research about e-books. Delete the scoop?
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May 22, 10:13 AM
Maximize Your Video Channel by Taking the YouTube Creator Academy Course 
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May 26, 12:17 AM
Al mejor estilo MOOC (Massive Online Open Course) Yotube publica cursos online.
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May 31, 10:27 PM
I WILL be taking this. Sounds like a great idea. I'm convinced that a lot of the stuff the 'gurus' put in their courses (the ones they charge for) is freely available somewhere. In the case of YouTube, I know for a fact that they publish a LOT of good stuff that's totally free....e.g. the YouTube Creators Playbook (that I found over a year ago).
I am also convinced that understand just this one simple, well-known tool of YouTube is (all by itself) a highly marketable skill. I'll bet if you walked into 10 businesses and just said, "Hi, my name is Art Williams. I'm a YouTube consultant. Are you doing anything with YouTube to build your business?" it would lead to several people expressing interest.
I think the key to making that kind of prospecting work would be to have several different 'products' or services available. Some people will need to be nurtured for a bit before they finally give you some real business....kinda like going into a Denny's and ordering an iced-tea first and then deciding that you really are hungry. Delete the scoop?
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RT @RGS_IBG: Now free online: Publishing and getting read: a guide for researchers in geography http://t.co/jkMgMvtq68 Thanks to all contributors. Via MEDEM Delete the scoop?
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"Why is that? The best explanation, as far as I can tell, is that book publishing itself has exploded—e-book publishing especially—now that we all live in the Age of the ePub. But author Karen Dionne wrote an interesting piece for the Huffington Post last week that offers a decent solution to the drowning-in-books problem: It’s called an author collective." Via booqlab Delete the scoop?
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TransliteracyParticipatoryPresented by Buffy J. Hamilton, Ed.S.Iowa Association of School LibrariansSpring ConferenceApril 2013CC image via http://www.flickr.co Via Susan Grigsby Delete the scoop?
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Many educators are explicitly teaching such skills as how to evaluate a website's credibility, how to use precise keywords, and how to better mine search engines. Via Susan Grigsby 
Linda Dougherty's curator insight,
June 12, 12:09 AM
Good article to share with your teachers who are looking to improve student research skills to meet standards. 
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June 17, 11:00 PM
If this happens in the early years of learning it will not be such an issue at the tertiary level where plagiarism is still a real problem!
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June 17, 11:07 PM
A number of great points that are both practical and theoritical in terms of how to assist students' understanding of digital literacy skills, preparing them for the future, increasing their understanding of what the future might bring! Delete the scoop?
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Many teens are getting quite tired and downright addicted to their digital lives. But they want something that is surprising to me: more face-to-face interaction and communication. Delete the scoop?
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There's a big difference between using projects in the classroom versus project-based learning in the classroom. What are those differences, you ask? Delete the scoop?
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Remember the days when Macs users thought they were not targets of malicious behavior and would be relatively free of malware? For a while it was true, at least more than for PC users, for whom running antivirus programs is second nature. Delete the scoop?
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The 4 Essential Organization Apps For Your Classroom—And Tons of Ideas For ... Delete the scoop?
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Chromebooks start shipping on June 15, 2011, but can you actually productively work on one? Kevin Purdy answers the questions everyone is asking. Delete the scoop?
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I've posted this before, but this is a really good tool to help students learn about journalism. 
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The Crowd goes wild when the younger brother, from the two who planted the bomb in the boston marathon, was caught. Dshokhar Tsarnaev was finally caught in a mans boat, which was in his backyard. The largest manhunt in the history of USA ended in Watertown, on Friday, 7pm. Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed on Thursday, after throwing a bomb and shooting a couple of police officers. One of the M.I.T officers were killed. Sean Collier, age 26 was pronounced dead early friday. Tamerlan was killed while Dshokhar got away in the car they hijacked before. The owner was held captive and they tried to withdraw money from his debit card.
Dshokhar Tsarnaev was hut and was bleeding heavily. he walked into a mans yard and saw a boat which was the perfect place to hide. That was when the police announced that the man had probably escaped Watertown, and that the Lockdown might end. That was when David Henneberry came out to check on his boat and saw blood. He thought it might be an animal but it turned out to be Dshokhar himself. He called police and the S.W.A.T team arrived. Soon they caught Dshokhar Tsarnaev. "The Terror is over" said one of the team members. Jeff Bauman was the entire lead to catching the criminals. He lost both his legs and wanted no other to duffer what he did. Both bombers looked him in the eye so he knew what they looked like.
"Loser!!" Their uncle had said. "Dshokhar please, turn yourself in. What you have done has destroyed families and reduced many lives. You have brought shame to the Tsarnaev name and to the entire Chechnya. Please Dshokhar." Both brothers were and are thought to have a link to Al-Qaeda. Many people also believe they planted the bomb for religious reasons, but those are just thoughts. the Truth is yet to come. Delete the scoop?
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Our world is changing at a fast pace through our increasing usage of mobile devices, media applications, and new technology. The way we learn and think is also changing to accommodate our new environments. There has been a lot of talk recently about screen time and children. Some see it as beneficial and some see it as harmful. Hopefully, more research will be coming forward on the issue, but from what I have read it is the engagement and interaction keywords that keep standing out in every argument on both sides of the issue. Applying gamification to reading seems to be an opportunity for us to make things interesting for a new generation of readers. Some of us are already doing this in our summer reading programs by using game boards instead of reading logs. This is how I see gamification… Via Carisa Kluver Delete the scoop?
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Research and academic communities in the developing world are set to benefit from free access to online books.
Read more at: http://www.scidev.net/en/new-technologies/icts/news/developing-countries-to-get-access-to-12-000-online-research-books-1.html Via Stewart-Marshall Delete the scoop?
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In recent years, Congress decided to make it a law that most taxpayer funded research had to be posted online with free access within 12 months of publishing. Access to a scholarly article can cost around $30. Via ghbrett Delete the scoop?
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UPDATED: Expand your vector knowledge with these Adobe Illustrator tutorials, covering everything from retro graphics to logo design. Via Mark Strozier, michel verstrepen, Jack Patterson, Dennis T OConnor 
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One of my favorite design tools for both static illustration and rapid animation building.
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Many teens are getting quite tired and downright addicted to their digital lives. But they want something that is surprising to me: more face-to-face interaction and communication. 
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June 15, 4:42 PM
Computers do not give answers or interact. They are useful but not human. No matter how well you can use them, they wont automatically give answers. Teenagers do not have to look hard for face-to-face interaction, it is part of education, studying and learning: audrey@homeschoolsource.co.uk
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There are a whole host of fantastic channels on YouTube for teachers out there with great educational content to take advantage of. Here are 7 of the best. Delete the scoop?
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There are a whole host of fantastic channels on YouTube for teachers out there with great educational content to take advantage of. Here are 7 of the best. Delete the scoop?
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LCF Clubs offers complete language learning solutions. Find Resources for English, French and Spanish here. Buy KS1 and KS2 MFL teaching resources here. Delete the scoop?
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Learn how to take the text in one or more cells, and spread it out across multiple cells. This is the opposite of concatenate. Delete the scoop?
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If you would like more iPad resources, visit my blog www.techchef4u.com, download the TechChef4u app, or find all things TechChef4u at www.kimtag.com/techchef4u. Via Lisa Johnson
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When I look at all these different ways of communicating via the "internet", I think, "thanks for books".
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The Lenovo ThinkPad X131e Chromebook was designed to make teachers more effective, IT managers less stressed, and students further empowered. It also saves time, money, and resources. Delete the scoop?
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