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Crowdsourcing Fifty (or so) ways to leave your paper

Crowdsourcing Fifty (or so) ways to leave your paper | Eclectic Technology | Scoop.it

Are you looking for ideas for projects that are not papers, but that will help students "acquire subject matter, practice critical thinking and develop transferable information fluency and technology skills through a variety of creative activities"? If so, this post is for you! Joyce Valenza has begun a list of alternative to the paper which connect to the Common Core State Standard College and Career Readiness for Writing. You can add to this list by going to Google Doc (the link is in the post).
A wide variety of great ideas and there are additional ones added to the Google Doc, so do check it out.

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Cool Tool | Mendeley: Changing the Way We Do Research

Cool Tool | Mendeley: Changing the Way We Do Research | Eclectic Technology | Scoop.it

"A free reference manager, academic social network and crowdsourced research catalog, Mendeley helps researchers organize their documents, collaborate and share with others online and discover the latest research. Through both a desktop application and website, this tool lets researchers build personal research libraries."

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Duolingo Opens To The Public After 125,000 Users Translated 75 Million Sentences During Beta

Duolingo Opens To The Public After 125,000 Users Translated 75 Million Sentences During Beta | Eclectic Technology | Scoop.it

Do you want to learn a new language? If so, Duolingo may be the right tool for you. 

“Duolingo leverages the brain power of millions of people who are currently learning a new language to help translate the web...”

You get shown text in the language you are learning, and you translate it, with hints provided. To see this in action check out the video, Duolingo Intro, embedded in this article.

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