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By Blair on January 10th, 2010

3 Ways Educators Are Embracing Social Technology

The modern American school faces rough challenges. Budget cuts have caused ballooning class sizes,  many teachers struggle with poorly motivated students, and in many schools a war is being waged on distracting technologies. In response, innovative educators are embracing social media to fight back against the onslaught of problems. Technologies such as Twitter and Skype offer ideal [...]

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The Top 200 Education Blogs
By Blair on November 25th, 2009

The Top 200 Education Blogs

From humor blogs on college life to one stop shops for school athletics to blogs all about education policy and new technologies, if there’s a good education blog out there, you can bet it made our list. We’ve also mixed in a handful of exceptional web tools and sites that we thought deserved a spot [...]

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eLearning and Web 2.0 tools for Schools
By Blair on November 25th, 2009

eLearning and Web 2.0 tools for Schools

Someone has created a very good mind-map on Mindomo of eLearning and Web 2.0 tools. It is exceedingly comprehensive and covers absolutley everything you could think of from blogging to live broadcasting and language learning to note taking. It is really worth a look!!
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Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009
By Blair on November 19th, 2009

Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009

This list is pretty obvious but still very interesting! I bet you stumble across something you’ve never heard of or used yet.
Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009
For example, I’d heard of EverNote but never got round to using it. This morning I’ve totally tidied up my life and post-it notes!
It’s a great service. I’d definitely [...]

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By Blair on November 19th, 2009

E-Learning Websites

I’ve just come across two very good e-learning website. They both have very good posts and forums.
Both are worth a look!
E-learninglearning.com
Classroom2.0.com
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Twitter becomes a college course
By Blair on November 19th, 2009

Twitter becomes a college course

Struggling to wrap your mind around the intricacies of the 140-character broadcasting system known as Twitter? Good news: You can now take a class on it at an accredited college. More…
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Hotseat lets students Facebook, Tweet in class to improve learning
By Blair on November 04th, 2009

Hotseat lets students Facebook, Tweet in class to improve learning

Enabling collaborative micro-discussion in and out of the classroom
This is an amazing new way to discuss and learn during class and after class using Social Media! I really can imagine this taking off across the globe.
The only problem I can see arrising is the ability of the Teaching Staff’s IT skills. I have experienced too [...]

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Marriott recruits ‘real guests’’on Twitter for new campaign
By Rene Looper on October 07th, 2009

Marriott recruits ‘real guests’’on Twitter for new campaign

Featured in HotelMarketing.com:
I like the way the Marriott hotel group is engaging with their customers using social media  and are always looking for new ways to market their brand. The “Driven” campaign is yet another great example where we can see how social media is changing advertising. Senior vice president of Marketing Strategy and Integration, [...]

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Switched-on students expect a web-friendly education
By Blair on October 01st, 2009

Switched-on students expect a web-friendly education

This digital-savvy generation of freshers is more likely to need a laptop at their lectures than a notepad, and they expect the tools they use in their personal life – such as blogs, social-networking sites and instant-messaging services – to be applied to the educational environment [...]

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View Tweets on Your Calendar
By David Sim on September 14th, 2009

View Tweets on Your Calendar

You can view your (or anyone else’s) Twitter posts on your Google Calendar using a new web site called Twistory. It also works with other calendar applications which support the iCal format.
As well as providing a useful way of looking back at the history of your posts, it also enables you to keep a backup [...]

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