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Vocabulary Activities Probe for Learning Beyond Recall. EduClipper. New iPad app Projectbook merges note-taker with task manager. Give him enough time, and Peter Tamte will tell you exactly what’s wrong with note-taking apps for the iPad: They’re walled off from other apps, making it hard to turn your notes into tasks and to-dos.

New iPad app Projectbook merges note-taker with task manager

They’re overly reliant on cloud storage and syncing, so if you’re offline, your data is often inaccessible. Many of these apps just seem to replace paper clutter with digital clutter, preventing Tamte and users like him from putting notes to any real use. “We take notes because we want to save information that helps us get things done,” Tamte says. And to his way of thinking, too many of the note-taking apps he’s tried on his iPad just don’t let that happen easily enough.

Fortunately for Tamte, he runs a software company. Teaching with Google+ Stream This is like Facebook's News Feed, where the sharing happens.

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Updates, links and other media from the people you follow will show up here. Posts aren't "hidden," but are "muted. "Circles This was a defining feature for Google+ when it was released -- a selling point that allows users to add people to different "circles" as a way of separating content, updates and the general mixing of different areas of your life. Whereas Facebook lumps everyone together in a single feed, Google+ streams allow you far more flexibility. For Teachers – Google in Education.