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Blogs in Plain English. Online Spreadsheets - EditGrid. How College Professors Are Using Twitter to Re-Engage Their Students. Google Docs Is Now Google Drive: How To Enable It. We’ve been covering the rumored Google Drive for months. We were one of the first news sources to cover it’s educational value in our Edudemic Magazine. We published a ‘ Must-Have Guide To Google Drive ‘ and have been closely following all the tea leaves and rumors. Why do we care so much about Google Drive? Because it’s going to be a useful way for entire classrooms and schools to collaborate. Better yet, Google Drive lets you literally do a Google search for all your stored files. How It’s Different - Unlike Dropbox, Box, and other cloud storage services, Google Drive lets you open over 30 file types right in your browser—including HD video, Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop—even if you don’t have the program installed on your computer.

30 Ways Colleges Are Using Google+ Right Now. How To Use Vine In The Classroom 4.28K Views 0 Likes Students can quickly create their very own six-second videos for free. Here's a quick look at using Vine in the classroom for active learning. 25 TED Talks Perfect For Classrooms. The 50 Best Sources of Free STEM Education Online 12.05K Views 0 Likes Colleges, universities, and other educational forums in your community can be excellent places to learn more about a variety of STEM topics, but there is also a wealth of educational material available on the web for those who prefer to learn at their own pace or take a more individual approach. The 100 Best Web 2.0 Classroom Tools Chosen By You.

The Wordle of this list! (Click image to enlarge) One of the most popular posts on Edudemic in 2010 was The 35 Best Web 2.0 Classroom Tools Chosen By You and I felt it might be time for an update to that list for 2011. In order to put together a list of the best Web 2.0 classroom tools, I polled my Twitter followers, Facebook fans (are they still called fans? Likes?) And ran a contest to try and get as many submissions as possible. There were more than 900 submissions but many were duplicates. Glogster EDU - 21st century multimedia tool for educators, teachers and students. 10 Mind Mapping Tools 4 the iPad. Brainstorming is a way for an individual or group to collect ideas about a specific problem or situation.

10 Mind Mapping Tools 4 the iPad

The goal is to collect as many as you can and then go back and evaluate the ones that might be worth developing further. These ideas can then be developed, enhanced and modified. Brainstorming is a great tool for educational situation where you want to develop and stimulate the creative process. The idea is that a shift in thinking can occur by collecting many ideas together around a particular concept. The process itself often spurs further ideas and so the process continues. A Must-Have Guide To Google Drive. We’re chomping at the bit to get our grimy little hands on the new Google Drive. We wrote about it in our March issue of the Edudemic Magazine , featured it a couple weeks ago , and now want to start figuring out how the basically-real tool will help teachers around the planet. After all, that’s what Edudemic is all about! We throw caution to the wind and just start trying to figure out fun and useful ways to use technology in the classroom.

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Steve Jobs's 2005 Stanford commencement address. Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.

Steve Jobs's 2005 Stanford commencement address

So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life. Subscribe Today to the Monitor Click Here for your FREE 30 DAYS ofThe Christian Science MonitorWeekly Digital Edition My second story is about love and loss.

I was lucky — I found what I loved to do early in life. I really didn't know what to do for a few months. I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple. My third story is about death. Virginia Tech Apple G5 super computer cluster. Fun Classroom Projects Using Excel. Defending your rights in the digital world. 10 Ways to Get the Most Out of Technology.

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