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15 Apps to Help You Stay Organized. One of my questions on Twitter today revolved around asking some of the ways in which people use technology to stay organized.

15 Apps to Help You Stay Organized

As always, people responded with some great ideas and ways that work for them to keep their professional and personal lives in order. Here is the list of awesome tools that people suggested (descriptions from their websites), Tweets to follow (with some people stating their actual use): Wunderlist Wunderlist is the easiest way to get stuff done. Whether you’re planning a holiday, sharing a shopping list with a partner or managing multiple work projects, Wunderlist is here to help you tick off all your personal and professional to-dos.

Google Keep Quickly create, access and organize notes, lists and photos with Google Keep. Evernote Easily gather everything that matters. Trello Trello is the free, flexible, and visual way to organize anything with anyone. Diigo Diigo is a social bookmarking website which allows signed-up users to bookmark and tag web-pages. Mailbox Bitly. 2016 Training Trends: Video - eLearning Industry. Learner Failure: Are You Solving The Right Problem With Your eLearning Course? - eLearning Industry. Classifying digital resources for teaching. Blackboard makes a play in online course development. Blackboard has become the latest company to get into the business of helping colleges and universities build online programs.

Blackboard makes a play in online course development

The company, which built its education technology empire on selling software and implementation support, has upped investment in its “online program management services” in an effort to compete with a growing number of entities that are taking aim at the many colleges that are scrambling to reassert, or reinvent, their brands on the increasingly crowded frontier of online higher education. The field of companies courting institutions that need help with the funding and logistics of building a viable online arm is also crowded. Bisk Education and EmbanetCompass, along with Pearson, are perhaps the most visible players, but Academic Partnerships, Deltak, 2tor and Learning House have also built successful businesses doing online program development for colleges.

The watchword of Blackboard’s marketing around these offerings is “flexibility.” 100 Amazing How-To Sites to Teach Yourself Anything. Learning new skills and expanding your knowledge doesn’t have to cost you an arm and a leg.

100 Amazing How-To Sites to Teach Yourself Anything

There are loads of free resources on the Web that can help you find instructional videos, tutorials and classes to learn a wide variety of skills from fixing basic car problems to speaking another language. With 100 sites to choose from, you’re bound to find something here that will help you learn just about anything you could want. General Tutorials These sites offer a wide range of tutorials and videos. Around the House. Art, Art, Art #### Shankargallery. Watch free documentary films & videos. 200 Free Kids Educational Resources: Lessons, Apps, Books, Websites...

Educational Video: The Top Cultural & Educational Video Sites. Looking for great cultural and educational video?

Educational Video: The Top Cultural & Educational Video Sites

Then you’ve come to the right place. Below, we have compiled a list of 46 sites that feature intelligent videos. This list was produced with the help of our faithful readers, and it will grow over time. If you find it useful, please share it as widely as you can. And if we’re missing good sites, please list them in the comments below. ABC Documentaries: This site pulls together some of the best documentaries aired on ABC television in Australia. Academic Earth: Some call this “the Hulu for education.” Arkive.org: The site gathers together “the very best films and photographs of the world’s species into one centralised digital library, to create a unique audio-visual record of life on Earth.” Australian Screen Archive: The Australian National Film and Sound Archive provides free and worldwide access to over 1,000 film and television titles – a treasury of down-under video 100 years in the making.

Pop! Muscles. About Us. Who We Are Discovery Education transforms classrooms, empowers teachers and captivates students by leading the way in providing high quality, dynamic, digital content to school districts large and small, rural and suburban and everything in between.

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Accelerate student achievement in your district by capturing the minds and imaginations of students with the fascination of Discovery, tapping into students' natural curiosity and desire to learn. Discovery Education offers a portfolio of opportunities for districts to meet students where they want to learn in the digital age. Making Online Teaching & Learning Easier and Affordable. Landmarks Class Blogmeister. MAKE BELIEFS COMIX! Online Educational Comic Generator for Kids of All Ages. Conversations in the cloud. Private Label - K-12 Education. Why choose Wikispaces Campus?

Private Label - K-12 Education

Easy to set up It all starts with a no-obligation, full-featured, 30-day trial. Right away, you can set up integration with many popular systems, including Blackboard, Google Apps, Moodle, and Sakai. You can even enable multiple authentication options to essentially automate user management. Easy to use With the push of a button, you can start creating new wikis. Glogster EDU: A complete educational solution for digital and mobile teaching and learning.

Instant screencasts: Just click record. Online Web Tutorials. O'Reilly - Safari Books Online - Trial. Discovery Education Web2012 : Web 2.0 Tools. Discovery Education Web2012 : Web 2.0 Tools - Presentation Tools.