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OneRiot.com – A few weeks ago, a small team from @WalmartLabs visited the offices of OneRiot in beautiful Boulder, Colorado. OneRiot has developed some pretty nifty technology that analyzes social media signals from popular networks like Twitter and Facebook to deliver ads that are relevant to consumers’ interests. As our teams debated the finer points of Big Data, Fast Data, and machine learning technologies, it became clear to us that we could find no better colleagues than the guys at OneRiot. As a part of Walmart, we're continuing to work with the intensity of a technology startup. Today I’m pumped to share the news that, within 30 days of that first meeting, we have closed a transaction to acquire the key assets of OneRiot. The technology team at OneRiot will move to Silicon Valley and become part of @WalmartLabs in September. As I have written before, here at @WalmartLabs we’re doing some amazingly interesting and impactful work at the intersection of social, mobile, and retail.

Topsy With iOS 9, Search lets you look for content from the web, your contacts, apps, nearby places, and more. Powered by Siri, Search offers suggestions and updates results as you type. There are two ways to use Search on your iOS device. Quick Search Drag down from the middle of the Home screen and type what you're looking for. Siri Suggestions Drag right from the Home screen to show Search and get Siri Suggestions. Get Siri Suggestions Siri Suggestions include apps and contacts that you might be interested in. You can use Siri Suggestions with iPhone 5 and later, iPad Pro, iPad (4th generation) and later, iPad mini (2nd generation) and later, and iPod touch (6th generation). Change search settings Go to Settings > General > Spotlight Search. From here, you can turn Siri Suggestions on or off and choose which apps to include in your searches. If you don’t want Siri or Spotlight to suggest nearby locations, go to Settings > Privacy > Location Services. Last Modified:

Google Apps For Education Google Apps is free for schools and has no ads . It allows students and teachers to create documents(Word, Excel, PowerPoint), share calendars, email, chat, create web pages and more. It is secure as everything stays within the registered domain and cannot be accessed by people who do not have a school login. It is an excellent tool to provide elearning. It works on any computer including Macs. We have been using Google Apps in our school since Febuary 2008. NEW Mar. 12, 2009 Obama’s new Chief Information Officer–Vivek Kundra– said to the Wall Street Journal, “I’m a big believer in disruptive technology. NEW Mar. 12, 2009 Google Apps and Netbooks supported by major educational research project read more "Frantic troubleshooting by an overworked staff versus someone else fixing problems smoothly. What is Google Apps ? Why it works for schools ..... What students think of Google Apps... ame="player" A student's opinion of Google Apps Math Teacher's Opinion of Google Apps - Education Edition 1.

Twitscoop Double Happiness: Microsoft Integrates Photosynth With Virtual Earth Microsoft is today announcing the integration of Photosynth, technology that enables you to automatically stitch groups of photos together into one big interactive 3D viewing experience, with its mapping service Virtual Earth. I think that’s really cool, because I’m a big fan of Photosynth and I also happen to think Virtual Earth is vastly superior to – yet immensely less popular than – Google Maps / Earth. In the video it’s releasing on YouTube for the occasion (embedded below), Microsoft claims ‘hundreds of thousands’ of users have already used Photosynth – which was released to the public back in August 2008 – and uploaded more than 12 million photos in 350,000 synths. Now it’s taking the next step by using Silverlight technology in order to make it possible for user to port their Photosynths to Virtual Earth, running on Macs and PCs alike (unless you refuse to run Silverlight on any of those, of course). Either way, I think the combination is powerful and enticing.

Qui twitte qui ? Teacher Professional Development Sourcebook: What Does RTI Mean for the Classroom? Published Online: March 16, 2009 Published in Print: March 1, 2009, as What Does RTI Mean for the Classroom? Response to Intervention, a framework for modifying instruction based on early evaluation of student-learning needs, is gaining traction in schools even as some educators struggle with the approach. Recently, in a Web chat on teachermagazine.org, two RTI experts, Judy Elliott, chief academic officer of the Los Angeles Unified School District, and Douglas Fuchs, professor and Nicholas Hobbs Chair in Special Education and Human Development at Vanderbilt University, answered readers' questions on the method. Here are some excerpts from the discussion. Why is it that some regular education and special education teachers feel threatened by RTI? Judy Elliott Judy Elliott: We have for decades worked in silos in education. Have you found successful ways to get teacher buy-in? Judy Elliott: Indeed, consensus is the first step to building an integrated approach for instruction. Douglas Fuchs

conversations sur Twitter and Facebook Teacher Professional Development Sourcebook: Teachers Get Resourceful With 'Open Content' Published Online: March 16, 2009 Published in Print: March 16, 2009, as Teachers Get Resourceful With 'Open Content' Content-sharing across the Web is becoming a valuable classroom tool for educators. Leaving their textbooks to gather dust, Houston middle school teacher Ardath A. Stewart and her students studied science last spring by assembling much of their curriculum on a class "wiki," an open-source community Web site. The materials included students' written postings on class topics, as well as projects, grading rubrics, and discussion questions that Stewart prepared or obtained from teachers in other parts of Texas and the United States. The students at the 1,200-student Burbank Middle School were able to pursue the state's learning goals at least as well as if they had read the decade-old textbook, in which "Pluto is still listed as a planet," Stewart said. The Knowledge Base "We can now really build and harness the knowledge base that already exists [among teachers]," said Lisa A.

Twitter Search CambridgeBoard/StarBoard Resource Centre searchmotive.com » Guest Blogger Kaleigh D. Reviews BrainPOP Educational Technology Weblog Today is take your kid work day and I am at work with my dad. He works at the School District Office in the Educational Technology Department. So while I am here I am going to blog about Brainpop . Brainpop is an informational website. This website has two characters–one is a guy named Tim the other is a robot named Moby. Brainpop can help you to study for a test. I think Tim and Moby make things easy to understand. Brainpop is good for grades 4th and up. I wish all my classes had me go on Brainpop all the time. I’m a serious softball player so I liked this picture of Moby talking about baseball.

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