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50 Surprising Facts About Social Media
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It's not hard to find some general facts and figures about the 5 most popular social media networks. A quick Google search yields a plethora of information thanks to Wikipedia and other related sites. Heck, there's ev...
Why An Entire State's Schools Just 'Went Google'
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Students, teachers, educators, and everyone else involved in the Maryland public school system has their head in the clouds...and their e-mail, calendars, and more! Google has just announced that it has completed a de...
Google Wave Cancelled.
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So much for incorporating Google Wave into the classroom. In fact, you won't really be able to use it anywhere. Google has just announced that they are abandoning the project but will leave the code available for open...
Teaching Tool Upgrade: Google Earth Now Shows Live Weather
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Google just can't seem to take a day off. Google Earth, one of the most popular online tools in the classroom, now shows live weather. It does so by displaying preset animations over targeted areas. In other words, it...
Google Makes Premium Apps Free For Teachers
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What do Alex Trebek, teachers and Googlers have in common? Last week, these individuals and groups all came together at the Googleplex in Mountain View, CA to celebrate exploration and learning. Google hosted its ...
How The New Google Images Redesign Can Help Students
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Never wanting to take a break or stop reinventing the wheel, Google has just unveiled the new design for Google Images. It gets ride of a lot of the text, urls, and other miscellaneous data and focuses instead on maki...
3 Big Ways Foursquare Should Be Incorporated Into Search Results
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Whether you're an avid Foursquare checker-inner or simply know of the product (it allows people to gain points and other virtual prizes by checking into almost location using a smartphone), you might want to be caref...
The Best Free Web Services For College Students
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College students have all the fun. From parties to...free web services? Apparently many companies are keen on the idea of having their services and products offered free to students in a sort of beta testing environme...
How Do You Sign In To Websites?
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From teachers to students, signing into websites is something everyone must do if they browse the web with any frequency at all. You may have noticed that Google remembers your GMail login when you view Google Calenda...
How Google Works [INFOGRAPHIC]
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Did you know that Google's hard-to-find Data Centers are carbon neutral? Or that every search query you do is automatically part of an experiment, control group, or other tool designed to make search results more accu...
Eye Exam? MIT Just Made An App For That
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Just another amazing solution to a problem you didn't even know existed yet from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. MIT Media Labs researchers are field-testing a smartphone application and $1 plastic lens at...
The Easiest Way A Classroom Can Video Chat
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Video chat or video conferencing is quickly becoming a big part of classrooms around the globe. You've probably seen those Cisco ads where students in England have a real-time high-def conference with a classroom in C...
41 New Ways Google Docs Makes Your Life Easier
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Google has been hard at work this summer making your document editing, sharing, and creation experience much better. We thought this might be a good time to get you up to speed on all the new features that will make y...
Brown University Goes Google
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Brown University has become the next school to go Google. Here's the skinny from the Google Enterprise Blog: From time to time we invite guests to blog about initiatives of interest, and are very pleased to have G...
How To View The Internet At Any Point In Time
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Fire up the WayBack Machine, Mr. Peabody, it's time to grab Doc Brown, hit 88 miles-per-hour, and go back in time! There is a fantastic lesson just waiting for any teacher to grab and it's free, easy to use, and it co...
Which Smartphone Should You Buy?
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In case you didn't know, we're devoted to social media and education. The biggest tie between the two are smartphones. Like a Venn diagram, the middle part of two circles is filled with smartphones. So what's a teach...
