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Monthly Archives: August 2012

Power Searching with Google

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Google Search makes it amazingly easy to find information. Come learn about the powerful advanced tools we provide to help you find just the right information when the stakes are high.  These are some of the chapters to try:
-Introduction
-Interpreting results
-Advanced techniques
-Find facts faster
-Check your facts
-Putting it all together

See on www.powersearchingwithgoogle.com

 

THE BEGINNING OF INFINITY

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A really neat video about imagination.

By @jason_silva and @notthisbody 

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Gaming the Classroom

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This class’s “focus is on massively-multiplayer online games and virtual worlds. Students will be introduced to the design elements and production requirements necessary to create and maintain online games. We will study various existing worlds from major commercial worlds like World of Warcraft to free web-based games….”

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How The iPad Is Transforming The Classroom [Back To School] | Cult of Mac

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During its education event in January, Apple unveiled its plans to revolutionize the K-12 classroom with the iPad, electronic textbooks, a revamped version of iTunes U that supports content for K-12 schools as well as higher education, and tools for educators to create their own digital content using iBooks Author and iTunes U.

In the intervening months, schools and districts around the country have made significant investments in iPads, including the San Diego Unified School District, which invested $15 million in 26,000 iPads for its students. Those sales created a record quarter for Apple in the K-12 education market.

With the back to school season upon us, it’s clear that the massive iPad deployments will give Apple the opportunity to disrupt the classroom in the ways it has whole industries and, in many ways, that’s a good thing….

Read more at http://www.cultofmac.com/185048/how-the-ipad-is-transforming-the-classroom-back-to-school/#PVracuVUKJpkdhOP.99

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