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10 Reasons Why I Will Continue to Give my Children Handheld Devices

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Last week the Huffington Post ran this article titled 10 Reasons Why Handheld Devices Should be Banned for Children Under the Age of 12. As an educator who advocates for the intentional and appropr…

Thomas Adam Johnson‘s insight:

This is a nice rebuttal to an article I posted earlier. The post links to it is arguing against. I agree with many of these points, but would still like to review the sources of the original argument and see it’s substantiation.

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8 pronunciation errors that made the English language what it is today

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David Shariatmadari: Think hyperbole rhymes with Super Bowl? Don’t worry, it could be the start of something beautiful

Thomas Adam Johnson‘s insight:

This article explains how many words have changed over time and what the technical term is for the specific change. However, it most often doesn’t shed light onto why these words have started being pronounced the way they have. This is for us, the reader, to find out for ourselves. Dig on!

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Backup your photos & videos automatically. Keep your memories safe with PicBackMan.

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This is an awesome service and I’m really getting a lot of use out of it. It has already saved me many many hours and is really easy to use.

Thomas Adam Johnson‘s insight:

"PicBackMan helps you keep your photos & videos safe, in multiple places, automatically" like Dropbox, Drive, Picasa, Box, Facebook, Flikr, Instagram, Smugmug, Skydrive, Photobucket, Foursquare, and more.

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14 Google Tools You Didn’t Know Existed

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From the Ngram Viewer to Google Dart, check out some of these lesser-known Google applications.

Thomas Adam Johnson‘s insight:

I always love finding new Google Products.  This list demonstrated 13 new ones to me.  Wow!

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