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8 Educational Apps To Create Digital Portfolios

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8 Educational Apps To Create Digital Portfolios – An examination of Easy Portfolios, Evernote, Voicethread, Open School ePortfolio, Threering, Kidblog, Wikispaces for Education, and Weebly.

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Comparisons

Comparisons

In comparing the products, this is how I would juxtapose them.

Twitter is to iPod Shuffle, as Instagram is to iPod Nano, as Tumblr is to iPhone, as WordPress is to iPad.

 

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Literacy in the Digital Age

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Great links for lots of Digital Literacies – Traditional, Information, Tool, Data, Global, Economic, Critical, Media, Civic, Health, and Historical literacies.

Thomas Adam Johnson‘s insight:

An excellent resource for teachers.  I will keep coming back to it to explore the site.

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American Parents Are Obsessed With Enrichment. Dutch Parents Think That’s Crazy. Why?

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New parenthood is a desperate search for certainty: When you start knowing nothing, you are desperate to know something. And when you finally figure that something out—how to get this creature to eat or sleep—that becomes the answer.

 

Thomas Adam Johnson‘s insight:

This is a great juxtaposition of a few cultural norms in parenting.  It is interesting to compare my “water submersion” to others.

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