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Top 2013 Apps for Teachers

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With tablets and mobile devices becoming commonplace both inside and outside of the classroom, app developers have been reaching out to educators with products intended to boost student learning and their own professional development. The following are five of the most promising apps for education, ranging from those that bring the social networking experience to the classroom to more efficient note-taking systems. The best part? They are all free without compromising quality. Edmodo This free app that's compatible with Android and Apple devices brings social networking to the classroom. Edmodo enables teachers to extend learning beyond traditional classroom times using a closed network that resembles some of the most popular social networking sites, like Facebook. Teachers can post homework assignments, lead virtual discussions, request classes to answer polls and award badges for positive behavior and quality work. Teachers can also track student learning, add learning app...

Capture that idea - blogging is about ideas

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We know that great things start with a small idea and yet not all ideas that occur to us are able to see the light of day in terms of a considered piece of writing. But if you are into blogging then you will know that once a great idea is there a great blog post is just a little more time away. And we all would have experienced how difficult it can be to come up with an idea on demand. Even for some of the very creative ones amongst us. Though once we recognize that ideas are of great importance we can learn to respect them and treat them with care so that ideas that occur to us do not evaporate away as other events in our life pile up one on top of the other. So what can one do to increase our ability to care for our ideas? Well to start with one must recognize that a good idea does not come all fleshed out in great detail, it usually comes along as a seed of an idea that we then build it into a great idea. Once we have a great idea we care for it and perhaps may jot it down, but w...