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Google Code-In 2012 - contest for High School Students

Educational Technology Guy

Google has announced Google Code-In 2012 , a contest for high school students. The grand prize winners, along with a parent/guardian, will get a trip to Google Headquarters in Mountain View California. These projects have worked with students before in the Google Summer of Code college student program.

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Google Announces 90 regional finalists of Google Science Fair 2012

Educational Technology Guy

Today Google has announced the 90 regional finalists of the Google Science Fair 2012. You can view the finalists and their projects here: [link] From the Google Official Blog: Congratulations to the regional finalists of the second Google Science Fair ! The Google Science Fair is a world-wide, online science fair.

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Happy Holidays - Most Read Posts of 2012

Educational Technology Guy

I''m finishing up my day at work today with a quick post of the Most Read Posts of 2012. Most Read Posts of 2012: 1. What I use with Physics classes instead of textbook Most popular pages on Ed Tech Guy: Evernote for Education Resources Google for Education Resources. Follow me on Twitter and Google+.

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#Eddies12-The Edublog Awards 2012-Voting Now Open!

The Web20Classroom

The nominations are in and the voting is open for the 2012 Edublog Awards. Head over to the Google Doc. I was humbled to learn that for the 4th year in a row I have been nominated for Twitterer of the Year and for the 3rd year in a row this blog was nominated for Best Edtech/Resource Sharing Blog. Wondering how to vote? It''s easy!

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Edublog Awards 2012 - I was nominated for Best EdTech Blog

Educational Technology Guy

I just found out that I was nominated for, and am a finalist for, the Edublog Awards 2012, Best EdTech Blog. Follow me on Twitter and Google+. You can read more about the Edublog Awards here and vote for Educational Technology Guy here (under EdTech Blog). This post originally appeared on Educational Technology Guy. awards edublogs'

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Digital literacy vs. Computer literacy: Students need to develop both

Neo LMS

Students are bad at Google search. It is a common complaint that students perhaps over-rely on Google, and are not familiar with, or used to using, alternative search engines and databases. However, the ERIAL project — a two-year anthropological study — discovered that students also fail at using Google.

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ACE Mentor Relationship Building with Google Drive and Google Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

Stephanie Goldman and her first-year mentee Lindsay George have used Google Drive and Google Classroom to supercharge their mentor/mentee relationship. Stephanie Golden: ACE Mentor Relationship Building with Google Drive and Google Classroom. It’s mostly organized, but the search feature for Google Drive is excellent.

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