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5 #GR8Finds #ThisWeek 04.10.15: Google Field Trips to Science Museums, LinkedIn to buy Lynda.com, 25 Google Search Shortcuts, Kids Summer Reading List 0-YA

mauilibrarian2 in Olinda

Google Field Trips to Science Museums! LinkedIn to buy Lynda.com. 25 Google Search Shortcuts You Need to Know h/t @kleinerin 25 Google Search Shortcuts You Need to Know [link] — Erin Klein (@KleinErin) April 9, 2015 Great list! The power of Google Maps and Social Media #WeAreMaunaKea How powerful is this?

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LinkedIn’s New Learning Platform to Recommend Lynda Courses for Professionals

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If that offering sounds like what one might find on Lynda.com, which LinkedIn acquired 18 months ago. The new product, LinkedIn Learning , includes all 5,000 courses published on Lynda.com, and any new courses created will be published on both platforms. Today the social media site for professionals. billion , that’s because it is.

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Is Creativity a Skill?

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Jaime Casap, chief education evangelist at Google To get a broader perspective, I also posed this question to professionals from different industries, working in film, writing, teaching, museums and technology companies big and small. Lynda Weinman, founder of Lynda.com: Creativity is a soft skill. It combines elements of both.

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Friday 5 — 9.23.2016

Perry Hewitt

These 18 Google docs tips , like the ability to search images by color, can help you keep up with recent improvements. Allo, Google's new, IA-enhanced messaging app, launched with mixed reviews: it's fine, or maybe it's more like your annoying office intern. Is a data scientist essential for a modern design team?

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The iPad Loophole

The Electric Educator

To the average user there is no difference between the two methods, however some students discovered that by clicking through the help files, they could navigate to a Google search page and then to any website on the internet. You can find me on Twitter (@jrsowash), Google+, Linkedin (jrsowash), and YouTube (jrsowash).

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?Blockchain, Bitcoin and the Tokenization of Learning

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Take LiveEdu , for example, a Y Combinator-backed online learning company that touts itself as being the “next-gen Lynda.com,” referring to a platform that offers online courses and skills training. Investors might be less interested in buying and trading tokens for a streaming service that they can access for regular cash.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

” In his book, Srnicek identifies five kinds of platforms: advertising platforms (like Google and Facebook), cloud platforms (like Salesforce and Amazon Web Services), industrial platforms (like GE and Siemens), product platforms (like Spotify), and lean platforms (like Uber and AirBnB). Education’s Proto-Platforms.