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As LinkedIn’s Video Library Grows, Company Says It Has No Plans to Compete With Colleges

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It has been just over two years since LinkedIn shocked the industry by buying Lynda.com, a library of video courses, for $1.5 What is the philosophy behind joining a library of video courses with a professional-networking site? Golding: I joined Lynda.com in 2011. billion dollars. Our focus was always helping people learn.

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Steve Jobs, Visionary. 1955-2011

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My dad, the head of a public school "Library/Media" department, brought home an Apple ][ (2), and I was instantly hooked. I was not an early adopter of the iPhone, but, once convinced to turn, have found my life revolutionized, energized, and simplified by the fact that "There''s an App for That."

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Toontastic 3D: New and free from Google Education

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You may be familiar with Toontastic launched in 2011 or Toontastic Jr. Now, with the help of Google, the platform is impressively redesigned for Android , iPad and iPhone. Check out Toontastic 3D , a wonderful, free, open-ended digital storytelling app just launched by Google Education for tablet, phone and Chromebook.

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RTI to Exemplary: No Limits with the iPod Touch

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Notes from a TCEA 2011 Concurrent Session Kelly Cordray Elizabeth Powell 5th Grade Classroom Teachers Texarkana ISD PowerPoint presentation is available online at the TCEA website. Teacher runs main app off of iPhone or iPod/iPad. iPod Touch tcea tcea 2011' Kelly used iPod touches in her 5th grade classroom. Costs about $.99

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iTunes U Unleashed! #SXSWedu

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Notes from SWSWedu 2011 breakout session. The text of the book will also display on a Touch or iPhone! Add the ePub to your iTunes library, sync to iPad or iPod Touch, and Presto! Tom Burnett, PhD Manager Stategic Initatives Apple, Inc. Put in text and added lectures he had downloaded from iTunes. Way cool!!

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To #AASL11 Minneapolis and Back: Report to Faculty

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Videolicious - free video-editing mobile app for the iPhone spicynodes - a mind-mapping presentation tool, more fun and visually appealing, in my opinion, than Prezi! Enlightenment (Sort Of) : What does the future hold for school libraries, in light of the coming of ebooks and ereaders? Teachers approve uploads. Who are your students?

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Five Things That Helped Us Survive Summer 2016

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Check out our 2014 , 2011 , and 2010 Things That Helped Us Survive Summer posts, too.). Kindle Family Library. A bonus is that this works with digital library books, too. If you borrow a Kindle book from your local library, it will show up on the other adult’s Kindle as well. Unless you choose not to share it.

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