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Twitter adds group chat and a mobile video cam

NeverEndingSearch

No secret: I rely heavily on Twitter for keeping up with professional news and for messaging and for sharing discoveries. So, I was very happy to discover that Twitter’s Direct Message feature recently expanded to include group messaging. You can now capture, edit and share videos without leaving the Twitter app.

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Phonto App- An Easy Way to Add Text to Photos

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Phonto is a free mobile app that allows you to easily add text to photos. After using it multiple times I must say that the app developers should definitely work on improving the app’s interface which is the only thing I find inconvenient. Next, tap anywhere on the image to add your text. You can move your text around as you like.

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Best Professional Development Tools for Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Free eBooks and Audiobooks To grow professionally you definitely need to invest time and effort in learning new skills and competencies besides enriching your the knowledge base of your content area with new insights and state of the art research. These are probably the best you can ever find online. This is a work in progress.

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6 Must-Have Mobile Device Apps for the School Administrator

The 21st Century Principal

Ask yourself what makes an app on a mobile device useful, and the answer is that the most useful apps have these four characteristics: The app is available for and syncs across multiple devices. This rule applies to any software, but most especially to mobile apps. For Twitter for iPad, check out [link].

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Why Curation Matters

The Web20Classroom

The definitions everyone gives for what curation means to them are so totally different yet the same. I get a great deal of information from serivces like Twitter and blogs I read. Not only do I have it installed on every computer I have but on my mobile devices as well. Curation is a large part of my day. But what is curation?

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Q&A: Leila Nuland on How to Build Equitable Computer Science Curricula

EdTech Magazine

NULAND: We're definitely seeing a bit of an uptick in requests related to computer science programming. What I can tell you anecdotally from the work that we've done here at Hanover is that, even with a BYOD program, there's still equity challenges with that because not every student has a mobile device to bring. . by Eli Zimmerman.

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How to Assess Digital Literacy

Ask a Tech Teacher

The definition of digital literacy is pretty much what you’d expect: “the ability to use information and communication technologies to find, evaluate, create, and communicate information, requiring both cognitive and technical skills.” ” Happily, both can be accomplished the same way. To prepare for college and career.