App Makes Citations a Snap
An enterprising group of college students have crafted an app that allows users to simplify the often tedious work of creating citations for printed books. Crafted by seven University of Waterloo students, Quick Cite, allows the user to snap a picture of the book’s bar code and have a formatted citation instantly emailed to them. Quick Cite is available on the iOS and Android platforms for $0.99. According to Hack College, which broke the story, the 7cubed team skipped class and challenged themselves to create seven apps in seven days. Quick Cite took about eight hours to write and is...
Read MoreGoogle Adds New Education Category to App Marketplace
With more than ten million student and faculty users of Google apps, Google is making clear its desire to be a key player in the education market. In recent weeks Google has announced significant additions to its education services. Last week it added additional security features for school administrators. These were aimed at making Google’s cloud-based services more user friendly for schools and addressed several control issues that are unique to the school setting. Today, Google announced a new Education category for its Apps Marketplace. The goal of this category is to provide...
Read MoreThe Weekly Update: January 10 – 16
Innovating Without Permission, Daniel Lemire Napa New Tech: School of the Future is Here, Tina Barseghian Pay Attention, T4 – Jordan School District Math Class Doesn’t Have to Suck, The Innovative Educator Wikipedia Turns 10: Are we Banning or Boosting?, Doug...
Read MoreWhere Have You Been?
This is a question we have been receiving quite a bit lately. Many people have noticed that over the past months, Shawn and I have taken a hiatus from actively posting on the EDBuzz blog. This was at times unintended and at others need break. Our work commitments, personal projects, and a need for personal reflection all played a role in this break. We’re glad to announce that it has come to an end! This is the perfect time to look back at 2010. Several events stand-out in 2010. Here’s a quick walk down memory lane. Shawn’s post Using Facebook to Improve School...
Read MoreEnd of School Year Reflections
The end of another school year has arrived for most educators, bringing with it a flurry of closing activity. With summer enticing and vacation beckoning, it’s easy to understand how teachers often fail to conduct deliberate reflection on their past year’s performance. Reflection provides valuable insight into your performance and allows you to create a schedule or road map for change. Not conducting deliberate reflection quickly leads to stagnant teaching with ineffective lessons and the teacher being little more than a highly paid baby-sitter. Effective reflection should...
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