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If schools are going to use technology to improve organizational processes, it’s important their leaders consider moving many of the school’s daily operations onto a cloud-based network. This enables the sort of communication that can only be accomplished by utilizing the  networking and information sharing power of a cloud system. I enjoyed a post on [...]

Staying organized during a hectic school year is certainly a difficult task. With hundreds of e-mails, phone messages, parent conferences, and meetings, staying organized can seem impossible. To help, I’ve put together a short list of helpful apps I use to stay on top of things.
1. Google Apps for Education– “Google Apps Education Edition is [...]

Jane Hart (Center for Learning and Performance Technologies) put together a very useful chart comparing the three different ways of building a social learning environment.
Here are three related articles from Inside Learning Technologies magazine:

Using Free Public Social Media Tools, October 2009
Using Google Tools, November 2009
Using Free, Public Social Media Tools, Elgg, January 2010

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An End of Year Prediction: Classroom Technologies in 2020– Larry Cuban
How to Run a Meeting Like Google– Carmine Gallo, Business Week
Digital Textbooks Open a New Chapter in the History of US Education– eSchool News
Twitter for Teachers: A Collaborative Effort to Teach Teachers about Twitter– Twitter for Teachers
R2D2, Where Are You?– Shawn, edbuzz
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No Child Left Behind Testing Going Online in Hawaii in 2011– Loren Moreno, Honolulu Advertiser
Game Lessons– The Economist
Even More Research: Technology Is Making Kids Better Writers, Not Worse– Tech Dirt
Top Gear for Elementary School Students– Wired
Google Algorithm Predicts When Species Will Go 404, Not Found– Hadley Leggett, Wired