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The “Interesting Ways” Series: A Milestone in Sharing

On Saturday I joined the TEDx community of presenters and gave a talk about knowledge sharing at TEDxNottingham, so it is fitting that the Interesting Ways has passed a milestone of sorts – a milestone in sharing. Thanks to some great recent contributions the iPad resource passed 100 shared ideas! To you this may mean ...

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74 Interesting Ways to Use Google Forms in the Classroom

The Interesting Ways series of resources continue to grow as the community add ideas from the classroom. Below is one of the most popular with over 70 ideas shared by teachers for using Google Forms in a range of different ways. Make sure that you explore nearly 40 other crowdsourced resource like the one above ...

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Interesting Ways to Use Google+ to Support Learning

07.16.2011 · Posted in Crowdsourcing, Google, Interesting Ways, networks

Many early users of the latest platform for social networking have begun sharing their ideas about the potential for supporting learning. There is much to be anticipated – I always believed that the community element was missing from the use of Google Apps for Education. Perhaps Google+ could provide the platform for schools to help ...

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Don’t Just Tweet, Create Something!

I have been fortunate enough to see many resources created by the thousands of willing educators using Twitter. However in my opinion there is a strong case for using hashtagging more systematically, so that we better organise and structure the resources, ideas and thoughts we all have. A Twitter hashtag uses this symbol # folllowed ...

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My 2010

I have been reading Linchpin by Seth Godin. It has already been one of those books that seems to speak to you directly, one that for whatever reasons strongly resonates with you at exactly the right moment. On his blog he reviewed his year, what he shipped or completed. Here is mine: Instigated Google Teacher ...

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