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Reposted from Meg's Notebook.



Google Apps Education Edition is a free suite of hosted communication & collaboration applications specifically geared at schools (universities and K-12).



If a school board does not want to, or is unwilling to, invest in Google apps for education, a teacher can… Continue

The common problem with getting students to turn to dictionaries or similar tools to verify spelling, pronunciation, or simply learn the meaning of a word, is the basic limitations of the experience. When a generation that has grown up participating in and / or leading the creation of narrative online (via their social networks and blogs) is faced with a non-to-low interactive and non-social experience, we can easily predict the outcome: boredom and disinterest, and they will only do it if… Continue