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Entries for the ‘applications’ Category

Classroom Use of GoogleApps

Helen Barrett explains how GoogleApps can be a one-stop shop for creating centralized, dynamic, and effective e-portfolios. I’ve been using Blogger for my students’ blogs and had considered using other applications alongside, but Helen does a great job here showing how it can all work together. I’ll definitely plan on working more applications into my [...]

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BYU 2nd to Harvard Among Students Accepted

Of course, I have to give a shout-out to my alma mater on this story. It appears that, of applicants who are accepted to universities across the U.S., Brigham Young University is rated second only to Harvard as a percentage of those students who actually arrive on campus the first day. Here’s one thing Harvard [...]

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Social Media in the Classroom

Christopher Sessums breaks down an article on businesses’ use of social media and wonders whether the same questions asked of those engaged in business media should be asked of educators wishing to use social media in the classroom. Sessums states: What I like most about Chandler’s metrics is their candor. For example, a question like [...]

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