Here are the top educational apps on iPad.

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Want to improve student academic performance? There’s an app for that.

Hundreds of middle school students in the central San Joaquin Valley, Calif., and across the state—each with a school-issued iPad—are using curriculum apps for their classwork and homework.

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6 Technologies That Will Change Education

http://thejournal.com/articles/2011/05/17/6-technologies-that-will-change-education.aspx

Online you may share your comments on the 2008 revision of the Arizona Long-range Strategic Educational Technology Plan through IDEAL. http://moourl.com/AZplan  or https://sites.google.com/a/ideal.azed.gov/az-edtech-plan .

The Association for Learning Technology's annual conference, ALT-C 2008, brought together over 700 delegates and more than 100 speakers from all over the world. Catherine Dhanjal reports on some highlights from the conference.

Here are some highlights from the ALT conference: a report on two presentations from the business sector, and a fascinating seminar on the divide between businesses who use internet and communications technology (ICT), and those who don't.

More at: http://www.trainingzone.co.uk/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=191719&d=680&h=608&f=626&dateformat=%25e-%25h-%25y

The American Association of Community College’s Instructional Technology Council (ITC) has just published its 2007 Distance Education Survey Results, covering data from 154 U.S. community colleges. And there’s a lot of interesting stuff in it. Here are the headlines that I drew from it:

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http://mfeldstein.com/bad-news-for-blackboard-good-news-for-moodle/

One of the most frequent questions I get asked, especially by those in smaller businesses, is “where do I start?” Getting off the ground in social media can be like trying to eat an elephant all in one sitting, but it doesn’t have to be.

So I’ve taken some of my best practices for getting started, and packaged them into this free e-book called Getting a Foothold In Social Media: A Get-Started Guide for Small and Medium Businesses. I focused it on this group because they seem to have the fewest resources and most questions, but by all means, I think many of the tenets remain the same no matter what size business you’re in.

More information at: http://altitudebranding.com/getting-a-social-media-foothold/

About The Council

As the third-largest cable provider in the nation, Cox Communications Inc. is noted for its high-capacity, reliable broadband delivery network and superior customer care. For Cox, it’s not about being the biggest; it’s about being the best.

With more than 6 million total residential and commercial customer relationships, over 22,000 employees and a firm commitment to education, the Cox team is widely regarded industry leaders, having earned multiple distinctions in customer satisfaction, diversity practices and company strategy. In 2006, Cox received highest honor in J.D. Power and Associates' residential cable/satellite TV customer satisfaction study as well as in 2005 for customer satisfaction among high-speed Internet service providers. (For complete details on the All-Distance Telephone, Cable/Satellite and Internet Service Provider Residential Customer Satisfaction Study, visit www.jdpower.com.)

More informaton at: http://www.cox.com/ 

One Laptop Per Child

Here is a video from Yves Behar, the designer of XO

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