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A Conversation with New York Times Bestselling Author Kevin Kruse

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Instead of to-do lists, ultra-productive people live from their calendar. 15 minutes to process social media, on the calendar. 30 minutes to process email, scheduled on the calendar. A time-block to return phone calls at the end of the day, 30-minutes on the calendar. Usually in 15 minute chunks.

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Advice to Teachers in Florida: Don't use Facebook with Students

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I was reminded this weekend by a brother-in-law that the academic calendar with three months off was created for an agrarian culture of the 1800th century and not for our information rich culture existing today.

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Year End Musings, Reflections, Predictions and Thoughts: Part Two

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Our basic education system hasn’t changed since the 1800’s, our classrooms are set up for forward sitting lectures, our academic calendar is centered around the idea of the harvest, many of our school ban items that are used in business every day like cell phones.

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Upcoming Webinar: Communicating with the Next Generation

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For more details about this and other upcoming webinars, visit the NetWorks Webinar Calendar. The audio and visual portions are conducted through Elluminate, a free online web conferencing service. Past Webinar Recordings: Did you happen to miss a NetWorks webinar? Search NetWorks Digital Library for past webinars to listen, watch, and learn.

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Gadgets, Games and Gizmos: Informal Learning at Nick.com

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Now here is the interesting (or scary) part, the site seamlessly incorporates: Mash Ups RSS feeds Chat boards Podcasts Blogs Vidoe Feeds A customization option called MyNick (like MySAP or MyYahoo) An Online Calendar option An Email System We can contemplate whether “real” learning happens with Web 2.0

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The College Tour Right of Passage–Done Virtually

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USAFA allows users to register for a guided interactive virtual campus tour by visiting the event calendar. . “Designing Digitally creating this virtual world for The United States Air Force Academy is an impressive example of market leading game technology being used for very serious uses.”.