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Seven e-Learning and Teaching Resources
While the down economy continues to hurt funding to our schools, more and more teachers are looking to web-based services to help educate their students. Whether it's through open resource projects like CK-12, virtual classrooms like those in Second Life, or through the repurposing of tools like Twitter, millions of teachers are finding innovative resources to engage their students. If you're a teacher, here are seven great tools to get you started.
Keep Your Profiles in Sync with Atomkeep
There's a new social network that pops up everyday. Most of us can't count on one hand how many social networks that we are currently apart of. Even with all these networks, there's only a handful that we continuously update. Sometimes there's just too many and some get left behind in the tedious process of updating our profile information. Atomkeep aims to help you keep all your profiles in sync with the click of a button.
What Should Exxon Do About Twitter? Absolutely Nothing
Energy giant Exxon Mobil fell victim to a Twitter user spoofing official use of an account named ExxonMobilCorp, it was discovered yesterday, and now a discussion is unfolding among social media advocates about what the company should do.
Many people say that Twitter is frivolous and unimportant. In this case those people would be correct. Just six weeks ago the US Supreme Court rejected Exxon's appeal to drop a lawsuit alleging that its employees in Indonesia "committed murder, torture, sexual assault .. genocide and crimes against humanity" in defense of one of the world's largest liquid natural gas facilities. Placed in this context, whether or how this company deals with Twitter seems irrelevant.
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