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Google Publicly Launches Helpouts For Real Time Expert Help Via Hangouts

Google Helpouts is an instructional service that will connect people who need help on any topic with experts. The live one-on-one sessions over Hangouts video chat come completely personalized. Join in.

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Fun With Fonts: Type:Rider Is A Beautiful Puzzle-Platform Game On Typography

"Which tab do I click on to get different font styles?" Steve Jobs asks, turning to look at his team.

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Play-i's Toy Robots Aim To Teach Programming At A Very Young Age

Play-i wants to lower the bar for the accessible programming age with its new toy robots, Bo and Yana. There's a crowd-funding campaign where you can pre-order the bots for 2014.

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Want To Know But Afraid to Ask? 5 Sex Education YouTube Channels

For teenagers, getting information about sex and sexuality can be a challenge. When you don't know who to ask, these YouTube channels can help you out.

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Duolingo Gives A Fillip To Free Language Learning With Crowdsourced Lessons

Duolingo has launched a new initiative that aims to crowdsource new lessons and new languages with the help of the website’s growing community of ten million and counting.

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How To Use Learnist To Effectively Organize Your Learning & Teaching

Learnist is a learning board for the digital age. You can look at a learning board as a container for any content that helps you understand things you are interested in.

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Coursera And Udacity Gain Competition As FutureLearn Joins The MOOC Bandwagon

FutureLearn has launched with an open beta website and a roster of free online courses. The 20 pilot courses will run throughout the year and learners can join from any part of the globe.

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Help Your Inquisitive Child Learn About The Science Of Everyday Stuff

A never ending curiosity about commonplace things is what gives birth to a scientist. The scientific spirit needs to be nurtured early, and today’s parents and teachers can play a big role.

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Back to School? How to Organize Your Classroom Work With Evernote

School time can become stressful for both students and teachers, especially in high school and later in college. Therefore, it's absolutely crucial that you stay as organized as possible so that you know where to find the information you need and make things as easy as possible for yourself. Evernote is a fantastic tool to take care of all of this.

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It’s Not Word Bling: 7 Interesting Ways You Can Play With Word Clouds

We, the denizens of the Web, who live and work here also call them as tag clouds. Call them “word clouds” or “tag clouds” – they are visualization tools that helps your brain process information in a rather unique way. But there’s a method behind the apparent jumble you see and they can be put to lot of uses because they help to jog our brains and make it see the mundane in alternative ways.

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Liking Can Make You Smart: 5 Ways To Use Facebook For Education

Facebook can teach us lots of stuff, but most of the time, it's nothing that we really want to know. But what about the real educational value of Facebook? Stuff that's -- oh, how do you say it -- Educational? Believe it or not, it's out there. Whether you are the parent of students, a student at a university, or just a student of life, we've got a few tips that will make your Facebook experience just a bit more valuable.

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6 Great Tech Tips to Beat College on a Budget

There are some easy ways to get free textbooks, study more efficiently, and cut the time it takes to write a paper in half. Despite growing criticisms of the "value" of a degree, this generation has the best chance to make the most out of a course. Technology has enabled us to speed up just about every other industry and create the kind of efficiency man could only dream about two decades ago. So why not apply it to academic life?

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Learning Computer Science? Tag Some Video Tutorials On Teaching Tree

Learning with the help of massive open online courses or YouTube videos has one slight problem -- there isn't anyone around to help you take shortcuts to the precise concept. You wade in and flounder around, because there's just so much information out there. If you come up for air, take a look at Teaching Tree. Teaching Tree handles the difficult part of taking you to the right concepts in the shortest time possible.

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Tablets for Education: Study Tool Or Touchscreen Distraction?

When the computer arrived in homes many parents wondered; is this just a toy, or a tool for education? My mother decided that it was the latter, and while she was wrong (it’s both!), the PC did become a portal for learning. Today’s parents face the same question, but with tablets rather than PCs. These new devices are less expensive and more portable, yet some critics contend they’re not useful and are best for entertainment, not learning or work. Is this true? Or does putting a tablet in a child’s hands give them an edge?

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6 Educational Console Games For A Fun And Successful School Year

Contrary to popular belief, video games aren't a useless form of entertainment responsible for sucking precious time away from children and adults alike. Even generic first-person shooters such as the Call Of Duty titles could, in theory, help develop hand-eye coordination, strategic thinking, and teamwork. And there are plenty of other titles that offer similar unseen opportunities for mental growth. What follows are six educational console games that parents can buy for their offspring and be safe in the knowledge that there is an educational element embedded somewhere in the gameplay.

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Use Your Expertise: Author Your Own Money Making Course Using Udemy

In the age of the Internet, you can often surpass traditional and expensive college and technical courses and learn practically anything online. And if you have a particular expertise in a subject and want to teach others, there is a large variety of online resources to make this happen as well. Udemy is one such example of a popular online teaching and learning site that can be accessed online and from supported mobile devices.

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How To Select The Best Educational Apps As Kids Go Back To School

Edutainment is a multi-billion dollar industry. But how do you as a parent judge if the educational app you downloaded is the right one? It's impossible to tell without drilling down if a particular app is right for the child or not. So, it's time to bring the specialists into play even as your kids prepare to head back to school.

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The Best 10 Google Docs Tips For Teachers As They Go Back To School

Back-to-school time is underway, and I'm sure you teachers are already balancing your lives, your classroom, and your pesky administrations. What could make life just a little bit easier for you? Google Docs, my dear educator friend. Google Docs. Below, we have ten awesome tips to help you out when handling your students and their parents. Some of them you may know, but others, you very well may not.

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4 Online Courses You Could Take Instead Of Going Back to School

Going for a university education is an expensive proposition. There's no doubting that. For most people, this is totally worth it. The advantages that having a degree to your name totally outweigh the crushing indebtedness that usually accompanies it. That's not to say that there aren't any compelling alternatives online. Here are four online courses that are giving traditional bricks and mortar institutions a run for their money.

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