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According to Maclife, app developers today were offered a new paid application contract by Apple, adding an amendment to allow them to offer educational discounts when multiple copies of the same program are purchased. Developers must accept the new amendment in order to be able to add to the App...

LearnBoost announces its integration with the Common Core Standards. Coverage: ReadWriteWeb OpenStudy has joined with MIT OpenCourseWare to offer study groups in conjunction with three OCW courses: Single Variable Calculus, Chinese I, and Introduction to Computer Science and Programming. Source: OpenFiction TeachStreet adds a "student inquiries" feature, so that students...

EdReformer recently reprinted a blog post from The Teaching Master: "Top 25 Web Startups Revolutionizing Teaching." Well, I'm all about that (that ed-tech startup thing), and so I read with interest. (Ed-tech startups both on that list and not on that list: we should talk.) But the Teaching Master gives...

I arrived home yesterday after an amazing week in the Bay Area. While the initial impetus was to attend a couple of startup pitch and demo events, I made the trip very ed-tech focused with visit with Rafael Corrales, co-founder of LearnBoost and a morning spent at the Googleplex, meeting...

Teachers, Tech Coordinators, Administrators, Geeky Educators of all sorts: I am working on some ideas for a back-to-school series of posts. Please send me an email with your thoughts on the one tech tool you're most excited to bring into the classroom with you -- can be hardware or software,...

Anthologize was designed and built as part of the One Week One Tool workshop, held last week at the the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. The open source tool works with WordPress to transform blog content into formats accessible with e-readers. This WordPress plugin could...

LearnBoost, the online gradebook tool, announced on Monday that it had raised $975,000 in seed funding. The gradebook should be available in a couple of weeks, and teachers should sign up on their website for access. See ReadWriteWeb for my coverage. Amazon announced last week that e-books had outsold hardcovers....

Ars Technica reported today on a study published in the International Journal of Communication. Researchers at Northwestern University found that students are apt to just click that top link when searching for information online, with minimal assessment of the quality of information they're going to find there. 102 college freshmen's...

My friend and fellow Wyomingite Dan DePaolo has designed two really awesome logos for this and for my other blog, a/archivista. You can check out more of his work here. Why does the gargoyle matter? Yeah, that's why.