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If you’ve spent any time on the internet, you’ve already been indoctrinated into the world of Making Money Online. Just do a search using one of the big 3 search engines (Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft), and you’ll see ads beside your results.
When we were growing up, we made money as teens by mowing the lawn, babysitting [...]

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You can't transfer ownership of a google doc if you're in a different domain from your students. #
Our students and staff use google docs – the students are set up on a separate domain with "student" in the domain name #
Teacher are using Google docs on a separate domain – students need to type the [...]

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WordPress plugins for our class website: Global Translator – not ideal, but uses Google Translate to help non-English speaking parents. #
WordPress plugins for our class website: Mike Jolley's Download monitor tracks how many times the handouts are viewed. http://bit.ly/rLhvT #
WordPress plugins for our class website: TinyMCE Advanced customizes which tools students can use in the [...]

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Installed Google desktop on our MDG flip to provide a more powerful computer file search tool; sidebar gadgets might distract students. #
WordPress allows you to compare revisions (like Google Docs or WikiSpaces), but you can only compare the HTML code, not the WYSIWYG text. #
Is there a way to hide certain WordPress posts from getting [...]

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At the end of June, our Grade 8 Language Arts (English) class experimented with using Twitter in the classroom.

What is Twitter?
Why use Twitter in the classroom?

Examining Twitter in the classroom to see how social media tools are changing the way the world communicates.
Using Twitter in the Classroom as a collaboration tool

Review of using Twitter in the [...]

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We made $21.80 in June 2008 from Google AdSense. How can we integrate Reading, Writing & Media Literacy into a unit on Making Money Online. #
Typing on the little keyboard on a netbook laptop is slower than typing on a regular keyboard because those keys are so darn close together. #
The SD card reader on [...]

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Tried the MDG Flip Tablet netbook today: Good ink/handwriting recognition. Comes with Evernote. Can you install MS Office to get their ink? #
MDG Flip Tablet netbook: How durable is the pivoting/flipping screen? MDG claims it’s student-rugged, but does it hold up with student use? #
MDG Flip Tablet netbook: bluetooth means you could use a bluetooth [...]

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Windows 7… touch-enabled? Will I be able to do digital ink in the classroom with it? #
New wiimote controller is coming out…Will we be able to still use Johnny Lee’s wiimote software to create an… less than 5 seconds ago #
Will students use bing or google in the classroom? (I wonder why they generally don’t [...]

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You can’t share folders in Google Docs which means if you have a large number of files to share, you have to do it individually. #
(You also have to upload a large number of files separately in Google Docs – you can’t ctrl or shift select multiple items to upload.) #
If you publish your Google [...]

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We’re thinking about starting an entrepreneurial (Make Money Online) extra-curricular computer club at school: applying critical reading, writing and thinking skills while trying our hand at online fundraising for our school. 
We’ll probably start with making niche-websites that are monetized by contextual ads (i.e. Google Adsense). Google has a zero-tolerance policy when it comes to click [...]

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