Happy 4th of July!

Nobody likes change, but the fact is that change is at our doorstep. Changes in technology are quickly beginning to force the hands of schools and districts across the world. This poses some good news for students, as transformation efforts are under way to provide authentic learning experiences that provide relevance, value, and tangible skills…
Readability, a bookmarking service that also cleaned up web pages, is shutting down September 30th. I’m going to miss the website, I used their Chrome add-on to clean up webpages to read. Readability was a great way to focus on the content of the page, and I recommended the site for students that might be…
Much like Skitch before it, Annotable gives you some pretty cool markup tools for pictures. My favorite is the magnifying loupe, allowing you to shift focus to a particular part of an image and magnify it. Annotable is free with in-app purchases for more tools.
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I’ve talked about Gmail labs previously and today I want to share another Labs addition to Gmail I use all the time, Quick Links. After enabling Quick Links, a new box shows up on the left under your Gmail labels. To save a search, you need to complete the Gmail search first using the normal Gmail…