Citrify Free Photo Editor for the Web

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LibriVox – free audio books

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verkaro.org Main/We Produce Free Audio Books

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AudioBooksForFree.com

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K12 Mobile Learning

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77 Web Resources for Teachers to Try This Summer

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Digital Learning Environments: Tools and Technologies for Effective Classrooms

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BooNote – Bookmarks, Notes and more always at your side.

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Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video | Center for Social Media

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Challenge Based Learning

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iPads for Education | Victoria, Australia

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How to fix Mac file problems.

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How to Reduce the Size of Video Files ~ Chris Pirillo

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10 Useful Tools To Manage Multiple Twitter Account – Free Twitter Tools To Help You Manage Followers | Ayushveda.com

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Stanford Copyright & Fair Use – Welcome to the Public Domain

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DOWNLOAD Go Google: Free Email & More On Your Domain

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How Online Education Is Changing the Way We Learn [INFOGRAPHIC]

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CCK11 Connectivism and Connective Knowledge – an open online course that over 12 weeks explores the concepts of connectivism and connective knowledge and explore their application as a framework for theories of teaching and learning.

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KinectShop: The Next Generation Of Shopping [Exclusive Video]

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7 Stunning Augmented Reality Business Cards [VIDEOS]

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New! Warehouse of Mobile Augmented Reality Resources for Education | K-12 Mobile Learning

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Augmented Reality for Smartphones: A Guide for developers and content publishers

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thinkery.me – helps you focus on the important things and lets you access tons of information in an instant.

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Bundlr – Bundle and share web content easily

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iCloud, cloud computing services promise to change the way we use computers – The Washington Post

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iCloud, cloud computing services promise to change the way we use computers”

Zoom.it – a free service for viewing and sharing high-resolution imagery.

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SayClip – Video Chat

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Webian – A full screen web browser for devices that don’t need a desktop.

“A full screen web browser for devices that don’t need a desktop.”

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Listenvoice – Create & launch mobile/web applications easily without knowing the programming

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mınutes.io — Take notes while conversing with others and share them right away!

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Best Practices in Online Teaching – Pulling It All Together – Teaching Blended Learning Courses

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Pew study finds more people using Twitter

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• In its Twitter Update 2011 report, Pew Internet found that 13 percent of online adults now use Twitter, compared with just 8 percent of those polled for a similar study last November.

   

  Among those on Twitter, 95 percent own a cell phone, and half of them access the site via their mobile device, noted Pew.

Pew study finds more people using Twitter | Digital Media – CNET News

• In its Twitter Update 2011 report, Pew Internet found that 13 percent of online adults now use Twitter, compared with just 8 percent of those polled for a similar study last November.

   

  Among those on Twitter, 95 percent own a cell phone, and half of them access the site via their mobile device, noted Pew.

Wuala – Secure Online Storage – Backup. Sync. Share. Access Everywhere.

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ALOT.com – Apps for your PC

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cooltoolsforschools – Web 2.0: Cool Tools for Schools

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30 Free Creative Commons Photos for Education

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58 Interesting Ways* to use an iPad in the Classroom

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QR Code Generator – Create Your Own QR Codes – Delivr

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QRazystuff.com where QR Codes meet the world of Fashion

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QR Code Generator and DataMatrix Barcode Generator

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iPiccy – Online Picture Editor

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iChromy: Bookmarking Service Diigo Releases A Chrome-like iPad Browser

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33 Excellent Photoshop Tutorials For Designing Posters – DesignModo

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Memonic – The Collaborative Online Notebook

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40 Interesting Ways to Use QR Codes in the Classroom

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8 Ways Technology Is Improving Education

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augmented reality blog | augmented.org

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Augment yourself in the bathroom mirror! | augmented.org

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Qualcomm Bringing Augmented Reality Software Kit to the iPhone

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Augmented Reality Course

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The Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education | Center for Social Media

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Media Literacy | Center for Social Media

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Diigo – Social Bookmarking site AND blogging tool

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Coming This Summer: Fully Offline Gmail, Google Calendar, And Google Docs

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A Beginners Guide to Web Page Design

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Technology Integration Matrix

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Using Groups Effectively: 10 Principles

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• Flow matters
• Conversation is key.
• Set a clear but open-ended goal.
• Try not announcing time limits.
• Do not appoint a group “leader.”
• Keep it small.
• Consider weaving together individual and group work.
• “Divide and conquer” ? collaboration.
• Think threefold.
• Be complementary.

Learning Technologies | EDUCAUSE

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Connecting Student Learning and Technology

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COPPA – Children’s Online Privacy Protection

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Wiki Rubric

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teachweb2 – xplore and brainstorm ways to integrate Web 2.0 technologies into our teaching

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How to Put Home Videos onto iPad/iPad 2

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Open Source Ecology

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4 Ways Mobile Tech Is Improving Education

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32 Ways to Use Google Apps in the Classroom

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Blank map of the World

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Wolfram|Alpha Widgets – Create, Share, and Embed Widgets for Free

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FreeReading – Open source, free reading intervention program for grades PK-6.

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Social Networking as a Tool for Student and Teacher Learning

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• A 2010 Pew Study illustrates that it has become an integral part of the world beyond k12 schools. In the two years prior to the study, use among Millennials (ages 18 to 33) rose from 67 percent to 83 percent, every generation 45 and older more than doubled its participation, and adults 74 and older quadrupled their participation (from 4 percent to 16 percent).
• Among students surveyed in a National School Boards Association study, 96 percent of those with online access reported using social networking, and half said they use it to discuss schoolwork. Despite this prevalence in everyday life, schools have been hesitant to adopt social networking as an education tool.
• s reported in School Principals and Social Networking in Education: Practices, Policies and Realities in 2010, a national survey of 1,200 principals, teachers and librarians found that most agreed that social networking sites can help educators share information and resources, create professional learning communities and improve schoolwide communications with students and staff. Those who had used social networks were more positive about potential benefits than those who had not. In an online discussion with 12 of the principals surveyed, most said, “social networking and online collaboration tools would make a substantive change in students’ educational experience.” They said these tools could improve student motivation and engagement, help students develop a more social/collaborative view of learning and create a connection to real-life learning.
• Social networking could become a vital part of the education environment if implemented effectively. In a 2008 study of high school students in the Midwest, researcher Christine Greenhow discovered that social networking expanded the students’ abilities to perform work by “actually practicing the kinds of 21st-century skills we want them to develop to be successful today.”

Chatzy – Free Private Chat Rooms

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Ninite – Install or Update Multiple Apps at Once

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WatchKnow – Free Educational Videos for K-12 Students

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Online Mind Mapping and Brainstorming app – SpiderScribe

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FlipSnack | PDF to Flash page flip – flipping book software

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quietube | Video without the distractions | Youtube, iPlayer, Viddler, Vimeo and more

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Open Source Textbooks

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Feedera – your personalized daily Twitter digest.

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AV by AIM – Let’s video chat!

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Plex – A Complete Media Solution for your local and online media

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GlobalTweets – Putting Twitter on the map.

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Voki – a free service that allows you to create personalized speaking avatars and use them on your blog, profile, and in email messages.

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Smash Cards – Augmented Reality English and Phonics

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The Poor Quality of an Undergraduate Education – NYTimes.com

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• In a typical semester, for instance, 32 percent of the students did not take a single course with more than 40 pages of reading per week, and 50 percent did not take any course requiring more than 20 pages of writing over the semester. The average student spent only about 12 to 13 hours per week studying — about half the time a full-time college student in 1960 spent studying, according to the labor economists Philip S. Babcock and Mindy S. Marks.
• a large number of the students showed no significant progress on tests of critical thinking, complex reasoning and writing that were administered when they began college and then again at the ends of their sophomore and senior years. If the test that we used, the Collegiate Learning Assessment, were scaled on a traditional 0-to-100 point range, 45 percent of the students would not have demonstrated gains of even one point over the first two years of college, and 36 percent would not have shown such gains over four years of college.
• academic investments are a lower priority.
• The authority of educators has diminished, and students are increasingly thought of, by themselves and their colleges, as “clients” or “consumers.”
• Distributing resources and rewards based on student learning instead of student satisfaction would help stop this race to the bottom.
• Too many institutions, for instance, rely primarily on student course evaluations to assess teaching. This creates perverse incentives for professors to demand little and give out good grades. (Indeed, the 36 percent of students in our study who reported spending five or fewer hours per week studying alone still had an average G.P.A. of 3.16.)
• College trustees, instead of worrying primarily about institutional rankings and fiscal concerns, could hold administrators accountable for assessing and improving learning. Alumni as well as parents and students on college tours could ignore institutional facades and focus on educational substance. And the Department of Education could make available nationally representative longitudinal data on undergraduate learning outcomes for research purposes, as it has been doing for decades for primary and secondary education.

The Poor Quality of an Undergraduate Education – NYTimes.com

• We found that large numbers of the students were making their way through college with minimal exposure to rigorous coursework, only a modest investment of effort and little or no meaningful improvement in skills like writing and reasoning.
• In a typical semester, for instance, 32 percent of the students did not take a single course with more than 40 pages of reading per week, and 50 percent did not take any course requiring more than 20 pages of writing over the semester. The average student spent only about 12 to 13 hours per week studying — about half the time a full-time college student in 1960 spent studying, according to the labor economists Philip S. Babcock and Mindy S. Marks.
• a large number of the students showed no significant progress on tests of critical thinking, complex reasoning and writing that were administered when they began college and then again at the ends of their sophomore and senior years. If the test that we used, the Collegiate Learning Assessment, were scaled on a traditional 0-to-100 point range, 45 percent of the students would not have demonstrated gains of even one point over the first two years of college, and 36 percent would not have shown such gains over four years of college.
• academic investments are a lower priority.

Wylio.com – offers free pictures for bloggers.

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digitalliteracy.gov – offers digital literacy resources and collaboration.

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explore – cultural and educational films and photos

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Free Documentary TV – Free Documentaries, Watch Documentaries Online

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The Textbook Bubble

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Collaborative writing software online with Writeboard. Write, share, revise, compare.

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Simple Guide Tool – lets you create a video/audio/text chatroom for up to four people, and lets you talk and show Google Maps and its Street View of different locations of your choice.

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QR Code Generator – QR Code Tracking System – QR Code Android – QR Code iPhone

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20 Things I Learned About Browsers and the Web

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chronolapse – Easily create time lapses and stop motions with screenshots and webcams – Google Project Hosting

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digital citizenship

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32 Ways to Use Google Apps in the Classroom

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12 Puzzle and Quiz Creation tools for teachers | The Whiteboard Blog

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6 Companies Aiming to Digitize the Textbook Industry

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Navigating the Moodle Interface – For Dummies

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Wiffiti – pulishes real time messages to screens in thousands of locations

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7 YouTube Alternatives & Why They Make Sense

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Creative Commons: an Educational Primer | EdReach

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9 Presentation Apps for the iPad

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iPads in Education | Scoop.it

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facebook for educators

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Tiksoo | social media submission servivces

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Spread.ly – share your content on all important social networks.

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SeventhGate – enables Windows 7 and Server 2008R2 computers with wireless network card to turn into simple wireless routers.

“SeventhGate enables Windows 7 and Server 2008R2 computers with wireless network card to turn into simple wireless routers.”

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AppsMerge – Your social stream

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chattp – chat anywhere

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Google Think Insights – research and insights to help marketers make smarter decisions

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Top 10 Awesome Android Features that the iPhone Doesn’t Have – Lifehacker

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Stixy: For Flexible Online Creation Collaboration and Sharing

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Search Yale Digital Commons – Search digital assets from across Yale’s collections.

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http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/will_chromebooks_for_education_be_a_good_deal_for.php

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Search The Web’s Most Shared Links At All Things Now

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SharedLikes – What People Are Liking & Sharing On Facebook

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20+ Essential Tools and Applications For Bloggers

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Apps in Education

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EdTech Toolbox: Top 10 Web Tools April

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Web 2.0 / 21st Century Tools

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10 Tips For Designing mLearning And Support Apps.

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• 1. Use a broad definition of mobile
• 2. Design for short bursts of activity
• 3. Minimize functionality for a simple user interface
• 4. Make efficiency a goal
• 5. Think differently when designing for touch
• 6. Use the simplest features of the gestural interface
• 7. Consider one-handed users
• 8. Design for visual clarity
• 9. Design for a low error rate
• 10. Prototype first with a web app

FreeMind – an open source mind mapping software

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College 2.0: A Self-Appointed Teacher Runs a One-Man ‘Academy’ on YouTube – Technology – The Chronicle of Higher Education

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10 Open Education Resources You May Not Know About (But Should) | MindShift

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• You probably already know about: Khan Academy and Wikipedia, for example. But in the spirit of 10 years of OCW, here’s a list of 10 cool OER and OCW resources that you might not know about, but should know:

  1. P2PU: The Peer 2 Peer University is a grassroots open education project in which anyone can participate. Volunteers facilitate the courses, but the learners are in charge. P2PU leverages both open content and the open social web, with a model for lifelong learning.
  2. OpenStudy: OpenStudy is a social learning network where independent learners and traditional students can come together in a massively-multiplayer study group. Through OpenStudy, learners can find other working in similar content areas in order to support each other and answer each others’ questions. OpenStudy supports a number of study groups, including those focused on several MIT OCW courses.
  3. NITXY: NIXTY is building a learning management platform that supports open education resources. Rather than an LMS that closes off both academic resources and academic progress, NIXTY is designed to support open courses so that schools, teachers, and students’ work is not necessarily closed off from the rest of the Web.
  4. OER Glue: Still under development, OER Glue will be a site to watch. The Utah-based startup is building a browser-based tool that will allow students and teachers to “glue” together OER resources online. Rather than having to copy-and-paste resources into a new setting, OER Glue will reuse and integrate resources.
  5. iUniv: iUniv is a Japanese startup that is building web and mobile apps to support and make social video and audio OCW content. Resources can be shared to Twitter, Facebook, and Evernote so that students can actively engage in discussions around OCW content.
  6. OCWSearch: OCW Search is a search engine dedicated, as the name suggests, to helping learners find OCW content. The project is, unfortunately, no longer under development, but it does index ten universities’ OCW content, including MIT, Notre Dame, and The Open University UK.
  7. Smarthistory: Smarthistory is a free and open multimedia website that demonstrates how very heavy, pricey, and obsolete the traditional art history textbook is.
  8. CK-12: The CK-12 Foundation’s Flexbook platform provides free, collaboratively-built and openly-licensed digital textbooks for K-12. Much of the content is standards based.
  9. Flat World Knowledge: This is a college textbook publisher whose books are published under an open license. This allows professors to customize the books they order – edit, add to, mix-up – or use as-is. Students can access the books online for free or can pay for print-on-demand and audiobook versions.
  10. Connextions: Connextions is a repository of educational content, containing over 17,000 openly licensed learning modules.

Khan Academy – a non-profit organization with the goal of changing education for the better by providing a free world-class education to anyone anywhere.

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50 Wonderful Infographic Videos and Posters | inspirationfeed.com

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Social media stats: 16 that might surprise you.

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• Facebook

  * 75 percent of Brand ‘Likes’ on Facebook come from advertisements. (Mashable)

  * More than 250 million people use Facebook Connect every month. (Facebook)

  * College-aged kids (18-24) made up the fastest growing segment of users on Facebook in 2010. (AllFacebook.com)

  * Chicago was the fastest growing city on Facebook in terms of usage in 2010 (Houston was a close second). (AllFacebook.com)

  * During the average 20-minute period in 2010, there were: 1,5870,000 wall posts, 2,716,000 photos uploaded and 10,208,000 comments posted. (AllFacebook.com)

  * Indonesia has the second largest population on Facebook http://bit.ly/gBbMrL

  Twitter

  * Since April, Twitter has gained 40 million users and a 62 percent increase in mobile use of the platform (Source: ClickZ)

  * From December 2009 to December 2010, users with a biography listed on Twitter increased from 31 percent to 69 percent. (Pew)

  * Friday at 4 p.m. ET: The most retweetable day/time of the week. (via Dan Zarella and HubSpot)

  * 48%: The percentage of Twitter users that either never or rarely check Twitter. (The Next Web).

  General

  * The average American Internet user watches 30 minutes of video online per day [40 percent increase over 2009] (comScore) Compared to 5 hours of television per day

  * 22 percent of Fortune 500 companies now have a public-facing blog that has at least one post in the past 12 months (comScore)

  * 4 percent of adults on the Internet use location-based services (Pew Internet Research)

  * Social networking site usage grew 88 percent among Internet users aged 55-64 between April 2009 and May 2010 (Pew Research)

  * In 2009, social gamers bought $2.2 billion in virtual goods; Predicted to increase to $6 billion by 2013. (NPD Group)

  * 75 percent: The percentage of U.S. iPad users that are interested in seeing videos within magazine ads on their iPad. (eMarketer via David Erickson)

  * The change in social media use among Baby Boomers 55-64 rose from 9% in Dec. 2008 to 43% in Dec. 2010 (Marketingcharts.com via David Erickson)

25 Unbelievable Social Media Statistics | Social Media Marketing Integrator

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• Facebook:

  ·  Facebook has more than 500 million “active” users worldwide.

  ·  People spend over 700 billion minutes per month on Facebook.

  ·  The average Facebook user is connected to 80 community pages, groups and events.

  ·  More than 30 billion pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photo albums, etc.) shared each month on Facebook. Your content should be among these!

  ·  Every month, more than 250 million people engage with Facebook on external websites. I “Like” this!

  ·  There are more than 200 million active users currently accessing Facebook through their mobile devices. Can your website be viewed on a mobile device? Have you tried viewing it on your own smart phone?

  ·  Being mobile-compatible is important because people that use Facebook on their mobile devices are twice as active on Facebook than non-mobile users!

  ·  And here’s an interesting fact… About 70% of Facebook users are outside the United States. Is your business global?

  Twitter:

  ·  eMarketer estimates 20.6 million US adults will access a Twitter account at least monthly this year.

  ·  There are 200 million Twitter users around the world.

  ·  Twitter now comes in English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish.

  ·  95M tweets are written per day (Sept. 2010)

  Linked In:

  ·  LinkedIn has crossed the 100 million user milestone.

  ·  LinkedIn said that it is adding 1 million new members every week, which equates to one new member every second. This is astounding to me!

  ·  LinkedIn now has presence in 200 countries and territories around the world, with 56 million of the 100 million users being from outside the US. Another reason to make sure your business is part of the global market!

  ·  On LinkedIn, there are 997,000 teachers, 1,030 chocolatiers, 74 Elvis tribute artists and 1 Martini Whisperer.

  Wikipedia:

  ·  Over 18 million articles have been written collaboratively by volunteers.

  ·  Wikipedia ranks seventh among all websites on Alexa and having 365 million readers.

  ·  For the first time in January 2011, Wikipedia cracked the top ten list of the most popular websites in the United States, according to comScore Networks Inc. With 42.9 million unique visitors and rank #9, Wikipedia surpassed New York Times (#10) and Apple Inc. (#11).

  You Tube:

  ·  35 hours of video are uploaded every minute.

  ·  70% of YouTube traffic comes from outside the US.

  ·  YouTube is localized in 25 countries across 43 languages.

  ·  YouTube’s demographic is broad: 18-54 years old.

  ·  YouTube reached over 700 billion playbacks in 2010.

  ·  Over 4 million people are connected and auto-sharing to at least one social network.

2011 social media statistics show huge growth

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• Twitter

  In January 2010 Twitter had 75 million user accounts, but only 15 million used the site regularly. This resulted in 27 million Tweets per day.

  Now, there are more than 175 million registered Twitter users. How many of these are regular users is unclear, but the number of Tweets per day has rocketed to 95 million – an increase of 250 percent.

  LinkedIn

  LinkedIn has grown by an impressive 100 percent from last year, it now has over 100 million users across the globe. Interestingly, 56% of these users are from outside of the US.

  Facebook

  The ever-growing behemoth that is Facebook has shown some impressive growth over the last year.

  Back in January 2010, the site had 350 million active users across the globe, it now has in excess of 640 million – half of which login daily. Based on this figure, Facebook has seen a 40 percent increase in daily usage over the past 12 months.

  Users accessing Facebook via their mobile device has grown by over 200 percent. In early 2010 the figure was around 65 million, it now stands upwards of 200 million. This figure evidently reflects the rise in mobile and tablet usage around the globe. Interestingly, those who access Facebook via their mobile device are proven to be twice as active as those who don’t.

  People are sharing more content on Facebook now too. On average, there are more than 7 billion pieces of content shared on the site weekly. This figure has risen from last year, when it was 3.5 billion.

  As Facebook continues to expand on its services, expect more growth for the next 12 months.

  Flickr

  At the start of 2010, Flickr was hosting around 4 billion images.

  Since then it has grown by around 25 percent. By December 2010, the site was hosting more than 5 billion images. This equates to it’s members uploading more than 3,000 images per minute.

  Wikipedia

  Wikipedia is one of the most visited and trusted websites in the world. At the turn of 2010 the site played host to over 14 million articles from over 85,000 different contributors.

  Now, the site has grown to over 17 million articles from 91,000 contributors. That’s a lot of content!

20+ Mind-blowing social media statistics: One year later | Econsultancy

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• Twitter now officially claims to have 175m registered users, although it’s unclear what percentage regularly user the service. 
• Officially, Linkedin has grown 100%, now having over 100m professionals who use the platform worldwide.
• Facebook officially hit the half-billion member mark last year. According to figures from Socialbakers, there are now some 640m Facebook users worldwide.
• Still citing the 50% active rate, using the official 500m figure, this means at least 250m users every 24 hours. This is more than a 40% increase in 12 months.
• Flickr continues to grow at a steady rate, having increased by some 25% in the last twelve months. At the end of 2010, it was hosting more than 5bn images.
• Wikipedia now has more 17m articles. The site now has an army of 91,000 active contributors.
• It may well be the year of mobile… For Facebook. Users accessing the site through mobile devices now tops 200m – an enormous 200% increase in around a twelve-month period.
• Clearly, Facebook is still growing: More than 30bn pieces of content is shared each month, which is an average of 7bn pieces a week.
• Go Europe! There are now 20m+ EU Linkedin members.
• Twitter now states that 95m tweets are written each day. This is a staggering 250% increase.
• At the new rate of growth, its calculated that there are nearly 4m tweets per hour.
• • More than 24 hours of video is uploaded to YouTube every minute. 
  • Flickr members upload more than 3,000 images every minute.
  • More than one million companies have LinkedIn Company Pages (formerly known as company profiles).
  • The average Facebook user creates 90 pieces of content each month.
  • There are more than 2bn video views on YouTube every 24 hours. 
  • There were nearly 2bn people searches on Linkedin during 2010.
  • People that use Facebook on their mobile devices are twice as active on Facebook than non-mobile users.
  • People on Facebook install 20m applications every day.

Social Media Statistics – provide facts and figures around social media.

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The Ultimate List: 300+ Social Media Statistics

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State of Social Media in the USA

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• According to Pew, the top three countries in terms of adoption are:

  1. United States – 46%
  2. Poland – 43%
  3. UK – 43%
  4. 70% of the US’ 149 Million Facebook users login daily (Ogilvy)
  5. Facebook is the top visited website, accounting for over 8% of all online visits (Hitwise)
  6. 46% of US small businesses utilize social media in their marketing mix (Vistaprint)
  7. Americans spend 2 hours, 12 minutes per day on Twitter (Experian)
  8. 62.14% of Twitter users are in the US (Sysomos)
  9. 66.93% of iPhone users who utilize Twitter are in the US (Sysomos)
  10. YouTube accounts for 86% of US online video watching, Hulu, the #2 site, receives just 7% (imediaConnection)

The state of Corporate Social Media in 2011 [Stats]

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• It’s common to see brands with hundreds of thousands of followers and friends – clearly the chance for interaction has never been greater. Yet in a recent Twitter survey, 53% of corporate accounts did not ‘humanise’ their brand, 68% had less than 1,000 followers, and 15% were completely inactive – hardly an example of social media best practice!

• Social media has many powers – to engage, alienate, create mistrust and make us customers for life who will continue to be brand ambassadors for as long as companies value our relationship. A pretty empowering marketing tool then……and therefore it’s rather unsurprising that corporate take-up has been so significant!

  • 79 out of the Fortune 100 are using social media as major channel for their marketing and communications
  • 88% of surveyed US companies say that their budget will increase for social media in 2011
• Of US companies surveyed in 2011, 100% said that they were placing an increasing importance on social media as a marketing tool.

Bugmenot.com – login with these free web passwords to bypass compulsory registration

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CU3OX : Free 3D Flash Gallery : 3D Flash Slideshow

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Automatically Backup WordPress Blog to Dropbox

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Live Photo Editor

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Mobile Motivation: Real World Learning with Mobile Devices

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QR Codes Resources by Cybrary Man

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10 Tools to Collaborate Documents in Group

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Photopic Sky Survey

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Top 10 Open-Source Platforms to Build Your Own Social Network.

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Podcast Pickle

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Self Publishing – Lulu.com

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Education 2.0 Tools Resources by Purdue University

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OpenHeatMap – turn a spreadsheet into a map

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Top 10 Free Online Spell Checkers

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6 Free Online Diagramming Tools To Draw Any Diagrams And Flow Charts – Best 6 Online Diagramming Tools.

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Best Education iPhone and iPad App Lists | Appolicious ™ iPhone and iPad App Directory

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Mobile Mouse for the iPhone, iPod & iPad

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Topicmarks – summarize your text documents in minutes

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scrible | smarter online research – annotate, organize & collaborate on web pages

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BlogPulse – an automated trend discovery system for blogs.

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Empressr – An Online Media Presentation Application

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Present.me – Record & Share your PowerPoint presentations

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Technology Integration: Project Planning Form

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Technology Integration Matrix

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PROTOCOL.BY – A valuable email signature and a broadcast of your preferred mode of contact.

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Lists made easy + social + fun! – list.ly

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EdTech Toolbox: Web 2 Tools by Task

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The 5 Best Free Tools For Making Slick Infographics | Fast Company

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Classroom Posters – Google For Educators

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Creaza – offers an integrated, web-based toolbox for creative work, both at school and in your free time.

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Print Friendly & PDF

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PrimoPDF – PDF Converter

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lorempixum – placeholder images for every case

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InstaBlogg – Instant blogging. No need to start, setup and maintain a blog.

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Moviesandbox » an open-source realtime animation tool for Windows and Mac

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8 More Free Tools for Data Visualization and Analysis | PCWorld

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Learning to Learn – Tools and Technologies for Inquiry Based Learning

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BrainCog – online exams, testing, assessments by BlueSix

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3 More Ways To Manage Your Dropbox Files You May Not Know About

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Apps In Education – Discovering Education Apps that Inspire and Engage Learning

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Media Literacy Online Project Gateway

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Vialogues – a great video-based discussion tool.

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Megamaps – Print Maps Large and Small – Free

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Sharendipity – Create Rich Internet Applications without writing a single line of code

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8 Ways to Support Teachers Integrate Technology

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Tips on Managing All of Those Free Fonts » The Rapid eLearning Blog

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Over 150 Free Fonts to Use in Your E-Learning Courses » The Rapid eLearning Blog

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5 Free PowerPoint E-Learning Templates » The Rapid eLearning Blog

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Meetin.gs – Shared online space for meeting collaboration.

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SocialBro – Explore your Twitter community

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Vectorian Giotto Free Flash Animation Tool – Vectorian Inc.

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Famundo – allows you to connect, communicate, share, and organize your online community.

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TweetChat – help you monitor and chat about specific topics identified by Hashtabs.

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Google Docs On The Go

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Flockler – allows you to create topics for your audience and embed topics to your site.

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QDevNet – Augmented Reality | Check out the augmented reality mobile application development SDK, tools, forums and other resources from Qualcomm Developer Network, QDevNet.

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oneDrum – offers real-time collaboration for Microsoft Office

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Adobe – Accessibility Resource Center

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LiveProfile – Stay connected with friends and share in real-time using your mobile devices.

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Splore – Interest-based social networking. Connecting people with shared interests.

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70 Super Useful Twitter Hashtags for Homeschoolers.

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Module 4: Docs – Google Apps Education Training Center

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15 Hashtag Chats You Should Be Following – AllTwitter

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RIA (Rich Internet Applications) Usability: Design Guidelines for Web-Based Functionality

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Does Facebook Make You a Better Student? [Infographic:]

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Blackboard Learn for K-12 | Education in the 21st Century

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Smartphone Privacy & Security | EDUCAUSE

“Smartphone Privacy & Security”

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Mobile Enterprise Integration | EDUCAUSE

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Mudpies and Butterflies – a Web tool that helps you build your school community on the web.

“helps you build your school community on the web.”

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Kizoa – Slideshow Maker, Free Online Slideshows, Edit Photos

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Interactive Writing Tools

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Sophia – Free Social Teaching and Learning Network focused solely on education

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Pixelpipe – Publish photos, video, audio, text and files on over 100 online destinations.

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Tweevents – Automatic Twitter Event Management

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Posterbee. Smart sharing for teams.

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Social Searching

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Scour – Search Socially

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Trentter – Realtime Twitter trends and tweets

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Livefyre.com | Real-time comments built for the social web

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IDC Forecasts Worldwide Smartphone Market to Grow by Nearly 50% in 2011

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• Theworldwide smartphone market is expected to grow 49.2% in 2011 as more consumersand enterprise users turn in their feature phones for smartphones with moreadvanced features
• According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) WorldwideQuarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, smartphone vendors will ship more than 450 millionsmartphones in 2011 compared to the 303.4 million units shipped in 2010. Moreover,the smartphone market will grow more than four times faster than the overallmobile phone market.