20 Useful Twitter Apps for Educators

July 30, 2009

The following is a guest post from Karen Schweitzer, author of the About.com Guide to Business School. She also writes for OnlineCollege.org, a site that provides information about the best online colleges.
Twitter is becoming an increasingly popular way for teachers and other education professionals to connect with their students and each other. This popular social [...]

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Have You Been Spending or Saving?

July 29, 2009

As I sit here in the luxurious comfort of my Ikea bed, typing this post on my (mostly) shiny, (not quite as) new MacBook Pro, I can’t help but think about how I’ve been managing my money lately. I feel like I’ve been spending a lot of money recently even though I haven’t racked up [...]

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How To Be A Horrible Credit Card Customer

July 14, 2009

There aren’t very many areas of life where you get rewarded for being bad. In fact, most of us learn at a very young age that bad behavior has its consequences — getting a spanking, having to sit inside during recess, getting after-school detention. As we get older, we realize that things really don’t change [...]

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What Are You Doing This Summer?

June 29, 2009

Summer is here. It’s not quite as exciting when you’re not in college anymore. Unless you become a teacher or professor, you can say goodbye to three month summer vacations after you graduate. Once you get into the real world, summer just means the sun is still out when you leave work, and you can [...]

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Weekly Roundup: I Finally Switched to Mac

June 24, 2009

I have some good news, and I have some bad news. Let’s start with the bad news. I caught a cold last week, and I’m still trying to recover. Instead of staying up late writing blog posts, I’ve been falling asleep before midnight, blowing my nose continuously, and coughing in the general direction of wherever [...]

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