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Twitter Boosts College Grades and Class Engagement [STUDY] : Twitter has been credited with -- and blamed for -- a lot of things. Supporters claim it fueled the Green Revolution in Iran and helped the Arab Spring , critics argue it's hurting our ability to write and think. There's no consensus on the former, but a new study now argues that the second claim is wrong. Twitter may actually give students an educational boost. Christina Greenhow, an assistant professor of education at Michigan State University, discovered that students using the microblogging service as part of their education are more engaged and have higher grades. In fact, she considers it "a new literary practice," as she explains in her study… Continue reading... More About: Twitter , education , social media for social good

Welcome home, Endeavor (time-lapse photography of Space Shuttle Endeavor’s last journey) : 25 missions to outer space. 4671 orbits around planet earth. A few thousand miles crisscrossing the US on a farewell tour. And then just 12 miles from the airport to the California Science Center. Twelve miles, of course, at an average speed just .01 percent of the 17,500 miles per hour it once had to fly to at least temporarily slip the surly bonds of Earth’s gravity. Space shuttle Endeavor is now home  in L.A. A very special team of photographers and helper combined to take amazing high-res photography of its journey, which they released just a few days ago. Here it is in time-lapse photography: photo credit: DUCKofD3ATH via photopin cc Filed under: OffBeat , Science , VentureBeat Here it is in time-lapse photography: 새 창에서 보기

So you want to be a programmer, huh? Here are 25 ways to learn online : Whether you are looking to switch careers and become a full-time programmer, want to try to build a website or app on the side, or are just looking to round out your skill set, learning to code has certainly been something a lot of people have started to do lately. And while being a programmer  might not be for everyone, there is a lot to be said about gaining a better, more educated view of how all those pixels get moved around all those screens. Before we delve into our list of learning resources sites, we wanted to share some advice from Marissa Louie , a self-taught product designer for Ness Computing . A former startup founder, Louie told TNW that the hardest part of being self-taught – whether it’s design, programming, or any other discipline is, “gathering the courage. The most important barrier is just to overcome your fears” (she also said having the ability to follow instructions helps ...