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Interesting idea - Chromebook + Nexus 7 instead of just an iPad

Educational Technology Guy

Instead of a school purchasing an iPad and keyboard for all the students, what about a Chromebook and Nexus 7 for each student? A Chromebook starts at $300 and the Nexus 7 starts at $200. Account management is very easy with the Chromebooks and Nexus 7 using Google accounts for each student. That''s a great deal.

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Wakelet and WeVideo: Powerful Distance Learning Edtech

The CoolCatTeacher

Mr. Reicher is an avid learner who enjoys going to Edcamps and conferences. Reicher’s students have produced a live morning news show for the past 12 years and recently produced their 2,000th show. His passion is to learn, share, teach and repeat.

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10 Years and 200 Episodes … What Have I Learned as an Instructional Coach?

TeacherCast

In the early part of 2012, I attended my first edCamp in Philadelphia. From that point forward, we started an adventure to create edCamp New Jersey which topped out at over 1,000 educators one year and was visited by the local cops because of the overflow of parking at the school building. Let’s say this for one final time.

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Today’s Classrooms Should Be About Flexible Teaching—Not Furniture

Edsurge

At the end of June a group of passionate, dedicated educators gathered for one of New Jersey’s last EdCamps of the 2017 school year. That EdCamp session ended up covering something more important than how many scoop chairs you have in your classroom: finding more meaningful ways to reach our students by being flexible as a teacher.

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10 Years and 200 Episodes … What Have I Learned as an Instructional Coach?

TeacherCast

In the early part of 2012, I attended my first edCamp in Philadelphia. From that point forward, we started an adventure to create edCamp New Jersey which topped out at over 1,000 educators one year and was visited by the local cops because of the overflow of parking at the school building. Let’s say this for one final time.

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24 Pickup Lines for Every Stage of Your Relationship With Edtech

Edsurge

Is that a Chromebook in your pocket or are you just happy to see me? Hackathons. Pitchfests. What binds these and countless other education ideas, events, words and buzzwords together? Why, love, of course. A love for learning, teaching, education, a better tomorrow—and the role that technology could play. I voted blue.

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Most Read Posts from Past Week on Ed Tech Guy

Educational Technology Guy

EdCamp CT is Aug 10th. New Chromebook, Chromebox and updated Chrome OS - look awesome, great for education Don''t forget to check out the permanent pages at the top of the site too! Embedit - embed any file in your website or blog - free 5. 10 Tech Skills Every Student Should Have 6. I''m going. You should be!

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