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Should you build your own LMS?

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Bridget McCrea is a contributing writer for eSchool News. West, for example, recently heard from a school that two years prior was determined to build out its own LMS, only to spent 24 months on a project that will likely never come to fruition. “It

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Why Facebook engineers helped this district build a personalized learning tool

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Bridget McCrea is a contributing writer for eSchool News. We have no date or timeline in mind yet for when that will happen, but we are running a small pilot program right now with some schools around the country that are ‘exploring’ our expanded PLP and using it as a tool.

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Flipping the classroom together—from 3,000 miles away

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Bridget McCrea is a contributing writer to eSchool News. We’re going to deconstruct the process and look more carefully at how creative people work, and how to make that applicable to the writing process in the classroom.”.

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A helpline for schools tackling cyberbullying

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Bridget McCrea is a contributing writer for eSchool News. Agatston also sees iCanHelpline.org as being replicable across different states and useful for a wide swatch of both public and private K-12 schools. Every state needs a resource like this,” she said. I’d love to see it replicated and accessible to schools nationwide.”.

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This software turns old laptops into new Chromebooks

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Bridget McCrea is a contributing writer for eSchool News. “The kids really don’t care if they’re using older laptops,” says Simental, who recently used CloudReady to resurrect a set of 30 “forgotten” laptops that were stored on a cart.

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When one-to-one goes wrong

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Bridget McCrea is a contributing writer for eSchool News. “We’ve seen a number of one-to-one successes and failures over the last 10 years or so, and districts can learn from these examples,” said Craven, who admits that Murphy’s Law will likely raise its head due to the complexity and sheer scale of these deployments.