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Raising the Smart Classroom’s IQ – By Dr. Paul Fornelli

ViewSonic Education

plays in operating the institution’s digital grid, by administering the purchase of new hardware, managing crucial software upgrades, overseeing network security, and controlling the vast amounts of data being transferred each millisecond between students, faculty, and stff. There is no denying the important role that the IT Dept.

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Free from ALA: Library Technology Reports & more!

NeverEndingSearch

As it migrates to a new platform, using the Open Journal Systems software, ALA Publishing is currently offering a generous deal on its archive of Library Technology Reports. While a staple subscription item in many academic libraries, the series is priced beyond the modest budgets of school and smaller public libraries.

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For Online Class Discussions, Instructors Move From Text to Video

Edsurge

“The threaded discussion felt always like the wrong medium for learning,” says Joyce Valenza, an assistant teaching professor at Rutgers University's School of Communication and Information, who has been teaching online since 2001. For Valenza and a growing number of instructors, the answer is video.

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CatchOn Joins the Education Networks of America Family of Companies

techlearning

JUNE 26, 2018 In a move that enhances its mission of supporting education institutions and libraries, Education Networks of America ® (ENA) today announced that Dallas-based education technology company CatchOn, Inc has joined the ENA family of companies.

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The Creation of a Picture Language

Fractus Learning

It was an easily-accessible library of pictures; these were of events and things that were important to the people in the center. This library of pictures allowed for communication. Software could be developed to help people access those pictures easily and assemble them in ways that could be used to communicate.

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Live Tuesday August 16th with Gary Lopez on HippoCampus.org and Teaching with the Power of Open, Digital Resources

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Archipelago created hundreds of films, videodiscs, software programs, book series for many of the largest educational publishers in the United States, including Harper Collins, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Saunders, and Prentice Hall. NETg was acquired by Thomson Corporation in 2001.

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Global Collaboration Week Begins - Find a Project and Connect!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Electronic Village Online (EVO) has developed as a community of practice that in 2001 facilitated a program of online discussions and workshops that have been held every year since then each January-February. Join us at [link] Zoom is a videoconferencing software and that’s our starting point. DIRECTIONS: 1.