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Shapegrams: Grab-and-Go Google Drawings Lessons

Shake Up Learning

The post Shapegrams: Grab-and-Go Google Drawings Lessons appeared first on Shake Up Learning. One such creative project that has blown me away is his Shapegrams projects (grades 2-8), an image challenge for students to recreate images using Google drawings. These grab-and-go Google drawing lessons are so much fun!

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ISTE 2018: Where I?ll Be Presenting and Joining in the Learning #iste18

The CoolCatTeacher

I’ve been going most years since 2006 and while it overwhelms me, it is truly an awesome learning experience. NotAtIste Google+ Community. If you’re attending and you want to help crowdsource the notes, check out Tzvi Pittinsky’s crowdsourced ISTE Notes and join in with the Google sheet where you can add your notes.

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Why I'm Still Bullish About the State of Edtech

Edsurge

One of our portfolio companies LearnPlatform publishes a regular “ Edtech Top 40 ” list of the most used edtech products in K12 schools nationwide: perhaps unsurprisingly, Google products take 8 of the top 10 spots. But as a point of reference: Google did not yet exist. Today’s K12 educators are more digitally native than ever before.

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April 1, 2011: What Stunt Will Google Pull Off?

The Electric Educator

Google has become notorious for its April 1st shenanigans. Here''s a list of their pranks from the past few years: 2000: Google Mental Plex (search using mental telepathy) 2002: Pigeon Rank (the secret to Google''s search algorithm is trained pigeons) 2004: Google Copernicus Center (apply for a job at Google''s newest office-- on the moon!)

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Why I’m Optimistic About the Next Wave of Education Technology

Edsurge

But during that same fifteen-year period, we also witnessed the birth and growth of highly influential firms like Google, Amazon, Facebook, Tencent and Alibaba. In 2002, our team at Microsoft Education created an LMS for a world where every teacher and student had a tablet computer. billion in 2010.

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4 Keys to Student Success Online: Part 1

The Electric Educator

Rice 2006). Rice 2006) Some students will thrive in an online environment while others will be better served in a face-to-face classroom. Vrasidas & Zembylas (2003 in Rice 2006) identified high quality materials and frequent teacher-student interaction as key components to student success. 2006): 425-448. 29 Apr 2011.

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Announcing EdTechTeam Adventures

EdTechTeam

I started taking Aurora photos in Inuvik in 2002. Since moving to Yellowknife in 2006, I have concentrated on Aurora photos in the winter along with sunsets and sunrises. Since then I have had many cameras and have tried to improve my work every time I go out.

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