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Free computer training resources and courses

Educational Technology Guy

As technology changes and schools upgrade software, add new apps, change hardware or operating systems, and more, faculty, staff and students need training and support. The Office 2010 course is great and I am sharing it with our users to help them transition from Office 2003 to Office 2010 because of the different menu system.

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Can Virtual Reality Improve Education?

EdTech4Beginners

For example, Sony Playstation VR software and designs have evolved dramatically over the past few years, seeking to create a more comfortable and natural experience for users. Unlike traditional education, in a classroom setting with teachers and students, VR connects the user to software without any actual personal interaction.

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169 Tech Tip #78: Save a File so Everyone Can Read it

Ask a Tech Teacher

Q: I need to make my document readable by colleagues that don’t have my software (such as I use MS Word and they don’t). If the problem is that the recipient doesn’t have a current version of MS Word (say, you have 2010 and they have 2003), then save the doc as follows: go to File-save as. Category: Google Apps. What do I do?

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U.S. K-12 Educational Technology Policy: Historical Notes on the Federal Role

Doug Levin

FY 2003 $700,500,000. FY 2010 $100,000,000. Rationale for Obama administration FY 2010 program funding reduction : “ The proposed reduction of $169.9 Rationale for Obama administration FY 2010 program funding reduction : “ The proposed reduction of $169.9 ”) Richard Culatta, the director of the U.S.

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A New Social Science? Statistics Outgrowing Other STEM Fields

TeachThought - Learn better.

Statistics Outgrows All Other STEM Fields From 2010-2013. The ASA analysis showed undergraduate statistics degrees nearly doubled (95% growth rate) during the period spanning 2010 to 2013. FASTEST-GROWING STEM UNDERGRADUATE DEGREES 2010–2013. Computer Software and Media Apps 68.4 1,160.

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

Edsurge

My bet is that by 2040, our children will look back on this period between 2015 and 2030 in education technology much the same way internet historians look to the period 1995 to 2010 as the birth of the commercial web. billion in global annual revenue by 2010, helped immeasurably by hard work and acquisitions. billion in 2010.

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Expertise, competency, and content

Connecting 2 the World

This is knowledge that can be possessed (Nonaka, 1994), as “what is known, or the corpus of knowledge that does not belong to any particular individual or context (Yakhlef, 2010, p.39).” For example, a teacher in a rural area without access to internet service may not have access or use of learning management system (LMS) software.