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Parchment Merges with Credentials Solutions to Take On Transcripts and Certifications

Edsurge

Pittinsky also co-founded learning management services company Blackboard before co-founding Parchment in 2003. In this video from the 2014 ASU-GSV education conference, Matthew Pittinsky explains the thinking behind his company Parchment. Based in Scottsdale, Ariz., We see the competitive landscape quite differently,” he says.

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Classroom prizes and grants available!

Educational Technology Guy

See a short video of the findings and the Speak Up 2014 Snapshots for Educators blog post. One of last year’s winners reported back, “I have been participating in the Speak Up survey ever since it started [in 2003]. Since 2003, more than 3.7 The online Speak Up 2014 survey s close on December 19 th.

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A Glimpse Into What's Possible

A Principal's Reflections

Image credit: ww.aditif.com In fact, in an effort to celebrate much of this work and continue to build our collective learning capacity, we are hosting Long Island Connected Educators'' Conference on April 5th - an event that has attracted over 160 participants ambitious to connect, share and learn together. New York: Amacon, 2003.

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What Video Games Like Doom Teach Us About Learning, According to GBL Guru James Paul Gee

Edsurge

The Mary Lou Fulton Presidential Professor of Literacy Studies at Arizona State University has been playing video games for four hours every day since 2003, solving puzzles and battling bosses in games such as Doom, Darksiders 2 and Uncharted 4. EdSurge: What was the first video game you played? The game was long and hard.

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Virtual School Tips and Recommendations

The Thinking Stick

NCCE (Northwest Council For Computer Education) being our regional ISTE sponsored conference with somewhere around 1500 participants coming together each year to share and learn. 2003 – In Saudi Arabia due to terrorism in the country, I helped my school set up and run Moodle to do Virtual School. No longer than 6 minutes max! (3-5

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The 9 Qualities of A Good Teacher

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

And since September 2003 the first time I stepped into a classroom as a teacher, a lot of things have changed in the field. Using video conferencing tools, teachers are now able to take part in global conferences, webinars, and workshops anywhere anytime. I often think that teaching has come to me and not the other way around.

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Rethinking How Scholarship Works at MLA17

ProfHacker

Friday at the Modern Language Association conference, I’ll be presiding at a session entitled “ That’s Not How Scholarship Works! Each of these works of scholarly making represents a foray into an emerging digital edge — for instance, Web frames and forms in 1998 , digital video in 2003 , and modal interfaces in 2012.