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Free computer training resources and courses

Educational Technology Guy

GCFLearnFree is a program of Goodwill Industries of Eastern NC and provides quality online learning courses for free. 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. This is a must bookmark, must share resource.

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Why Do Some Schools Get Better Quickly and Others Get Stuck?

Edsurge

Justin Reich now teaches digital media at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but his first job was teaching a short wilderness medicine course. We had this intranet server service called FirstClass that kind of did in 2003 just about everything that Google for Education does now. I can take all my notes in one place.

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Apple and Microsoft Now Offer $100 Styluses. But Do Schools Need—or Want—Them?

Edsurge

Late last month, as Apple revealed its new education-focused iPad to the nation, it coupled its offerings with a battery-powered stylus, called the Apple Pencil, which costs an additional $89 each for schools. Of course, Apple is not the only supplier offering a stylus. They also showcased the Logitech Crayon, set at a whopping $49.

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Top 12 apps for law students and the bar exam

Brainscape

Let’s start with the first category … Bar course app # 6: BARBRI Study Plan BARBRI is a well-established name in the world of bar prep and for good reason! They have an impressive pass rate and a ton of content, resources, and practice questions for law grads preparing to take on the bar.

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Teacher, Teach Thyself! Free Quality PD Resources

EdTechSandyK

Depending on where you work, your professional development may be proscribed for you, or you may have a lot of freedom to choose courses or sessions you would like to attend or work through online. Many are focused on Google tools (of course), but there are also spots on other useful topics such as this one on how to create a strong password.

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Resources for Insight and Strategic Thinking

SpeechTechie

particularly supporting the use of a combined rehearsal and visualization strategy for following directions (Gill, Klecan-Aker, Roberts, & Fredenburg, 2003) and have been using these strategies in therapy. I encountered a review of research on this by Nicole Allison (great summary, Nicole!) doi:10.1044/2015_AJSLP-14-0059 Gill, C.

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The Greatest EdTech Generation Ever – LIVE Blog of Justin Reich’s Keynote

EdTechTeacher

In all of the interviews that he conducted, what became evident was that the course did not serve as the central point of knowledge. For thousands of years, teachers have assumed that people came together under the guidance of the course but that is no longer the case. How can just one course become part of the larger network?

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