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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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Computer literacy: The invisible skills gap?

Neo LMS

Installing and personalizing basic software. In the early 80s there was much hand-wringing among teachers and education policy-makers regarding how to teach computer literacy given that many teachers did not having sufficient training, and “micro-computers” were prohibitively expensive. I find this fascinating.

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Can Virtual Reality Improve Education?

EdTech4Beginners

This tactic has been popular among military training applications for quite some time. If virtual reality is reliable enough to train our armed forces, is there any reason not to implement the same technique at educational institutions across the world?

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Maximizing COVID Relief Funding and Its Effectiveness

edWeb.net

More specifically, funding can be used for educational technology purchases such as hardware and software, physical and mental health services and support, and the implementation of summer and afterschool programs. Through his own company, Educational, Development and Training (EDT) Systems Inc.,

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

Edsurge

We had this intranet server service called FirstClass that kind of did in 2003 just about everything that Google for Education does now. You all are actually teaching writing differently because you got all these computers and you adopted a piece of software that's helping you teach writing differently.

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Technology Training.In Pictures

The Web20Classroom

These are not meant to replace the face-to-face training that I do or the other resources I create. This is a great training resource out of the University of South Florida that provides some really basic information for teachers on how to do everything from burning CD''s to using email to hardware/software troubleshooting.

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To Build Voice Recognition for Early Literacy, Soapbox Labs Gives Kids a Voice

Edsurge

In 2003, a team of Harvard University researchers concluded a survey and mapped out the idiosyncrasies in the pronunciation of common English words across the globe. She noticed another problem: Many of the apps used speech recognition technologies that were trained with adult data samples. Let's call the whole thing off!