User Generated Education

MAY 23, 2016

Consequently, compared to less engaged peers, engaged students demonstrate more effort, experience more positive emotions and pay more attention in the classroom (Fredricks, Blumenfeld, & Paris, 2004). Encouraging Positive Student Engagement and Motivation: Tips for Teachers ). Watching and learning from those more experienced than them.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

David Lockhart started teaching high school history in 2004. He had to find that thing that made his lessons stand out, and he saw it with technology. For the last four years, he has been an instructional technologist who coaches, trains, and speaks full time. As a long-time instructor, his posts offer clear advice and helpful how-to details.

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The Electric Educator

MARCH 30, 2011

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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Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2021

When we began our residential summer learning program in 2004, we wrapped our curriculum around a “team model” that reflects the collaborative way that the world works. Small-group and peer-based learning offer valuable and engaging learning structures.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2017

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. 1993-2004: Building the Infrastructure. Working closely with partners, I spent the years from 1993 to 2004 starting and leading a handful of technology startups.

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The Daring Librarian

JULY 3, 2011

So.even though I''m very transparent about my practice and profession here and on the Twitters I kept pretty mum about the fact that I was applying to the Google Teacher Academy cause I guess I didn''t want to jinx it, humiliation, you know.the usual! teach Google? But I *have* been preaching the Google message since 2003.

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Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2019

The Sakai Project, an effort to build a community-source learning-management system as an alternative to commercial systems like Blackboard, started with great fanfare and grant support in 2004—but its use has shrunk to less than 3 percent of the LMS market in North America in 2018, according to a report by e-Literate.

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TeacherCast

APRIL 9, 2015

In todays show, we ask the question “How can our school districts use WordPress as our main website platform?” * Learn how to combine WordPress and Google Apps for Education to create a seamless digital hub for your school community. Can WordPress and Google coexist? For more information, please visit www.EducationalPodcasting.today.

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techlearning

MARCH 26, 2018

We leverage this experience and work closely with Google to provide exceptional value for anyone wishing to maximize the impact of this technology in the classroom.” The company holds ISO 9001:2008 and ISO 14001:2004 certifications, and processes more than one million I.T. assets annually. Learn more at [link].

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Learning in Hand

MAY 16, 2018

The last time I taught fifth grade was in 2004 , and I am so incredibly excited about spending an entire school year with my own group of young learners again. The workshops take place in Google Classroom, and I teach them from my house. I want to put the bank of incredible ideas I've gathered to good use.

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techlearning

JULY 19, 2018

All I had to do was click a subscribe button and whenever I had a moment could go to my aggregator Bloglines, Google Reader (which was still the best) and currently Feedly and see any updated or added content. This journey started in 2004. I don’t use RSS the way I did in 2004. And I think it’s true.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2018

Pathways, Exposure, Academic Connection, Knowledge (PEAK) takes students to local companies such as Google and Facebook, as well as to hospitals, law firms and other businesses. Patricia Villegas, a 2004 graduate, is helping alumni with resumes, interviews and advice.

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Robotics STEM Company Software 88

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 22, 2019

When I was a newly minted college professor in New Orleans in the winter of 2004, I began writing regular editorials for the Louisiana Weekly , a newspaper devoted to the city’s black community.

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Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2017

NPS is also home to well over 100 certified Google Educators , trainers, and innovators. He began his teaching career at Newington High School in 1985, before being appointed principal in 2004. The home-grown system is used by teachers and administrators to inform instructional decisions.

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The Web20Classroom

DECEMBER 7, 2009

There are also some cases going as far back as 2004 where the audience, using a backchannel, disrupted a presentation. Image from Google CC Search. At the Web 2.0 Conference she experienced what a Twitter Backchannel can do to a person and a presentation. So all this got me thinking. View The Original Here. Backchannel Twitter'

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ProfHacker

MAY 11, 2018

" " Palantir Knows Everything About You ," by Peter Waldman, Lizette Chapman, and Jordan Robertson ( Bloomberg ): "Founded in 2004 by Peter Thiel and some fellow PayPal alumni, Palantir cut its teeth working for the Pentagon and the CIA in Afghanistan and Iraq. Whose digital utopia does ‘openness’ represent?"

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 14, 2016

Google Scholar : Launched in 2004, Google Scholar is one of the primary first steps many students take in finding scholarly research online. And here are just a few other ways to keep your faculty and your younger scholars current with emerging research as well as grey literature. You may be able to connect them.

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2019

You can follow the podcast on the Apple Podcast app , Spotify , Stitcher , Google Play Music or wherever you listen. So, I took my own advice and followed through with that and returned to the University of Michigan where I'd been on the faculty from 1989 to 2004. Listen to the discussion on this week’s EdSurge On Air podcast.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Antoinette Siu) According to Wellington Reither, senior advisor to Crow, planning for ASU’s downtown Phoenix campus began around 2004. Companies like Apple and Google consistently lead as the most innovative companies in the world.

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Education Company iPhone Report 60

The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 4, 2019

Get Some Ideas for Mentoring Stephanie Goldman A veteran teacher who describes how she mentored first year teacher, Lindsay George Hear Stephanie’s side of the story Lindsay George During Lindsay’s first year, Stephanie mentored her using a collaborative space in Google Drive. Teacher Education Quarterly, 28(1), 71–84; Smith, T.

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The Daring Librarian

MAY 28, 2011

Of course the iPad only came with Safari so when I heard that Google Diigo came out with a FREE new browser app called iChromy which offers an identical browsing experience on your iPad with a smooth user interface, free apps, and some rather nice features - I was excited! Page How much of a Google fan am I? From the Why Chrome ?

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MindShift

JUNE 7, 2018

Pathways, Exposure, Academic Connection, Knowledge (PEAK) takes students to local companies such as Google and Facebook, as well as to hospitals, law firms and other businesses. Patricia Villegas, a 2004 graduate, is helping alumni with resumes, interviews and advice.

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STEM Robotics Company Software 38

The Electric Educator

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

HTML5 The development of HTML5 has been underway since 2004. Google Docs and Prezi are great, but are still not on equal footing with perennial favorites like MS Office. Innovations like the now-defunct Google Wave and newly released Chrome OS are helping improve cloud computing and have begun to make it a viable choice.

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Technology eBook Smartphone Trends 53

The Daring Librarian

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Doing Backflips over Google For Yahooligans : - 2004 - An early Google App page when I touted the use of the now defunct Backflip, awesome early Google sites, & Yahooligans which used to be more teen than kid. you''ll really need to adjust the size of your browser window it was designed for a 640x480 screen!)

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EdTechTeam

JULY 10, 2018

After a great deal of resistance from the district’s IT department, they finally agreed that the teacher and students could use the Chromebooks—but not for Google Docs! Case in point: A few years ago, EdTechTeam donated a class set of Chromebooks to a middle school where a 1:1 student-to-computer ratio wasn’t yet a reality.

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The Daring Librarian

APRIL 3, 2012

Sure, I started with Smugmug in 2004 (and still have it) but Flickr has captured my heart - the ease of uploading, tagging, comments, sharing, the Creative Commons ! I''m just worried that with Google buying Picnik & leaving Flickr now Yahoo might screw up its totally awesome creation. From Google forms, docs (Mmm the cloud!),

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Social Media Wiki Facebook Industry 60

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Google Santa Tracker Google Santa Tracker is a platform developed by Google which allows people with Internet connection to track and find where Santa is. Since its launch in 2004, Google Santa Tracker has added a wide variety of interesting and fun features making it one of the best Santa trackers out there.

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Fractus Learning

MAY 19, 2016

Instructors should incorporate engagement techniques such as brief, live streamed online lectures using Google Hangouts , Zoom , Adobe Connect to name a few. If they learn how to engage the online learner, then hiding behind the safety of the student-initiated email wouldn’t be necessary. – Cavanaugh, Joseph K. Spring, 57-69. (R).

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2019

In the past few years, Apple, Google, IBM and other high-profile companies have stripped the bachelor’s degree requirement from many of their positions. In a survey of its alumni dating to 2004, Just-A-Start said the 143 respondents indicated that they have seen an average salary increase of $14,778 per year compared to their previous jobs.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

While some license holders leased their spectrum in the 1980s and ’90s, the market for it remained somewhat sluggish until 2004, when the FCC changed the permitted use for that part of the spectrum from television to internet and renamed it EBS. Related: Most students go to a school that meets federal standards for internet speed.

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MindShift

MAY 4, 2015

He had been playing since 2004—his teams were back-to-back Super Bowl champions in 2005 and 2006—so he knew the game intimately. As the game caught on, Nelson began automating it, moving from a simple Google spreadsheet to a full-blown news tracker keyed to mentions in the New York Times.

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Learning Facebook Social Media Policies 28

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

When Pletnick joined the district in 2004, she had to find a way to manage the surging student population and, with it, students’ different academic needs. Miranda Virgil, a seventh-grade math teacher at Canyon Ridge School, teaches her students to use Google spreadsheets to track their progress toward meeting state standards.

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Personalized Learning Classroom Data Learning 40

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 7, 2019

In her consulting life, she has led CoSN’s Leadership for Mobile Learning initiative, developed strategic plans and content for companies, provided professional Gray is the recipient of ISTE’s Making It Happen award and the Apple Distinguished Educator and Google Certified Innovator distinctions.

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The Daring Librarian

MAY 14, 2012

In the above picture you can see my Google swag addiction showing with my red travel mug. my lucky soft tie-dye Google shirt from 2004!) It takes 2 D batteries and they last quite a long time. This little guy is a reliable leftover from my historic re-enactment Pennsic days! I LOVE Your Mug! I always bring a travel mug.

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Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2019

This “Google and good luck” approach throws a lot of options, confusion, and competing agendas at teachers. A friend recently read a 2004 Harvard Business School case study of Wireless Generation’s work in Montgomery County, Maryland, and responded: “Thanks! The company was renamed “Amplify.”

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Teacher Reboot Camp

JANUARY 22, 2018

I began teaching teenagers in 2004 in Texas. Get teens to create their own gifs with Giphy , Gif , Gif Paint , or turn Google Slides into Gifs. I really enjoy teaching teenagers and supporting them in becoming strong individuals ready to conquer the world as adults when they leave my classes.

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eSchool News

JUNE 14, 2017

The Apple App Store wasn’t invented until 2008, the iPhone in 2007, Google Maps in 2005, Facebook in 2004—before 1999, most laptops didn’t even have wifi. Now there are internet-connected devices in almost every classroom.

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