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Charting New Territories in PD: The Whitsby Story with ASCD

The CoolCatTeacher

As educators, there are many new options opening up to us that will help improve our classrooms and make our professional development more accessible and available via our mobile devices. Robert obtained their Master of Science degree in Engineering from Boise State University between 2002 and 2005.

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Chinese New Year- What Animal Am I?

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

1929, 1941, 1953, 1965, 1977, 1989, 2001, 2013, 2025), you are likely to have these traits: thoughtfulness and a profound sense of decision making, you mean what you say, a smart communicator, "you always have the facts to defend your what you think—and rarely back down." If you were born in the Dragon year (e.g.,1928,

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Transcription and Accessibility—New Partnerships from Microsoft and Amazon

Edsurge

Via Microsoft Translator , a translation service, students in classes and lectures can get automated transcriptions on their mobile and desktop devices. An Amazon spokesperson says over email that Echo360 has used AWS services since 2013. Professors can also choose to show the transcriptions on a big screen behind them.

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

Doug Levin

FY 2005 $496,000,000 (President Bush’s request: $691,800,000). FY 2013 $0. Appropriations: FY 2002 $700,500,000 (President Bush’s request: $817,096,000). FY 2003 $700,500,000. FY 2004 $695,900,000 (President Bush’s request: $700,500,000). FY 2006 $272,300,000 (President Bush’s request: $0). ” FY 2012 $0.

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After Almost 4 Years as a For-Profit, Kuali Raises $10M from Owl Ventures

Edsurge

The Kuali Foundation formed as a community source nonprofit around 2005 by a group of universities who wanted to create an affordable and customizable alternative to the millions of dollars campuses spend on administrative software systems that dominate the market, such as Ellucian or Oracle’s PeopleSoft.

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Virtual Tours: Around the World with a VR Headset

Veative

The system was in continuous use from 1994 to 2005. With distance, time and expense being major factors in curtailing mobility, virtual tours can be considered a cost-effective alternative for students to travel around the world. Lulu.com, 2013. Virtual Voyages: An Introduction. The Virtues of Virtual Tours. Springer, 2007.

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The number of grandparents raising grandchildren is up, thanks in part to the opioid epidemic

The Hechinger Report

The Census Bureau’s 2005 American Community Survey counted 2.4 million in 2005 to 7.1 The number of kids in foster care also started rising in 2013, Sprow said, ending a years-long decline. Eschman first discovered the Clayton County program in 2005. Maybe then they’ll get a mobile home and just take off.