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Playlists vs. Choice Boards: What is the difference?

Catlin Tucker

When students arrive at a teacher check-in, they join a queue to meet with the teacher. They can fill out a simple Google form, add their name to ClassroomQ, or put a post-it note with their name in a box labeled “waiting room” on the front board.

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Meet the 5 Education Technology Startups From Y Combinator’s Summer 2017 Class

Edsurge

Since 2005, Y Combinator has funded 1,430 companies and nearly 3,500 founders. The company also has a knack for timely marketing, having recently partnered with Google to deliver 15,000 glasses—for free—to elementary school teachers in time for the eclipse. Its graduates have gone on to raise more than $13 billion in total.

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Love Song to My Readers: Cool Cat Teacher’s 10th blog birthday

The CoolCatTeacher

Cool Cat Teacher, established December 9, 2005 From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. On this day in 2005, I started blogging. The ones I meet have the best smiles, the greatest laughs, the best stories, and the most enduring legacies of anyone I know. And that is what blogs let us do.

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Characteristics of The 21st Century Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Innovative teaching, as Zhu et al (2013) confirm, “is a necessity for all teachers in order to meet the educational needs of the new generations.” Brouwer & Korthagen, 2005; Ferrari, Cachia, & Punie, 2009; Zhu et al., ” (p. Sources Brouwer, N., & Korthagen, F. Can teacher education make a difference?

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10 Ways to Use Google Maps in the Classroom

The Thinking Stick

Google Maps has been out for 10 years now. With that in mind here are 10 ways you could use Google Maps in the classroom. Well, in a paper map world it’s a place that is “kind of there” where your two fingers meet. Google Sightseeing blog: View some of the great images from around the world. Smarty Pins.

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The 7 Deadly Sins of Educational Podcasting

TeacherCast

Once you get some confidence with your podcast there are several microphones to start from such as the AT-2005 , Blue Yeti , Snowball , or AT2100 USB Microphones. There are over 600,000 podcasts in the iTunes directory and everyone you meet has probably either listened to or recorded some type of audio. In Conclusion.

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New Teachers Won’t Save Us

The Thinking Stick

I have had the privilege of meeting with pre-service educators in both undergraduate programs and Master’s In Teaching programs…mostly here in the State of Washington. History teachers… as part of their program should be required to know how to use all the amazing layers found in Google Earth.