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School Districts: There's No More Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Support

EdTech Magazine

By Phil Goldstein SQL Server 2005 will no longer receive patches from Microsoft after April 12, pushing school districts to upgrade.

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Schools Face Security Risks as End of Support for SQL Server 2005 Looms

EdTech Magazine

Frank Smith Microsoft will end security support for SQL Server 2005 in April 2016, and schools must prepare to upgrade. By Phil Goldstein, D.

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Migration Plans Ramp Up as the Release of SQL Server 2016 Nears

EdTech Magazine

By Meg Conlan With Microsoft’s latest software just over the horizon, SQL Server 2005 holdouts need to finalize plans for phasing out the unsupported software. .

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Multimedia content personalizes learning

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It can be called the multimedia learning hypothesis (Mayer, 2005). It fits with exercise explanations and procedural learning, like software implementation. There are several software solutions to make videos interactive. People can learn more deeply from words and pictures than from words alone. Theory: Gagné, Ellen D.,

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Helpful Tips to Integrate Media Literacy in Your Teaching

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

As for the Ontario Association for Media Literacy (AML) (cited in Duncan, 2005) “Media literacy is concerned with developing an informed and critical understanding of the nature of the mass media, the techniques used by them, and the impact of these techniques. Drawing on Mills (1995, p. What genre is it part of? Sources: Duncan, B.

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Just who are the people behind today’s educational software?

The Hechinger Report

In this first installment, software engineer Ben Slivka — inspired by science fiction — dreamed of creating truly adaptive learning software. CHAPTER 9: Sci-Fi-Inspired Software. February 2005: Bellevue, Washington. Not the place for a software engineer of his ambition who believed in the future of the web.

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What Investors See in a ‘Highly Fragmented and Under-Teched’ Early Childhood Education Market

Edsurge

Last month, Brightwheel, a child care management software provider, raised $55 million. Prior to the pandemic, the number of child care facilities has been declining since 2005, driven largely by fewer home-based providers. Sometimes they use a combination of business software, but that can add up to a hefty bill.

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