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New Posted Resources 12/15/2009

The Web20Classroom

Enrich Your Presentation Using Social Media tags : socialmedia , favorite List of Educational iPhone Applications tags : ipod , apps , favorite NHEC | Wikis tags : wiki , favorite 20 Tricks Every Skype User Should Know tags : Skype , favorite Wikis In Education: Teaching Students To Share Knowledge tags : wiki , favorite 10 Power Tools for Lifelong (..)

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Beyond Screen Time: Better Questions for Children and Technology in 2020

Edsurge

This op-ed is part of a series of reflections on the past decade in education technology. In 2009, the iPhone was two years old, and we were beginning to explore the possibilities of the touch screen and video chat as engaging interfaces for young children. Relationships matter most. It doesn’t have to be either/or.

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Campuswire Raises $3.6 Million to Improve Online Class Discussions

Edsurge

million seed round with participation from Bloomberg Beta, Rethink Education, Precursor Ventures, Betaworks and angels including Rob Hayes, Doug Scott and Jason Citron, the founder of Discord. The Campuswire platform comes as a desktop, iPhone or Android app that offers a forum for students’ questions.

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Animoto for teacher creations

Kathy Schrock

I made my first video with a free account at Animoto, using my iPhone 3GS, on August 3, 2009. As educators, we are always looking for free or freemium tools and apps. I used the Educational Presentation template as my starting point. And so have I! Here is that original video. I then uploaded the audio file to Animoto.

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Virtual School Tips and Recommendations

The Thinking Stick

NCCE (Northwest Council For Computer Education) being our regional ISTE sponsored conference with somewhere around 1500 participants coming together each year to share and learn. 2009 – In Bangkok, I helped to train, facilitate and oversee Virtual School due to flooding and H1N1 in Bangkok we used WordPress blogs as teacher websites.

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Schools on a screen: One tech-savvy school district has lessons for others going online

The Hechinger Report

For almost a decade, even young kids here have spent hours a day on screens as Mineola’s educators sought to transform schooling here. Children and teachers were familiar with a variety of learning apps and other educational software. Educators had years of experience integrating technology into their teaching.

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Looking Back At 2010 And Looking Forward To 2011.

The Web20Classroom

I wrote a post on December 28, 2009 where I talked about tools that I thought would have a break out year. Check out the Voicethread In Education wiki for some. They are moving more and more into the mobile market and now you can do video calls on the iPhone. More and more people started using the great education features.

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