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Microsoft to Use TV White Space to Put Wi-Fi on Rural School Buses

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Microsoft to Use TV White Space to Put Wi-Fi on Rural School Buses. Microsoft wants to outfit school buses in Hillman, Mich., with high-speed internet to help bridge the “homework gap” that many rural students face because of lack of internet access at home. And without this access, many students fall behind.

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Free Teaching Resources From Microsoft Education

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Back in 2010 I wrote a post highlighting some of the great (and free) resources from Microsoft Education. So head over to Microsoft in Education site and check out the guides and the other content they have to offer as well. microsoft' For me, one of the more handy guides was the Digital Storytelling guide.

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Learn where menu and toolbar commands are in Office 2010 and related products

Educational Technology Guy

I just found another great resource on Microsoft Office. We are transitioning from Office 2003 to Office 2010 and, as many of you know, there are major menu changes in terms of where commands are located. Microsoft has a great site that has tutorials and interactive guides to find where the commands are in Office 2010 products.

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Google Offers Free Cloud Access to Colleges, Plays Catch Up to Amazon, Microsoft

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education grant offering free credits for its cloud platform, with no credit card required, unlimited access to its suite of tools and training resources. Microsoft’s cloud service, Azure, doesn’t fall too far behind, having launched in 2010 and doing business with GE Healthcare and DocuSign. Google in June announced an.

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InstallFree Nexus - us MS Office or LibreOffice on any device through the cloud

Educational Technology Guy

You can use Microsoft Office or LibreOffice on an iPad , Android Tablet, Chromebook or any device with a web browser. You can view and edit documents that you have stored in Dropbox , Google Drive , Office 365 and others and even access web apps that are written in Flash, Silverlight or Java. All you need is a browser.

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Longtime Edtech Investor Reach Capital Raises $165M for Third Fund

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Across the globe, that figure surpassed $16 billion , marking a 32-fold increase from 2010. Remote learning has also exposed and exacerbated socioeconomic divides, resulting in uneven access to educational resources (especially for families that still can’t get online ). Investments in U.S. billion in 2020.

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What Problems Has Edtech Solved, and What New Ones Did It Create?

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These devices accelerated the unbundling of content so that students can directly access leveled news articles on Newsela, or their favorite book on Epic. Computing devices and 1:1 programs are far more prevalent now than in 2010. That doesn’t mean every student has access to a device all the time. Open digital badges.

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