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Pear Deck Raises $4M to Jazz Up Digital Presentations in the Classroom

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The impetus behind the company can be traced to the frustrations that two of Pear Deck’s co-founders—all former classroom teachers—encountered while trying to keep their students engaged. Prior to this venture, Eynon-Lynch and two other co-founders developed an online gradebook that was acquired by Haiku Learning in 2013.

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5 Essential Effective Blended Learning Best Practices

The CoolCatTeacher

Office Mix for Powerpoint – Office Mix is a plugin that you add to PowerPoint 2013. I’m convinced any teacher can learn to make a quick video in minutes. (PC Haiku Learning was our highest-ranked LMS. Recently, PowerSchool purchased Haiku Learning and rebranded it PowerSchool Learning.

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PowerSchool Buys Chalkable, Tops $200 Million in Acquisition Spending

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Ever since Pearson sold PowerSchool in June 2015, the two companies have embarked on very different paths. The once venerable publisher axed several high-profile (and profitable) businesses in the Financial Times and The Economist as part of efforts to transform itself into a digital learning business. Today, the Folsom, Calif.-based

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

the Virginia company at the heart of the operation.” Here’s the EdWeek headline: “ Company Exec. for Ed-Tech Company Testifies in Ala. ” Gee, good thing no one else in ed-tech is in the business of selling these sorts of connections between companies and politicians and schools! ” Ugh.