Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 19, 2020

Newsela COVID-19 resource center (and free access to their paid products this school year). Blackboard. CourseSites –like Blackboard, but free for some set-up. Many students don’t have a home computer or access to the internet. Many Districts are deploying mobile hotspots to help students with internet access.

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2018

Can proactive instructional design eliminate barriers to access for learners? Will artificial intelligence play a role in improving accessibility? On Tuesday, May 8 the #DLNchat community got together to discuss and debate: How Can We Improve Accessibility Through Instructional Design?

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

With the appropriate tools and tech access, instructional assistance from afar can be academically beneficial, and digital student-teacher communication can work. Dr. Julie Evans, Chief Executive Officer of Project Tomorrow, explained how during an edWebinar sponsored by Blackboard.

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The Innovative Educator

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

All government agencies must have accessible websites. This means all public schools or schools who receive federal funding must have accessible websites. They came from around the globe to be a part of the largest school district accessibility projects in the world.

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EdNews Daily

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Learning management systems (LMS) like Blackboard or Moodle can benefit teachers, students, and parents in numerous ways. This service can help them keep all of their class materials in one easily-accessible place. These online tools provide a central location for all parties to meet, learn, and communicate. .

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EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2019

By embracing cloud solutions, such as those offered by Microsoft , Amazon and Google , school leaders can rethink computer labs to offer greater flexibility and increase access to instructional technology — and enjoy some cost savings. The trend is a bit different outside of school: 85 percent of students in the U.S.

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Edsurge

JUNE 15, 2022

Some of those big names include Google Classroom in K-12, Blackboard and Canvas learning management systems in higher ed, and across education the once-obscure video software named Zoom became ubiquitous during the COVID-19 pandemic. But this is not an ideal world. Plenty of teachers have it worse, too!

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PlagiarismCheck

DECEMBER 13, 2023

API access and Learning Management Systems (LMS) integrations. CopyLeaks Features for teachers: API access and LMS integration. Canvas, Moodle, Blackboard, Brightspace, Schoology, and Sakai integration. PlagScan Features for teachers: API access and LMS integration. Authorship Verification tool. AI Grader tool.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

While some of these were tangible—like the need to equip all students with tech tools and WiFi access—it’s the more systemic changes that are catching educators’ attention. But one of the key factors emerging is equitable access to quality teachers. Christina Fleming is the Chief Marketing Officer at Blackboard.

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ViewSonic Education

MARCH 2, 2022

The digital whiteboard, in other words, is a content-rich platform that everyone has access to at any point. Access your files from anywhere. Online access to files offers an unparalleled peace of mind for all. It is the product that allows you to write, touch, draw while accessing different multimedia instantly.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 1, 2020

In a recent edWeb edLeader Panel sponsored by Project Tomorrow , Dr. Julie Evans, CEO of Project Tomorrow, and Christina Fleming, Vice President of Blackboard K12, presented the Speak Up 2019-2020 National Findings titled D igital Learning During the Pandemic: Emerging Evidence of an Education Transformation.

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Neo LMS

MARCH 31, 2016

But, with all the resources and e-learning course can have, it’s still better to have access to a search engine for extra information. My first school years meant a lot of white chalk on a really black blackboard. Projector screens, digital whiteboards, and even TVs now make the chalk and blackboard an ancient joke.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Specifically, he tried to get into some of the learning and student management systems built by Blackboard and Follett, which are two of the most widely used edtech systems in the country. Demirkapi: What I found was one of the improper access control vulnerabilities allowed me to add something called a “group resource.”

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Neo LMS

MARCH 31, 2016

But, with all the resources and e-learning course can have, it's still better to have access to a search engine for extra information. My first school years meant a lot of white chalk on a really black blackboard. Projector screens, digital whiteboards, and even TVs now make the chalk and blackboard an ancient joke.

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Educational Technology Guy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Accessing a wide range of sources If you plan on checking a student’s submission for plagiarism, googling suspicious parts from the paper won’t do the trick. The reason is, you need to have access to various online resources, such as articles, blog posts, publications in journals, etc. Take Unicheck , for instance.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 1, 2018

The engaging video summaries of textbook material provide access to more than a thousand full-length college courses. They can be uploaded to Google Classroom, Schoology, Blackboard, and a selection of other LMSs. Students join with a free Study.com account that can be accessed with mobile apps (with the exception of proctored exams).

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

When choosing your content creation tool, the ultimate goal is to design engaging, interactive exercises that expand and augment student learning while allowing teachers to swiftly access data and provide timely, insightful feedback.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 8, 2023

I only included a sample click on the list to access the entire collection. To provide you with an easy way to access these resources, I compiled for you the list below featuring some of the best science websites and platforms. The web is full of resources that you can use to bring science to life in and outside of your classroom.

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edWeb.net

DECEMBER 14, 2020

In a recent edWeb edLeader Panel sponsored by Project Tomorrow , Dr. Julie Evans, CEO of Project Tomorrow, and Christina Fleming, Vice President of Blackboard K12, presented the Speak Up 2019-2020 National Findings titled Digital Learning During the Pandemic: Emerging Evidence of an Education Transformation.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 18, 2020

Additionally, Chron reports that some schools have even replaced the usual blackboard and whiteboard with smartboards this year. This year, educational institutions are using blockchain for accessible record keeping. Gone are the days when teachers had to drag TVs into classrooms to let students watch films. Virtual Classes.

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Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2021

So does lacking reliable access to a computer. To be able to get a smooth picture and the ability to interact via any of the more common softwares—Blackboard, Zoom, Teams—you need to have a device that is able to lift and deliver those experiences,” says Paige Francis, CIO and vice president for IT at the University of Tulsa.

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Neo LMS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Incorporating edtech in the classroom may be challenging for many teachers, with the main barriers against a smooth adoption including costs, access, understanding its benefits or having the time to implement it. We all know the blackboard, as well as its more modern counterpart, the whiteboard. Smart boards.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Now, in her role at Amazon, Marissa explains here how the Alexa Education team is creating a connection between school and home by giving students, parents, teachers and administrators a convenient way to access school-related information and content through the power of voice. Have you seen the same kind of adoption in education?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 25, 2019

Implementing a cloud storage platform at a school is a great way to gather all this knowledge into one unified place that can be accessed by students. Many renowned names in the game, such as Blackboard and Google, are now offering their own cloud-based virtual classroom suites. Extended Access to Education.

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Bryan Alexander

APRIL 7, 2020

I am mildly curious about why Zoom blots out any mention of the many other video tools out there: Blackboard Collaborate, Skype, Google Hangouts (Meet) or whatever it’s called now, Shindig, Adobe Connect, various Cisco offerings, Lifesize, etc. First, requiring live video means assuming students have access to infrastructure.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Branded eventually as Blackboard, it was the market leader in the U.S. Today, online education provides access to great masses of college students in the developing world, with Open Universities in Bangladesh, Iran, Pakistan, South Africa and Turkey together currently enrolling more than 7 million students. During the global crisis, 1.6

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Bryan Alexander

JULY 20, 2017

Text question from Ed Finn: OER Game Changer – Moodle Community could separate it from Canvas and Blackboard who keep these types of sharing resources behind a wall. They indicate the richness of today’s unfolding LMS discussion, and help illuminate where things might be headed. Thank you. .

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 11, 2011

Below are this week''s public, free, and interactive Webinars through LearnCentral.org , the social learning network for education that I work on for Blackboard Collaborate (formerly Elluminate). Learn how instructors can use Blackboard Collaborate web conferencing and voice authoring to EASILY create their own podcasts.

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techlearning

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Are you using a platform that supports digital accessibility?

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eSchool News

MAY 12, 2022

(May12, 2022) — Pivot Interactives introduces a new set of tools, Iris , which make learning critical science concepts—such as heat transfer, Beer’s Law, light emission, population density, temperature (infrared and blackbody), pH, and wavelength—accessible to students regardless of classroom equipment or teaching experience.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 4, 2024

This facet of modern education transcends the traditional use of textbooks and blackboards, weaving digital tools seamlessly into the learning process (NETP, 2017)). These advancements have given rise to the cloud-based classroom, a dynamic and accessible learning environment that epitomizes educational innovation. link] Berger et al.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 1, 2017

It turned out that Blackboard Collaborate, the LMS that WBU’s Anchorage satellite campus uses, is not compatible with Safari, the internet browser the student was using. It would make teaching not only online classes but in-person classes easier, because even our in-person classes use Blackboard [too],” he says.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

APRIL 19, 2023

Thus, AR helps to create rich digital content and gives a real-time context to the lesson, enabling a deeper connection and access to all related information at the point of need. In traditional teaching, the teacher can verbally introduce the active volcano concept or can draw a diagram on the blackboard.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 6, 2011

Below are this week''s public, free, and interactive Webinars through LearnCentral.org , the social learning network for education that I work on for Blackboard Collaborate (formerly Elluminate). Join us as we talk about features in the Blackboard Collaborate online classroom. Thanks for your attention, and see you online!

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Edsurge

MAY 11, 2020

I remember scrambling to learn all I could about the features of Blackboard and reviewing all of my textbook’s eLearning-related ancillaries, assigning self-paced modules and online quizzes to my students. Developing my first online courses alongside my department was very much a humbling experience.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

In our latest “New Gig Hotseat,” the Blackboard alum opens up about about education access, kegerators and what it means to put the “Ed” in NovoEd. Xythos was used for collaboration and allowed students and faculty the ability to access files even before Dropbox and Google Drive. What did you love about your last job?

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Building something that people can believe in has the power to transform a barren landscape into a place of opportunity and access. Educators are tired of seeing our efforts erased like a blackboard. The reverse is also true. Miriam Plotinsky is an instructional specialist and the author of the forthcoming “Teach More, Hover Less.”.

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