Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 8, 2022

the digital devices–computer or Chromebooks or iPads–won’t work on the Big Day. Luckily, Common Core–and many State standards–provide an excellent starter list of seven ways to blend technology into your everyday teaching: have digital ebooks included in your class library. Let me break this down for you.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 2, 2022

A School License is a multi-user PDF of most books (or videos where available) we offer–textbooks, curricula, lesson plans, student workbooks, and more–that can be used on every digital device in your school–iPads, Macs, PCs, Chromebooks, laptops, netbooks, smartphones, iPods. As many as the school wants. Benefits of a School License.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 18, 2022

This funding opportunity will allow K-12 schools and districts, colleges and universities, and public libraries to connect students to safe, reliable internet outside of the classroom. “At At Kajeet, we believe internet access is a basic human right and are fully committed to efforts aimed at closing the digital divide,” said Daniel J.

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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Integrating presentations in teaching is an accessible way to bring technology to the classroom and make the best digital tools available. You can also customize any lesson from the Nearpod Lesson Library, including hundreds of already made slide-based lessons. Haiku Deck.

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Vizor

JANUARY 15, 2020

Reading Time: 5 minutes Chromebooks are widely popular in the Education Sector. School districts buy thousands of Chromebooks at a time for their students. Google makes it an easy choice with Chromebooks’ durability, long battery life, and low costs. Chromebook Management is often overlooked from an IT perspective.

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2021

Power access issues in schools solved by a new portable charging solution. May 25th, 2021—JAR Systems has launched a new Library Check-Out Charging Solution , enabling students to check out power banks from central areas for portable charging at their desks or anywhere on campus. Bradenton, FL.—May

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Teacher Reboot Camp

DECEMBER 6, 2019

They will also have access to a library full of templates, frames, effects and more to create incredibly imaginative video projects. Powtoon is a web tool to create fun animated videos with a library of music, text, and characters to choose from or upload images. Wideo is a web tool that also works on Chromebooks.

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Edsurge

MAY 15, 2018

Today’s most popular augmented and virtual reality applications are typically available for mobile devices, but many classrooms have moved from tablets to Chromebooks, especially at the secondary level. Chromebooks are often cheaper than other laptops and tablets like iPads, and they’re simpler to manage for district technology departments.

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Shake Up Learning

MAY 8, 2020

The post FREE Access to Fluency Tutor to Support Student Literacy Remotely appeared first on Shake Up Learning. I don’t endorse a lot of products, but Texthelp produces some of the best accessibility tools and they work seamlessly with my favorite Google tools. FREE access to Fluency Tutor for Google Chrome™ .

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Teacher Reboot Camp

MAY 28, 2020

They will also have access to a library full of templates, frames, effects and more to create incredibly imaginative video projects. Powtoon is a web tool to create fun animated videos with a library of music, text, and characters to choose from or upload images. Wideo is a web tool that also works on Chromebooks.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 24, 2019

When Tulare City School District officials wanted to provide Google Chromebooks to every student, they knew the wireless network wasn’t up to the job. E-rate , which helps schools and libraries obtain affordable high-speed internet access , last underwent big change in 2014. So they shifted focus to a new network. When E-rate 2.0

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eSchool News

JUNE 23, 2022

To further the mission of closing the Digital Divide for students across the United States, each grant recipient will receive up to $25,000, which they may use for any combination of Kajeet Education Broadband solutions, including WiFi hotspots, school bus WiFi, LTE-embedded Chromebooks and routers.

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Dr. Shannon Doak

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Chromebooks can do all of these things including creating eBooks. Chromebooks can read and create both of these formats. Chromebooks can create PDF’s in multiple ways. There are several ways Chromebooks can be used to create EPUB eBooks. The free version allows you to have one library with 40 books.

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EdTechTeacher

JANUARY 4, 2018

As the Chromebook perforates classrooms across the country, students have the ability to express themselves in ways that may not have been possible in a traditional classroom setting. Chromebooks offer so many ways to engage students creatively and go well beyond word processing.

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 3, 2019

While K–12 schools are working to guarantee their data is secure , educational IT experts are raising concerns over the safety and accessibility of physical IT infrastructure in schools. . For example, libraries are often large, open spaces and can be easily transformed into computer laboratories. eli.zimmerman_9856.

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MindShift

JULY 31, 2020

Hunter and her colleague Rachel Krumenacker at the Chattanooga Public Library in Chattanooga, Tennessee, had filmed the DIY craft on a Zoom call from their respective living rooms. They posted it to the library’s YouTube channel as part of their new summer programming, the majority of which is taking place online due to COVID-19. . “We

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 11, 2017

I shared the PDF version because our library only had a few copies of the book. As soon as it’s opened using Kami, your students will have access to all of the features listed above and you will be able to see their annotations when you click into their assignments in Google Classroom! Kami allows the user to: highlight.

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ViewSonic Education

MARCH 7, 2019

Accessibility to computing power is no longer constrained by time and place. Yet, iPads and Chromebooks have their limitations. Does your school issue laptops or Chromebooks to all students? School Computer Labs Ensure Equitable Access. In middle schools, 37% of the students lack individual 1:1 device access.

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Vizor

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Reading Time: 4 minutes As schools order Chromebooks to include in their curriculums, it’s important that schools are ready to implement new technology workflows. This is ideal to get right BEFORE getting the Chromebooks. You purchase hundreds, if not thousands, of Chromebooks. Are you using a library system?

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Digital Promise

MAY 22, 2019

As students, we expect the content of our classes to be entertaining; If we could use technology more powerfully, we could have access to a whole new world at our fingertips. Barriers to providing all students with access to technology. Even cities known as tech hubs have trouble distributing access to technology equitably.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Have a library of books intended to be read aloud. Here’s a list of online sites with digital books that can be quickly accessed, mostly free, for this activity: Aesop Fables. Here’s a list of online sites with digital books that can be quickly accessed, mostly free, for this activity: Aesop Fables. Read-aloud books.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 19, 2023

The other feels like the catalog room of the Library of Congress. Enter them to an easily accessible digital calendar like Google Calendar and share with students, parents, and interested stakeholders. When I introduce students to digital note-taking, we start with a discussion of handwritten vs digital notes.

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Educational Technology Guy

JANUARY 12, 2015

Google Apps and Chromebooks App Recommendations and Substitutions Here is a list of Google Apps and Web Apps to use. This district has been 1-1 with Chromebooks for quite a while with a lot of experience. link] [link] read and fill in Interactive PDFs on the Chromebook using the cloud-based reader "PDF Escape": [link].

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

As Director of Academic Technology for Mount Greylock Regional School District , which serves 1,250 students in western Massachusetts, she has all along been advocating for teacher buy-in to the use of tech and the need for every student to have devices and access to the internet. I’m in the library.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 2, 2018

And with fast Wi-Fi, students can access G Suite for Education and other cloud-based educational apps on their Chromebooks. Chromebooks, Wi-Fi and AV Equipment Enhance Learning . In Neosho, the IT department equipped every seventh- and eighth-grader with Lenovo Chromebooks this school year. It’s exciting.”. by Wylie Wong.

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eSchool News

JUNE 23, 2020

As Director of Academic Technology for Mount Greylock Regional School District , which serves 1,250 students in western Massachusetts, she has all along been advocating for teacher buy-in to the use of tech and the need for every student to have devices and access to the internet. I’m in the library.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

As Director of Academic Technology for Mount Greylock Regional School District , which serves 1,250 students in western Massachusetts, she has all along been advocating for teacher buy-in to the use of tech and the need for every student to have devices and access to the internet. I’m in the library.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

When we went into shelter-in-place on March 17, we were clearing out Chromebook carts [not only] for students but also for our own employees. Langford said the district had discussed a one-to-one Chromebook plan for years and an evening technology help desk for students. Overnight they became tech support for the entire community.

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Vizor

APRIL 13, 2018

How do you distribute hundreds or even thousands of Chromebooks? Manage the processes surrounding your Chromebooks by using an IT asset management solution, like VIZOR. In addition, library systems may seem to track the devices but this reactive tool does not track the full lifecycle of the Chromebooks. One-on-one.

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Vizor

APRIL 13, 2018

How do you distribute hundreds or even thousands of Chromebooks? Manage the processes surrounding your Chromebooks by using an IT asset management solution, like VIZOR. In addition, library systems may seem to track the devices but this reactive tool does not track the full lifecycle of the Chromebooks. One-on-one.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

We’ve done surveys, and 3 percent of our students — about 300 kids — don’t have internet access at home. We’ve experimented with Microsoft Translator, which provides translation on the students’ Chromebooks when the teacher is talking. We also work with our community library to make sure they are a resource.

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techlearning

AUGUST 22, 2018

College and high school students can now explore real-life chemistry concepts and vary parameters using Pivot Interactives’ new chemistry library. Pivot Interactives' cloud-based web app can be accessed 24/7 using any web-connected device, including a computer,Chromebook™ or iPad.

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Edsurge

JULY 19, 2022

Wi-Fi is out, and I’m writing this at the library. We had given our students individual Chromebooks, so they had access to Schoology assignments, Google Classroom and various announcements made by the district through email and social media. “Man’s gotta do…” and so on. I can’t say I wouldn’t have done the same in his situation.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Here are some ideas, from a time commitment of a few minutes to a few hours: Activities for your class Read-aloud books Have a library of books intended to be read aloud. These can be both print and digital, to fit all children’s reading preference. When you have classroom reading time, kids can pair up and read to each other.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Online Reading –when the classroom library isn’t available, use one of the many online libraries or story collections to inspire reading. If you’re teaching with a hybrid model (switching between home and school), be sure to choose one (like SplashLearn) that can be synced between the two.

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 15, 2019

The same goes for Chromebooks. You have access to a limited library of games.”. “School technology typically moves slowly,” he continues. “If If a school adopts iPads, teachers can only use games that work with the Apple operating system.

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Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2018

Alex was an enthusiastic 9th grader in my World History course and had just been issued a Chromebook as part of our district’s 1:1 implementation. After three months, Alex finally told me that he did not have internet access at home. This proactive approach helped build community support and engage others with our access challenges.

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