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

Edsurge

Founded in 2014, Pear Deck lets teachers create and share multimedia-rich digital presentations, which students can access on their devices and respond to through text, drawings and other interactive features. Haiku Learning, in turn, was bought by Powerschool in 2016.) The Iowa City-based startup has now raised $5.2

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App of the Week: A clever LMS for instruction design

eSchool News

Haiku Learning. Haiku Learning is a cleverly designed LMS geared towards extending learning beyond the classroom. Keep up a gradebook, attendance rosters, and inter-class communications in this centralized, cloud-based learning hub. Click here to read the full app review. . What’s It Like?

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PowerSchool to Acquire Schoology, Pairing Major K-12 LMS and SIS Providers

Edsurge

Schoology would be PowerSchool’s second purchase of a learning management system (LMS), after it acquired Haiku Learning in 2016. Haiku has since been rebranded as PowerSchool Learning. Neither the financial terms of the deal nor its expected closing date were disclosed in the announcement.

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From Tech Newbie to Ninja to Sensei

Teacher Reboot Camp

Discover which tools and apps your students already have access to or know how to use by surveying them. Here’s my student Google Survey template to get you started. Find more Google tools here ! Send your student ninjas on learning missions with technology. You will need ninja learning community (a VLE/LMS ).

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Flipping Instruction for Struggling Students

Teacher Reboot Camp

Embed videos on a virtual learning environment (VLE), a space on the web and also accessible on mobile devices, where students access the lessons or videos. The notes are saved on their Google Drive accounts. . Get students to sketchnote or mindmap the main points of the learning. Videonot.es

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Flipping Instruction for Struggling Students

Teacher Reboot Camp

Embed videos on a virtual learning environment (VLE), a space on the web and also accessible on mobile devices, where students access the lessons or videos. The notes are saved on their Google Drive accounts. . Get students to sketchnote or mindmap the main points of the learning. Videonot.es

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36 Edtech Tools I’m Using Right Now in My Classroom and Life

The CoolCatTeacher

Haiku Learning (my LMS). Haiku Learning is my Learning Management system. Haiku Learning is the tool I use to blend my classroom. Tip: To learn about my blended learning strategies, see my presentation on Slideshare Simple Steps to Blended Learning . MAD-Learn is a curriculum.

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