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Unlock Your Second Brain: A Guide to Choosing the Best Digital Notetaking App

The CoolCatTeacher

Every time I try to leave it, I end up back in January 2023, it was acquired by a company called Bending Spoons, a very reputable software company out of Europe. Microsoft OneNote: Ideal for Education] Now let's talk about Microsoft OneNote. Inside Microsoft Classroom, it's not quite as wiki like as notion.

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Battle of the Classrooms: Apple, Google, Microsoft Vie for K-12 Market

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It’s terribly confusing, but perhaps no coincidence, that three of the world’s most prominent consumer technology companies—Apple, Google, Microsoft—each boast a “Classroom” tool aimed at K-12 educators and students. Device compatibility: Android, iOS and any web browser. Here’s a breakdown, by order of their release.

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Top Tech Tools for Equity and Accessibility

The CoolCatTeacher

But then I was introduced to Microsoft PowerPoint subtitles where I can actually set it up, in which I'm talking in English. So here is where Microsoft Translator the web version actually comes in, where you can continue to provide the instruction that you need, but they can react to you as well. What's next? What a gift it is.

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Five Great Apps You Should Try in Microsoft Teams

EdTechTeam

For schools using Office 365, Microsoft Teams brings together lesson content, collaboration and apps in one easy place for students to access. Here are five great apps you can use with your class inside Microsoft Teams. Want to have Video Questions and Answers directly in your classes Microsoft Team Channel? Find out more….

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Microsoft’s Big Bett Updates: Free VR Curriculum and Using a Pencil as a Stylus

Edsurge

More than 600 exhibitors and 34,000 attendees are expected to descend on London this week for the annual Bett show , where some companies come with a barrage of updates befitting one of the biggest education technology trade shows in the world. Managing and grading assignments in Microsoft Teams. Or so it feels.)

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How Tech Companies Woo Higher Ed (and What They Seek in Return)

Edsurge

But Christmas came early for some higher-ed institutions in the form of freebies and discounts from big technology companies. But these efforts are part of a longer-term strategy for these companies to train future workers in their technology. In October, the company and The Ohio State University announced a multi-part collaboration.

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Do Tech Companies Need To Step Up Their Accessibility Game?

The Innovative Educator

Back in the 80s Tim Berners-Lee was launching the World Wide Web, Steve Jobs introduced the Macintosh, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates had become the wealthiest person in the world, and Mark Zuckerberg was busy being born. Fast forward a few decades and all these formerly young-spry tech-preneurs are aging.

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