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Reach Capital’s Newest Education Technology Investment Fund Closes at $82 Million

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It eyed the edtech industry as early as 2014, says Elizabeth Fisher Marshall, a managing director at Hall Capital, but “our concern at the time was the depth of the opportunity set and the unproven exit market.” Blendspace was purchased by TES. Blendspace (TES Global). Investors took a loss on these latter two deals.)

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We Might Be at the End of the Free Ed Tech Era

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Their success rate of companies is incredibly high as they helped start Class Dojo, Plickers, Remind, Padlet, Blendspace, Educreations, and a WHOLE host of others. cross posted at www.bigguyinabowtie.com David Lockhart is an edtech presenter, speaker, advocate, and coach with over ten years' experience teaching high school social studies.

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Common Sense Education Resources from ISTE 2015

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Learn how to bring wacky fun to geometry lessons with The Land of Venn; how to personalize math practice and assessment with Front Row; and offer adaptive learning opportunities with Think Through Math. Blended Learning with Digital Formative Assessment Tools. Learn use cases for three tools: Blendspace; Socrative; and GoFormative. .

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22 Digital Tools You Must Have in Your Classroom

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Popular flipped classroom tools include a video tool (like a YouTube channel, Periscope , Vialogues , or Touchcast ) and a lesson sharing tool like Blendspace , Frolyc , Knowmia , or LessonPaths. Online quizzes are no longer the purview of teachers requiring summative assessments. Google Apps. 3rd-8th, optional, 3.

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Digital Tools for Flipping Your Classroom

Class Tech Integrate

This post originally appeared on The FETC: Future of EdTech Insiders Blog At FETC, I was delighted to attend a session by high school foreign language teacher Rachelle Dene Poth titled, Flipping Classrooms: Trading Spaces and Places Digital Tools and Ideas to Empower Students. Now, on to the tools! Simple quizzes can also be created.

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Do You Teach With a Paper-Based Mindset?

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How to break out of "the box" in your classroom: Use tools that don’t feel like paper (Video, Prezi, Google Drawing) Transform your paper worksheets using tools like Blendspace, EdPuzzle, or Quizlet If you use Google Docs, remember that you can change the size and color of your document to fit the project. There’s nothing special about 8.5