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Learning Revolution Newsletter - Event Calendar - Educational Social Networking - OZeLive - Our Moral Obligation

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Remember, if you''re a non-profit or non-commercial organization you can host your own public education webinar using Blackboard Collaborate through the Learning Revolution. Host Your Own Webinar Update Kim Caise inaugurated our Host Your Own Webinar program with her online event yesterday. See details here. New Calendar Partners.

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WHAT’S NEW: NEW TOOLS FOR SCHOOLS

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BLACKBOARD ALLY ( www.blackboard.com ) Blackboard announced that Blackboard Ally is now available for multiple learning management systems used by K-12 school districts. Blackboard Ally is an accessibility solution that helps make digital class content in a learning management system (LMS) more accessible for all learners.

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STEMxCon - Today Is the Final Deadline for Proposals; Great Keynotes + Sessions; Need Volunteers!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MP3 and MP4 versions will be available as well as the full Blackboard Collaborate recordings, although they take some days to process. Recordings : all conference sessions are recorded and are available almost immediately after being given. Be sure to come sign up on the conference website to be notified of recording availability.

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Conference Starts Today - Homeschooling, Unschooling, Free / Democratic / Alternative Learning

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

See the conference schedule in your own time zone, and click directly into the Blackboard Collaborate virtual sessions rooms, from the schedule page. Elliot Washor on "How to Increase Student Engagement Focusing on Student Expectations" David Albert on "The Average Giraffe Sleeps 4.6 Join the conference network at [link].

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

The email, he said, detailed a “Priority 1 Alert” that had been issued by Pearson and the New Jersey Department of Education, regarding a student who had tweeted about a test question on the PARCC — a standardized test based on the Common Core State Standards. People were relieved that there was a new alternative to Blackboard.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” I’m a little surprised that either of these women – both Democrats, both Common Core supporters, if nothing else – would be under serious consideration. ” (Something else to keep an eye on: restricting loans to students based on grade, major , other data that’s been collected about them.).