The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 11, 2011

Below are this week''s public, free, and interactive Webinars through LearnCentral.org , the social learning network for education that I work on for Blackboard Collaborate (formerly Elluminate). Matthew Peskay of KIPP LA Schools will discuss what students in his schools have experienced with the Google Cr-48 pilot program.

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Blackboard Moodle iPhone Libraries 46

PlagiarismCheck

JANUARY 27, 2023

With the ever-evolving educational landscape, schools are always on the lookout for the best software products to enhance the learning experience for their students. There are many options, from learning management systems to video conferencing software. Alternatives to Perlego include eCampus Library and TextbooksPlus.

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The Electric Educator

JANUARY 17, 2011

While Blackboard dominates the marketplace, BrainHoney is a very impressive CMS geared toward the K-12 market. Built upon an exhaustive open API library , BrainHoney is posed to integrate just about anything you could wish. My podcast series " Google, More than Search " [iTunes link] was created entirely using Camtasia Studio.

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PlagiarismCheck

JANUARY 27, 2023

With the ever-evolving educational landscape, schools are always on the lookout for the best software products to enhance the learning experience for their students. There are many options, from learning management systems to video conferencing software. Alternatives to Perlego include eCampus Library and TextbooksPlus.

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Software LMS Moodle Laptops 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

If you look for a definition of “platform” online, you’re likely to get something along the lines of Wikipedia’s – fairly straightforward, although quite technical: A computing platform is the environment in which a piece of software is executed. Education’s Proto-Platforms. If so, what are they?

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Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

While the federal government awards billions of dollars annually to get schools and libraries online, through its E-rate program, Albemarle’s project is technically ineligible for that because it’s “off campus,” even though it will be an extension of the school network with all its security, filters and firewalls. Photo: Andrew Franco.

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Broadband Digital Divide Accessibility Blackboard 92

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

These events will bridge the conversations about learning that are taking place in schools, libraries, museums, work places, and home learning worlds. All presentations, workshops and tutorials will be sponsored and managed by our brilliant Australia eSeries team in Blackboard Collaborate virtual meeting rooms. Check them out here.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 24, 2011

The Library 2.011 worldwide virtual conference starts in just over a week! The presentation software SlideRocket announced SlideRocket EDU this week, making its tools available to students and teachers via the Google Apps Marketplace. Updates and Upgrades Google announced a change to the way it will sell its new Chromebooks.

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Khan Academy Education STEM Blackboard 44

Hack Education

JULY 13, 2016

These machines are all intertwined with how we imagine the future of intelligence and knowledge, along with the future of the institutions traditionally responsible for these things – namely schools, universities, libraries, museums. The creation of the library.)

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Technology Learning Data Libraries 40

techlearning

MARCH 5, 2018

Software & Online ACCELERATE LEARNING STEMSCOPES SCIENCE ( www.stemscopes.com ) Accelerate Learning announced a new platform using the best of CNN’s digital content to create a new science education product. EDTHENA ( www.edthena.com ) Edthena has developed a one-click video recording and uploading solution for Google Chrome.

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Epson Blackboard Pearson STEM 51

The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 25, 2017

They support single sign-on with Google and Clever. You can only do that if you know how to use technology, especially really fabulous software, which teachers who use technology know how to find. Google Cardboard costs like, what — $12 – and every kid has a smartphone. Listen Now. Stream by clicking here. Kecia: Yeah!

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Social Media Blended Learning Data Blackboard 238

Fractus Learning

JULY 20, 2015

To personalize the modern-looking templates, you can use images from their library or upload your own images. Google Classroom (web, iOs, Android). You’ll need a Google Apps for Education account to set up your Google Classroom. One drawback is that many of the images seem to be pay-per-use (about $1).

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Blendspace Adobe Moodle Schoology 40

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 15, 2014

The Learning Revolution Weekly Update April 15th The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man. - National Library Week. National Library Week is this week, and the theme is "Lives change @ your library®." Join this Blackboard Collaborate session here.

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BYOD Libraries Conference Learning 52

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

DIRECTIONS: The Google Slide presentation will be made available for viewing after the presentation. We will also discuss the uses of Google Hangouts, Google Forms for gathering information, and wordpress for establishing a web presence for a project. DIRECTIONS: Participants will be encouraged to connect via the Google Hangout.

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Secondary Conference Survey STEM 73

Edsurge

JULY 13, 2017

I also knew creating such a space could be pricey, especially when you start talking about robots, advanced software and 3D printers. I displayed the daily choices on a SmartBoard (a list on a projector, blackboard or poster would also work) and had a few stations set up for students. Photoshop - paid software license required.

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How To Robotics Software Libraries 113

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Google announced it was adding to search results about colleges and universities data from the U.S. ” You know what would be helpful Google? Via Edsurge : “A Timeline of Google Classroom ’s March to Replace Learning Management Systems.” Just resubmit the ones about Google Glass, right?).

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Education E-rate MOOC Report 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Pokémon Go, a free augmented reality game developed by Niantic (a company spun out of Google in 2015), became the most popular mobile game in US history this year. I’ll look more closely at discrimination by design – in software and in algorithms – in the final article in this series.) “ Seen ” cheating.).

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Hack Education

AUGUST 4, 2018

The company: RIB Software SE. “ Blackboard ’s Defense of its Finances is not Persuasive,” writes Michael Feldstein. Also from Feldstein : “ Moodle and Blackboard Cut Ties.” ” Via Techcrunch : “ Facebook launches a digital literacy library aimed at educators.” More via AJC.

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Education Pearson Company Blackboard 43

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Or the company will have to start charging for the software. And like so many products on this list, 3D printing was hailed as a revolution in education, and schools were encouraged to reorient libraries and shop classes towards “maker spaces” which would give students opportunities to print their plastic designs. They haven’t.).

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

JULY 28, 2017

” Inc lists “5 Entrepreneurs That Are Shaking Up Education” and includes the CEO of Blackboard. The Harvard Library Innovation Lab on link rot : “A Million Squandered: The ‘Million Dollar Homepage’ as a Decaying Digital Artifact.” Never change. ” asks IEEE. Adobe plans to axe Flash.

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Education MOOC Company Report 43

Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

” I’m more interested in hearing about segregation and state laws in Mississippi than the adaptive learning software a school is using. There have been several stories recently calling the Google Books project a failure. ” Google announces more updates to its pseudo-LMS, Google Classroom. ” Oh.

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Education E-rate Company Kaplan 47

Hack Education

MAY 27, 2016

And speaking of copyrighting a language of a warlike people, the Oracle v Google case had its closing arguments this week. On Thursday, the judge gave Google the victory , ruling that the company’s use of the Java API fell under fair use provisions. The Common Core aligned reading software maker had raised $1.8

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 28, 2016

” In other MIT news : “MIT task force releases preliminary ‘Future of Libraries ’ report.” ” Google announced it was cutting jobs in its Google Fiber division. And Google has put plans to expand Fiber to more cities on hold. And Google is getting into the whiteboard business.

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Education Pearson Blackboard Survey 40