Educational Technology Guy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Accessing a wide range of sources If you plan on checking a student’s submission for plagiarism, googling suspicious parts from the paper won’t do the trick. Instructors can also leave comments, feedback and grades right in the plagiarism detection tool’s similarity report. Follow me on Twitter and Google+.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

While post-pandemic growth has slowed as schools resume in-person learning, the company is still flush with cash, reporting over $1 billion in revenue in the second quarter of 2021. Zoom is actually a decade old, and the first conferences launched in 2012, limited to a mere 15 participants.

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Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2022

But recent reports have speculated that the company could “bootstrap an online course ecosystem.” Meta’s learning offering could be most trouble for other tech behemoths like Google Classroom and Microsoft Teams, according to some speculations. The company did not respond to questions about the program.

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Neo LMS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Google Expeditions , Discovery VR or NYTVR are just a few examples that allow that to happen. Smart speakers like Google Home , Amazon’s Echo Dot or Apple’s HomePod find their way into more and more households. We all know the blackboard, as well as its more modern counterpart, the whiteboard. Smart speakers. Smart boards.

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EdTech LMS Classroom Education 218

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Specifically, he tried to get into some of the learning and student management systems built by Blackboard and Follett, which are two of the most widely used edtech systems in the country. You can follow the podcast on the Apple Podcast app , Spotify , Stitcher , Google Play Music or wherever you listen.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 1, 2018

Study.com also offers a special (fee-based) Teacher Edition where educators can set up five virtual classrooms with up to 50 students in each, share class-themed videos, assign lessons and quizzes as homework, grade student work, print out worksheets, and get detailed reports on student progress. Great stuff.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 25, 2019

Many renowned names in the game, such as Blackboard and Google, are now offering their own cloud-based virtual classroom suites. However, such an endeavor was usually extremely costly and time-consuming, as well as poorly optimized for the necessities of each individual educator.

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PlagiarismCheck

APRIL 24, 2023

PlagiarismCheck.org, Turnitin, Copyleaks and PlagScan all provide access to usage reports and detailed analysis of plagiarism check results. All of them, excluding Grammarly, offer integrations with Learning Management Systems such as Canvas, Moodle, Blackboard, etc. But only PlagiarismCheck has integration with Google Classroom.

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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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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

How Unicheck integrates with Google Classroom. Make your assignments stand out and require your students to do more than a quick Google search. Record their educational workflow with tools such as Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, and TechSmith Relay. How Unicheck integrates with Canvas. Use technology to fight cheating.

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Social Media Sakai LMS Moodle 118

Fractus Learning

APRIL 9, 2021

The app integrates with Google Drive, Classroom, and Sign-On, simplifying the online learning environment for Google districts. YouTube is freely available, and the YouTube app comes pre-installed on Android smartphones and tablets with Google’s app bundle; if not, the app is easily installed. Google Drive.

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Flipped Classroom Software Tools Classroom 98

The Innovative Educator

MAY 16, 2020

Here’s what that looks like for staff and students For Staff School-based / Blended: Staff who are in good health, will be encouraged to report to school and operate as per the CDC guidelines. Other popular platforms are Brightspace, Google Classroom, and Blackboard. Other popular platforms are Teams Meet and Google Meet.

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PlagiarismCheck

APRIL 24, 2023

PlagiarismCheck.org, Turnitin, Copyleaks and PlagScan all provide access to usage reports and detailed analysis of plagiarism check results. All of them, excluding Grammarly, offer integrations with Learning Management Systems such as Canvas, Moodle, Blackboard, etc. But only PlagiarismCheck has integration with Google Classroom.

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Comparison Software Moodle LMS 52

Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2019

The Sakai Project, an effort to build a community-source learning-management system as an alternative to commercial systems like Blackboard, started with great fanfare and grant support in 2004—but its use has shrunk to less than 3 percent of the LMS market in North America in 2018, according to a report by e-Literate.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

In this half-day event, library professionals, educators, and thought leaders will explore four major themes from the NMC Horizon Report > 2014 Library Edition , which was downloaded over 1 million times in the first eight days after publication! Participation is free for all attendees. More information at [link]. See you online!

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2017

Take Blackboard , which has bought 15 companies since 2014. YET GOOGLE STILL REIGNS: In April, Education Week asked roughly 1,000 K-12 teachers and administrators : “Imagine that you have been asked to hire one of the following companies to help improve student achievement in your school district. The joke’s on them.”.

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Educational Technology Guy

DECEMBER 8, 2014

One of last year’s winners reported back, “I have been participating in the Speak Up survey ever since it started [in 2003]. The online survey is facilitated by Project Tomorrow and supported by many of our nation’s most innovative companies, foundations and nonprofit organizations including Blackboard, Inc.,

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TeacherCast

JANUARY 1, 2016

News & World Report, there are fewer resources for K-12 education than prior to the recession. Start by using apps common among teams for collaboration, like Google Drive or Dropbox. I use Google Drive as well, but mostly for storing documents. I had to share with another teacher, but it was definitely her classroom.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Unplag, an online plagiarism checker designed to spot similarities and teach students how to write originally, is now available for all educational institutions using Blackboard’s leading learning management system, Blackboard Learn.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

” In his book, Srnicek identifies five kinds of platforms: advertising platforms (like Google and Facebook), cloud platforms (like Salesforce and Amazon Web Services), industrial platforms (like GE and Siemens), product platforms (like Spotify), and lean platforms (like Uber and AirBnB). Education’s Proto-Platforms.

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Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

techlearning

OCTOBER 25, 2018

They use the Blackboard platform to communicate with professors and engage fellow students in their courses. They trained volunteers to access Lexia’s reports and use the data to adjust direct instruction. Google Classroom —Digital learning management system using Google apps ? TECH USED ?

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Robotics Sony Student Data Privacy Outcomes 110

Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Last week, MAPLE released its first report: a. Among the survey’s findings: Google Classroom is by far the most popular learning management platform, used in more than 80 percent of districts. Moodle, Schoology, Blackboard and Summit round out the top five.)

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Over the past 10 years, new learning management systems (LMSs) have sprung on the scene to rival the Blackboards and Moodles of old. Because free isn’t always better (“I'm not a fan of Google Classroom,” says Tami Flood), and contracts do run out, so consider other options when the current LMS doesn’t deliver. “We We use Schoology.

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System LMS Schoology Social Media 110

The Electric Educator

JANUARY 17, 2011

While Blackboard dominates the marketplace, BrainHoney is a very impressive CMS geared toward the K-12 market. My podcast series " Google, More than Search " [iTunes link] was created entirely using Camtasia Studio. LearnBoost is also specifically designed to integrate with Google Apps. Thanks for subscribing to my blog.

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Company CMS Camtasia Blackboard 71

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

Would 20 hours of one student logged into Google Classroom, or 20 students logged in for one hour, suffice? Textbooks have given way to Google Classroom and the Blackboard Learn management system, and lessons are assigned, submitted and assessed online. Photo: Andrew Franco. Read more about the Digital Divide.

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Broadband Digital Divide Accessibility Blackboard 98

Bryan Alexander

MARCH 28, 2022

For example, once the learning management system/virtual learning environment took off around 2000, I and others have tracked which ones different campuses adopt: Blackboard, Moodle, Canvas, etc. Google Meet is out there. People report that Zoom “just works.” Each decision interests me, and moreso over time. (I

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Folks still retyped the press releases Google issued and retyped the press releases Facebook issued, lauding these companies’ (and their founders’) efforts to reshape the curriculum and reshape the classroom. A teacher in front of a blackboard. Does this look familiar? Students lined up in rows. Wait for the bell.

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Technology Industry Education Robotics 110

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 25, 2014

The conference is held in the online platform Blackboard Collaborate, and instructions for joining any sessions and to find the schedule in your own time zone are at [link]. And special thanks to Blackboard Collaborate for the terrific conference platform. A full list of the speakers and topics is included at the end of this message.

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Common Core Conference Blackboard Digital Citizenship 71

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 24, 2011

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. Google is holding its second annual Google Code-in competition.

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Khan Academy Education STEM Blackboard 44

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

All presentations, workshops and tutorials will be sponsored and managed by our brilliant Australia eSeries team in Blackboard Collaborate virtual meeting rooms. Education Revolution Google+ Community Reflections on MakerSpace trends. Ted Curran responds to the MakerSpace trend that was highlighted in the 2014 Horizon Report.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 4, 2020

23, education policy and technology consultant Doug Levin tallied the one-thousandth incident on the K-12 Cyber Incident Map , his solo project that tracks publicly disclosed reports of phishing, ransomware and other unsavory digital attacks on U.S. schools and districts. Which, in turn, has made them an increasing target for cyber criminals.

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Doug Levin

APRIL 23, 2017

This week, I also enhanced the K-12 Cyber Incident Map by adding video clips of news reports of select incidents since 2016. Otherwise, here’s what caught my eye this week – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. Strong opinions may be weakly held.

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EdTech OER E-rate Microsoft 170

Doug Levin

APRIL 23, 2017

This week, I also enhanced the K-12 Cyber Incident Map by adding video clips of news reports of select incidents since 2016. Otherwise, here’s what caught my eye this week – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. Strong opinions may be weakly held.

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EdTech OER E-rate Microsoft 150

PlagiarismCheck

JANUARY 27, 2023

Alternative school management systems to Canvas include Moodle, Shoology, D2L Brightspace, and Blackboard Learn. Most features provided by these systems are similar, with slight variations in interface designs or course authoring options available.

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techlearning

MARCH 5, 2018

BLACKBOARD AND READSPEAKER ( www.blackboard.com ) & ( www.readspeaker.com ) Blackboard and ReadSpeaker are furthering their partnership to help instructors worldwide improve course content accessibility. EDSBY ( edsby.com ) Edsby has introduced new ways to capture and report on evidence of student learning. Illuminate 10.0

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 5, 2014

Special thanks for this go to our sponsor, Blackboard Collaborate, for providing the service that allows us to do this! Saturday, August 9th at 12pm Classroom 2.0 LIVE Weekly Show with Kyle Pearce , Kyle Pearce is a Tech Integration Specialist, MS math teacher & coach/curriculum developer in 1:1 environments @MathletePearce. Classroom 2.0

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eBook Conference Libraries Game-Based Learning 48

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2020

He recommends educators use a single learning management system, like Canvas, Blackboard or Google, so classes can be found on the same website and students and parents only have to keep track of one log-in. The post Best practices for remote learning, according to experts appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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