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How to Choose the Best Educational Software for Your Classroom

Kitaboo on EdTech

Gone are the days when a blackboard/whiteboard and textbooks were the only student resources available to learners. A few digital platforms are also dedicated to Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education. How to Select the Best Educational Software for Classrooms?

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New Markets Venture Partners Adds $30 Million, Former Gates Foundation Executive to Edtech Fund

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The four focus areas include career credentialing, digital and adaptive learning platforms, STEM and computer science instructional tools and data analytic services for schools. In New Markets, Palmer nevertheless feels secure in joining a firm with an “established a track record of picking successful companies.”

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The Importance of eBooks in a Flipped Classroom

Kitaboo on EdTech

Related: How to Create STEM Courses for Best Learning Outcomes. With the help of technology, audio, videos, interactive elements like quizzes can be put to good use and not just sticking to the blackboard or textbook-based learning. Kitaboo is a cloud-based content platform to create-publish-distribute interactive mobile-ready content.

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Week of August 22nd, 2011 - Live and Interactive Webinars in Blackboard Collaborate

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

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). We will also be crowd sourcing a monthly webinar schedule to offer PD based sessions using Common Core Standards and STEM resources.

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Saturday is the Online Global Student Conference - "STEM + Entrepreneurship" (plus we make our call for volunteers!)

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Assisting teachers and administrators in understanding how STEM and entrepreneurship impact learning both in and out of the classroom. Strengthening the relationship between students, teachers, and administrators about STEM + entrepreneurship in the curriculum. Those who are Blackboard Collaborate capable, we need you!

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The Free, Amazing, Library 2.014 Online Events This Week

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Is your library mobile friendly? The Best Advice for Students Submitting to Peer-Reviewed Journals - Sara Kelso, Managing Editor, SRJ How to Win Elections and Influence Politicians - Patrick Sweeney Listening to the Library: What should be our role in providing and promoting audiobooks to patrons? - Join at [link]'

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2016 Global Education Conference Starts Sunday - Important Information!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

You don’t need to be an expert in the Blackboard Collaborate platform to help (we give you training and then live help at the time), but it makes a HUGE different to presenters to have a moderator helper in their session rooms, and we try to make sure there is one for every session! Gaudino, Ed.D.