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Enriching Rocks with Blendspace, Tinkercad, Research, Thinglink, and Painting

Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

She collaborates with me in the library on several pieces of the project. Blendspace. Early in the project, students come to the library to learn about a tool called Blendspace. We also think about types of quizes and students create pre-test, midpoint checks, and post tests for their blendspace tiles.

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

Edsurge

This year, Francisco Partners is following suit, buying two established brands in Discovery Education and Renaissance Learning. Curriculet, which offered a digital library of reading materials and assessments, briefly closed shop before it was acquired by the nonprofit Waterford Institute. Blendspace was purchased by TES.

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Using Makerspace to Extend Curriculum: A Geology Project

Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

Hicks class, they have been extending their research of rocks and minerals to create their own Blendspace lessons to teach others facts about rocks and minerals. As a part of this Blendspace project, students started thinking about how they might design their own climbing wall for our school based on their research.

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Webinar: Using EdTech to Supercharge Student Inquiry and Multimedia Literacy Skills

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

This webinar will address how edtech tools like Blendspace and TES can: Help you and your students become more transliterate Foster inquiry based learning Support standards-aligned approaches to 21st century learning SIGN UP FOR THE WEBINAR HERE (FREE) Laura Beltchenko is a 34-year veteran educator.

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Curation Situations: Let us count the ways

NeverEndingSearch

When my colleagues and I wrote our Social Media Curation Library Technology Report for ALA, we struggled with a definition. The folks we interviewed across library land curated in several different ways and we used the term curation differently depending on current community needs or where they were in any particular project.

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10 New Ideas for Creating Literacy Centers – From Beth Holland

EdTechTeacher

My original post was inspired by Suzy Brooks’ use of her SMART Board as a learning center. While many of the concepts from the original post are certainly still applicable, here are 10 new ideas for creating learning centers. ThingLink (or Padlet or Blendspace ) could be a great way to guide students through research.

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Newsletter: Privacy Con, OZeLive, GlobalEd.TV, Homeschooling, Making Chromebooks, Student Inquiry, & More

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Some great upcoming (and all free) Learning Revolution events are below. The third annual OZeLive online conference started today with an early keynote by Lucy Gray , "Going Global: Project-Based Learning with a Global Focus," which should already be available in recorded form. Feb 23rd - 28th: OZeLive. Register at [link].