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

Edsurge

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. Blendspace (TES Global). Zeal, which attempted to bring on-demand tutoring to classrooms, shut down earlier this year.

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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

This gave her students an opportunity to show how they identified text features and incorporated reading strategies. Animoto includes the ability to upload images from a computer/Chromebook as well as a built-in image, video, and music library. Reading & Research. Digital Vocabulary Books.

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2015 Global Education Conference - Day Three!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Erica Magnusson, Content Analyst, TES Global Encounters: Connecting Classrooms to Address the World's Great Challenges.

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The 2015 Global Education Conference Starts Today - All Online - Full Session Listing - Join Us!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Crow, Associate Professor of School Library Science / Dr. Lisa Kastello Low-Context Delivery, High-Context Classroom: Meeting the Challenges of the Global Classroom / Dr. Betsy Bannier, Associate Professor of Chemistry and Mathematics / Johnnie C Bannier, Jr., Uganda, and India / Dr. Sherry R.

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Newsletter: Used PCs to Chromebooks (Today), New "Privacy Con" Speakers, More GlobalEd.TV, Quotes + News

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Of particular note are the special "turn your old pcs into Chromebooks" event today, the pretty amazing new speakers we have for "Privacy Con" (the Library 2.106 event next week), and new library events in June and October ("Library as Classroom" and "Libraries of the Future").