EdTechTeacher

JULY 1, 2015

Until recently, in the world of online collaboration, Microsoft has been decidedly lacking. Microsoft recently extended its educational Microsoft Office license to include its online 365 service for free to schools. This means that if your school has a Microsoft license, you already have access to this tool.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 16, 2018

Starting in the fall of 2011, Burns spent two years working in a one-to-one environment with tablets in an elementary school setting. When it comes to actual dollars, in some cases, it might be a PTA group doing the funding or a teacher raising money for one or two Chromebooks to use in their classroom. Pull Quote. Shortened Url.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

JUNE 27, 2017

Computer Programming in the Elementary School (B313). Using Microsoft OneNote to Support ELL Students (B316). Chrome App Smashing to Create Chromebook Generated Videos (B332). The Principal’s Ultimate Tech Toolbelt For Change (B309). 12:15–1:15 pm. Augmented and Virtual Reality Playground (B314). 1:15–2:15 pm.

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eSchool News

JULY 4, 2022

Each student will need a Chromebook or laptop or tablet with word processing software like Google Docs or Microsoft Word. Give each student in the room a DIFFERENT story starter. Mix it up if you want…Make some story starters funny and others informational.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

APRIL 1, 2021

They have tutorials and eLearning resources for teachers here and are also Chromebook-compatible. The XP-Pen Star G640 is Chromebook compatible. Many schools have proceeded through various stages of student tech, from BYOD (‘Bring Your Own Devices’) to iPads, to Chromebooks. and Chromebook-compatible.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 17, 2018

Screencastify is the screencasting tool I recommend for Google Chrome and Chromebooks. Built for Chromebooks, it saves all of your recordings directly to Google Drive. So I met up with teachers through the Microsoft Educator Program. Julie Hembree is a teacher-librarian at Cougar Ridge Elementary School near Seattle, WA.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Moore: We are a small suburban school district (approximately 2400 students in two elementary schools, one middle school and one high school) located in Enola, PA that started the school year completely online. Microsoft Teams Overview. Adding an App on the Chromebook. Utilizing Zoom Features on an iPad. Sharing a Google File.

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Shake Up Learning

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

It can also be added to Chromebooks! The library within the app includes many children’s books, so elementary teachers will really like this. Kasey shares that Bill Gates has provided heavy financial support in ChatGPT and Microsoft is adding this technology to their search engine, Bing. It is a Freemium app, so what does it do?

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Tech Helpful

AUGUST 31, 2017

As a technology coordinator in an elementary school I am a season in my educational career where technology is integrated into the classroom on a regular basis. The progression being that for the first 9 years at the school I am at I was an out of classroom elementary computer teacher. I had 25 Microsoft desktops in a lab.

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EdTechTeam

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

User Logins on Chromebooks. Got 1:1 Chromebooks ? Teach students not to sign out of their device, they can simply close the Chromebook. Assign Shared Chromebooks to a Limited # of Students. Got shared Chromebooks? Seesaw is available via an app on Chromebooks as well as on iPads. All in less than an hour.

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2017

GOING TO MICROSOFT’S MARKET: Fresh off the heels of its whirlwind of product launches and announcements on May 2, Microsoft’s education partnerships team dedicated an entire day to wooing companies to join its Microsoft Education Program. Its first partner was. Which one would you hire?”

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 29, 2018

Sponsor: Read my review of the Acer Windows Mixed Reality Headset at www.coolcatteacher.com/vr and learn how to enter to win a STEAM Lab Makeover from Acer and Microsoft, who are giving away 10 Acer Windows Mixed Reality Headsets and 10 Acer Aspire 7 laptops.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 16, 2019

Read: 11 Ways to Teach Math with Google Drawings Idea #21: Create Greeting Cards Using Google Drawings ERIC: But Google Drawing also services well as a desktop publishing tool because it really isn’t something built into Google Suite that quite does what Microsoft publisher does.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 25, 2017

Battle of the Classrooms: Apple, Google, Microsoft Vie for K-12 Market The word “Classroom” has never been more loaded as it is now, with all three blue-chip technology giants each releasing a tool with the same name. Here’s What We Know About Google’s Chromebook Internet Outage.

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EdTechTeacher

MAY 11, 2015

The Edison School district is in the midst of a digital conversation, and they are going 1:1 with Chromebooks in grades 3-8. Steve Figurell ( @SteveFigurelli ) – 1st Year Supervisor of Elementary Education – feels that “Technology in the hands of students creates unprecedented access: access to both information and one another.”

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Baker's B.Y.O.D.

AUGUST 12, 2014

The students read the text at home or in school on smartphones, tablets, Chromebooks, or computers, answering questions and quizzes embedded in the text to check their understanding. For elementary schools or 1:1 iPad districts, I would recommend accessing Curriculet through Edmodo. To see the student view, watch this quick video.

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Tech Helpful

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

In the last few days of the first semester of the 2003-2004 school year I was given the opportunity to speak with the teacher that was leaving the school briefly before he left for Christmas break to understand what the curriculum expectations were for the stand alone computer classes in the elementary school. What does the future look like?

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There is no box

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

1 Site Tech per 3-4 Elementary Schools. Our end user tech support layers now look like this: 1 6 hour, 10 Month Library/Media Site Tech per Elementary School. 3 8 hour, 12 Month District Site Techs (1 per 2 Middle Schools+ the District Office and 1 per 3 Elementary Schools). 1 Site Tech per 2 Middle Schools.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 1, 2017

It could be Google Classroom, it could be Schoology, it could be Blackboard, it could also be Microsoft OneNote. So maybe I’m a social studies teacher, I’m teaching middle school, I’m teaching high school, it could even obviously do it down in Elementary School as well. TERYL: Sure, Absolutely.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

Blaney Elementary School in Elgin, S.C., Many teachers use “synchronous” classes, where they and students meet simultaneously on platforms like Google Hangouts or Microsoft Teams. What works for a high school in a major urban area may not fit the needs of a rural elementary school. on March 18, 2020. The Richmond (Va.)

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techlearning

APRIL 4, 2018

TOOLS THEY USE GENEVA HIGH SCHOOL Laptops Microsoft Office 365 OneNote StudySync MAKING WRITING A PRIORITY How can eighth-grade students at Oriole Park School (IL) deconstruct a complex text about Shakespeare? A screenshot from a Mosaic Preparatory Academy fifth grader’s myONaccount. This tool could have saved me a lot,” he jokes.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 3, 2015

I love the “exit slip” Twitter board idea that many teachers are using in elementary classes. Then, I copy and paste the quotes from the books and paste them onto my index cards in Microsoft Word. Chromebooks, Computers, Surface Tablets are all there. The teacher picks some to tweet out! See how in this blog post.).

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techlearning

JULY 27, 2018

MICROSOFT & FLIPGRID ( www.microsoft.com ) & ( flipgrid.com ) Microsoft Corp. Microsoft will also be making Flipgrid free for schools so it’s easy for any school to utilize the software. announced it has acquired Flipgrid Inc., Teachers access the system using their regular school Google login account.

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Shake Up Learning

JANUARY 4, 2022

We talk about how the program has evolved, what they are doing next, and how to implement your own program at the high school, middle school, or even elementary! The district made plans for the high school to transition to 1:1 Chromebooks. Similar to corporations like Google, Apple, and Microsoft. Chrome Squad Origins.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

The Kids Discover online platform lets students explore 150 different science and social studies units for elementary and middle school learners at three different lexiles. Now within the Chrome browser, whether a Mac or Windows or Chromebook, you can use voice typing that’s built into Google Docs. It’s very accurate. Start talking.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

The school used the money for a bulk order of Google Chromebooks, allowing every classroom to have a laptop for each student. Related: Laptops, Chromebooks or tablets? Morial is one of three schools that received a one-time $300,000 grant from the nonprofit New Schools for New Orleans in March 2015.

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Doug Levin

APRIL 23, 2017

Tagged on: April 24, 2017 Office 365 ProPlus updates | Office Blogs → If you've purchased Office 2016 (or earlier) perpetual licenses from Microsoft, their ability to connect to Office 365 services will expire in 2020. Windows 10 Cloud appears to be Microsoft's attempt to compete. What then of the students?

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Doug Levin

APRIL 23, 2017

Tagged on: April 24, 2017 Office 365 ProPlus updates | Office Blogs → If you've purchased Office 2016 (or earlier) perpetual licenses from Microsoft, their ability to connect to Office 365 services will expire in 2020. Windows 10 Cloud appears to be Microsoft's attempt to compete. What then of the students?

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 24, 2011

The Senate Education Committee began work this week sifting through the 800-some-odd-page reauthorization for the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. Microsoft announced that it''s working with Sesame Street and other children''s television programs to build interactive programming that utilizes the Kinect and XBox360.

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Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2018

Such features, he claimed, made the device more powerful than any laptop or Chromebook. That’s a not-so-subtle dig at Apple’s competitors—and the first time that the company called out Chromebooks at a keynote event. That cost is still steeper than Chromebooks, which start at $179. The cost: $329.)

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EdTechTeacher

JULY 6, 2015

However, until recently, it has been a bit cumbersome to highlight, add notes, and draw on documents – particularly in a BYOD environment with Macbooks, Windows laptops, and Chromebooks. July 20-22: Technology in the Elementary Classroom OR The Chromebook Classroom. July 16-17: Reading, Writing & Research.

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techlearning

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

CDI COMPUTER DEALERS CHROMEBOOK TRADE-IN PROGRAM ( cdicomputers.com ) CDI Computer Dealers has launched a Chromebook Trade-In Program that provides a hassle-free, environmentally-friendly way for schools to dispose of their aging Chromebooks and obtain a free two-year premium extended warranty on the new ones purchased from CDI.

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Bryan Alexander

AUGUST 25, 2015

It’s a three-way battle at the moment between Apple, Google, and Microsoft, according to an IDC report, summarized in the New York Times. And Microsoft has a two-pronged strategy, getting both tablets (Surfaces) and laptops into schools. Chromebooks rely on persistent internet connections and off-site storage.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Here are my favorites: Microsoft OneNote : You can take notes collaboratively on any device. Google Keep : If you’re a Google school or have a Chromebook, this might be for you. Here are three digital notebook choices. What you pick depends upon what your school uses.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 13, 2017

And then I use Microsoft Sway because they have a feature where I can record the book. Do you have a technology you use to put these books together? Brett: I do it in two different ways. I make a printout version that you can just look at on your computer and print out. And that can also be used on the phone.

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Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 29, 2021

In the early days of my transition to blended learning, I had one Chromebook, which I received after writing a Donor’s Choose project. ” I used that Chromebook to design a collaborative online station to complement my teacher-led and offline stations. I thought, “What the heck? ” That is incorrect.

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Shake Up Learning

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

These can be PDF documents, Google Docs, Microsoft Word Docs, JPEG, or GIF files. Many teachers like to create topics for subjects (great for elementary), weeks, units of study, and more. That dream is now a reality for those with managed Chromebooks! A Chromebook managed by your school for each student.

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