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Effective Student-Led Parent Conferences

The CoolCatTeacher

Laura Penrod Stock is a Lee County (Georgia) middle school classroom teacher. Sculpted from her experience in economic development, she is passionate about student eportfolios. She is the inventor of Meego®, a cloud-based collaborative platform for artifact collection and eportfolio creation. .” Download the Transcript.

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ScreenPal–Your New BFF! – SULS0189

Shake Up Learning

Of course, it works with most Google apps, including Google Classroom, but Kasey shares that sometimes an overload of extensions can cause them to be glitchy. ScreenPal and Google Classroom This may be a match made in heaven! All extensions don’t play well together, so there might be some issues. It’s ready to go right there!

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Is Your LMS Safe for Students to Use?

Gaggle Speaks

If you have a place in K-12 education, you’ve likely heard of the Canvas LMS (Learning Management System). Canvas features collaborative workspaces, course management, discussion forums, eportfolios, analytics and reporting, quizzes, video and audio messaging, calendars and much more.

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4 Powerful Ways to Implement Class Blogs – From Jennifer Carey

EdTechTeacher

Blogging is a popular activity in classrooms today because it allows students to share their writing with a broader audience and teachers to communicate with parents. Here are some great ideas and applications for class and/or individual student blogs that you can explore in your classroom. Blogs as ePortfolio.

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4 Amazing Google Tools to Help You Engage Your Students

EdTechTeam

Have you ever found yourself in a classroom full of students, wondering if anyone is enjoying the content? As teachers, one of our main goals in the classroom is to engage our students in meaningful activities. Please do me a favor, think of one activity in your classroom, just one, that Google Drawings could enhance.

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A Project Share Story: Ensuring a Successful Implementation #SXSWedu

EdTechSandyK

Irving wanted to use ePortfolios with their students. Who can access ePortfolios? Irving has decided to keep the ePortfolios within Irving for now since they are using with 8th grade and 4th grade and are not applying to college at this time. Students are using ePortfolios and enjoy uploading their information to them.

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6 Ways Technology Can Reinvent Parent-Teacher Conferences

Edsurge

With transformative digital changes happening in classrooms today, basic learning management systems now deliver the answers to most of those well worn questions on parent portals. Skype in the Classroom is a free community of educators from around the world and offers a variety of resources on getting started.