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Pear Deck Raises $4M to Jazz Up Digital Presentations in the Classroom

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A crop of startups have embarked on the laudable task of ridding the classroom of stale PowerPoint slides. The tool is also tightly integrated with Google tools—G Suite for Education and Google Classroom—which allows students to log in with their Google accounts. The Iowa City-based startup has now raised $5.2

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The Paperless Classroom According to Our Science Teacher Ms. Brown

mauilibrarian2 in Olinda

I learned a lot from our 7th and 8th grade Middle School science teacher Moka Brown about how she manages her paperless classroom. P.S. Other colleagues I''ve begged to come on the HOA are Sean Wilson on Special Ed and Mitch Krulewich on the Flipped Classroom. Doctopus Google Apps paperless' Does she ever use paper?

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App of the Week: A clever LMS for instruction design

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Haiku Learning. Haiku Learning is a cleverly designed LMS geared towards extending learning beyond the classroom. Keep up a gradebook, attendance rosters, and inter-class communications in this centralized, cloud-based learning hub. Click here to read the full app review. . What’s It Like?

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PowerSchool to Acquire Schoology, Pairing Major K-12 LMS and SIS Providers

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Schoology would be PowerSchool’s second purchase of a learning management system (LMS), after it acquired Haiku Learning in 2016. Haiku has since been rebranded as PowerSchool Learning. Canvas and Moodle are also widely used in higher education, and Classroom is a free tool with fewer functionalities.

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5 Tech Tools, Innumerable Possibilities -- from the Hawaii #GafeSummit

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PearDeck is " an interactive presentation system for active classrooms ". It''s made especially for 1:1 Chromebook classrooms. It''s a start-up by 3 Iowa City teachers whose web-based gradebook ActiveGrade, LLC , was acquired by Haiku Learning. Molly compiled the data into a map, using Google Maps Engine.

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From Tech Newbie to Ninja to Sensei

Teacher Reboot Camp

Here’s my student Google Survey template to get you started. Find more Google tools here ! Send your student ninjas on learning missions with technology. You will need ninja learning community (a VLE/LMS ). Try Edmodo , Google Classroom , Schoology , Moodle, Edublogs , Haiku Learning, Wikis , or Google Apps for Education.

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Flipping Instruction for Struggling Students

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“The “Flipped Classroom” starts with one question: what is the best use of my face-to-face class time?” We can get students to learn at home with engaging content and show them how to use web tools and apps to seek help. To discover the history of Flipped Classrooms, see this infographic. Videonot.es