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Free Conference! Design and Delivery in a Blended Learning Jungle

The CoolCatTeacher

Whether you have blended, hybrid, or 100% digital instruction, join me for this free online PD conference. This conference and blog post is sponsored by Texthelp. She’ll have practical, real-world examples for us. ” The post Free Conference! ” The post Free Conference!

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Tech Company Drops Conference Swag in Favor of 13,000 School Donations

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That’s the number of items and school supplies recently donated by the San Francisco-based tech company Okta. Conference-goers to the company’s annual Bay Area event didn’t come away with any “swag” this year. In the past, attendees of Okta’s annual conference—much like attendees of virtually every tech conference in the U.S.—could

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The Future of Education Technology Conference Takes Over Miami … What Did We Learn This Year?

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This week, I had the opportunity to unite with educators, technology companies, podcasters, and amazing students at the Future of Education Technology Conference (FETC). For example, at ISTE this past summer, it was clear that the major theme for the vendor floor was Integrations. Were you at the conference this year?

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The Future of Education Technology Conference Takes Over Miami … What Did We Learn This Year?

TeacherCast

This week, I had the opportunity to unite with educators, technology companies, podcasters, and amazing students at the Future of Education Technology Conference (FETC). For example, at ISTE this past summer, it was clear that the major theme for the vendor floor was Integrations. Were you at the conference this year?

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How to Build a High-Functioning Remote Team for Your Edtech Company

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Employees report higher productivity , greater efficiency and less stress , while companies can benefit from lower real estate costs and an expanded talent pool. My former company, Big Universe ( now acquired ) was a fully-virtual operation. We were small, but often credited for operating like a nimble, large company.

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How This Company Gives Voice — and Value — to Virtual Collaboration

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Then it gets stuck up on the wall in the classroom, and at parent-teacher conferences, parents will come through and see it. Can you share an example of that? It’s an example of the appropriate use of big tech and its impact on the learning space. And so you get a sentence of text underneath a picture.

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Learning Designers Call for More User Testing of Edtech Products and Teaching Materials

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Many educational products are never shown to students until they have already been designed,” said Elliott Hedman, a consultant who works with edtech companies, in a talk this month at the SXSW EDU festival. That’s perhaps an extreme example, Hedman admits, but he says that lack of testing really shows when students are given the materials.

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