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Cecilia Cruse Joins MiEN Company as a Special Needs Consultant

eSchool News

To meet the rising demand for furniture products and services that create fun and functional learning spaces for students with special needs, MiEN Company has hired Cecilia Cruse, OTR/L, as a special needs consultant. She also lectures nationwide on practical sensory solutions for educators and therapists.

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9 Tips for Students to Ace Their Presentations

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

I recall an incident from my school days - every few weeks, we would have House meetings, and our seniors would deliver presentations. While most of them never seemed to be amusing, there was this one presentation that instantly captivated me, and I still remember it. Well, this is the power of a good presentation!

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COVID-19 Has Widened the Skills Gap. But It Also Presents an Opportunity to Close It.

Edsurge

employees working from home and interacting with colleagues and customers remotely at the peak of the pandemic, many companies began to invest in digital transformation initiatives to address gaps in cloud adoption and cybersecurity. Surveys suggest that employees stay longer at companies that offer formal training pathways.

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9 EdTech Ideas to Use Now

The CoolCatTeacher

I serve as the Communications Chair for the ISTE Mobile Learning Network, a Member at Large for Games & Sims, the Innovations and Resources Co-Chair for the Teacher Education Network and the PAECT (PA ISTE affiliate) Historian. I am also an Attorney and have a Master’s Degree in Instructional Technology.

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How to Create Apps in the Classroom and Inspire Design Thinking

The CoolCatTeacher

Subscribe to the Show This week's sponsor MAD-Learn - Mobile App Development MAD-Learn is a free, easy tool for students to use to build apps of their own in a private space for just you and your students. Their site is full of every presentation, rubric, and even a full curricuulm to teach design thinking and app building.

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Alexa Goes to ISTE: Edtech Companies—and Teachers—Debut New Skills for Learning

Edsurge

Across the massive, brightly colored expo hall at ISTE 2019 , the annual education technology conference where companies display and demo their latest gadgets, upgrades and software, several vendors showcased the new skills they have developed for Alexa-enabled devices.

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Unboxing the Lenovo Flex 5i: The Best Chromebook for Teachers

The CoolCatTeacher

Because of this powerful ability to annotate anything with the pen, the Chrome­book is becoming my go-to for presentations, and I’ll be us­ing it in class today in AP Com­put­er Sci­ence. The company who sponsored it compensated me via a cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product.

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