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Today, as an associate teaching professor of economics at Penn State in University Park, Pennsylvania, Wooten is on the flip side of the camera; he creates his own short educational videos to enhance traditional reading materials and lectures. Videos can help “make the invisible visible.” MORE
A new fee Verizon plans to impose on its business customers has galvanized educators this week to rally around the school messaging service Remind—so much so that the telecoms company agreed to make an exception and waive the impending fee for Remind’s K-12 users. 1, will be passed on to at least a dozen education companies—not just the one getting all the attention. But to pay for it, the company is charging an additional fee to all of its business customers. MORE
Videos are the modern essay. Of all the things I teach, helping kids tell digital stories through video is probably one of the most important. Today’s guest is a perfect guide for those of us who want to make videos with students. Classroom Videos: How-to Tips and Tricks. MORE
It has been just over two years since LinkedIn shocked the industry by buying Lynda.com, a library of video courses, for $1.5 A graphic designer himself, Golding argued that professors can’t teach effectively these days without instructional designers, especially when video lecturers are part of the mix. What is the philosophy behind joining a library of video courses with a professional-networking site? You taught courses at Lynda.com before LinkedIn bought the company. MORE
Videos are the modern essay. Of all the things I teach, helping kids tell digital stories through video is probably one of the most important. Today’s guest is a perfect guide for those of us who want to make videos with students. Classroom Videos: How-to Tips and Tricks. MORE
Providing courses to companies, and adults not enrolled in a full-time degree program, has long been a way for universities to extend their reach (and pockets) beyond the physical lecture hall. Now, as MOOCs have evolved to court professional audiences , so too have MIT’s efforts to harness companies and organizations. We have always worked with corporations and companies, it’s part of the DNA here at MIT in terms of our research and innovation,” says Piloto. MORE
Making Better Videos and Movies with Students. Vicki: Let’s talk about making videos with kids! Joe, where do we start, making videos with kids? What would be an example of a video you’ve seen in math or in history? Give us an example of a video in an unlikely subject. MORE
A video-discussion platform originally started by a University of Minnesota professor to keep in touch with students for a course he was teaching has been purchased by tech giant Microsoft. The tool, called Flipgrid , is based on a simple idea—that people on a team (or in a class) might want to share short videos within their group but not with the whole internet. Flipgrid had raised more than $17 million in venture funding since the company was founded in 2014. MORE
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. I felt so grateful,” she says in the video. MORE
On the homepage of the health technology company Akili Interactive , there sits an intriguing line of copy: “Time to Play Your Medicine.” That tagline serves as something of a futuristic mission statement for the Boston-based company, which focuses on bringing brain-training video games to market and is seeking to produce the first FDA-approved game treatment for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD. She singles out video games as a common example. MORE
Spark Video is a fantastic, web-based and mobile movie-making tool for students. If your students are using Google Classroom, they can easily share their Spark Video creations with classmates before showing off their work to the world! I've had the pleasure of working with this company. MORE
Video Games Engage, But Accessibility Can Be A Challenge. In part 1, we argued that video games can indeed teach your students. The game creator actually let me review to the document that won his company their education grant. Using Video Games in School. MORE
They manage getting the classroom videos ready to share for reflection and analysis. Why does an education company need bots? In the early days of Edthena, all videos were compressed using an installed application on teachers’ computers. Did you upload a gif instead of a video? MORE
Premium Education content – Free one-year subscription to Brightstorm.com with access to over 6,000 HD video lessons in Math, Science, English and AP subjects plus ACT prep (MSRP: $179). With Chromebook CX110 and Chrome app, NComputing provides millions of U.S. MORE
New video series aims to teach teenagers about coding. CodeNow, a nonprofit focused on teaching underrepresented, diverse high school students how to code, is launching #CodeHow, an online video tutorial series designed specifically for teens and accessible for free on YouTube. MORE
And, over the last year – alongside the disrupters – firms that provide technologies that help colleges and universities operate and deliver in a digital world have garnered some of the more significant venture funding rounds, including for example Panopto (lecture capture), Kaltura (video), Examity (remote proctoring), and Knewton (analytics), among others. The rallying cry among many higher-education startups is “disrupting” college as we know it. MORE
Designs is working on a new motorcycle for a company called Loopster , that has something to do with online video work. I go check it out and, lo and behold, it''s a free online video editor! Loopster is a free service that let''s you easily create and edit videos online. MORE
He has been named a Master Educator by Course Hero , an education technology company that produced a short film on Garg, who is now one of three finalists for the Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching bestowed by Baylor University. You can also watch this Course Hero video on Vimeo. Garg is an innovative educator, famous at UCLA for the organic chemistry music video extra-credit assignment he initiated. See below for a complete list of Garg’s Video Hall of Fame). MORE
In this episode, Jeff sits down with Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert Stacey Ryan to discuss how Skype video conferencing is being used to connect her classrooms worldwide. The post Using Skype Video Conferencing To Connect Our Classrooms appeared first on TeacherCast. MORE
No extra effort for the video creator. In 2018 Berners-Lee kicked off a global campaign that included a “Contract for the Web,” urging governments, Internet companies and users to commit to a set of principles to protect the openness and accessibility of the Web. MORE
But this week a Udacity official called MOOCs “dead,” leading to questions about what that means for one of the company’s offerings (which still include free MOOCs). Udacity’s co-founder, Sebastian Thrun, famously announced a “pivot” away from MOOCs back in 2013, and since then the company has focused its energies on paid sequences of courses called “nanodegrees” that it produces in cooperation with large tech employers. MORE
Joanna and Matt Pace write videos on a popular YouTube channel, Hopscotch. Today they talk about what makes a great learning video and how to select good videos on YouTube for K-6 students. K-6 Educational Music Videos: Selecting the Right Videos for Learning. MORE
Chock full of quality children’s programs, the newly updated PBS KIDS Video App is an absolute no-brainer download for families, and for preschool and primary classrooms and libraries. The Electric Company. stream videos to your television using Chromecast. MORE
An experimental university announced last week that its home-grown online teaching platform can now handle up to 400 students at a time via live video. Lawrence DeBrock Over the past year the company has been working to sell its online platform and curriculum to other universities. MORE
Simutrans is a free simulation game with the goal to establish a successful transportation company. Your goal is to establish a successful transport company. Related: Game On - Increasing Learning through Online Games Mission Biotech - free, educational science video game Educational Games - lots of them Angry Birds Space and NASA team up for fun science Roller Coaster Game as Learning Tool in Physics Video Games as learning tools (Angry Birds) 35 Educational Games and Resources. MORE
Mabry is one of the 20,000 educators working for VIPKID , China’s largest online English tutoring company. The Beijing-based company has now raised a total of $325 million.). Teachers interested in tutoring online can create a profile and upload videos of their instruction on the platform. At the scheduled time, the teacher and student engage in a live video chat for the lesson, after which the teacher can give parents feedback on their child’s progress. MORE
If Blade Runner had a classroom scene, it might look something like the promotional video by BrainCo, Inc. The video’s narrator explains: “School administrators can use big data analysis to determine when students are better able to concentrate.” The company says it has a working prototype and is in conversations with a Long Island school to pilot the headset. based startup was incubated in the Harvard Innovation Lab, and last year the company received $5.5 MORE
In the heartland of America, one company is raising big bucks in a bid to capture this lucrative market. Louis-based company’s $50 million Series B round, which closed in November 2015. Already boasting 4,000 tutors covering 1,000 subjects, the company is on the hunt for more teachers. That feature is a far evolution from the company’s humble beginnings in Washington University, where Cohn started the business as a student in 2007. Tutoring is big business. MORE
“Whether educators are using smartphones or tablets for filming, the paper tripod is designed to work for most mobile devices popular today,” said Adam Geller, founder and CEO of Edthena MORE
Districts should seek out edtech companies that provide partnership-focused support which is oriented toward long-term success from day one – not just when you buy a whole-district contract. So how do districts find technology companies that are most likely to help them succeed? MORE
About 10 years ago, a short video called Shift Happens went viral, providing a wake-up call to educators that their students would enter a very different world once they left the classroom and entered the workforce. EdSurge: First, tell us how this ‘Shift Happens’ video came together. MORE
Nine edtech companies, nominated by the incubators that hatched them, will present to an audience of 25 education leaders. The Colorado-based company was formed in 2016 from the merger of two existing organizations: Digital Directions International (est. EdConnective : Video-based coaching system for teachers that connects educators to trained coaches with rubric-based evaluations. MORE
SEPTEMBER 11, 2016
This past year during FlipCon Australia, Joel Speranza introduced me to a new way to make flipped videos. See a sample video I created using my forward board. What I love about videos made with lightboards is that for most teachers, it seems intuitive. MORE
They are essential to the survival of companies, and they are neither glamorous nor easy to execute. Company reps think they are providing a useful onramp. As a quick sidenote, and in our opinion, it’s okay for companies to sell goods and services to schools. MORE
LinkedIn to acquire lynda.com to better connect the global workforce, says company. Eventually it hopes to “map the global workforce” by creating profiles for each company, and job within that company, as well as the skill sets required to obtain those jobs. MORE
If you’re looking for new ways for students to show off what they have learned, consider introducing a STEM activity with Spark Video. Then students can add narration, music, and text to their video. They can share this video on a school YouTube page or with their classmates. MORE
Among the top results: a slick animated video called “Problems in Public Education,” a rant arguing that all public education “kills creativity,” and a video essay titled “public ‘education’ has become indoctrination and distraction.” A substantial amount of these videos contained blunt attacks on public education,” Keskin writes in the paper. To avoid bias in his research, he had an independent coder rate the videos. MORE
Among today’s students, videos as an educational tool are as expected as textbooks. A new study has found that 68 percent of students watch videos in class, and 79 percent watch them on their own time, outside of class, to assist in their learning. Company Watch Libraries MORE
There’s a striking similarity between Japan’s bullet trains and the Edthena Video Tool: they’re both known for being reliable and fast. Video Upload Reliability. Video coaching can’t happen if the videos aren’t online. Video Upload Speed. MORE
The founder of Move This World realized that videos and technology allowed her to share her social-emotional learning products and strategies with more schools and students. Now She Runs an Ed-Tech Company that Relies on Digital Tools. MORE
But when 10th grader Dean Levinson approached him with an idea to enhance their recently installed wireless screen-mirroring and video streaming technology from Vivi , it may have been the first time a kid had actually asked before he hacked. MORE
techlearning
APRIL 3, 2019
“Whether educators are using smartphones or tablets for filming, the paper tripod is designed to work for most mobile devices popular today,” said Adam Geller, founder and CEO of Edthena
Ed Tech from the Ground Up
JANUARY 16, 2019
The founder of Move This World realized that videos and technology allowed her to share her social-emotional learning products and strategies with more schools and students. Now She Runs an Ed-Tech Company that Relies on Digital Tools.
Edsurge
APRIL 4, 2019
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. I felt so grateful,” she says in the video.
Edsurge
MARCH 4, 2019
But when 10th grader Dean Levinson approached him with an idea to enhance their recently installed wireless screen-mirroring and video streaming technology from Vivi , it may have been the first time a kid had actually asked before he hacked.
The CoolCatTeacher
OCTOBER 17, 2017
Joanna and Matt Pace write videos on a popular YouTube channel, Hopscotch. Today they talk about what makes a great learning video and how to select good videos on YouTube for K-6 students. K-6 Educational Music Videos: Selecting the Right Videos for Learning.
Edsurge
APRIL 8, 2019
Today, as an associate teaching professor of economics at Penn State in University Park, Pennsylvania, Wooten is on the flip side of the camera; he creates his own short educational videos to enhance traditional reading materials and lectures. Videos can help “make the invisible visible.”
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The CoolCatTeacher
DECEMBER 19, 2017
Videos are the modern essay. Of all the things I teach, helping kids tell digital stories through video is probably one of the most important. Today’s guest is a perfect guide for those of us who want to make videos with students. Classroom Videos: How-to Tips and Tricks.
The CoolCatTeacher
SEPTEMBER 19, 2017
Videos are the modern essay. Of all the things I teach, helping kids tell digital stories through video is probably one of the most important. Today’s guest is a perfect guide for those of us who want to make videos with students. Classroom Videos: How-to Tips and Tricks.
The Innovative Educator
APRIL 14, 2019
No extra effort for the video creator. In 2018 Berners-Lee kicked off a global campaign that included a “Contract for the Web,” urging governments, Internet companies and users to commit to a set of principles to protect the openness and accessibility of the Web.
Educational Technology Guy
SEPTEMBER 21, 2012
Designs is working on a new motorcycle for a company called Loopster , that has something to do with online video work. I go check it out and, lo and behold, it''s a free online video editor! Loopster is a free service that let''s you easily create and edit videos online.
Edsurge
JANUARY 17, 2019
A new fee Verizon plans to impose on its business customers has galvanized educators this week to rally around the school messaging service Remind—so much so that the telecoms company agreed to make an exception and waive the impending fee for Remind’s K-12 users. 1, will be passed on to at least a dozen education companies—not just the one getting all the attention. But to pay for it, the company is charging an additional fee to all of its business customers.
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Edsurge
APRIL 17, 2019
They are essential to the survival of companies, and they are neither glamorous nor easy to execute. Company reps think they are providing a useful onramp. As a quick sidenote, and in our opinion, it’s okay for companies to sell goods and services to schools.
Edsurge
MARCH 13, 2019
On the homepage of the health technology company Akili Interactive , there sits an intriguing line of copy: “Time to Play Your Medicine.” That tagline serves as something of a futuristic mission statement for the Boston-based company, which focuses on bringing brain-training video games to market and is seeking to produce the first FDA-approved game treatment for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD. She singles out video games as a common example.
Edsurge
JUNE 5, 2017
It has been just over two years since LinkedIn shocked the industry by buying Lynda.com, a library of video courses, for $1.5 A graphic designer himself, Golding argued that professors can’t teach effectively these days without instructional designers, especially when video lecturers are part of the mix. What is the philosophy behind joining a library of video courses with a professional-networking site? You taught courses at Lynda.com before LinkedIn bought the company.
Edthena
JANUARY 14, 2019
They manage getting the classroom videos ready to share for reflection and analysis. Why does an education company need bots? In the early days of Edthena, all videos were compressed using an installed application on teachers’ computers. Did you upload a gif instead of a video?
Edsurge
OCTOBER 26, 2017
If Blade Runner had a classroom scene, it might look something like the promotional video by BrainCo, Inc. The video’s narrator explains: “School administrators can use big data analysis to determine when students are better able to concentrate.” The company says it has a working prototype and is in conversations with a Long Island school to pilot the headset. based startup was incubated in the Harvard Innovation Lab, and last year the company received $5.5
techlearning
JULY 12, 2018
Spark Video is a fantastic, web-based and mobile movie-making tool for students. If your students are using Google Classroom, they can easily share their Spark Video creations with classmates before showing off their work to the world! I've had the pleasure of working with this company.
NeverEndingSearch
JUNE 17, 2016
Chock full of quality children’s programs, the newly updated PBS KIDS Video App is an absolute no-brainer download for families, and for preschool and primary classrooms and libraries. The Electric Company. stream videos to your television using Chromecast.
Edsurge
NOVEMBER 6, 2018
About 10 years ago, a short video called Shift Happens went viral, providing a wake-up call to educators that their students would enter a very different world once they left the classroom and entered the workforce. EdSurge: First, tell us how this ‘Shift Happens’ video came together.
Edsurge
OCTOBER 12, 2017
But this week a Udacity official called MOOCs “dead,” leading to questions about what that means for one of the company’s offerings (which still include free MOOCs). Udacity’s co-founder, Sebastian Thrun, famously announced a “pivot” away from MOOCs back in 2013, and since then the company has focused its energies on paid sequences of courses called “nanodegrees” that it produces in cooperation with large tech employers.
Edsurge
APRIL 16, 2019
An experimental university announced last week that its home-grown online teaching platform can now handle up to 400 students at a time via live video. Lawrence DeBrock Over the past year the company has been working to sell its online platform and curriculum to other universities.
TeacherCast
JANUARY 20, 2018
In this episode, Jeff sits down with Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert Stacey Ryan to discuss how Skype video conferencing is being used to connect her classrooms worldwide. The post Using Skype Video Conferencing To Connect Our Classrooms appeared first on TeacherCast.
eSchool News
MAY 13, 2016
Premium Education content – Free one-year subscription to Brightstorm.com with access to over 6,000 HD video lessons in Math, Science, English and AP subjects plus ACT prep (MSRP: $179). With Chromebook CX110 and Chrome app, NComputing provides millions of U.S.
techlearning
MARCH 27, 2018
Districts should seek out edtech companies that provide partnership-focused support which is oriented toward long-term success from day one – not just when you buy a whole-district contract. So how do districts find technology companies that are most likely to help them succeed?
Edsurge
OCTOBER 13, 2017
Providing courses to companies, and adults not enrolled in a full-time degree program, has long been a way for universities to extend their reach (and pockets) beyond the physical lecture hall. Now, as MOOCs have evolved to court professional audiences , so too have MIT’s efforts to harness companies and organizations. We have always worked with corporations and companies, it’s part of the DNA here at MIT in terms of our research and innovation,” says Piloto.
Edsurge
JUNE 18, 2018
A video-discussion platform originally started by a University of Minnesota professor to keep in touch with students for a course he was teaching has been purchased by tech giant Microsoft. The tool, called Flipgrid , is based on a simple idea—that people on a team (or in a class) might want to share short videos within their group but not with the whole internet. Flipgrid had raised more than $17 million in venture funding since the company was founded in 2014.
Educational Technology Guy
MAY 22, 2012
Simutrans is a free simulation game with the goal to establish a successful transportation company. Your goal is to establish a successful transport company. Related: Game On - Increasing Learning through Online Games Mission Biotech - free, educational science video game Educational Games - lots of them Angry Birds Space and NASA team up for fun science Roller Coaster Game as Learning Tool in Physics Video Games as learning tools (Angry Birds) 35 Educational Games and Resources.
Turning Learning On Its Head
SEPTEMBER 11, 2016
This past year during FlipCon Australia, Joel Speranza introduced me to a new way to make flipped videos. See a sample video I created using my forward board. What I love about videos made with lightboards is that for most teachers, it seems intuitive.
Edsurge
AUGUST 23, 2017
Mabry is one of the 20,000 educators working for VIPKID , China’s largest online English tutoring company. The Beijing-based company has now raised a total of $325 million.). Teachers interested in tutoring online can create a profile and upload videos of their instruction on the platform. At the scheduled time, the teacher and student engage in a live video chat for the lesson, after which the teacher can give parents feedback on their child’s progress.
Edsurge
FEBRUARY 14, 2018
In the heartland of America, one company is raising big bucks in a bid to capture this lucrative market. Louis-based company’s $50 million Series B round, which closed in November 2015. Already boasting 4,000 tutors covering 1,000 subjects, the company is on the hunt for more teachers. That feature is a far evolution from the company’s humble beginnings in Washington University, where Cohn started the business as a student in 2007. Tutoring is big business.
eSchool News
SEPTEMBER 2, 2015
New video series aims to teach teenagers about coding. CodeNow, a nonprofit focused on teaching underrepresented, diverse high school students how to code, is launching #CodeHow, an online video tutorial series designed specifically for teens and accessible for free on YouTube.
TeachThought - Learn better.
OCTOBER 19, 2015
Video Games Engage, But Accessibility Can Be A Challenge. In part 1, we argued that video games can indeed teach your students. The game creator actually let me review to the document that won his company their education grant. Using Video Games in School.
Wired Campus
MARCH 17, 2015
Among today’s students, videos as an educational tool are as expected as textbooks. A new study has found that 68 percent of students watch videos in class, and 79 percent watch them on their own time, outside of class, to assist in their learning. Company Watch Libraries
Edsurge
MAY 9, 2017
And, over the last year – alongside the disrupters – firms that provide technologies that help colleges and universities operate and deliver in a digital world have garnered some of the more significant venture funding rounds, including for example Panopto (lecture capture), Kaltura (video), Examity (remote proctoring), and Knewton (analytics), among others. The rallying cry among many higher-education startups is “disrupting” college as we know it.
Edthena
NOVEMBER 18, 2016
There’s a striking similarity between Japan’s bullet trains and the Edthena Video Tool: they’re both known for being reliable and fast. Video Upload Reliability. Video coaching can’t happen if the videos aren’t online. Video Upload Speed.
Edsurge
JUNE 29, 2016
Nine edtech companies, nominated by the incubators that hatched them, will present to an audience of 25 education leaders. The Colorado-based company was formed in 2016 from the merger of two existing organizations: Digital Directions International (est. EdConnective : Video-based coaching system for teachers that connects educators to trained coaches with rubric-based evaluations.
Edsurge
JANUARY 16, 2018
He has been named a Master Educator by Course Hero , an education technology company that produced a short film on Garg, who is now one of three finalists for the Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching bestowed by Baylor University. You can also watch this Course Hero video on Vimeo. Garg is an innovative educator, famous at UCLA for the organic chemistry music video extra-credit assignment he initiated. See below for a complete list of Garg’s Video Hall of Fame).
Edsurge
JULY 11, 2018
Among the top results: a slick animated video called “Problems in Public Education,” a rant arguing that all public education “kills creativity,” and a video essay titled “public ‘education’ has become indoctrination and distraction.” A substantial amount of these videos contained blunt attacks on public education,” Keskin writes in the paper. To avoid bias in his research, he had an independent coder rate the videos.
techlearning
AUGUST 30, 2018
If you’re looking for new ways for students to show off what they have learned, consider introducing a STEM activity with Spark Video. Then students can add narration, music, and text to their video. They can share this video on a school YouTube page or with their classmates.
eSchool News
APRIL 12, 2015
LinkedIn to acquire lynda.com to better connect the global workforce, says company. Eventually it hopes to “map the global workforce” by creating profiles for each company, and job within that company, as well as the skill sets required to obtain those jobs.
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