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Best Professional Development Tools for Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Free eBooks and Audiobooks To grow professionally you definitely need to invest time and effort in learning new skills and competencies besides enriching your the knowledge base of your content area with new insights and state of the art research. EBooks and audiobooks are key in this regard. This is a work in progress.

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Wow Them with the Solar Eclipse on Aug. 21st!

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Take the free Coursera online course about the 2017 Solar Eclipse. ebook, Learning to Go. Check out the free lesson plans from the Eclipse Ballooning Project covering a wide range of subjects. Activities, a video, games and more by BrainPop ! An Observer’s Guide to Viewing the Eclipse by Fraknoi and Schatz. Photo: [link].

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What Technology Does What: An #edtech Chart For Teachers

TeachThought - Learn better.

…Publish Simple eBooks. …design and layout more complex eBooks. Udacity, Coursera, Udemy , MIT OCW ; ( see more here ). Design Prototypes. AppCooker , iMockups , iMockApp. iOS: Book Creator , Book Writer , Creative Book Builder , See: 15 Apps To Create Book On The iPad ; Mac: Apple Pages PC: Adobe InDesign.

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News Literacy Resources for Classrooms

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Making Sense of the News: News Literacy Lessons for Digital Citizens (by the University of Hong Kong and Stony Brook University): A six-week, distance learning course hosted on Coursera. It's best suited to educators or advanced students looking for a challenge and to dig deeper into news literacy and journalism.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Coursera announces on its blog that it’s expanding to Brazil. Here’s Coursera arguing “Why Everyone Should Learn Sales.” “ Pearson Closes DRM-Free eBookstore , Will Delete All eBooks From Customers’ Account,” The Digital Reader reports. .” “Whatever Happened To MOOCs ?”

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Education Technology and the Promise of 'Free' and 'Open'

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Remember in 2012 when Coursera co-founder Daphne Koller said in her TED Talk that her company’s goal was to “take the best courses from the best instructors at the best universities and provide it to everyone around the world for free”? .” MOOCs are not particularly "open." The College Affordability Crisis.

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