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CoSN 2018: 10 Tips for Running IT in a Small School District

EdTech Magazine

They also create a monthly flyer for the community and hold quarterly meetings with parents where they talk about technical issues such as social media, data privacy and innovations. Small districts also can resell equipment, take advantage of E-rate funds and evaluate systems yearly for redundancies or other unnecessary spending.

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Supply and demand: Getting low-income kids into better jobs by getting them into better schools

The Hechinger Report

The schools are the brainchild of Charles Butt, a big donor to local education causes and chairman of H-E-B, the region’s largest grocery store chain. A monitor she is wearing as part of a PE project is going off, informing her she has reached her resting heart rate, and cueing her to make a note of her current activity.

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The Rise of eSports in Education: Breaking New Ground

The CoolCatTeacher

And we have 14 states that have teacher-run nonprofits that run the e-sports organizations for their state. So teachers together and the students that we serve are literally the largest e-sports organization in the country. And so it's a lot the same in how we should be treating e-sports. So we formed an interstate group.

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Get Started with Digital Citizenship in Your District

edWeb.net

Life Schools Charter School’s digital citizenship initiative began when they started to notice that many students were posting on social media about their location and other personal details. Then, they figured out what they needed to satisfy for required federal E-rate guidelines.

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Top 7 Marketing Tools to Help You Better Understand the Market

EdTech4Beginners

Consumers’ expectations have shifted substantially due to the widespread adoption of on-demand delivery services in urban settings and the significant increase in worldwide e-commerce. If your company uses software to help it find and categorize its social media followers, you must go deeper into your customers’ profiles.

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 16 Edition)

Doug Levin

Tagged on: April 24, 2017 Office 365 ProPlus updates | Office Blogs → If you've purchased Office 2016 (or earlier) perpetual licenses from Microsoft, their ability to connect to Office 365 services will expire in 2020. Windows 10 Cloud appears to be Microsoft's attempt to compete. What then of the students?

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 16 Edition)

Doug Levin

Tagged on: April 24, 2017 Office 365 ProPlus updates | Office Blogs → If you've purchased Office 2016 (or earlier) perpetual licenses from Microsoft, their ability to connect to Office 365 services will expire in 2020. Windows 10 Cloud appears to be Microsoft's attempt to compete. What then of the students?

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