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Connecting Voices through Robotics: An EdCamp Global Event

Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

This year, our library is fortunate to have a robotics loan from Birdbrain Technologies. We have 12 Finch robots that we are using throughout the year for coding experiences for our students. Currently, a group of 2nd-5th graders are meeting every Friday for one hour to learn to code these robots and create projects with them.

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8 Secrets To Providing Amazing EdTech Customer Service | By @JeffBradbury | @SamPatue

TeacherCast

When I am buying a robot, or signing up for a subscription app, I want to know that company will be available when I need help. (Yes, Our robots passed each other in the mail and Sphero made sure I had robots for the last week of school. Look for Edcamps <https://twitter.com/EdcampUSA> and offer support.

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8 Secrets To Providing Amazing EdTech Customer Service that Directly Affects Students and Classrooms

My Paperless Classroom

When I am buying a robot, or signing up for a subscription app, I want to know that company will be available when I need help. (Yes, When I needed to get my robots services for a battery that wasn't charging, I emailed support@sphero.com, explained my situation and they mailed my replacement robots the same day I made the service call.

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Coming This Summer: Powerful, Peer-Led Professional Development That Won’t Bore

Edsurge

Designed to showcase education’s newest, most experimental technology and innovations, the 12-day festival is expected to draw at least 30,000 attendees to more than 350 events across the Pittsburgh region. One such event is EdCampPGH —perhaps the ultimate example of peer-led PD. And the opportunities for educators don’t stop there.

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Events + News - #TLChat LIVE! - NMC Preview - Students in Charge - iSchool Initiative

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

April 13th - April 27th, 2015 Two Week Calendar | Learning Revolution Events | Learning Revolution Blog | Partner Spotlight To subscribe to this newsletter, please sign up at LearningRevolution.com. While EdCamp IB will be focusing on education in the IB programs, this event is open to all educators who would like to learn with us.

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Your Guide to Running a School Like Disney World

Edsurge

This was the rationale for starting teacher-centered Edcamps during professional development. Since then, we've experimented with dozens of different apps and online programs to boost learning and interest: 3-D printing, spheros, Osmos, virtual reality, coding, cyber security modules, drones, Robotics, multiple devices.

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Wahoo! The 2013 Global Education Conference - Still Time to Present + Plan to Attend!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Lucy Gray and I, the founders and co-chairs of this massive, worldwide, and free event, may have gotten ourselves a little behind this year on GlobalEdCon planning (with STEMxCon in September, then the Reform Symposium , Library 2.01 And we also organized India''s first edcamp, EdcampMumbai.