Fri.Jul 26, 2019

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Build Relationships Throughout the Year With These Awesome Icebreakers! Free Template!

Teacher Reboot Camp

“Unity is strength… when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.”- Mattie Stepanek. Relationships are the most important factor in your effectiveness as a teacher and your student’s success! Knowing students and them confiding in us and working with us and their peers helps us figure out their interests, strengths, insecurities, struggles, and passions.

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5 digital tools to enhance the writing skills of your students

Ask a Tech Teacher

Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, Linda Cartwright, has a great list of basic writing apps to get your students started with the new year. A few–like Hemingway and Kaizena–I’ve used successfully in my classes. A few others are new to me. Let me know what you think: In the digital age, teachers are concerned with the literacy of their students.

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Grapevine, Texas’s Lauren Naylor Discusses the Warning Signs of Cyberbullying

EdTech4Beginners

There was once a time that bullying only occurred face to face or with passive aggressive notes. There was no internet, social media, instant messaging or texting and you could not play video games online with people around the world. Today, our access to connecting with other people is easily accessible. Connecting with others around the world can be one of the most amazing experiences.

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40+ Useful Google Drive Add-ons for Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Here is an updated version of our popular Google Drive add-ons list. More specifically, we added Drive tools for creating educational visual content, tools for working on PDFs, and collaborative mind.

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Quickly Create Personalized Learning Experiences that Work

How can we actively engage learners 24/7, on their level and according to their interests, while respecting their learning styles? It’s not impossible. In this guide: Explore how to transform traditional, one-way videos into two-way interactive learning experiences Understand different types of artificial intelligence (AI), including - Generative vs.

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Here’s how to put coding and robotics programs in K-8 classrooms

eSchool News

Coding and robotics programs in classrooms reflect how integral technology is in our lives. Educators like Angie Kalthoff, a technology integrationist in St. Cloud, MN, and Ann Bartel, an instructional technology specialist in Chilton, WI, teach K-8 students about technology through coding and computer science programs that incorporate the 4Cs of learning: collaboration, creativity, critical thinking, and communication.

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A Treasure Trove of Educational Infographics for Language Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Today as we were looking into GrammarCheck tools we discovered this great resource of infographics designed specifically to help enhance students writing. There are over 30 visuals which cover.

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7 strategies to navigate a tech upgrade

eSchool News

Several school district officials have told us they want to embrace our philosophy of empowering students and teachers through technology innovation, but lack the right infrastructure to support this vision. As we’ve recently completed a three-year, district-wide technology refresh cycle, we thought we’d share our top takeaways to help our peers get more educational benefits from your network infrastructure.

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Using Anchor To Record Your Podcast … From Inside Your Pickup Truck!

TeacherCast

Welcome to the TeacherCast Educational Network. Learn how easy it is to record your own podcast using Anchor. In this episode, Caitlin Bowen and Lindsay Simpson share with us how they are recording their shows from inside of their pickup truck and creating an amazing professional development opportunity for their educational PLN. The post Using Anchor To Record Your Podcast … From Inside Your Pickup Truck!

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Screencasting: A Differentiator and Time Saver!

Hansen's Link to Tech

Over several years instructional technology continues to grow and change. As a conscious observer/implementer I notice apps that turn obsolete (or become stale) or a reliance on updates to keep users from leaving their ecosystems. Regardless of how IT evolves I continually get excited with either new innovations and resources that can be differentiated game changers.

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AutoCAD 2019 Review

techlearning

AutoCAD offers a wide range of tools and can be a great introduction to CAD programs.

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Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.

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Writes of passage

Learning with 'e's

Photo by Nick Morrison on unsplash Language, like all forms of human communication, tends to evolve as each new generation uses it. It can be argued that language was the first human technology, a means developed by our ancestors to communicate within communities (Wheeler, 2015). As it has evolved, so it has developed to encompass all of the achievements of our human history.

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Portable PocketLab Sensors Broaden Experimental Possibilities

techlearning

Gather and analyze live data anywhere

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#FactFriday: The world’s oldest active sailing ship is docked at the Maritime Museum of San Diego

ExcelinEd

Come sail away with us to San Diego! The Maritime Museum is minutes away from the conference hotel and would make a great sight-seeing excursion during your time in San Diego for #EIE19. Climb aboard the Star of India, which made her maiden voyage in 1863, sailed around the world 21 times and still sails in the ocean with a volunteer crew. Don’t miss out – early registration rates end August 16 !

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Communication is Life

Think Exam

A person’s ability to communicate can define the success and failures in life. You have observed that people who have excel in their life have the utmost communication. It is not just a way of making the connection but it is a way of leading life. Many eminent personalities feel the same, they understand the fact that communication is like breathing.

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Reimagining Chickering & Gamson's Principles Post-Pandemic: Technology's Central Role in Modern Edu

This white paper examines and proposes revisions to the "Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education" introduced by Arthur Chickering and Zelda Gamson in 1987 for today's technology-driven world.

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Why VARs and MSPs Are Falling Short With Your Wi-Fi Network [Video]

SecurEdge

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How you can master the art of ‘Public Speaking’?

Think Exam

Do you feel paranoid and anxious about speaking in public and facing the audience? It is common to have a fear of public speaking. From students to professionals mostly people face problem in public speaking. The common reason for this problem is speech anxiety. In this competitive world, it depends on how you communicate with the people. Networking and influencing people to play an important role in achieving success in life.

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16 Great Learning Podcasts for the Classroom

Graphite Blog

If you haven't thought about how you might use podcasts in your teaching, take note! A 2019 study found that over 50% of people in the U.S. ages 12 and up have listened to a podcast. In addition, podcast listening among young people ages 12-24 increased 48% from 2017 to 2019. This fresh, engaging medium has gone mainstream and can be a great addition to your lessons.

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Advantages of Job Specific Functional Test for new hires

Think Exam

Hiring is a long term process for selecting the best candidates in the organization. Hassle-free hiring is an intensive task which consists of recruitment, selecting, evaluating and screening. HR managers plan and execute the process as per the requirement of the position. Outdated HR practices do not contribute to the improvement of the hiring process, also it distracts the recruiters to do an important task.

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Behind the Bell: The Underlying Impact of Tardiness in K-12 Schools

Managing a K-12 campus with constant pressure to meet performance metrics is challenging. And tardiness can significantly limit a school from reaching these goals. Learn more about why chronic lateness matters, and key strategies to address the following impacts: Data errors caused by manual processes Low attendance and graduation rates that affect a school’s reputation Classroom disruption, which leads to poor academic performance High staff attrition and “The Teacher Exodus” Unmet LCAP goals t