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Learning Math Should be Fun and Engaging

A Principal's Reflections

Starting in December 2011, she began using Edmodo , an online platform that enables innovative and social learning, as a way to share online videos and content on the relevant topic for her students to view and assign online polls to complete in order to foster discussion on the topic the next day.

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What Snow Day? Staying Connected No Matter The Weather

The Web20Classroom

Google Docs -Because of the real-time collaboration features in Google Docs you could set up with your students ahead of time a time that can meet on the doc to work out some practice math problems, respond to some simple science at home labs. I love Edmodo. Edmodo is free and so easy to use. online learning'

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Experiences in Self-Determined Learning: Moving from Education 1.0 Through Education 2.0 Towards Education 3.0

User Generated Education

From Obstacle to Opportunity: Using Government-mandated Curriculum Change as a Springboard for Changes in Learning and Teaching: Jon Andrews. Applying Heutagogy in Online Learning: The SIDE Model: Eric Belt. Institutional arrangements, including policies and strategies, change to meet the challenges of opportunities presented.

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The Closing of LearnCentral.org

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

As we all know, not every Web project succeeds, but you helped to explore the exciting combination of what we liked to call the "LC3:" a social network for educators, a personalized repository for collecting and sharing educational resources, and synchronous meeting capability. Q: Why are you making this announcement now?

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10 Ways To Naturally Support Teacher Collaboration

TeachThought - Learn better.

We can all benefit from collective wisdom, and one of the more effective uses of new online technologies is the opportunity to share our expertise and creativity with our colleagues. Most schools now have online learning management systems, including Blackboard, Moodle, and Edmodo are just a few.

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Learning Revolution - Week's Free Events - Reinventing the Classroom - Library 2.014 - The Real 1:1 - Reclaim Learning

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Geo-educators can join the community through a variety of online platforms including Twitter, Facebook, and the secure educator site, Edmodo ( www.geo-educatorcommunity.org ). In other words, they can’t just passively receive learning. Great read for those of you who are using online learning tools. Classroom 2.0

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Preparing to Take School Online? Here Are 10 Tips to Make It Work.

Edsurge

In the case of online school, such comfort allows all the necessary transactions and transformations to happen without the benefit of the kinds of human presence you would find in a brick and mortar school. A sense of order breeds familiarity and predictability, and sets the stage for human-to-human learning. Google Hangouts/Meet.

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