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ISTE 2017 Schedule #iste17

The CoolCatTeacher

They also bought Haiku Learning and have since created PowerSchool Learning, the best learning management system (in my opinion.). 12:30 – 1:20 Edtech Insight Session: Teacher Hacks – Pitch Fest Pavilion 2142 – We’ll work to share more than 30 Teacher hacks and ideas for all age groups.

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36 Edtech Tools I’m Using Right Now in My Classroom and Life

The CoolCatTeacher

As I was reading The Teacher’s Guide to Tech last week, I realized that it had been a while since I’d shared my own favorite edtech tools. Haiku Learning (my LMS). Haiku Learning is my Learning Management system. Great, stable system that the kids love. Very fun and cool.

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From Tech Newbie to Ninja to Sensei

Teacher Reboot Camp

Send your student ninjas on learning missions with technology. You will need ninja learning community (a VLE/LMS ). Try Edmodo , Google Classroom , Schoology , Moodle, Edublogs , Haiku Learning, Wikis , or Google Apps for Education. Have students learn the tools, then train others. Ninjas always think ahead.

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PowerSchool Buys Chalkable, Tops $200 Million in Acquisition Spending

Edsurge

PowerSchool , meanwhile, has been eagerly buying pieces as it marches to “build a unified classroom” data management system, in the words of company CEO, Hardeep Gulati. based company acquired Chalkable , a student information system (SIS) used largely in Alabama as well as in southern and midwestern U.S. Today, the Folsom, Calif.-based

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5 Tech Tools, Innumerable Possibilities -- from the Hawaii #GafeSummit

mauilibrarian2 in Olinda

PearDeck I learned about this very promising now-in-private-beta tool from +Chris Bell ''s demo slam. PearDeck is " an interactive presentation system for active classrooms ". It''s a start-up by 3 Iowa City teachers whose web-based gradebook ActiveGrade, LLC , was acquired by Haiku Learning. A talented trio indeed!

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

.” Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Historically black universities have been dropped from a controversial North Carolina bill slashing tuition at certain institutions to $500, but worries about the legislation’s effects remain high at two universities still facing tuition cuts – and across the state system.”