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5 Tips That Foster Collaborative Professional Learning

EdTech Magazine

A few years ago, a group at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte received a grant from the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction that paid for notebooks and software for creating a professional development program for elementary school teachers. Focus on Higher-Order Thinking Skills. by David Andrade.

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10 Reasons to Screencast in Your Class and 7 Best-in-class Tools

Ask a Tech Teacher

Screencast tools may be web-based, software, or a browser add-on and include some or all of the following: a spotlight for the mouse. I’ve started for you by noting cost, what digital devices they work best on, and suggested age group: Educreations . Educreations is best suited for any age group and is designed for iPads.

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5 Must-have tools for Ed Conferences

Ask a Tech Teacher

Here are five tools that will make you look and act like the Diva of Digital: Google Maps. Bring the latest version of the Google Maps app on your smartphone or iPad, complete with audio directions. If friends are looking for a Starbucks or Dunkin’ Donuts near the conference, Google Maps will find one.

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Just Another Typical Day

A Principal's Reflections

They then had to create a Prezi , PowerPoint or Google Doc presentation to be shared at a later time on what they found/learned to the class. He used an app on his iPad called Educreations to create the lesson. As a result, she has started to create her own online learning modules, using the software Adobe Captivate.

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Animonths- Explaining + Animation = Explanimation

SpeechTechie

When interactive whiteboards (IWBs) first arrived on the scene with their accompanying software, one of the best aspects was teachers'' easy access to recording features so that they could preserve each lesson as a video file and share it later via their webpages or other means. So, readers, what do you think of Explanimation?

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Presently Perfect! 10 Powerful Presentation Tools for Educators

MSEDTechie

Try Emaze, an online presentation software. 3) Google Presentations - This FREE tools is simple to use to make quality presentations that can be shared out with the whole class. 3) Google Presentations - This FREE tools is simple to use to make quality presentations that can be shared out with the whole class. the list goes on.