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Create an Automated Online Help Desk with Google Apps!

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While working at a public elementary school as a Technology Coordinator back in 2013-2104, I wanted to find an efficient (and free) way to implement a help desk support system with Google Apps. I created the Automated Online Help Desk w/ Google Apps based on this developers tutorial.

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Rediscovering @CK12Foundation Flexbooks And More!

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Something that could adapt with the ever changing knowledge base educators and students could pull from along with being more personal. There are Flexbooks for middle school and even some for Elementary Math. Using Google Classroom? You can create your materials and share them instantly to your Google Classroom classes.

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How to Build Your PLN

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You may never meet them in person, though you likely collaborate through Google Hangouts, Skypes, or pre-arranged TweetUps. It takes more than joining Google +’s 112,000-strong Education Technology Community or showing up for Twitter’s every-other Wednesday #digcit TweetUp. Why build a PLN. How to build a PLN. Participate.

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Four Ways You Can Use Data to Create a Personalized, Teacher-Driven PD Playbook

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For example, imagine that you are an elementary school principal who is looking for opportunities to strengthen specific third grade math skills in the new school year. In doing so, you accentuate the strengths of individual teachers and expose other teachers to new styles and ideas in bite-sized chunks.

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Novel Ideas for Writing Instruction

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“All of our teachers have had ample professional development in writing process and pedagogy, which helps to provide a strong knowledge base around the most effective practices,” says Gale. The district is seeing great results from its investment in technology-based tools and in training teachers to use them.

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Beyond the Genius Bar: Cultivating Leadership With a Student-Led Tech Team

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After all, many of us would agree that the students are the ones who are usually the most knowledgeable, up-to-date resources for what is the latest and greatest with technology, so why not tap into their large knowledge base and cultivate their leadership potential? Here’s how it happened. Karla Hanson, first-grade teacher.

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Apple’s Longtime Education VP Shares Frustrations With Slow Pace of Change

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But Steve had a special place in his heart particularly for elementary schools. And we've seen test scores go from 29 percent to 68 percent in one semester when you can deliver the student the exact learning environment that they need to overcome the gap in their knowledge base. They had no idea what to do with them.