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With Instagram and ePortfolios, This Teaching Fellow Uses Tech to Support Literacy ?

Edsurge

Teachers are learners, too” was one of the key messages for this year’s cohort of HP Teaching Fellows—26 primary and secondary educators who demonstrate powerful teaching and learning with technology. The vulnerability that I'm showing my students has created an amazing turnaround in the kind of work they're willing to give me.

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Student Portfolios with Google Sites – SULS091

Shake Up Learning

Related: How to Create Powerful Student ePortfolios with Google Sites. Google Sites is a cloud-based website creation tool that allows users to build, create, share, and publish for individuals, groups, schools, or the public. Join our FREE Shake Up Learning Facebook group. It’s just not necessary. Why Google Sites?

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Authentic Assessments to Support Teaching and Learning

edWeb.net

Only 47% of secondary students surveyed reported being engaged, enthusiastic and committed to their learning. Another group of teens generated a teen suicide outreach app to make it easier to call for help in times of distress. Siobhan Nordstrom is the community manager for FreshGrade and is certified in Adult Continuing Education.

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Storms over liberal education: notes on the 2016 AAC&U conference

Bryan Alexander

I kicked things off with a survey of major technological developments in a very top level way, then dived into specific, currently used digital tools (the LMS, ePortfolios, video, robotics, big data, social media, 3d printing, etc.). I had two measly slides for ePortfolios, the main thrust of which was “go to AAEEBL !”,

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Week of May 15, 2011 - Live, Interactive, and Free Webinars in Blackboard Collaborate (Formerly Elluminate)

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

If you are looking for an easy calendar import / RSS feed for these events, you''ll now find a link on your calendar page or the calendar page of specific groups! Online Model United Nations (O-MUN.org) is bringing United Nations simulations for secondary school students to Elluminate. Thanks for your attention, and see you online!

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SumBlox: explore number relationships through visual/kinesthetic play

iLearn Technology

Students can stack multiples of a number to represent abstract math concepts like multiplication grouping or addens of ten. Students can stack blocks to explore and visualize addition equations, if the stacks are the same height, they also have equivalent values.

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Future Trends Forum #9 with Gardner Campbell: full recording, notes, and Storify

Bryan Alexander

Gardner, participants, and I explored pedagogy, the power of the hyperlink, data, instructors, institutions, eportfolios, language, students, assessment, a great card deck, our personal histories, and a lot more. After energetic small group discussions, several questions surfaced. II: DISCUSSION.

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