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How Educators Save Time and Energy in Their Content Creation and Feedback Loops

Edsurge

Create digital lessons from a library Recommended Resources BookWidgets Blog BookWidgets Webinars BookWidgets Tutorials Teaching with BookWidgets | Facebook BookWidgets YouTube Channel Finding user-friendly online platforms to create projects and activities is crucial in our classrooms. The Widget Library.

LMS 151
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3 Comic Creators That Will Wow Your Students

Ask a Tech Teacher

Students map out ideas using a huge library of backgrounds, characters, text boxes, shapes, and images (over 325 characters, 225 scenes, 45,000 images, and who knows how many props). There’s an extensive library of comics that can be remixed and repurposed for specific student and/or teacher needs. FriendStrip.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

I was inspired, I think, to select that topic because talk of “platforms” was incredibly popular in Silicon Valley – it had been for a while – as companies strove to become “the next Facebook.” Think Facebook. ” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs.

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Live Thursday, February 2nd - Panel on Personal Learning Profiles

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

She did it with My eCoach as early as 1999 — way before there were blogs, wikis, Twitter or Facebook. Shannon is the author of the award winning Van Meter Library Voice blog and enjoys writing for ISTE''s Leading & Learning journal, various blogs, and in other forums. Shannon also serves on the School Library Month advisory board.

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3 LMS adoptions that go way beyond the basics

eSchool News

The district chose itslearning because it enables the meta-tagging of learning objectives within the district’s libraries and the creation of assessment data that tells teachers whether a student has gained proficiency (or not). Out of many, one.

LMS 40
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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Via ProPublica : “ Facebook (Still) Letting Housing Advertisers Exclude Users by Race.” ” (Related, this assignment from Davidson College’s Mark Sample : “Hacking Facebook’s Ad Network for Justice.”). ” “Personalization.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Also from Feldstein : “ Moodle and Blackboard Cut Ties.” ” Via Techcrunch : “ Facebook launches a digital literacy library aimed at educators.” “ Blackboard ’s Defense of its Finances is not Persuasive,” writes Michael Feldstein.