EdTech4Beginners

APRIL 2, 2017

GAFE – Google Apps For Education (include Google Docs, Google Sites etc). ICT – Information Communications Technology. OER – Open Educational Resource (this can be any online materials that are free to use). FC – Flipped Classroom ( click here for my guide to flipping lessons ). OS – Operation system (e.g.

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EdTech VLE CMS OER 189

Hapara

APRIL 11, 2022

K-12 schools and districts turn to open educational resources (OER) for their flexibility. When you search for OER, you can find already-created lesson plans or other resources to add to your own class plans. Let’s look at the benefits of using an OER lesson plan and what it looks like. Why use an OER lesson plan?

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OER Differentiated Instruction Hapara Assessment 283

eSchool News

DECEMBER 9, 2018

After reviewing instructional materials rated as Tier 1 standards-aligned resources by the Louisiana Department of Education, we decided to try Open Up Resources 6–8 Math , an open educational resource (OER) authored by Illustrative Mathematics (IM).

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OER Common Core Instructional Materials Resources 111

NeverEndingSearch

MAY 14, 2020

Currently, one very popular strategy is the creation of classroom scenes using Google Slides populated with their flexible Bitmojis. Virtual Libraries: Their Influence on High School Students’ Information Seeking and Use. Youth Information Seeking Behavior. Medford, NJ: Information Today, 1999. Valenza, J.K.

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Libraries OER Wiki Strategy 145

EdTech4Beginners

MARCH 7, 2018

According to a Google report , almost 80% people don’t exit their homes sans smartphones. Wearable gadgets such as Google Glass and Apple watch is the new trend that has innovated the e-learning industry in the last ten years. Open Education Resources (OER). Smartphones have become an essential part of our lives.

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MOOC Gamification Smartphone OER 127

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

MAY 23, 2015

Part 2… Beyond the Technology Shine… Content Standard Nouns Meet 25 Free OER Education Resources. That’s right, the identified nouns can give you keywords that will allow you to search a wonderful world of OER (Open Education Resources) on the internet. A Listing Of 25 OER (Open Education Resource Sites).

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OER Khan Academy Moodle Meeting 60

Educational Technology Guy

JANUARY 12, 2015

Google Apps and Chromebooks App Recommendations and Substitutions Here is a list of Google Apps and Web Apps to use. 4c6x4p5qplh7 Google For Education Resources [link] Google Classroom - new resource for teachers to manage classes, assignments, student work, and to communicate with students.

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Chromebook Google Edmodo Study 100

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 20, 2017

I promise you will find some wonderful information coming your way in the posts that follow…So sign up now and please pass this on with a retweet. Also remember you can book me for a conference or your school district with workshops that are informative, engaging, and practical. You will never know until you begin your exploration.

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Technology Support Khan Academy Technology OER 112

NeverEndingSearch

JULY 5, 2017

And it’s also about instruction and modeling for learners what it looks like to organize content and tools to manage our digital lives as information citizens. Librarians who curate successfully not only build their brands, they contribute to their communities—students, faculty, administrators, and parents—as information professionals.

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OER Social Media Libraries eBook 46

Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2018

Working in tech and media for the past 20 years, I’ve seen some of these changes firsthand, and one thing has proven consistently true: Engagement is critical when learning new information and mastering new skills. Attend our ISTE 2018 session to learn about gamifying Google Classroom. Visit Classcraft at ISTE Booth #970.

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Video Learning OER Gamification 124

Marketplace K-12

FEBRUARY 13, 2016

School administrators learned about the site, to be called Amazon Inspire, during a “Transitioning to OER” session Friday as part of the National Conference on Education of the AASA, the School Superintendents Association, held here. “If you think about those resources, they’re not all that discoverable or sharable.”

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OER Resources Education Edmodo 40

ProfHacker

AUGUST 15, 2017

Now, you can contribute using Google Docs. This, alongside Caulfield’s OER textbook Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers , can very readily be incorporated into many different classes in just about every discipline. One of the main challenges to adoption of DiPo was that it was in wiki format, which can be a technical barrier.

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OER Wiki Conference Strategy 60

Edsurge

JUNE 29, 2016

THE BIG GUYS: Here’s news from Google, ABCMouse, and Amazon. First up, Google Education announced a new “casting” app for the classroom projector, released the “Expeditions” virtual reality app for all teachers and students, and added a new quizzing feature in Google Forms. Full EdSurge coverage on Google here.)

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Microsoft OER Digital Citizenship EdTech 110

Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 1, 2019

One of these days, after I’ve retired, I’m going to write a radically restructured, OER-based freshman music theory course, based on research I did early in my career and what I’ve learned about good teaching since then. Consequently, machines can compose music in the style of Bach.

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Data Education OER MOOC 94

NeverEndingSearch

JULY 1, 2019

I spent my first morning attending the ISTE Equity Action Forum and will be involved in a year-long planning project addressing issues relating to information poverty/privilege. I was honored to join several esteemed colleagues to present on the panel: Leading the Charge: Leveraging Librarian Leadership to Support the OER Journey.

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Social Media Libraries Conference OER 105

Securly

JANUARY 5, 2016

The same relationship can be envisioned for tech in the classroom, as an enhancement to traditional teaching methods – an interactive resource that broadens the mind, an unlimited wealth of information. There are a wide variety of resources available including Youtube for Schools and Google for Education. Digitally Mature Teachers.

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Technology Classroom BYOD OER 120

Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 31, 2020

I’m going to write a post or three about some of the friction that exists around using OER. There are some things about working with OER that are just harder or more painful than they need to be, and getting more people actively involved in using OER will require us to reduce or eliminate those points of friction.

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OER LMS Software Course 103

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

MAY 29, 2015

Link: Part 2… Beyond the Technology Shine… Content Standard Nouns Meet 25 Free OER Education Resources. Technology allows the 21 st century classroom to use this awareness of the nouns to connect with free resources on the internet known as OER (Open Education Resources). Record – Google Docs , Diigo , Evernote , Microsoft 360.

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Blended Learning Technology OER Digital Citizenship 60

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 21, 2019

I promise you will find some great information coming your way …So Sign Up Now and please pass this on with a retweet! – Mike Gorman ( [link] ). These informational posters are available on many different topics in science, nature, technology, and human culture. It contains free printable posters that are 8.5? PDF documents.

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STEM Resources Learning OER 148

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

OCTOBER 14, 2015

I promise you will find some great information coming your way this school year…So Sign up now and please pass this on with a retweet! – Mike Gorman ( https://21centuryedtech.wordpress.com/ ). OER Commons. About: One of the largest data bases of OER (Open Education Resources) for free classroom use. Google Advanced Search.

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Resources Tools Technology OER 60

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 21, 2013

The format is informal and the goal is for you to meet and get to know some of your online heroes, as well as to recap learnings from the day’s events and to look ahead to what’s next in CEM. Esther Wojcicki : Educator, journalist, IT & OER consultant. We have lots of fun, and we hope you will join us! Consultant.

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Meeting Sony OER Adobe 54

Doug Levin

AUGUST 20, 2017

In the absence of the weekly news round-ups, I took the time away to do some further writing and analysis: Everything’s Bigger in Texas…Including (Maybe) the Data Breaches , which details the ham-handed way in which the Texas Association of School Boards has communicated about their breach of personal information about Texas educators.

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EdTech Social Media Data Policies 150

Hapara

MARCH 17, 2022

This solution works on any device using a web browser, and each student can log in using their existing Google Workspace for Education account username and password. Once at school, she uses her Student Dashboard Digital Backpack again to see her to-do list and access the Google Drive files for her geometry class.

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OER Chromebook Hapara Accessibility 235

Ditch That Textbook

SEPTEMBER 7, 2015

Information was at a premium, and textbooks filled the void. Google searches and YouTube are where many of us [.]. Years ago, textbooks served a different purpose. They were chock full of it — a one-stop shop for the curious student. Today, things have changed. We don’t have a lack of places to learn new things.

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Google Learning OER Blended Learning 100

NeverEndingSearch

APRIL 18, 2017

A true extension of what TLs do or should be doing in a hyperlinked information landscape, HyperDocs are all about curation and collaboration, instruction based on engaged inquiry, as well as our mission to inspire learning communities to think, create, share and grow. What Google App can I use to package this lesson? Workshop Model.

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Handbook Google OER Adobe 49

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

SchoolMessenger Passport allows districts to provide teachers, staff, parents and students with quick and secure access to online learning applications, open educational resources (OER), and a variety of school management and administration software programs using a single sign-on.

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CMS OER Social Media Microsoft 40

edWeb.net

DECEMBER 5, 2019

That’s already happening with tools like Google Classroom. Open Educational Resources (OER) – These are educational materials in the public domain or introduced with an open license. Imagine this sharing option built into a coordinated system that allows for greater curricular adaptation and usage?

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OER Analysis Data Academic Standards 53

NeverEndingSearch

MARCH 17, 2019

Next time around, I’ll share my notes on OER.). Google Spotlight Stories “G oogle Spotlight Stories means storytelling for VR. Google Translate app (now incorporate WordLens OCR optical character recognition to translate signs. Google Street View : Create your own 360 images. We are seeing movement way beyond hype.

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Trends Libraries OER Microsoft 42

The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 26, 2017

Go to www.staples.com/backtoschool for more information and great deals! . For information on the guests and items mentioned in this show, scroll down to the bottom of this post. *. This means that you can write your own textbooks, share them, or use them as you would any other OER or open education resource.

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Classroom OER Software System 222

MindShift

JULY 11, 2016

The Liberty Public Schools district sees Langhorst and his colleague as front-runners in an important shift toward open educational resources (OER). Keeping information fresh and up to date in a quickly moving world is one of the biggest reasons districts are starting to get more serious about the power of teacher-created open resources.

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Resources OER Classroom Study 28

The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2018

For example, many of the nation’s largest school systems use Google’s free suite of education tools, which allows teachers to develop their lessons, create assignments and administer assessments online. Sign up for our newsletter.

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Software Student Data Privacy OER Data 48

Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2017

Opinionated Products : There’s a word for the kinds of tools and products—like say, Google search results—which adapt to a user’s behavior: opinionated. Companies like Microsoft, Facebook and Google are all dipping their toes into virtual and augmented reality. to 11:00 p.m. K-12 11:00 a.m. Will VR Really Impact Student Outcomes?

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MOOC EdTech OER Kaplan 60

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

” In his book, Srnicek identifies five kinds of platforms: advertising platforms (like Google and Facebook), cloud platforms (like Salesforce and Amazon Web Services), industrial platforms (like GE and Siemens), product platforms (like Spotify), and lean platforms (like Uber and AirBnB). Education’s Proto-Platforms.

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Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

I promise you will find some great information coming your way this school year…So Sign Up Now and please pass this on with a retweet! – Mike Gorman ( [link] ). For example, a student could be assigned a slide on a Class Google Slide show to share some work while other students and the teacher provide critique.

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Blended Learning LMS STEM Assessment 192

Hack Education

MARCH 23, 2018

” It’s being positioned here as the first time Congress has funded open textbooks, but it’s not the federal government’s first commitment to OER. “ Can a New Approach to Information Literacy Reduce Digital Polarization? Data, Surveillance, and Information Security. ” asks Marketplace.

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Education Robotics OER MOOC 46

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 23, 2023

ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) : A comprehensive database managed by the U.S. Google Scholar : Known for its wide-ranging scholarly literature, Google Scholar covers articles, theses, books, and conference papers across multiple disciplines.

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Education OER Libraries Accessibility 115

Doug Levin

APRIL 23, 2017

Among them, I’ve updated my site to include a dedicated FAQ on open educational resources (OER). The FAQ is a collaboration of many involved with the movement and includes an OER infographic , suitable for downloading and re-sharing. Tagged on: April 23, 2017 Is It Time to Break Up Google? | The breach affects 1.3

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EdTech OER E-rate Microsoft 170