Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 12, 2021

I won’t take time in this article (I’m at about 1000 words right now) for a how-to on each activity so if you don’t know how to complete one, check with your IT folks or Google it: Make sure your firewall and antivirus programs are working. If you have a Chromebook or an iPad, don’t even worry about this.

Digital Citizenship 224

Digital Citizenship Google Social Media Chromebook 224

Edsurge

JULY 29, 2021

The private liberal arts college in Richmond, Virginia, is working with Apple to outfit about 400 freshmen with an iPad Air, Apple Watch, smart keyboard and assortment of supporting devices as part of the program dubbed Mobile Learning, Mobile Life. Virginia Union University hopes the answer is yes.

Industry 174

Industry iPad Company Mobility 174

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 15, 2019

I won’t take time in this article (I’m at about 1000 words right now) for a how-to on each activity so if you don’t know how to complete one, check with your IT folks or Google it: Make sure your firewall and antivirus programs are working. If you have a Chromebook or an iPad, don’t even worry about this.

Digital Citizenship 283

Digital Citizenship Google Social Media Chromebook 283

Edsurge

APRIL 9, 2018

Edmodo brings a vibrant social community to the company, which is amassing education assets that already include both hardware and software. Now the most powerful players are technology companies that offer devices and software. According to its most recent financial report, education now makes up more than half of NetDragon’s revenue.

Edmodo 145

Edmodo Company Pearson Facebook 145

Shake Up Learning

MAY 23, 2022

And then, on top of that, to spare a few precious minutes for administrative work like recording grades and taking attendance, and then entreating a student to carry those reports to the office? Then, it’s a simple matter of forwarding the ‘report’ to the office. How Technology Helps with Classroom Management. Click To Tweet.

Technology 101

Technology Classroom Schoology Software 101

Educational Technology Guy

MARCH 23, 2015

For the USB connection for the sensors, you need the USB connector and the Graphical Analysis Software. For the Wireless connection , you need the Labquest device and the software. Google for Education Resources, includes Chromebooks Vernier announces LabQuest2 - Android, iPhone, iPad data collection and analysis -.

Chromebook 100

Chromebook Data Tools Analysis 100

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 15, 2018

The biggest reason teachers report for NOT liking cloud accounts has nothing to do with money, security, or privacy. No worries about whether they run better in Firefox or Chrome, Macs or PCs (or Chromebooks or iPads), Windows or MacOS (or Linux or iOS). You own the software. It’s that they aren’t reliable.

Adobe 154

Adobe Chromebook Software Digital Citizenship 154

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. The process is so simple!

Chromebook 100

Chromebook Google Edmodo Study 100

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2018

Google and Apple both made big education technology announcements this week, unveiling new products designed for schools. Google’s first Chrome-powered tablet will create new competition for Apple, just as the company announced a new iPad , complete with augmented reality capability, the Apple pencil and a 10-hour battery.

Laptops 57

Laptops Tablets Chromebook iPad 57

Edsurge

DECEMBER 24, 2018

At this time of the year, some businesses are busy filing expenses and reports. Apple and Google continue to up the ante in their quest to win adoption in classrooms. billion on education software each year. Apple’s Strongest Case to Reclaim the Education Market Is Not the New iPad. First, let’s get down to business.

EdTech 112

EdTech Pearson Industry Student Data Privacy 112

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2018

A student in New York uses Google Docs on her classroom iPad to discuss themes in the class’s latest book with her group. Photo: Jessica Huseman for The Hechinger Report. billion was spent on devices by K-12 schools in 2015, and the Software and Information Industry Association estimates that nearly $8.4 classrooms.

iPad 81

iPad Broadband Software Comparison 81

The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 13, 2018

For example, we use in my 8th-grade science class Book Creator for students to develop everything from science lab reports to personal studies that they do — like individual investigations — and even just topic research. I always think of giving my students that sandbox time so that they can play a little bit with the software.

EdTech 187

EdTech Technology Robotics Classroom 187

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2018

Photo: Eleanor Chute for The Hechinger Report. Using an iPad, instructors can monitor, start and stop students in the Voyage virtual field trip. Photo: Eleanor Chute for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Eleanor Chute for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Eleanor Chute for The Hechinger Report. That is expected to change.

Classroom 106

Classroom Smartphone iPad Report 106

Learning in Hand

DECEMBER 31, 2014

If you follow me on Twitter , Facebook , or Google Plus , you might have noticed that I share links using my very own URL shortener called tonyv.me. One way to have your own URL shortener is to buy the domain and use YOURLS , free software that runs on a web server. link] #edtechchat #ipaded — Tony Vincent (@tonyvincent) March 9, 2014.

iPad 76

iPad EdTech Facebook Twitter 76

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 22, 2015

Students are expected to collaborate and share online as young as kindergarten when they read digital books or draw pictures using iPad apps. By middle school, they work in online groups through forums, wikis, and Google Apps. For example, a picture taken in Google Earth is added to a slide deck for a geography report.

Digital Citizenship 150

Digital Citizenship Social Media Wiki BYOD 150

ProfHacker

MARCH 16, 2016

Last week, Amy Cavendar wrote about using Google Forms for polling. I agree with the general direction of moving away from “clickers” that need dedicated hardware and instead using software that allows students to use their own mobile devices (phones, tablets, laptops) to respond. NearPod Reporting.

Tablets 40

Tablets iPad Laptops Survey 40

Fractus Learning

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

It’s helped me in my writing – and when I started using it, it was the best writing software available. Grammarly is a proofreading software tool that uses artificial intelligence technology to detect grammar, spelling, punctuation, style, sentence structure, and word choice mistakes. I’m a long-time Grammarly user.

Software 59

Software Microsoft Comparison Report 59

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2020

Sarah Garland/The Hechinger Report Credit: Sarah Garland/The Hechinger Report. Durante la primera semana, nuestra escuela envió unas hojas de trabajo y algunos enlaces a softwares educacionales y programas de televisión. Los mejores maestros parecen tener un caudal interminable de energía, paciencia y creatividad.

Laptops 56

Laptops Software Report Chromebook 56

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

If you look for a definition of “platform” online, you’re likely to get something along the lines of Wikipedia’s – fairly straightforward, although quite technical: A computing platform is the environment in which a piece of software is executed. Education’s Proto-Platforms. If so, what are they?

Technology 62

Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2020

Garland is the executive editor at The Hechinger Report, and she’s been watching as parents like her across the country have been forced to sub as teachers while schools are closed because of Covid-19. Teachers were already used to using educational software and apps. We’re busy. So it was slightly easier there. Stephen Smith.

Education 61

Education Software Online Learning Training 61

Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

With the pride of place iPads and Chromebooks and 1:1 programs are getting in curriculum decisions, tech problems will be common, varied, frustrating, show-stopping, and nauseating. Google the problem. The favorite software you’ve used for years could be incompatible with system updates (i.e., I’m not fatalistic.

Technology 150

Technology Common Core Digital Citizenship System 150

The Daring Librarian

JANUARY 27, 2013

Brøderbund''s Living Books Are Back for the iPad & iPhone Thanks to Wanderful Books ! shakes fist in air in mock fury] So, sniffing a bit with nostalgic ennui, I Googled them and EUREKA! I found a recent TUAW article about how these classic CD-Rom books have now been made into iPad Apps! Oh and Wanderful Books?

iPhone 62

iPhone iPad Common Core Libraries 62

Technology Tidbits

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Also, the educational portal allows for student tracking to generate detailed reports and differentiate instruction. K5 Learning - An online Reading and Math program for grades K-5 w/ retail results and detailed reports. Sheppard Software - A neat site for games on a wide variety of subjects including Reading/Language Arts.

Differentiated Instruction 38

Differentiated Instruction Khan Academy Game-Based Learning BYOD 38

NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 21, 2016

You can use the CTR Flex rubric to evaluate apps and other software with your local colleagues or use a variety of possible criteria to customize your own instrument. The database is free to browse, but full reviews and reports, along with back issues, are limited to paid CTR subscribers. Alice Keeler is a Google Certified Teacher.

iPad 40

iPad Android E-rate Facebook 40

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 28, 2020

Even schools that manage to give all children access to devices and the internet cannot escape the fact that much of the educational software they’re using is not specific to the needs of ELL students, Sugarman said. She’s been using Google Classroom, an online resource meant to help teachers manage students’ coursework, since September 2018.

Digital Divide 145

Digital Divide Resources Policies Study 145

techlearning

JULY 27, 2018

Software & Online 3DBEAR AR INNOVATOR PROGRAM ( 3dbear.io/product/ This program adds full home access for students, custom curriculum alignment, performance reporting, professional development, and more. The software takes advantage of Casio’s Natural Display technology for input and output of mathematical expressions.

Tools 51

Tools Robotics Software Microsoft 51

Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2018

We will use some arcane technology called “blockchain” and distributed ledgers to validate that education software works. Please, if you like our reporting, donate Splurgecoin to feed your friendly EdSurgents! He asks others to search on Google—in incognito mode—on his behalf. Just don’t ask how this works. Next up: the EduWand.

Chegg 64

Chegg Robotics LMS Android 64

The Electric Educator

JANUARY 17, 2011

January of 2011 saw the launch of an iPad app on which to view presentations. My podcast series " Google, More than Search " [iTunes link] was created entirely using Camtasia Studio. million in free software to Michigan schools and sponsoring #edcampdetroit this May. Thanks for subscribing to my blog. 5 things to watch'

Company 71

Company CMS Camtasia Blackboard 71

Fractus Learning

MARCH 2, 2021

It’s delightful that we live in a time where software can really help the entire writing process. Grammar checker software helps find those embarrassing typos, and for some individuals (like me), it also defuses the grammar check frustration. Why Proofreading Software Is So Useful. Top Proofreading Software Products.

Software 52

Software Social Media Microsoft Tools 52

techlearning

JULY 27, 2018

It also supports Google Play educational apps, so students can collaborate, discover, engage and learn, and includes a Wacom EMR stylus that lets students use interactive apps, sketch, take notes, and capture ideas. They also liked its teacher dashboard and software interfaces.

Robotics 41

Robotics Chromebook Edmentum Mobility 41

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

” – that’s Sebastian Thrun, best known perhaps for his work at Google on the self-driving car and as a co-founder of the MOOC (massive open online course) startup Udacity. Half of those, the firm said, would be iPads. Apple sold just 50 million iPads. The quotation is from 2012. How do you do that?

Trends 40

Trends Report Software iPhone 40

Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Pixlr –fully-featured art tool that works on the web or iPads. There are three great options for audio writing in your classroom: Audacity –software download; free. Here are three popular intuitive choices for composing music: GarageBand –turns an iPad into a single instrument or a full band. Spreadsheet.

Microsoft 157

Microsoft iPad Digital Citizenship Video 157

Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2021

Top reported teachers’ apps have adapted to meet pandemic purposes. All in this Edtech Reports Recap. The new report did a bit of compare and contrast, asking nearly 1,000 K-12 public school teachers in October 2020 the same questions that were asked for the 2018 report while adding a few new ones. Accelerated?

EdTech 167

EdTech LMS Survey Classroom 167

ViewSonic Education

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Software licensing fees add costs and complexity. Thankfully, many interactive touch screens (like ViewSonic ViewBoards) are both device and software agonistic. Seamless compatibility with any laptop, iPad or other tablets further adds to setup ease. For another, they operate just like a giant iPad. Freedom from Fees.

Education 187

Education Software Adobe iPad 187

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 31, 2023

after January 1, 1978, are automatically protected by copyright once they are fixed in a tangible medium (like the Internet) BUT a single copy may be used for scholarly research (even if that’s a 2nd grade life cycle report) or in teaching or preparation to teach a class.

Digital Citizenship 208

Digital Citizenship Wiki Twitter Facebook 208

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 3, 2014

Saturday, June 7th at 12pm CR20 LIVE Weekly Show with Toni Plourde: Earning Your Learning , Using the iOS 7 for iPad(iPod,iPhone), we will explore ways to maximize the way students can engage and enhance their own learning. Tag your questions #eduquestion or post them on our Facebook page or Google+ community.

Digital Citizenship 52

Digital Citizenship Edcamps Conference Libraries 52

ViewSonic Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Software licensing fees add costs and complexity. Thankfully, many interactive touch screens (like ViewSonic ViewBoards) are both device and software agonistic. Seamless compatibility with any laptop, iPad or other tablets further adds to setup ease. For another, they operate just like a giant iPad. Freedom from Fees.

Education 152

Education Software Adobe iPad 152