NeverEndingSearch

JULY 28, 2020

Over the summer, I’ve been picking up a few little tools to add to my existing kit for enhancing online teaching and learning. What’s nice about these and so many other recent tools we are introducing in schools is that they present real-life functionality. It plays nice with all your other G Suite tools.

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Edsurge

MAY 15, 2018

Today’s most popular augmented and virtual reality applications are typically available for mobile devices, but many classrooms have moved from tablets to Chromebooks, especially at the secondary level. These tools are capable of using browsers on devices, even older ones, and don’t require any app downloads.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 23, 2017

And Google Hangouts. Summer PD: The Tech-infused Teacher is for credentialed and non-credentialed K-12 teachers, tech teachers/integration specialists, library media specialists, and pre-service professionals. Also, teachers will embed web tools (i.e., Google Hangouts–used to meet as a group and discuss topics.

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Wiki Flipped Classroom Common Core Learning 152

Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2020

One enterprising principal she knows created a Google folder for schools to share their virtual learning plans. Another educator started a burgeoning Facebook group for international educators to trade tips, and another began a detailed list of helpful online tools, including the digital portfolio platform Seesaw and the ebook library Epic.

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 14, 2016

But first, a little library history. I continued this practice in school libraries, sending TOCs from incoming journals and magazines to our science, art, social studies teachers, reading specialists and administrators. The tool can also help you keep up with LIS and education content. See my LJ update to the right.)

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Graphite Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

While Google Classroom and its accompanying suite of tools is immensely popular in education -- especially at the secondary level -- Seesaw is a fast-growing and user-friendly digital platform for teachers to assign work, engage with students, and provide feedback, among other classroom activities. How can families use Seesaw?

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Bryan Alexander

APRIL 7, 2020

Screenshots of students and faculty in their Hollywood Square boxes are the emerging icons of the new post-secondary order. Most instructors who’ve never taught online can find live video to be a closer analog to their classroom practice than asynchronous tools. Zoom University is a nickname I’ve seen pretty widely.

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Blackboard Education Microsoft Adobe 141

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 6, 2020

Farmer, Professor of Library Media || Interested to learn new ways to communicate, collaborate, and connect? Loertscher | Pippa Davies || Build Your Own Virtual Library Learning Commons: Session 2 of 3 with Anita Brooks Kirkland, Chair | Professor David V.

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Buncee

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

I prefer to use it instead of a computer because I have easier access to the tablet than the library computers. I downloaded the app when I received my school iPad from our Library Media Specialist ( @DebZemanLMS ), after seeing it on Self Service, an app store used in our district to make sure we download apps for education purposes.

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Learning iPhone iPad Libraries 79

techlearning

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Eisenhower Library and Museum. Part of our time together was spent talking about non-traditional primary and secondary sources. There were some interesting conversations around primary vs. secondary sources and what really makes a virtual reality tour a primary source. Enter your Google account information. not so much.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 17, 2018

Screencastify is the screencasting tool I recommend for Google Chrome and Chromebooks. Built for Chromebooks, it saves all of your recordings directly to Google Drive. Screencastify is an essential tool for making flipped lessons, student videos and creative formative assessments. Connect your students and join.

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edWeb.net

JULY 10, 2018

Digital educational materials have provided many benefits for K-12 educators and students from computer adaptive assessments to tools that allow students to collaborate and communicate 24/7. How big is their library of single sign-on applications? Educators won’t want access to a limited number of tools and instructional resources.

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Accessibility EdTech Secondary Elementary 41

edWeb.net

JUNE 30, 2018

It is rare that things go as planned after selecting or purchasing new digital content, services, and tools. Zach co-led a successful district-wide implementation of Canvas and advocated for greater use of Google Apps and cloud-based productivity by students and teachers. Mark has presented at ISTE, SXSWEdu, FETC, CUE, and AASL.

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Future Ready Secondary EdTech Survey 40

Bryan Alexander

APRIL 7, 2020

Screenshots of students and faculty in their Hollywood Square boxes are the emerging icons of the new post-secondary order. Most instructors who’ve never taught online can find live video to be a closer analog to their classroom practice than asynchronous tools. Zoom University is a nickname I’ve seen pretty widely.

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Blackboard Microsoft Education Adobe 52

TeachThought - Learn better.

APRIL 1, 2015

One of the biggest hurdles in student research is empowering them to dig into primary and secondary resources. And when most students think research should only be as difficult as Googling the answer, it can be incredibly challenging getting them away from untrustworthy search results and into credible resources.

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) Fund follows the same formula as Title I, so it can be used to help bridge the digital divide for students from low-income families. There should also be outreach to new partners such as libraries and local city councils in an effort to obtain resources and other support.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 20, 2020

Secondary sessions are held in Zoom meeting rooms with a capacity of 300--if those rooms are full, you'll have to wait for the recording to watch. What tools and methods will be discussed on “What makes online learning effective and engaging to the student? To make sure your computer or mobile is configured for Zoom, please visit zoom.us/test.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 15, 2020

Secondary sessions are held in Zoom meeting rooms with a capacity of 300--if those rooms are full, you'll have to wait for the recording to watch. What tools and methods will be discussed on “What makes online learning effective and engaging to the student? To make sure your computer or mobile is configured for Zoom, please visit zoom.us/test.

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Conference Kaplan Learning Libraries 41

NeverEndingSearch

JUNE 17, 2019

Researching Students’ Information Choices (RSIC), our IMLS-funded study, uses simulated Google result lists to examine what happens when student researchers make real-time search engine result page decisions. We’ve appreciated different tools for different contexts at different stages of research. Study citation: Buhler, A.,

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E-rate Wiki Elementary Study 111

NeverEndingSearch

JUNE 5, 2015

Jennifer Bigioni is now the School Library Media Specialist at Princeton (NJ) High School. Designed as a professional development experience for secondary teachers, Jen’s workshop has school-wide value for opening conversations about academic honesty. I used digital tools, like Turnitin to encourage academic honesty.

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Digital Promise

MAY 23, 2023

Many districts invested in edtech platforms and tools to facilitate online learning and to build a hybrid infrastructure that would support the return to in-person learning, all with the goal of creating equitable learning experiences for students.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Quickly, it is becoming the close reading tool of choice for teachers because of its ease of use, differentiation of needs, depth of tools, and variety of resources. They can look up words they don’t understand and translate the text into a long list of languages that may be their native or a secondary language they are learning.

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Learning Edmodo Libraries Common Core 314

eSchool News

OCTOBER 4, 2015

And in math, fractions and ratios can inspire lessons on mixing paints to create warm and cool secondary colors. Interactive whiteboard software often features an asset library that could be used to create various shapes and constructions in both math and art contexts while teaching to whole groups. Build deeper learning. ”

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eSpark

MAY 2, 2016

How does Google make money?” When conducting research around an essential question, students should utilize a variety of primary and secondary sources. Many students find research that occurs outside of their classroom, library, or computer screen to be especially meaningful. Will Salmon go extinct in my lifetime?” “How

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Academic Standards Learning Digital Citizenship Secondary 40

Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 2, 2020

Google buys Logitech and a whole host of media companies and university lectures. Google buys Ford, Apple, and AMD, allowing it to make breakthroughs in solar energy, battery technology, and quantum computing. ‘Google Panels’ replace 2/3 of worldwide energy production.

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Laptops Secondary Google Company 214

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Michelle Kruse, Content Lead for Libraries, Roosevelt Creative Corridor Business Academy, Cedar Rapids Community School District Nominated by: Follett Michelle Kruse is the teacher librarian at Roosevelt Creative Corridor Business Academy (RCCBA), a magnet middle school in the Cedar Rapids Community School District (CRCSD). Dr. Dana T.

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Edmentum Education Libraries Advocacy 122

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

iEARN is also joined by other major supporters, TES , Google for Education , and VIF International Education. See our other sponsors, supporters, and partners on the conference website. Reuben Thiessen, CTO Let’s Teach The World!

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 9, 2014

We also highlight good conversations about learning taking place between educators, learners, leaders, and others from the school, library, museum, work, adult, online, non-traditional and home learning worlds. Tag your questions #eduquestion or post them on our Facebook page or Google+ community. Is your library mobile friendly?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 26, 2016

It makes sense that when Jacqui and I were talking about popular tech tools and ways to bring tech into the k-12 math class, I had a lot to share and get excited about and jumped at the opportunity to write this post. What’s more, they have a fantastic library of lessons created by teachers who use Nearpod in their own classrooms.

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Tools Khan Academy Libraries Twitter 150

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 19, 2014

We also highlight good conversations about learning taking place between educators, learners, leaders, and others from the school, library, museum, work, adult, online, non-traditional and home learning worlds. Get to know SnapThought – one of our assessment tools – and the new game Sortify, which adds another dimension to playful assessment.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

Computing platforms have different abstraction levels, including a computer architecture, an OS, or runtime libraries. More often than not, these platforms also come with a series of tools that enable their users to build their own products, services, and marketplaces. Education’s Proto-Platforms. If so, what are they?

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Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 24, 2011

The system is a little weird, since you can''t see all of the proposals in one area (they are categorized into primary, secondary, and tertiary blocks based on arbitrary ordering of session submissions by one individual), but here are direct links to panel proposals I made: "School 2.0: November 2 - 4, all online, all free.

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Khan Academy Education STEM Blackboard 44

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 4, 2014

We''re building new calendars for major conferences and events in the library, education, museum, and nontraditional education arenas--you can access these calendars through the top menu of the website. Our Google+ Community is about to hit 50,000 members. Our Google+ community will probably hit 50,000 members today.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

These events bring together educators, learners, leaders, and others from the school, library, museum, work, and home learning worlds. This is a LIVE show presented in news show format featuring a Wrap up of “This Month in School Libraries” and deeper discussion of topical school library issues with special guest experts.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 7, 2022

Our first Library 2.022 mini-conference: " Virtual Reality and Learning: Leading the Way ," will be held online (and for free) on Tuesday, March 29th, 2022. Virtual Reality was identified by the American Library Association as one of the 10 top library technology trends for the future. Please also join this Library 2.0

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 17, 2011

ANNOUNCEMENTS The Library 2.011 worldwide virtual conference is almost here! Huge thanks to the San Jose State University School of Library and Information Science , the founding sponsor of the conference. Can Google Challenge Over-Zealous Web Filtering at Schools? November 2 - 4, all online, all free.

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Edthena

APRIL 14, 2021

Thank goodness we have had one-to-one technology at the secondary level and classroom sets of devices, iPads and Google Chromebooks for years, so our teachers were very tech savvy, but it was just like, I just call it, going dark. We all went home to our homes and our caves and stayed there for two months. Kevin Hogan: Right.

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