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Follow Along With a Grad Seminar About Edtech: Part 1, Picking the Best Tech

Edsurge

This semester I’m teaching a graduate seminar on education and technology for Georgetown University. On the one hand, we have more tools to choose from, and many services have gotten easier to use (think of the shift from wiki markup to Google Docs, or from separate video cameras and editing suites to all-in-one apps on smartphones).

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How to Evaluate Programs You’ve Never Used in Less Than Seven Minutes

Ask a Tech Teacher

If you’re like me, you spent the summer attending webinars, seminars, and conferences. If you have a school or district license on the app, software, or webtool, skip this one. Many classroom learning apps are aligned with LMSs like Google Classroom, Schoology, and Canvas. . But that list could take hours to preview.

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4 Ways to Get Started with Security

EdTech Magazine

Based on what they told us, we deployed a new firewall, upgraded all the software applications in our system and set up the system so it would notify us of any suspicious traffic. IT people at school districts are typically stretched thin and don’t have time to attend workshops and seminars. Place Controls on the District’s Network.

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Why Do Some Schools Get Better Quickly and Others Get Stuck?

Edsurge

We had this intranet server service called FirstClass that kind of did in 2003 just about everything that Google for Education does now. You all are actually teaching writing differently because you got all these computers and you adopted a piece of software that's helping you teach writing differently. And I was like, ‘What?’

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Video Assignments Are the New Term Paper. How Does That Change Teaching and Learning?

Edsurge

This semester I’m teaching a graduate seminar on education and technology for Georgetown University. The Google-owned service is widely used that it may already soak up more than a third of all mobile traffic. This is part 3. Read part 1 and part 2. Digital video has taken the world by storm.

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Top 10 Digital Tools for the Classroom

Kitaboo on EdTech

As more and more teachers, students, and stakeholders experiment with technology, software developers are working day and night to bring them quality solutions. However, despite having so many options, users show a clear bias towards some platforms, software, or apps (read, digital tools) that they consider more user-friendly than others.

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How not to write about HyFlex or online learning

Bryan Alexander

Over the past two years I’ve taught a series of HyFlex seminars at Georgetown. Together we used other software for more synthetic work: Google Jamboard, Google Docs, Miro, etc. Or like being in front of a room that’s very rectangular and extending to my left and right.