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Offline Activities with Mobile Devices

Teacher Reboot Camp

Commercial Advertisements – Divide students in small groups to create a short video advertisement. Show N Tell Image Story – a follow-up activity is to have students take the images from their group. When they are connected to the Internet they can add to a Padlet or the class virtual learning environment (VLE).

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11 Tips for Engaging Parents

Teacher Reboot Camp

Have a VLE or LMS where students and parents can check grades, homework, see student work, be notified of important notices, and find important information. Host with a group of teachers. Here are two examples: Facebook.com/NewMilfordHS. Twitter.com/NewMilfordHS. This saves me hours. Find out more here. Host parent workshops.

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The Role of Digital Learning Platforms in the Academic Growth of Students

Kitaboo on EdTech

It can also be a virtual classroom tool or a virtual learning environment (VLE). Advanced reporting These innovative digital learning solutions allow the educators to create, personalize, and download reports that provide insights into the learners’ progress, work completion, individual and group progress etc.

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The survival of higher education (3): The Social Web

Learning with 'e's

Around 2007 we started using blogs to support several of our student teacher groups that were geographically dispersed across the South of England. Some did not have the opportunity to meet face-to-face with their peer group and sometimes suffered from prolonged lack of tutor contact.

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7 ways to support learner-teacher interaction

Learning with 'e's

Student groups tend to set up their own Facebook groups anyway, without any prompting from their teachers. When I''m invited in to a Facebook group or Google Hangout, I tend to lurk until asked a direct question. However, bear in mind that most VLEs have online discussion threads that all of the group can see and read.

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The Role of Digital Learning Platforms in the Academic Growth of Students

Kitaboo on EdTech

It can also be a virtual classroom tool or a virtual learning environment (VLE). Advanced reporting : These innovative digital learning solutions allow the educators to create, personalize, and download reports that provide insights into the learners’ progress, work completion, individual and group progress etc.

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Creating an Online Classroom

Nik Peachey

I’ve been using this with various classes and groups of teachers for the last 7 or 8 years and it has remained reliable, stable, safe and free. Features The VLE it creates has a number of useful features. Users can only add text, as it doesn’t support picture formats.

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