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Why It’s Okay To Be A Non-Techy Teacher by @Edsby

TeacherCast

Should individual teachers have to assess the pros and cons for themselves of systems like Edsby , Google Classroom, Edmodo, Schoology or Moodle? Uniform assessment and reporting. Especially if it’s been configured to use the district’s official grading scheme and reports grades the way the district wants them at report card time.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

The Department of Education has released its newly proposed guidelines for school accountability. Here’s media reporter Mathew Ingram’s take (and there are lots of takes out there. “ California ’s teacher tenure battle is reignited by Vergara appeal and a new bill,” The LA Times reports. The takes).

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3 LMS adoptions that go way beyond the basics

eSchool News

Platforms from Desire2Learn, Edmoto, Moodle, Blackboard, are used throughout the district, which encompasses 35,000 students, 57 elementary schools, and 15 secondary schools. Out of many, one. At Greater Essex County District School Board (GECSDB) in Windsor, Ontario, teachers have always been able to select their own LMSs.

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Building a Personal Learning Network (PLN) on Twitter

EdTechSandyK

tools in general is it''s often "messy"; that is to say there are not usually step-by-step guidelines for doing this or that. I started to notice #hashtags (words that start with # like #edtech, #moodle, #teaching) and added them to my RTs when they applied. One thing I''ve learned about using the web and Web 2.0