Kitaboo on EdTech

JULY 15, 2022

The fixed layout format is ideal for graphic-heavy publications such as magazines, photo books, and comics, or if your text is multi-column or you have any other design-related needs. . Related Read: 10 Best Interactive Elements in eBook Publishing Software KITABOO. How does KITABOO deliver enhanced digital content?

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

We hardly think twice about spell-check and other auto-correct features in writing software—in fact, their absence would make some feel rather lost and empty. EdSurge: You’ve written many novels, children’s books and stories for newspapers and magazines. There are companies that sell software that judge students’ writing.

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NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 7, 2017

KidCitizen : Developed by Muzzy Lane Software, KidCitizen engages K-5 students in exploring with primary sources and connecting them to their daily lives through a growing collection of interactive episodes using Library of Congress primary source photographs. Bank of multiple-choice and discussion assessment questions.

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NeverEndingSearch

OCTOBER 12, 2015

PopBoardz allows you to organize the content you need and easily present from your iPad, iPhone or Mac desktop. For educators, it can be used as an instructional dashboard, whether they sitting a their desktop or walking around presenting from their iPads or phones.

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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. The favorite software you’ve used for years could be incompatible with system updates (i.e., Oregon Trail). You might want to check out his post.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 22, 2017

In addition, Liz has published numerous articles and book chapters on new technologies and education in prominent publications such as Education Leadership, School Administrator Magazine, Scholastic, Edutopia, ISTE’s Edtekhub, and Learning and Leading with Technology. VICKI: They do. LIZ: Absolutely.

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ProfHacker

JUNE 22, 2016

If their blog or website is on, say, wordpress.com, their website will live on as long as wordpress.com exists; if they write in a journal/magazine, their content will probably outlive them; however, if it is on their own domain, this means their website/blog will only live as long as they keep renewing the hosting and domain name.

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The 21st Century Principal

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

Audiovisual, interactive, and social elements enhance the informational content of books and magazines. Perhaps a better investment would be to purchase tablets (iPads or Android devices). As we all know, technological devices evolve and change so rapidly, schools could be left holding the “Kindle” so to speak.

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NeverEndingSearch

APRIL 29, 2016

These new collections support new literacies and leverage the new bounty of open educational resources (OER) supported by the White House’s #GoOpen initiative, as well as streamed media, and software for creating and sharing powerful, effectively, ethically produced digital stories. We curate new forms of digital texts.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

SEPTEMBER 7, 2015

The best example of this might be the video game community, where many software developers have found success not so much with games, but equipping users with the tools to create their own games. Image attribution flickr user flickingerbrad; this article is based of an article originally written by Terry Heick for Edudemic Magazine.

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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. Self-Publishing an e-Magazine. Musarat Anjum has volunteered to produce to an e-magazine for her school.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JUNE 26, 2015

Learn Romanian Magazine The archived podcasts on this site are a good resource for conquering the Romanian language. Skype Community Language Learning The popular video-calling software has a section for users to ask and answer questions and make connections for conversations.

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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. Students will receive iPads. It’s now an LMS too.

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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 suggestions: LucidPress –provides professional-looking templates for brochures, magazines, fliers, and more. Desktop Publishing .

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Half of those, the firm said, would be iPads. Apple sold just 50 million iPads. “Software is eating the world,” investor Marc Andreessen pronounced in a Wall Street Journal op-ed in 2011. Take, for example, the founding editor of the technology trade magazine Wired , Kevin Kelly.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

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 suggestions: LucidPress –provides professional-looking templates for brochures, magazines, fliers, and more. Desktop Publishing .

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Doug Levin

MARCH 19, 2017

" Tagged on: March 19, 2017 Technology switch leaves some upset | Columbia Daily Tribune → Battle High School students and teachers have had iPads since the school opened in 2013. But the iPads will be discontinued next year in favor of the Dell Latitude Education Series (3160) touchscreen laptop computer.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 6, 2015

Many schools now provide digital devices for students, often a Chromebook or an iPad. Use it for all projects–a science poster, a history magazine, and math homework. Both are great devices, but represent a sea change from the Macs and PCs that have traditionally been the device-of-choice in education. Student Choice.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

If you are taking the grade for the quiz or test, you can send those grades to your Gradebook software in a snap. Time Magazine Article mentioned in the show. You can take a quick picture of their answers. It grades in a snap using your smartphone. If you visit Gradecam from this blog post , you can get a 60-day free trial.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Unfortunately, it was (and continues to be) an expensive piece of software not traditionally included in Microsoft’s Office Suite (though that changed with Office 365). It’s web-based (including apps available for iPads and Chromebooks) with a drag-and-drop functionality that makes the design process simple and intuitive.

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NeverEndingSearch

MAY 15, 2017

These are simple, ready-to-use templates within a drag-and-drop, design software that’s completely online and free to use. Magazine Covers (an attractive front page to a collaborative project). Canva is available as a web tool or as an iPad or an iPhone app. We’ve put together this resource because our users found it useful.

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TeacherCast

MAY 8, 2019

Created by Microsoft, Skype is extremely simple to connect to and also produces a nice file using the paid eCamm Software. ($20). Coming in at about $200 and available at most retail stores, the Raspberry not only is a great USB microphone but also comes with a lighting cable to connect it directly to your iPhone or iPad. Rendezvous.

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Doug Levin

MARCH 26, 2017

Tagged on: March 24, 2017 $1M wasted in questionable practices by Dallas ISD's IT and procurement departments, report finds | DallasNews → A questionable software purchase has led to the discovery of over $1 million in waste in Dallas ISD's information technology and procurement departments. Unforrunately, this is news.

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Doug Levin

MARCH 26, 2017

Tagged on: March 24, 2017 $1M wasted in questionable practices by Dallas ISD's IT and procurement departments, report finds | DallasNews → A questionable software purchase has led to the discovery of over $1 million in waste in Dallas ISD's information technology and procurement departments. Unforrunately, this is news.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 25, 2017

“Over 1k student-issued iPads are unaccounted for” in a school system in West Virginia , The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports. ” Via The Verge : “Transgender YouTubers had their videos grabbed to train facial recognition software.” – that current governor Paul LePage is eager to dismantle.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 24, 2018

World Magazine on how Liberty University handles its student newspaper: “Papered over.” ” “ Minecraft: Education Edition is coming to iPad,” says Techcrunch. million from Zero2IPO-Chenguang Education Fund and Shunwei Capital for its online education software. The company has raised $182.3

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Hack Education

JULY 28, 2017

” asks New York Magazine. Ed-Tech Magazine asks “How Diverse Is the Higher Ed IT Workforce ?” “ Are iPads and laptops improving students’ test scores? Via Honi Soit : “University abandons Cadmus anti-cheating software.” (National) Education Politics. “Who Is Betsy DeVos ?”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

But, as New York Magazine quipped , “Laurene Powell Jobs is undaunted by these facts.” The pressure to move towards digital assessments has fueled schools’ investments in hardware and software more than any other argument about the importance of ed-tech. ” Venture philanthropists do not need facts.

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Hack Education

MARCH 10, 2017

” Via Education Week : “The Ohio education department could seek repayment of more than $80 million from nine full-time online schools , based on audits of software-login records that led state officials to determine the schools had overstated their student enrollment.” ” iPad use?! Seriously?!

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Doug Levin

APRIL 2, 2017

Tagged on: April 2, 2017 School IT Leaders Share Strategies on Defending Against DDoS Attacks | EdTech Magazine → This article claims students are primarily responsible for denial of service attacks on schools. Wish there were publicly available data to support this claim. Tagged on: March 28, 2017 Got tech problems?

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Doug Levin

APRIL 2, 2017

Tagged on: April 2, 2017 School IT Leaders Share Strategies on Defending Against DDoS Attacks | EdTech Magazine → This article claims students are primarily responsible for denial of service attacks on schools. Wish there were publicly available data to support this claim. Tagged on: March 28, 2017 Got tech problems?

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Hack Education

JUNE 24, 2016

” “Schools, Libraries Miss Out on Millions in E-Rate Funds,” according to EdTech Magazine – some $245 million for the 2014 fiscal year. billion it agreed to pay Apple/Pearson for iPads, but what do I know). Via San Francisco Magazine : “A Kindergarten Teacher May Be Evicted from Her Mission Apartment.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Via the New York Magazine : “The Death of Vine Makes the Internet a Worse Place.” ” IBM released a Watson-powered education app for iPad. Blackboard has acquired Fronteer , a software company that helps make course materials accessible. ” Google announced it was cutting jobs in its Google Fiber division.

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