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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. Get parents to sign your Acceptable Use/ Responsible Use Policy (AUP/RUP). Here are two examples: Facebook.com/NewMilfordHS. Twitter.com/NewMilfordHS. Find examples here.

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EdTech Acronyms Explained

EdTech4Beginners

AUP – Acceptable Use Policy. VLE – Virtual Learning Environment. But have a look and get familiar with what they stand for: 1:1 – One to one (usually talking about the ratio of devices in a class per child). API – Application Programming Interface. BLearning – Blended Learning (using a range of multimedia and strategies).

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

Learning with 'e's

If they wished to change this kind of restrictive provision and depose the ‘tyranny of the institutional VLE’, universities would need to undergo a radical shift in policy. blogs disruptive innovation education higher education learning social web Technology the future of education VLE wikis' Unported License.

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We need to rethink university IT Services

Mark Smithers

There is little room for experimenting with tools beyond the VLE. Often competing and contradictory policy and procedures across sections of a typically bureaucratic university structure make simple things hard to achieve. Innovations and going beyond the VLE. To be fair this isn’t entirely the fault of IT Services.

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Collaborative & Creative Online Learning

Teacher Reboot Camp

Check out your VLE and see what tools and features already support collaboration and creativity. Does your VLE have forums, offer badges, or allow you to embed? If you are deciding on a VLE, consider the following. It is frustrating to only have a Learning Management System (LMS) or VLE accessible only when you are on campus.

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From Tech Newbie to Ninja to Sensei

Teacher Reboot Camp

You will need ninja learning community (a VLE/LMS ). Get students to sign Acceptable or Responsible Use Policies or Codes of Conducts. Check out Tackk.com/googledocsquickcreate and Bit.ly/50chrome 50chrome for tons of teacher recommended extensions. Ninjas train other ninjas! Pass on the ninja legacy and teach citizenship.

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The Top Ed-Tech Trends (Aren't 'Tech')

Hack Education

The influence of Bill Gates in education and education technology policy really cannot be overstated. In education, that’s the learning management system (the VLE) perhaps. It ignores what happens in Seattle: the home of Amazon, Microsoft, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

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