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New EdTech Resource | Beyond VR: Practice Public Speaking in Virtual Reality

2/28/2017

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As technology develops, so to does its abilities to advance education. Virtual reality is a valuable educational tool, that can be easily adapted into the classroom.  Through photo-realistic environments that react to your delivery, Beyond VR will help you prepare for any public speaking event while simultaneously helping conquer the social anxiety of presenting in front of a crowd. 

Through a series of interactive games and unique lessons, you’ll improve your vocabulary and grammar while gaining new speaking techniques. Beyond VR aims to support those who want to improve their public speaking and help anyone dealing with social anxiety when standing up in front of a crowd. We want to see a world where no person is afraid to stand up and share their ideas!

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Guest Post: Free Voki Lesson Hook for Black History Month

2/24/2017

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Author: Na’ama Y. Rosenberg 
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Every February we celebrate Black History Month. The objective is to acknowledge, celebrate and appreciate the contributions that black Americans have made to our society, culture and history. Ranging from those who fought against slavery like Sojourner Truth and Harriet Tubman, to civil rights leaders such as Rev Martin Luther King, Jr and his wife Coretta Scott King, and Malcolm X.  This hook gives a brief insight into the accomplishments of these remarkable men and women.

​Some, like Thurgood Marshall, W.E.B DuBois and Rosa Parks are familiar names, and others, such as Mary McCloud Bethune are less well known, but just as inspirational. 


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New EdTech Resource | Noplag Plagiarism Checker

2/20/2017

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Being both software and an online tool Noplag aims at the decrease in plagiarism cases number by means of efficient texts checks that look for similarities with billions of Web resources and the database of Noplag. The result of such checks is a similarity report with up to 20 details, text uniqueness percentage, and links to the web pages where these similarities were found.


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Guest Post | 5 Steps to Implementing Game-Based Learning in the Classroom [+ Game Examples & Downloadable Guide]

2/17/2017

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Author: Marcus Guido | This post originally appeared on the Prodigy Game Blog
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Many teachers struggle to smoothly incorporate games into lessons due to time and logistical issues, yet see game-based learning (GBL) as a way to engage students and appeal to diverse learning styles. Research has continuously shown such advantages. For example, video games stimulate an increase in midbrain dopamine to help store and recall information, according to a 2014 article in the journal of Learning, Media and Technology.


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Bloomz Adds Functionality to Serve Childcare Providers and Announces Content Partnership with Ohio Chapter, American Academy of Pediatrics

2/15/2017

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Through this partnership, Bloomz will distribute critical information to educate parents everywhere on important issues concerning their children’s health, behavior, and education
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(Redmond, WA) February 15, 2017 – The award-winning parenting mobile app Bloomz announced today a set of features tailored to childcare centers, including check-in/check-out attendance and daily sheets to keep parents on top of their kids’ everyday activities. To further its mission to connect parents with their kids’ world, Bloomz is also partnering with the Ohio Chapter, American Academy of Pediatrics to educate parents across the country on a variety of topics relevant to raising children.


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Guest Post | K-12 Students Must Learn About Digital Citizenship

2/4/2017

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Author: Bob Hand
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Students are arrested every day for threats they make on social media. Others unknowingly limit future job or education opportunities by staining their name through inappropriate behavior online. All the while, corporations are creating profiles based on our actions online — information that can affect our future in many ways. Clearly, there is a missing component in our curriculum. School administrators are generally more focused on getting new technology into classrooms than they are with teaching basic online etiquette. While Obama’s Computer Science for All initiative has brought an increased focus on tech education into classrooms, pupils today often fail to learn the basics of digital citizenship. 


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Allovue Launches a New Budgeting Product for School Districts

2/4/2017

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Allovue’s software platform transforms the way districts build budgets and track spending
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(Baltimore, MD) February 2, 2017 — Allovue, a pioneering education finance technology company, today announced the addition of a long-awaited budgeting product to its signature software platform, Balance. Balance Budget was built to simplify the time-consuming process of creating and managing district budgets across central office departments and schools. 


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New EdTech Resource | Learn to teach online in an LMS with VerveEd

2/4/2017

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Author: VerveEd Staff
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Online education is not new, but it’s constant state of change means educators need to be proactive to stay on top of changing circumstances and best practices.  Just as contemporary education evolves, the training and professional development to support it must too.  Whilst traditional training has involved PDF’s, PowerPoints, videos and audio, HTML5 brings with it new possibilities to provide immersive, responsive and targeted training to educators anytime, anywhere.

Enter VerveEd.


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