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Intel Education Presents: #IntelChromebooks – Win a Chromebook!

9/18/2014

With options for classroom technology growing every day, it has become an increasingly difficult challenge to find the best resource for your students’ learning needs. Do you go with tablets? What about a “bring your own device” (BYOD) policy? Or maybe a laptop cart to share between classrooms?

While all these different resources have their advantages and disadvantages, one relative new-comer to the field is Google’s Chromebook, and it offers some serious potential at an incredibly reasonable price. [Continue Reading]

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The Weekly Roundup - September 15th, 2014

9/15/2014

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Welcome back to the Roundup! We've got a short one this week, so let's jump right in! Up first, Holly Korbey at Mind/Shift explores an issue that's been on my own mind a lot lately,"Can Students 'Go Deep' With Digital Reading?" In the post, Korbey does an excellent job discussing the issue, incorporating recent research, and addressing both the advantages and disadvantages of digital reading.

Up next, John Hardison at Getting Smart has prepared an absolutely awesome collection collection of tools and resources in "A Gold Mine of #EdTech Resources: Part II." Hardison covers Website Creation, Learning Management Systems, Apps, Blogging Platforms, and so much more. There are tons of great tools here that are absolutely worth checking out. And, if you're interested in part I of the series, you can find it here.

And, of course, some great new resources from FT4T:

Finally (I told you it was a short one!) we head over to the Ed Tech Review for a nice collection of resources from Prasanna Bharti entitled, "Flip Your Classroom with These Great Online Tools." Bharti covers EdPuzzle, eduCanon, Blubbr, VideoNotes, and Teachem, all of which are good tools and worth exploring.

The Lightning Round...

EdTech Magazine gives us 5 Strategies to Reach At-Risk Students with Technology
Edudemic covers 10 Ways to Use Instagram in Your Classroom
Educational Tech & Mobile Learning discusses 30+ Features of the 21st Century Classroom
Moving at the Speed of Creativity shares 70 iPad Apps for Elementary STEM
Finally, T|H|E Journal covers6 Must-Have Apps for Tech Leaders

And that does it for this week! But before I go, I want to recommend checking out a new app that was designed by a student fresh out of high school! It's calledSharedAgenda and it's basically a way for students and teachers to make the school agenda a social experience. It's a great app and it's free, so check it out!

Thanks for reading and we'll end with a new infographic from Presence Learning which looks at some of the benefits of online therapy. See you next time!

Courtesy of: Presence Learning

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The Weekly Roundup for September 7th, 2014

9/7/2014

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Welcome back! I hope everyone had a wonderful Labor Day weekend and a good start to the school year! This week we'll begin at Getting Smart with a new post from Jim Schultz on "Three Ways Blended Learning Makes Teachers More Efficient." Schultz opens with a basic definition of blended learning (in case you're unfamiliar) and then jumps into his reasons on why it makes for more effective classes.

Next up, Nicole Blake Johnson at EdTech Magazine has a new post which outlines the Internet Keep Safe Coalition's "New Digital Literacy Program to Educate K-12 Students on Internet Safety." The post also discusses how the curriculum offers free lessons that align with Common Core Standards. If you're a computer literacy teacher, or looking for a good way to inform students about internet safety, this is a good place to start.

A few of the great new resources from Free Tech for Teachers:

Let's take it back to blended learning for a moment with a solid post from Reannah Sartoris at Edudemic. Sartoris' new post, "Top 5 Tips for a Blended Learning Classroom" offers some simple, easy-to-follow tips for teachers just beginning in a blended environment.

Over at Inside Higher Ed, the team has just released a new 30-page booklet entitled "Online Education: More than MOOCs." For those not familiar, a MOOC is a Massive Open Online Course, and has become one of the standards for online education. If you're interested in online education, either K-12 or higher-ed, I definitely recommend reading thefree book.

Here are a few of the new podcasts from the EdReach network

And finally, for those of us who love virtual reality, and the potential it has for the K-12 learning environment, Benjamin Herold at Education Week has an excellent new article entitled, "Oculus Rift Fueling New Vision for Virtual Reality in K-12." If you haven't heard of the Oculus Rift, it's pretty awesome, and offers some exciting possibilities for K-12

The Lightning Round...

Teach Amazing gives us 5 Ways to Use Mind Mapping Apps in the Classroom
Edudemic shares the Top Gamification Tools Worth Trying
Educational Tech & Mobile Learning offers 2 Useful Videos on Flipped Learning
Emerging Ed Tech covers 10 of the Most Engaging Uses of Instructional Technology
The Ed Tech Review discusses 5 Ways for Teachers to Use Tumblr in their Classroom
Finally, THE Journal provides 15 Apps Every Principal Should Have

That's it for this week! Thanks for stopping by and we'll have some new reviews up soon for you as well. Enjoy the rest of the weekend and we'll close with a new interactive infographic from Open Colleges on the Uses of Google Glass in Education. See you next time!

How Google Glass might be used in Education – An infographic by the team at Open Colleges

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Intel Education Presents: #IntelChromebooks – Win a Chromebook!

The Weekly Roundup - September 15th, 2014

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