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The Daily Round Up - June 14th

6/14/2013

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Happy Friday!  I hope everyone's weekend is off to a wonderful start!  Today, the Round Up begins at iLearn Technology with a review of "Send Anywhere - Share Files between Mobile and Non-mobile Devices."  The review covers the app, Send Anywhere, which is built for iOS and Android devices and used to easily send any file type to any location.


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Next up, Free Tech 4 Teachers discusses the "5 Benefits of Using Backchannels in Your Classroom."  By backchannels, they mean having students send information or questions to the teacher without directly asking in the middle of class.  It's a great post and covers reasons like "Shy studetns are given a place to ask questions and contribute to conversations."  The post also cover specific apps that can help with this idea.


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Educational Technology has a new guide on "20 Ways to Use Augemented Reality in Education."  The guide covers apps like Second Life and New Horizon, but also covers how to use AR on field trips and throughout the day.  Plus, if you're unfamiliar with this whole augmented reality business, they've reposted their "Teachers' Guide to Augmented Reality."


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Getting Smart has a new post entitled, "Saundz Like American English."  The article is a review of the app Saundz that "teaches ESL students American English pronunciation."  Students are given a personal virtual assistant who introduces users to phonemes and also has lessons over the 400 most problematic words.  The program runs on PCs, Macs and iPads, costs $9.99 and is a nice resource for helping ESL students become more comfortable with pronunciation.

Getting Smart also has a write-up on "Summit Denali: Engaging Student-Centered High School Model."  The post covers the work being done at Summit Denali High School to prepare for its opening this August. The school is built around "learning playlists" which allow students to "work at their own pace on a personalized path driven by immediate, actionable feedback."  It's an interesting model to examine and I'm excited to see it in action this Fall.   


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Last up, Teach Thought discusses "6 Tips to Integrate Coding in the Classroom."  In my opinion, coding is an incredibly important, and incredibly overlooked tool for teaching creativity, problem solving, and critical thinking skills.  This is guide is a great place for teachers to start finding out more about coding and how they can use it in their classrooms.

Teach Thought also has a video up on "Designing Learning Environment Around a Need to Know."  It's a great video about connected learning that I've embedded below for your viewing pleasure.  But, if you're just looking for a quick summary, head on over to the article.


And that's it for the Round Up today!  Oh, in case you didn't hear, and you're one of the lucky educators heading to ISTE: Microsoft is Giving Away 10,000 Surface Tablets!  Go get signed up!  And we'll end the day with an interesting infographic entitled "Social Media & Social Life: How Teens View their Digital Lives."  Check it out, and we'll be back on Sunday with the weekend edition!
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