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Top five edtech buzzwords
Top 5 buzzwords in higher education technology circles Educators, technologists, and campus decision makers who reside in the educational technology bubble speak the ed-tech vernacular like a second language, frequently using words and phrases wholly foreign to many in higher education. Agree? Disagree?
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Note taking skills
Tips for Developing Students’ Note-taking Skills writes: Beyond being an essential basic skill, note-taking offers students the opportunity to make the material their own. That doesn’t involve making it mean whatever they want it to mean, but it does allow them to interact with it in ways that develop the learner’s understanding of it. Now,…
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Dropbox in the paperless classroom
Dropbox Organization Tips for Teachers and the Paperless Classroom Dropbox is an essential for me. I like apps that link with Dropbox in every way and it is an essential part of my paperless routine with my students. This past Sunday at #txeduchat I was asked some specific questions about how I use Dropbox to…
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The positive effects of art
Art Makes You Smart A few years ago, however, we had a rare opportunity to explore such relationships when the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art opened in Bentonville, Ark. Through a large-scale, random-assignment study of school tours to the museum, we were able to determine that strong causal relationships do in fact exist between…
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12 ways to use Google Drive in education
12 Effective Ways To Use Google Drive In Education …I stumbled across a fabulous new visual guide put together by Susan Oxnevad on Glogster. In the graphic, she showcases a dozen different ways to easily and effectively integrate Google Drive into your classroom.
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Familiarity doesn’t always mean productive or well designed
Clinging to Outlook, Only 25% of Employees Willing to Use Yahoo Mail At this point in your life, Outlook may be familiar, which we can often confuse with productive or well designed. How many times have you been faced with a change in software or hardware, and just wish you can go back to the…
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Amazing archive consists of 140,000 VHS tapes
The Incredible Story Of Marion Stokes, Who Single-Handedly Taped 35 Years Of TV News In a storage unit somewhere in Philadelphia, 140,000 VHS tapes sit packed into four shipping containers. Most are hand-labeled with a date between 1977 and 2012, and if you pop one into a VCR you might see scenes from the Iranian…
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Google Forms add features
Google updates Forms with progress bars, data validation, embedded YouTube videos, and custom messages Google today announced four new tools for building surveys with Google Forms. You can now display progress bars, set up data validation, embed YouTube videos, and post custom messages when your form is closed. Data validation is a feature I’ve been…
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One iPad per classroom
The “One iPad” Classroom: If you have been allocated just one iPad for your classroom then you have very different issues to 1-to-1 classrooms as the iPad is not designed as a shared device. But don’t despair! There are apps for that! Via: @iPadWells via @WiredEducator