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 The role of assessment has always played its part but it is a role that is changing in the present global climate and understanding this shift is important for educators.

"I recently read Audrey Waters write about privilege in education. I always appreciate Waters'-and similarly, Jackie Gerstein's-habit of asking difficult questions and presenting a perspective on education that doesn't always come up in the PLC meeting, tweet chat, or utopian summit on school design."

"Earlier today I received an email from someone who had found this comparison chart of student response tools. He was interested in learning a bit more about each of them beyond what was in the chart so I put together this collection of information about popular student response tools. Each of these tools can be used on iPads, Android tablets, and in the web browser on your laptop or Chromebook."

Free Anatomically correct 3d Human Anatomy site. Kevin Jarrett reminds us in the comments that if you're going to use Visible Body with younger students be aware that Visible Body is 100% anatomically correct. In that case it's probably best to use Visible Body as a teacher-directed exercise and not a individualized activity.

Press Publisher™ is a simple yet powerful website content management system (CMS) uniquely designed to manage a Magazine, e-Zine, Newsletter, Journal or other periodical with no technical experience. Press Publisher's magazine publishing software makes online publishing a snap with a set of powerful features managed from a user friendly control panel.

"With the recent announcement that Google Classroom will be available to all Google Apps for Education schools by the week of August 11th, schools that have also adopted iPads are interested in exploring the platform to determine if it will integrate into their existing deployment to provide a helpful and approachable workflow solution. While there are currently a number of workflow solutions and Learning Management Systems that work well with iPads, Google Classroom will likely become a top contender for iPad classrooms because of the integration with both the Google Drive and Google Docs iPad apps as well as any number of iPad creativity apps. While there is not an iPad app for Google Classroom, the web interface works seamlessly and allows students to turn in any assignment or file that is in their Google Drive account as illustrated by the video below."

The objective behind the introduction of Windows Experience Index was to facilitate users with a quick and easy feature to evaluate the performance of hardware components of any PC. It first appeared in Windows Vista. This rating score is displayed in System Properties window as shown in following screenshot:

An agreement for World Bank assistance of USD 70 million for the 'Additional Financing of Karnataka Health Systems Development and Reform Project' was signed by Shri Prabodh Saxena, Joint Secretary, Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance on behalf of the Government of India and Mr. Michael Haney, Operations Advisor, World Bank (India) on behalf of the World Bank and Dr. Vishal R., Project Administrator on behalf of the Government of Karnataka.