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"Students and faculty may love them, but IT personnel get a major headache when they try to integrate Apple tablets--and the company's TV technology--in an enterprise setting."

Newsela is an education technology startup dedicated to transforming the way learners access the world through words. The founding team members combine powerful technological know-how with real-world experience earned in the classroom, the newsroom, and the boardroom. Launched in June 2013, Newsela publishes high-interest news articles daily at five levels of complexity for grades 2-12 using Newsela's proprietary, rapid text-leveling process. Common Core-aligned quizzes attached to articles give educators and parents insight into their students' reading strengths and weaknesses. Newsela develops nonfiction fluency and critical-thinking skills necessary to master the Common Core standards for informational text.

This essay, then, describes some of the most cost-effective and appropriate ways to use computers, video, and telecommunications technologies to advance the Seven Principles.

This essay, then, describes some of the most cost-effective and appropriate ways to use computers, video, and telecommunications technologies to advance the Seven Principles.

from noreply@blogger.com (Mr. Byrne) TodaysMeet.com is a completely free service for hosting backchannel discussions. Over the years I've used it in a variety of ways including as a real-time discussion during a classroom viewing of a video, as a...

from noreply@blogger.com (Mr. Byrne) Screenhero is a new screen sharing service that offers something that I don't recall seeing in any of the other screen sharing services I've tried over the years. Screenhero offers the option for both parties ...

from noreply@blogger.com (Mr. Byrne) The news of Google shutting down iGoogle (November, 2013 for existing users) has left people scrambling to find alternative start page services on the web. One alternative to iGoogle that I tried last fall is ...

from hybridped@gmail.com by Susan Gail Taylor With technological innovations come opportunities for students to compose, communicate, share, collaborate, and express themselves in contemporary ways as well as opportunities for teachers to harness ...

Read this collaborative blog for ideas, inspiration, and context for emerging educational technology. The content is a curated collection of free and open resources produced by the Digital Media and Learning Research Hub, whose mission is to advance research in the service of a more equitable, participatory, and effective ecosystem of learning keyed to the digital and networked era.

from Med kharbach  Project based learning is " an instructional approach built upon authentic learning activities that engage student interest and motivation. These activities are designed to answer a question or... .....read more

from Med kharbach A personal learning network is a method of linking kids and adults to major sources of information on the Internet. It is like choosing your closest friends that you want to listen to because they... .....read more

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"what so many teachers do not know about YouTube is that it has recently  included several powerful features of video editing, recording and even slideshow making and all for free. To access these features you need to be already logged in to YouTube and click on " Upload "button near the search box in YouTube homepage."

"Some good apps that can facilitate your students collaboration in learning projects."

Online scheduling tools