"Kno has launched a rather sweet-looking e-textbook app for the iPad. Those of you with a good memory for ill-fated tablet hardware will remember the first incarnation if the Kno, a giant dual-screen (or single-screen) behemoth of a tablet with a price tag of "below $1,000.""
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The Associated Press has won more Pulitzer Prizes for photography than any other news agency in the world, and is the most credible source for non-biased reporting. Founded in 1848, the AP is the oldest and largest news organization in the world, and is an important part of modern-day world history, serving more than one billion people each day. Through an exclusive relationship with AccuWeather, Inc., education institutions and Public Libraries can subscribe to the AP Images from AccuWeather™ and gain unlimited access from the school, library or home with full copyright protection.
This is the website for Orange County school wanting AP images. OCDE EdTech purchased a county license. Use the following to access.
http://apimages.accuweather.com/
Click "Search AP Images"
Enter User: ocde
Enter Password: ocdeedtech
"TRAILS is a knowledge assessment with multiple-choice questions targeting a variety of information literacy skills based on 3rd, 6th, 9th, and 12th grade standards. This Web-based system was developed to provide an easily accessible and flexible tool for school librarians and teachers to identify strengths and weaknesses in the information-seeking skills of their students. There is no charge for using TRAILS."
"Collaborize Classroom™ allows teachers to extend their classroom discussions to a structured and
private online community.
* Get 100% student participation.
* Save on monthly printing costs.
* Reduce grading time by up to 2 hours per week."
Collaborize Classroom™ allows teachers to extend their classroom discussions to a structured and
private online community.
Get 100% student participation.
Save on monthly printing costs.
Reduce grading time by up to 2 hours per week.
*Yes, it will always be free!
"My Raspberry Pi arrived with the evening mail-by midnight, my husband and I had turned it into a working print server. And neither of us had any background in computer science. "
"Raspberry Pi, the affordable, credit-card sized computer, has inspired tinkerers everywhere. Originally designed to get kids interested in computing, it has also developed a following among programmers looking for a smaller, cheaper medium for projects. "
"Once teachers allow devices in their classroom, it doesn't take long to realize how powerful they can be to instruction. It is an exciting time in education. Students have computers in their pockets. The question becomes..."
"Lessons, ideas and resources related to MinecraftEDU. In November 2013, our school purchased 29 licenses of MinecraftEDU software to use in our Win7 computer lab."
"One of the exciting things that leaps out to me when reading the new Common Core standards for Mathematics is that the spirit of inquiry and curiosity is back, hardwired into a document that will likely form the basis for mathematics teaching and learning for a long time. "
"Graphs and charts are great because they communicate information visually. For this reason, graphs are often used in newspapers, magazines and businesses around the world."