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Why Use Tablo? Four simple reasons why you should use Tablo to make and share digital lessons. Save Time in Class Students can watch Tablo lessons at home. No need to lecture in the classroom. Create Lessons Easily Make amazing lessons with just a graphics tablet and a computer with a microphone. Nothing to Install Tablo is completely online. No need to bother your IT department with installations. Data-Driven Teaching Tablo will be able to track your students' progress and identify areas of difficulty in your lessons.

"Now that you have bought your iPad, what are the questions you need to ask? Questions: 1. What is an iPAD? -- The iPAD is a WiFI/ 3G slate computer that is based on the iPhone/ iPod Touch operating system. The iPAD can be used in any direction It can be used as a note-taking device; an e-reader; a web browser; to send email; and has many other uses as new applications are developed. The iPAD has accessories that can convert it into a laptop, or a projection device. Click here to learn how to set up the iPAD out of the box or the iPAD2 out of the box."

"This is the new home of the CALL Software List. The updated List has moved permanently from oregonstate.edu/dept/eli/softlist/. Please update your links accordingly. Go to the Software List Creating a computer lab or learning center for English language learners Deborah Healey's Attic Other resources are coming soon... "

"Kindle Fire is a premium product, offered at a non-premium price. It brings everything we've been working on at Amazon for 15 years - Kindle, Amazon Instant Video, Amazon MP3, Amazon Prime, Amazon Appstore, and Amazon Web Services - together into a single, fully-integrated experience for customers. We've also developed a new, faster web browser called Amazon Silk, specifically designed for Kindle Fire. It's a split browser that lives partially on Kindle Fire and partially in the cloud, taking full advantage of Amazon Web Services' incredible computational horsepower to accelerate web browsing - something you won't find in iPad's Safari browser. "

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In Codecademy, older kids and teens write computer code. They set their own pace through lessons on every major modern programming language, including PHP, Javascript, Python, Ruby, HTML, and CSS.

The #1 choice for IT educators worldwide, NetSupport School delivers the tools you need to help maximize the effectiveness of computer-led teaching and now you can utilize the power of NetSupport School in a Google Chromebook education environment. For use in an existing or new NetSupport-managed classroom, the NetSupport School Student app extension can be installed on each student Chromebook running Google Chrome OS. From the teacher's desktop they can then connect to each chromebook system enabling them to monitor the screens and interact with each student quickly and efficiently.

A screencast is a digital recording of a computer screen with audio narration. Screencasts can include telestrator ('John Madden pen') annotations. Narrated slideshows include audio recordings synchronized to images without hand-drawn annotations.

The Smarter Balanced Field Test will take place between March 18 and June 6, 2014. Students in grades three through eight and grade eleven will be assessed via computer in English-language arts and mathematics. A small sample of grade nine and grade ten students will also participate in the Field Test.

"Using technology to make, repair, or customize the things we need brings engineering, design, and computer science to the masses. Fortunately for educators, this maker movement overlaps with the natural inclinations of children and the power of learning by doing."

"The traditional notion of "going online" often evokes images of a desktop or laptop computer with a full complement of features, such as a large screen, mouse, keyboard, wires, and a dedicated high-speed connection. But for many Americans, the reality of the online experience is substantially different. Today nearly two-thirds of Americans own a smartphone, and 19% of Americans rely to some degree on a smartphone for accessing online services and information and for staying connected to the world around them - either because they lack broadband at home, or because they have few options for online access other than their cell phone."

Discovering the outdoors on the computer to get you outside. Great activities and starting points

Maps are one of our oldest forms of visualizing data about the world. One might say we'd be "lost" without them. flickr creative commons photo by [martin] From the early web-based Mapquest versions and later when Google Maps came onto the scene followed closely by Google Earth, online mapping and the use of maps by the general public has exploded.  Maps are now a mainstay for mobile computing and other endeavors online line that have a spatial component. The capability enabled by GPS  (Global Positioning System) allows our devices to know where we are in the world, what/who is nearby, and what information is available about places. We see many ways people use maps for personal use and are interested in knowing more about that and your ideas on how mapping tools might also be used for learning.  

ZooBurst is a digital storytelling tool that is designed to let anyone easily create their own customized 3D pop-up books. Using ZooBurst, storytellers of any age can create their own rich worlds in which their stories can come to life. ZooBurst books are completely web-based and can be experienced using nothing more than your browser outfitted with the Adobe Flash plug-in. Books can be inspected from any angle from with a 3D space, and rotating around a book is as easy as dragging and dropping your mouse. In addition, the author of a book can choose to make items "clickable," allowing you to learn more about individual characters within a story. You can choose to experience a ZooBurst book in a number of ways, including in Augmented Reality. If you have a webcam installed on your computer simply click on the 'Augmented Reality' button at the top of the screen and watch as the book appears in the palm of your hand!

"When your kids want to play online, put Firefox into Kid Mode! Protect your computer and delight your kid with a safe environment that's filled with fun and learning. Zoodles Kid Mode makes it easy for kids 8 and under to independently play online."

ClassLink LaunchPad-2011 reinvents the experience of instructional technology. It’s a true blended learning solution that delivers a personalized learning experience to any device, anywhere. Students and teachers can access tools for creative thinking, collaboration, communication and creativity. Leveraging virtualization and cloud computing, this is the future of instructional technology.

"Raspberry Pi is a computer the size of a credit card that's so simple, anyone can program it. Designed as an introduction to science, technology, engineering, and math for UK grade schoolers, its $35 price tag has made it appealing to hobbyists all over the world. "

"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 bargain micro PC released earlier this year, has fertilised the imaginations of the public, bringing with it a boom in inventive approaches to computing not seen since the good old days of 8-bit."

"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..."