Adobe Acquires Social Portfolio Platform Behance To Power Its Creative Cloud...
Adobe just announced that it has acquired Behance, a New York-based online platform where creative professionals can showcase their portfolios and where businesses can find talent. The site currently...
View ArticleDigital Wake-Up Call
Students who use computers for their writing assignments fared far better on the NAEP writing test, the first to be administered on computer, than students who do not. Those results may not come as a...
View ArticleShould schools offer social media etiquette classes?
As the world of social media continues to grow, its application in the education world also increases. More and more teachers are harnessing the power of social media to help students connect with one...
View Article15 iPad Skills Every Teacher and Student Should Have
iPad has made such a radical change in education with more and more school districts adopting it as a learning tool inside the classroom. Educational Technology and Mobile Learning has been helping...
View ArticleWhy You MUST Avoid the PowerPoint Trap
The pressure of PowerPoint.Credit: peasap Yes. I can put your PowerPoint slides online. Big deal. A lot of people can. SlideShare alone has an abundant amount of presentations.Listen up. Getting...
View ArticleMozy Stash: Your personal online storage
Stash is a file synchronization feature that provides Mozy users a simple way to keep their most active data up to date across each of the computers they regularly use and complements the Mozy online...
View ArticleNew Curating Tool – Edcanvas
There’s a new curating tool out in beta called Edcanvas. And it’s free. Here’s a short screen cast on how to use it: And here is one evaluation of the product. You can see some example Edcanvases on...
View ArticleThe Classroom of Tomorrow (Video)
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View Article4 Great Rubrics to Help you Select Educational Apps
As iPads are increasingly infiltrating our educational systems the question of the pedagogical implications ensuing from the use of these mobile gadgets in the classroom come to the surface. Some do...
View ArticleUsing Video in e-Learning: (Almost) Everything You Need to Know
Credit: Racum Not that long ago using videos in e-learning was pretty prohibitive due to the costs associated with it. Fast forward a few years and with everyone having access to video-cameras on their...
View ArticleScanning software to help address cyberbullying
A powerful new online tool may help administrators at one Indianapolis school help spot cyberbullying — and possibly head off potentially violent aftereffects. The Social Net Watcher program,...
View ArticleTop 100 Web Hosting Blogs?
This came accross my desk this week, http://www.couponaudit.com/blog/top-100-web-hosting-blogs-to-follow-in-2013/ an infographic of the “top” 100 hosting blogs. Some big names in there and some little...
View ArticleElectronic textbooks gaining popularity in District 113 – chicagotribune.com
More students in Highland Park and Deerfield high schools are using electronic textbooks because students and their families are already using several electronic devices — and school officials are...
View ArticleDigital shift sees students turning the page on traditional textbooks
A shift from traditional textbooks to e-books is gaining speed in Utah, as the state Office of Education coordinates efforts to develop digital texts in science, math and language arts. At least two...
View ArticleSurvey: Smartphones a Standard for Majority of High School Students
A new nationwide survey reveals the extent to which mobile devices have become an inextricable part of students and families lives—while also indicating that parents see potential benefits, and...
View ArticleWhy Our School Is Going Beyond Printed Newsletters
Like many schools across the country, Matt Renwick’s school uses printed newsletters to share student learning with families on a weekly basis. Parents have responded positively to these...
View ArticlePhysics teacher takes students on virtual field trip with Google Glass
Andrew Vanden Heuvel, an online physics teacher, is one of just a few thousand people so far to try Googles new wearable computer, Google Glass. Using the prototype, he took a South Christian High...
View ArticleMobile Apps Make Field Trips More Interactive
Image: Education Week As districts cope with tightening budgets and testing schedules, field trips often fall by the wayside. But a new generation of field trips may make it easier to integrate...
View ArticleSenator speaks to class via webcam
Image: Daily World To cap off a civics project involving U.S. government and how it functions, U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., conversed with a fifth-grade class at J.S. Clark Leadership Academy...
View ArticleLearning to Love the Interactive Whiteboard
When Holly Rocchetti started teaching fifth grade at Mount Vernon Community School in Alexandria, VA, about six years ago, she relied heavily on textbooks, Xeroxed handouts, and a chalkboard. These...
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