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Home or landing page for www.shakeuplearning.com, including biography of Kasey Bell.

Apple Didn't Announce Any Of These Ideas For Your Classroom by TeachThought Staff Apple's annual September unveil event has come and gone, and left us with two new pieces of hardware-the Apple Watch, and a 5.5″...

Site filled with Google Apps for Education and Ed Tech resources.

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Online technology training for teachers from the District Instructional Technologist. Please feel free to browse this site for ideas on how to add technology to your classroom.

Here are some of my favorite apps to use with Elementary students in the classroom. These are apps that promote creativity and critical thinking for the Project Based Learning classroom. I have also linked student examples of how these apps have been used by educators and students.

The combination of the Vernier Video Physics and the Vernier Graphical Analysis apps works well to digitize and analyze simple video x,y coordinate data on the iPad. However, it is sometimes desirable to digitize more complex data (e.g., changes in the area of an object over time), and other apps work better in this regard.

Gwyneth A. Jones, aka The Daring Librarian, is a blogger, a Tweeter, an international Ed Tech speaker, trope and meme archivist, creator of content, a citizen of advocacy, and a resident of social media. Gwyneth is a Google Certified Teacher, and the author of the award winning Daring Librarian blog.

My name is Lauren Boucher (yes, like Bobby Boucher :)), and I am an Instructional Technology Specialist in Eastern North Carolina. I work with students and teachers who are making the move to 1:1 classrooms using iPads and Chromebooks.

A website dedicated to sharing ways to use educational technology to enhance learning for all students.

Apple Didn't Announce Any Of These Ideas For Your Classroom by TeachThought Staff Apple's annual September unveil event has come and gone, and left us with two new pieces of hardware-the Apple Watch, and a 5.5″...

Scott McLeod talks with Vicki Davis about teacher's rights and legal issues to consider when using social media. In this episode of Every Classroom Matters, Scott reminds us educators should be aware that teachers are representatives of their employers and legally do not have a right to privacy even in their lives outside of school.

Last night I published a post about ChromeVis. ChromeVis is a Chrome extension that helps users strip sidebar content from websites and change fonts to make the content easier to read. Today, I was reminded of a handful of other tools that perform similar functions.

4III. Working Open in ActionSo what do we actually mean when we say 'working open', and why is it something we should care about? In this section, we move to concretize the notion of working open by addressing a number of core questions: (1) What are the core practicesassociated with working open?

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