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Mel Riddile
from Headlines for School Leaders
August 6, 2015 6:45 PM
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American teens don't just make friends in the schoolyard or neighborhood — many are finding new friends online. Video games, social media and mobile phones play an integral role in how teens meet and interact.
Via Bob Farrace
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Mel Riddile
August 4, 2015 3:55 PM
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A DLN Smart Series paper with recommendations for developing and implementing an effective plan to adopt a blended learning model.
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Mel Riddile
August 1, 2015 2:52 PM
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Want to know which are the best ways for your organization to deliver Digital Learning Resources? Check these best practices.
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Mel Riddile
July 29, 2015 11:47 AM
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We spent sometime during the last weekend sifting through our archive of educational tools we covered in the past and decided to bring to the forefront the titles below.The aim of this multi-purpose collection is to provide teachers with a handy resource where they can access some of the best educational tools to leverage in their instruction. This list is a work-in progress and we will be adding more to it in the next coming days.
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Mel Riddile
July 28, 2015 5:49 PM
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Introverts are students who are bright and capable of communicating, but class discussions feel unnatural or uncomfortable for them. Sharing via technology
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Mel Riddile
July 27, 2015 1:53 PM
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Since 2003, OneCommunity of Cleveland has been connecting and enabling public benefit organizations across the state like schools, government agencies, healthcare, museums, and libraries with next-generation fiber optics. And lately, they’re begun working with schools to identify private homes that lack....
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Mel Riddile
July 22, 2015 6:41 PM
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If you have assignments or worksheets in a cloud-based storage platform such as dropbox or iCloud Drive you can easily import and use them on Handouts. Besides drawing and text annotation tools, Handouts allows you to keep track of your uncollected assignments right from the app dashboard. It also enables you to grade students' works using different tools including fun stickers. You can send feedback, take private notes and add students achievements to their portfolios. Handouts is ideal a good solution for a paperless classroom.
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Mel Riddile
July 18, 2015 8:57 PM
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100 Ways To Use Google Drive In The Classroom
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Mel Riddile
from Eclectic Technology
July 16, 2015 8:56 AM
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"We can make all sorts of assumptions about the way technology is changing learning, but what does the science actually say? According to Alfred Spector, Google’s vice president of research, it says a lot. For example, virtual tutors have helped average students reach the top 2% of their course; video games provide immersive environments that take the bordedom out of studying; and social networks are being used to increase interaction between students."
Via Beth Dichter
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Mel Riddile
from Educational Technology News
July 11, 2015 10:06 AM
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A new survey from publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt shows 97% of educators using tech in their classrooms, but many worry about privacy and accountability.
Via EDTECH@UTRGV
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Mel Riddile
July 5, 2015 6:35 PM
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What are the challenges of organizational Blended Learning? Check 5 common problems of organizational Blended Learning and how to overcome them.
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Mel Riddile
June 30, 2015 10:31 AM
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Democratic FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel called for a variety of strategies to support out-of-school access to high speed broadband during a speech at ISTE 2015.
Education Technology Advocates Stress Need For Broadband Access Out Of School. Benjamin Herold writes at the Education Week (6/29, Herold) “Digital Education” blog that education advocates attending the annual conference of the International Society for Technology and Education in Philadelphia signaled that they are planning on “turning their attention to a trio of policy issues they say could threaten the spread of personalized digital learning.” The foremost of those issues is the expansion of access to broadband outside of school. One speaker at the event, Democratic Federal Communications Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel, lamented that most teachers assign homework requiring online access, “even though one third of households do not subscribe to broadband.”
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Mel Riddile
from Tools for Teachers & Learners
June 28, 2015 4:07 PM
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Another way MindMup is now allowing you to work with larger groups easier is a quick notification mechanism when someone changes a node. You'll get a small speech bubble pop up for several seconds and disappear automatically, so it's easy to keep an eye on the entire team or classroom. At the moment, this only works for node text changes, but in the future we'll add other notification types.
Via Nik Peachey
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"I’ve always been a fan of sharing openly. I sometimes tell people that my life is an open book that no one wants to read. The nature of my job and my position is one that interacts regularly with social media as both a way of learning and a means of sharing. Recently, I’ve been captivated by the phenomena of Meerkat and Periscope. As I’ve seen throughout my many years in Ed Tech, whenever a new tool hits the market there are usually a slew of early adopters running out to grab it, figure out what it does, then figure out how we can use it for education. I’m usually one of those first-adopters, but I’ve purposefully taken a more measured approach to the world of mobile live video streaming and becoming a “Digital Broadcaster”."
Via John Evans
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August 2, 2015 11:18 AM
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July 30, 2015 1:47 PM
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“two key variables influencing intention to make use of a technology were - perceived usefulness
- perceived ease of use...
...with an understanding that staff “who have high levels of self-efficacy with respect to the technologies in question may be more likely to accept their use in practice.”
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Mel Riddile
July 29, 2015 11:37 AM
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The Internet of Things basically refers to any so-called “smart” object that uses an internet connection to enhance functionality. Today there are watches, forks, thermostats, and any number of other related devices that students or school campuses may be bringing to a network near you. Planning for this next evolution of networking needs to simultaneously be defensive (ensuring that IT infrastructure is ready) and offensive (encouraging and leading groups outside of the IT department such as teachers and students to take full advantage of the promise of the IoT.) According to Gartner [2], we’ve entered the “Wild West” era in IoT adoption. With that in mind, here is a quick checklist for preparing your school or district.
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Mel Riddile
July 28, 2015 5:46 PM
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Many district networks are straining under the deluge of digital learning resources. Web-based learning content can include bandwidth-heavy videos, graphics and audio files.
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Mel Riddile
July 26, 2015 1:40 PM
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Wondering who stole your eLearning Audience? Check 10 tips on how to create effective online content and keep your eLearning Audience engaged.
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Mel Riddile
July 19, 2015 9:12 AM
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As technology has improved and more educational institutions have embraced online learning, many early criticisms of online learning have been challenged.
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Mel Riddile
July 17, 2015 8:58 PM
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Periscope, Twitter's live video streaming app, is taking the education world by storm. Since its debut in early 2015, teachers and administrators ar
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Mel Riddile
from Educational Technology News
July 13, 2015 8:50 PM
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The CDW-G K-12 Connected Heat Map outlines wired and wireless internet connectivity in a state-by-state display.
Via EDTECH@UTRGV
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Mel Riddile
July 5, 2015 6:40 PM
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This is my new must-have for all classrooms! Finding interesting ways to evaluate, reflect and report on work and projects can be tricky. Many students struggle to engage with the reflection proper...
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Mel Riddile
July 2, 2015 5:47 PM
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What motivates teachers to tweet and blog? And how to go about it successfully? Context: On 1st July 2015, I presented at The Digital Education Show (UK). In my keynote presentation, I share what h...
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Mel Riddile
June 29, 2015 9:04 AM
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The 2014/2015 Best Apps Committee was chaired by its founder Melissa Jacobs and included: Jennifer Helfrich, Joquetta Johnson, Melissa Johnston, Catharine Potter, Kathleen Roberts, Mary Ann Scheuer, John Schumacher, Laura Warren-Gross and me.
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Scoop.it!
Asking kids to power down is really asking them to disconnect from their peers. I suspect I would not have responded favorably to such a request at that age.