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Managing IT for a university, community college or K-12 school system doesn’t have to be difficult or require tons of overtime. Establishing the right IT systems management strategy can help you manage your IT assets more efficiently, helping you do your part to improve productivity and raise your reputation within the organization.

EPS/School Specialty's Literacy and Intervention division, is pleased to announce a new grant program designed to assist school districts in the development and improvement of their Response to Intervention (RTI) programs. Recognizing the power of RTI to ensure that all students are successful, EPS/School Specialty has developed this grant program to support districts in their efforts to narrow the achievement gap.

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Making pop-ups is easy!
These simple lessons should get you started.

MakeToLearn.org provides an online space where teachers and students can come together virtually to explore digital fabrication, discuss it with like-minded colleagues, learn core academic content through lessons and curricular units, and discover new tools to facilitate digital fabrication in the classroom.

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WISEngineering is a free, online environment that guides students through engineering design projects. Students collaborate as they brainstorm ideas, create and test solutions, refine and retest their designs, critique and share their projects. WISEngineering enables students to learn relevant science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) concepts and skills in a just-in-time manner, and provides teachers and students with in-time feedback and assessment results about student learning.

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The flipped classroom model encompasses any use of using Internet technology to leverage the learning in your classroom, so you can spend more time interacting with students instead of lecturing. This is most commonly being done using teacher created videos (aka vodcasting) that students view outside of class time.

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The flipped classroom is where students watch the video lesson and learn the material at home then come to school and have class time to work on problems where the teacher and fellow students are available to answer questions.

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great pdf, downloadable, article.

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FREE - The ISTE Classroom Observation Tool (ICOT) provides you with a convenient platform for recording observations of technology use in classrooms. Check boxes and pull-down menus allow you to easily record a variety of classroom characteristics and automatically aggregate data or export it into other programs. Use ICOT to collect data on classroom groupings, teacher roles, time and types of technology use, and the NETS.

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videos and math but on youtube ;-(

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I don't know about your students, but so many of mine, coupled with Senioritis, were DONE after state testing. (The well had run dry, no blood from a turnip -- all those sayings applied!) With just a few precious weeks left in the school year, what do you do to keep the kids energized and onboard with learning?

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We currently have 5 free apps that will make your life as a teacher easier: Gradebook, Attendance, Grade Rubric, Grade Ticker, and Grade Chart.

You can read more about each app below. If you’re browsing from your Android device, click on any of the direct market links for the apps to start downloading the app.

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Assistive Technology for people with a disability who find operating a computer difficult, maybe even impossible. This web site will direct you to adaptive equipment and alternative methods available for accessing computers

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History:Maps of World" is a fun and educational collection of high-resolution historical maps.
Check it out to keep up with your history, learn something about history.

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LectureTools is a student response system that also allows students to take notes linked with the slides and videos presented in class, answer instructor generated questions and pose questions to the instructor. All notes, questions and activities are instantly synchronized with the LectureTools

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The do's and don'ts of beefing up your wireless network to handle the bring-your-own-device movement.

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