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The Best APIs in Education

August 22, 2012

GUEST COLUMN | by Adam Gordon The folks behind Noodle are particularly excited by available open educational resources and we’d …

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Cool Tool | GuideK12 Geovisual Analytics for Education

August 21, 2012

Data-driven decisions are important. For many school districts, there’s an overwhelming amount of disparate data in a variety of systems. …

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Cool Tool | Something to Help With School Enrollment

August 16, 2012

Schools that compete for students know that not all student inquiries are created equal. Inquiry quality is determined by a …

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Infographic: A Teacher's Guide to Social Media

July 27, 2012

From: OnlineColleges.net

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Cool Tool | Answer Underground Academic Q&A App

June 01, 2012

Longtime education entrepreneur Sallie Severns has a very cool tool for college students. Her app, Answer Underground, helps students learn …

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Cool Tool | Kidzmet Like a Web-based Guidance Counselor

May 25, 2012

Like a web-based guidance counselor, this cool tool helps K-6 classroom teachers leverage the power of learning preferences with their …

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Cool Tool | Mentor Mob is a VIP version of the Internet

May 24, 2012

More and more people consume information and learn online. Problem is, a Google search returns millions of disorganized results leaving …

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Cool Tool | Bookboon Makes e-Textbooks Free

May 15, 2012

An e-book publisher offering free e-books? Really. With e-textbooks from Bookboon, a few ads appear in the books matching your …

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Cool Tool | Present.me is YouTube Meets Slideshare

May 03, 2012

Present.me is your slides, and a video of you presenting them, side by side, on the screen at the same time. …

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Cool Tool | Pocket Literacy Coach

April 24, 2012

Scan these over: Fewer than 33 percent of America’s parents read to their nine-month-old children. Fewer than 39 percent read to …

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Cool Tool | The Lure of a Challenge

April 17, 2012

Now this is cool: FableVision Studios and MIT’s Education Arcade have issued a challenge to middle grade students and teachers: Between now and …

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EdTech Digest Awards 2012: Standing Room Only – WINNERS

March 27, 2012

Sure, it’s only spring, but it’s already hot, hot, hot! The edtech space is sizzling with activity and the sharply …

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Cool Tool | Mediasite by Sonic Foundry

March 13, 2012

Can’t make it to class today? Well, if your school uses the webcasting platform Mediasite by Sonic Foundry, you’re in …

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Cool Tool | Insight 360

February 27, 2012

Here’s a first-of-kind formative instruction system from eInstruction designed to simplify and help formative instruction using interactive teaching. Teachers get …

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Cool Tool | icurio from Knovation

February 24, 2012

icurio is a digital curriculum content solution that is uniquely designed for personalized teaching and self-directed student learning. From the makers …

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Cool Tool | Adobe EchoSign’s E-Signature Solution

February 24, 2012

For school administrators, paper contracts have always been frustrating, as they are both time-consuming and expensive. Adobe EchoSign’s electronic signature solution …

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Still Time to Enter

February 14, 2012

Show the love to innovators, leaders and trendsetters today! The deadline is upon us, but you’ve still got time to …

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Cool Tool | Snap! by Lectora

February 09, 2012

Here’s an interesting tool for use in converting PowerPoint to Flash. Just six months after its introduction, Snap! by Lectora rapid …

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Cool Tool | MySchoolNotebook.com

February 02, 2012

Jakub Roz, an 18-year old student at the High School of Computing Technology in Prague, Czech Republic, found taking notes …

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Cool Tool | Digital Textbook Playbook

February 01, 2012

A guide for K-12 educators and administrators to begin building rich digital learning experiences for students in districts across the …

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Cool Tool | Currix Digital Library for Teachers

January 30, 2012

Ann-Caryn Cleveland is a professor, a documentary filmmaker and a mom. She says that the idea for Currix came like …

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Cool Tool | Top Hat Monocle

January 27, 2012

With Apple entering the ‘digital academic learning’ arena, education technology has found a global and mainstream audience overnight. As many …

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Cool Tool | ScholarChip School Management App

January 26, 2012

Tablets and smartphones: why should students have all the fun? Administrators can now download school management apps as part of ScholarChip’s …

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Cool Tool | Apple Reinvents the Textbook

January 19, 2012

Students can access over 20,000 education apps on their iPads. There are now more than 1.5 million iPads in use …

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Cool Tool | EasyBib for Students and Teachers

January 17, 2012

Among the largest and most popular online bibliographic composition tools (it was used by over 33 million students last year), …

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Cool Tool | Beyond Flashcards: Ko's Journey

December 21, 2011

We know that students love video games. And we know that video games are an excellent educational tool—an engaging opportunity …

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Happy Holidays!

December 15, 2011

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Cool Tool | EdTech Map

December 13, 2011

From NewSchools Venture Fund comes this interactive K-12 education technology market map. Targeted at the entrepreneurial, philanthropic, and education communities, …