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Schools Power Up Their Bandwidth to Manage BYOD Demands

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Districts use a combination of planning, teamwork and the right technology to revamp the network backbone in support of BYOD and other bandwidth-heavy innovations.

How to Use the Google Newspaper Archive

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A short YouTube video about the basics of using Google Newspaper Archive for classroom use. Search for local and regional content for your students, classes and lessons.

The Hunt for the 'Secret Sauce' of Digital Learning

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Research shows that some schools are successful and other are not when it comes to implementing digital learning initiatives. A study released by the America's Promise Alliance Center for Promise, "Wired to Learn K-12 Students in the Digital Classroom" looks at how schools were successful at implementing digital strategies.

Twisted Wave - A Browser-based Audio Editor

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Through Twisted Wave you can create and edit spoken audio recordings from scratch. Your completed recording tracks can be exported to Google Drive and SoundCloud. You can import and edit existing recordings you have as well.

News App- Circa

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Circa is news condensed. It takes all the news you would read on 10 different news sites and summarizes it in one place. It also updates every story with the latest information, as it happens. A great option about Circa is the ability to "Follow" stories, or receive updates about the news story as they develop.

Timeline Creations: Sutori

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Create and explore with your students today. Sutori is a website that allows users to create timelines in visual ways. Teachers can post content, ask questions and elaborate on answers.

Creating Materials For ELL's and ESL

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The article, "Technologically and linguistically adventurous EFL teacher" written by Sandy Millin shares ideas on how to create material for your students. She offers tips and techniques to building your own resources along with extra tools to experiment with.

Highlights from Google's First Online Education Conference

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Google's first ever online education conference started with the simple question, "How do we prepare the students of today to be the digital leaders of tomorrow?" A series of presenters offered their answers to that very question.

Components of Digital Learning: How Technology Changed the Learning Landscape

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Technology is making it easier to create interactive learning lessons and helping students reach mastery of their learning goals in the classroom. Students are becoming increasingly engaged in the material when they have access to technology and when instructors use tools to help them communicate both during and outside of class.

How To Make Google Flashcards

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An easy visual guide to make your own set of flashcards within Google Drive. Using Google Spreadsheets and Flippity you can have your own set of flashcards.

8 Ways 3D Scanning is Poised to Change Education

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The learning process is about to take on a new dimension. The introduction of new 3D cameras and 3D scanning and printing devices are coming closer to classrooms than ever before.

Five Mistakes to Avoid When Using Technology as a Teaching Tool

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Technology can be a great way to engage students and bring learning alive. If you are planning a lesson which relies on the use of digital technology as a teaching tool there are a few common pitfalls you should take care to avoid.

Classroom Management in the Tech-Equipped Classroom

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Classroom management, whether technology is being used or not, is to ensure that students are actively participating in the learning process, not simply receiving it.

The Teacher's Guide To Twitter

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Twitter has proven to be an indispensable tool to educators. It is definitely fun and worth the time and effort to learn to use. There are endless recourses and sites to utilize and visit for all educators in any type of classroom.

Using Google Sheets to Organize Student Media

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Are you looking for a template or sample of what other teachers are doing to track student media or other projects? Using Google Sheets is a perfect way to record and organize all of the data needed to keep several items on track.

Digital Activities for Gen Y

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Our students' digital behaviour influences our learning, language, rituals, values, routines, customs and communication. The article has several resources to help get your students to reflect effectively on their digital acts. This way you can facilitate and guide your students to make positive choices when they interact online.

My Maps- Create and Edit Maps in Google Drive

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My Maps makes it easy to create simple custom maps with up to three layers on them. With My Maps enabled in Google Apps, students and teachers will be able to create, save and edit maps from their Google Drive dashboards.