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Why the Creative Process is Key to Every Student’s Success

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He also points to several examples of real-world implementation of Story Maker at district and classroom levels and its potential to engage students across various subjects, including history and language learning. Congratulations to all of this year’s winners.”

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Using Tech to Support Literacy Across 13.8 Billion Years of History

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Two years ago, I was having lunch with good friends and colleagues Bob Regan from the Big History Project and Alan Louie, my co-founder at TextGenome. The Big History Project (BHP)’s approach relies on building a complete curriculum but inviting customization—“a perpetual first draft.” The Big History Project’s writing rubric.

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CoderZ Recognized by SIIA as Best Coding and Computational Thinking Solution

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“The COVID-19 pandemic reminds us of the importance of innovative Ed Tech products and services and this year’s class takes a special place among the many amazing products recognized across the 35-year history of the CODiE Awards.”. More information about the Awards is available at [link].

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Professors Aren’t Good at Sharing Their Classroom Practices. Teaching Portfolios Might Help.

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At the height of the buzz around MOOCs and flipped classrooms three years ago, Bridget Ford worried that administrators might try to replace her introductory history course with a batch of videos. And professors have other ways to share their classroom tips: Publishing research about their teaching in peer-reviewed scholarly journals.

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Dozens of Online Resources for Assessment

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Here are some you can look into–and all online: Easy CBM Educreations –video a whiteboard explanation of how students are completing a task (app) Edulastic –formative assessments; work on any devices (app) Flip — record a video question from your desktop; add attachments; students respond from the app with their answer Flubaroo (app) (..)

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Gale and Utah State Library Partner to Provide Residents Free Access to New Digital Resources

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Gale OneFile collections : Over 16,000 full-text periodicals and popular magazines, plus, peer-reviewed journals to support research and student inquiry. Gale eBooks : Digital encyclopedias and reference resources on a range of subjects from art, business, history, literature, medicine, multicultural studies and science.

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How Can Online Instructors Get Students to Talk to Each Other?

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Then, I designated two peer reviewers for each submitted reading assignment and asked that reviewers respond to the takeaways and ways the learning could be applied, and to provide an answer to the question that was posed by each of the two people they were connected with via the peer review feature.