THE Journal: School Ditching Textbooks for Open Educational Resources

AV, Interactive & Collaborative Technologies for K-12 Education

5/22/2013

Spotlight

School Ditches Textbooks for Open Educational Resources
The Amarillo Area Center for Advanced Learning in Texas is replacing textbooks with digital open educational resources (OER) for its math and science classes using iPads.
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Norris & Soloway: Being Mobile

Hats off To Kyle! Education Needs More Like Him
Kyle Menchhofer kicked mobile learning off in rural, blue-collar, St. Marys, OH in 2007. But, in May, 2013, St. Marys voted down the school bond, and the visionary, pioneering program that Kyle created ended. Well, a chapter ended. Check out what Kyle did in 2007 to bring mobile learning to 160 students.
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Ed Tech News

Google To Launch Curated Android App Store for Education This Fall
Google is taking a new approach to distributing mobile apps in schools. This fall, it will launch Google Play for Education, an Android app store for K-12 schools that will allow teachers to manage apps on their students tablets.
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Moodle 2.5 Adds Open Badges Support, Bootstrap Theme
Moodle HQ has released Moodle 2.5, a major update to the widely distributed open source learning management system.
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Adobe Connect Mobile 2.1 Expands Virtual Classroom Support
Adobe has released Connect Mobile 2.1, an update to the conferencing and collaboration tool for iOS and Android.
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North Carolina School District to Receive Sylvia Charp Award at ISTE 2013
T.H.E. Journal will present the 2013 Sylvia Charp Award for District Innovation in Technology to Rowan-Salisbury School System at next month's ISTE 2013 conference in San Antonio.
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Report: 85 Percent of Educational Institutions Allow BYOD, Yet Security Lags Behind
Eighty-five percent of educational institutions allow instructors or students to use their own devices on institutional networks according to a new survey from Bradford Networks.
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PBS LearningMedia Adds Free Learning Resources
PBS LearningMedia has launched new free resources designed to help preK-12 teachers address curriculum gaps.
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Santa Clara U To Train 100 Educators in Blended Learning
More than 100 teachers from Catholic schools run by the Diocese of San Jose will participate in a year of professional development to earn a certificate in blended learning in an effort to improve educational outcomes for students.
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Ruggedized Toughbook Tablets Get Faster Chips, Increased Storage
Panasonic has upgraded its line of ruggedized tablet PCs, the Toughbook H2. The new model gets improved CPU performance and beefed-up storage specs.
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Skyward Adding Course Learning Center to Student Management Suite
Skyward is releasing a new module that will offer teachers a single online hub for classroom activity management and communication.
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NewspaperDirect Adds Free Mobile Service
Libraries that utilize the Library PressDisplay newspaper and magazine Web portal and its companion PressReader application will now be able to offer the mobile service free of charge to their patrons.
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