With the right communication tools and best practices, we can still serve all of our students.
Promethean has become a Google Education Partner. Its ClassFlow software now integrates with Google Classroom for rostering, Google Drive and Google Single sign-on.
Zoom Video Communications announced a new dedicated device for home videoconferencing. But at least one analyst suspects the price may keep buyers at by. In mid-July Zoom announced it would be taking pre-orders for Zoom for Home, a dedicated appliance for allowing employees to meet and collaborate online. Currently, the device is available for pre-order.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 07/28/20
How much virtual schooling happened during the early months of the pandemic? Less than what the laws in at least half of states say students should be getting.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 07/23/20
Google has gone public with some of its plans for updates to Meet, the web conferencing tool that's part of the company's G Suite for Education. The basic thrust is to give teachers more control over their real-time sessions and help them make the classes more engaging.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 07/20/20
A grant from Qualcomm Technologies, a San Diego-area company, will enable the San Diego Unified School District to deploy 900 new personal computers to students. What's unique is that the units have built-in cellular connectivity. The company has also committed to a one-time $141,000 donation to cover the cellular connectivity costs for the devices.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 07/08/20
Nearly the entire American education system had to move online with "little to no preparation." Nobody was fully prepared, not the educators, the parents or the students. That was the description given to what happened when schools closed their doors and turned on their Zoom accounts, according to Future of School, a "public charity" focused on giving students access to quality education.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 07/08/20
A project in North Carolina offers lessons worth learning for your efforts to help students get the technology they need for internet access.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 07/08/20
Nearly half of Advanced Placement teachers believe schools should be implementing a hybrid approach.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 07/08/20
During the pandemic, an education technology company found that YouTube dominated student traffic on school-managed devices — accounting for more time online than all of the other top-10 most-used domains combined.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 06/15/20