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Open MS Office Files In Google Chrome With This Official Extension – Chrome Story
Chrome extension for opening Office files directly in the browser.
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Thinking About Chromebooks? Here’s Everything You Need to Know First — THE Journal
Description of a major Chromebook rollout in SC. Includes district-wide adoption of SAMR.
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Assistive Technology: iReadWrite for iPad-Powerful Tools for Writing
Description of a new app to provide assistive technology support.
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iPad is right for PE! | Physedtech
Phenomenal example of iPads in PE class – lots of great before/after examples.
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21 Apps That Teach Kids Real-Life Skills | Common Sense Media
21 Apps That Teach Kids Real-Life Skills from CommonSense Media.
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Excellent blog about computational programing and K-8 students.
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Students are at the Social Media wheel, but who is teaching them?
Reflective piece on the power of teaching social media. Excellent statistics to help prove the point.
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8 Great Twitter Accounts for Students to Follow
One more great tool for teaching students about digital citizenship.
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Mrs. Wideen Explain Everything Project
Great example of combining the physical and the digital. Students took pictures of paper projects and then used Explain Everything to explain their dioramas.
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Chrome extension allows you to instantly shorten URLs and create QR codes.
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Tagboard gives an interesting view of hashtags as boards. Could be really useful for mining tags during conferences or other events.
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Voice Comments is a cool Chrome app to install that allows you to leave voice comments in Google Docs.
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test of voice
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ES Select report on Common Core from John Chubb
This report, written by the current head of NAIS – John Chubb – gives an interesting take on the obstacles to the Common Core.