Worth Ave Group - affordable insurance for electronic devices

Worth Ave. Group is a company that provides affordable insurance to help individuals, students and schools protect their portable electronics. With the rising number of tablets, e-readers, and laptops in schools, protecting your investment is very important. They work with schools already, including many that have one-to-one laptop programs, to protect these devices and have over 40 years of experience. Visit their site to learn more about protecting...

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Google in Education - one stop shopping for Google Education resources

Google launched Google in Education at the start of 2012 as a one-stop-shopping location for all things Google Education related. It's recently been updated with even more resources.Google in Education has all of Google's great resources for education organized by Teacher, Student, and Organizations. The teacher page has Classroom Tools, Professional Development, and Student resources.The Classroom Tools include Google Apps in Education, educator...

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Little Shop of Physics - great program and resources for education

Little Shop of Physics is a great resource on Physics. It's an outreach program from Colorado State University that won a Google RISE Award. The program teams is a group of science educators and science students based at Colorado State University that help students do science in creative ways.The site has some great links, experiment and activity ideas and more, including some webinars.It's great for any science teacher to get some great, creative...

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Google RISE Awards - awards to organizations working with K-12+ students in STEM

  Google RISE AwardsThe Google RISE (Roots in Science and Engineering) Awards 2012 are here. The Google RISE awards promote and support STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) and CS (Computer Science) education initiatives by awarding grants to organizations working with K-12 and Higher Ed students to provide enrichment programs in STEM and CS.Awards range from $10,000 - $25,000 in the US and Canada and 500-10,000 EUR in Europe,...

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NBC Learn - free educational resources from NBC

NBC Learn is a site from NBC News that contains news stories, images, primary source documents, and lesson materials for teachers, students and parents.There are current events, the science of, and much more.Some of the resources are fee-based, some are free. The current events are free and there is a page of Free Resources that includes the Science of Football and Hockey, Chemistry, Changing Planet, Science of Olympics and a section on the...

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WeTxt - free group text messaging

WeTxt is a free, group text messaging service that allows you to send free group text messages from your phone or from the web. It also includes free reply-to-all messages, 2-way text messaging between cell, email, and the web, a mobile calendar with text reminders and text message only games.This could be very useful for teachers and schools to send messages to students and parents and improve communication, especially for people without smartphones.Related:ClassPager...

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Viscosity Explorer - simple virtual lab on viscosity

Viscosity Explorer is a simple site that allows you to explore the concept of viscosity. It consists of two containers and two steel balls. You select the liquid you want in the container, then drop the ball and observe what happens. You can also change the temperature of the liquid. Students can easily compare the viscosity of two different substances side by side.It's a great site for science classes, and much faster, cheaper, and less messy than...

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Advice to New College Graduates about to enter the Teaching profession

Welcome to the hardest job you'll ever love!As I think about the fact that most colleges will be holding graduation in the next few weeks, I thought about all those new graduates that will be joining the education profession next year and thought I'd share some advice and resources for them. I'll be speaking to some from a few different area programs and I hope you will share these with new graduates that you know. I also figured this would be a...

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Tinkercad - web based, free CAD app

Tinkercad is a free, web based, CAD app that runs in your browser (need webGL enabled). It's easy to use and has some great features. Many CAD systems that engineers use are very complicated with thousands of features (I've used CATIA, ProEngineer, AutoCad, Cadkey) that students won't need.Tinkercad allows you to create 3D models of pretty much anything, and even export them to 3D printers. The site has a getting started page that walks you through...

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Most Read Posts on Ed Tech Guy for Past Week

Spring is really here, again, in Connecticut. It got rainy and cold earlier this week, but this weekend is a beauty. We are off to a friend's wedding today, so it should be a fun, happy day. Enjoy your weekend.Here are the most read posts from the past week: And don't forget to check the posts on Friday's.They don't always have time to become the most read, but there are usually some good ones there.(Here's a couple of good ones from yesterday: End...

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Learning Resources announces the sponsorship of a teacher grant hosted by WeAreTeachers

  Learning Resources announces the sponsorship of a teacher grant hosted by WeAreTeachers. To apply, teachers must answer this question: “How would you use portable interactive technology to create collaborative lessons?” After the application process concludes, educators can invite colleagues to vote for their favorite lesson ideas. Each of the three top vote getters will win a set of three now!Boards and three GeoSafari Tuff Cams, a prize...

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Winners announced in "Who is Best Teacher in America" Contest

Worth Ave. Group is a company that provides affordable insurance to help individuals, students and schools protect their portable electronics.They hosted a contest for teachers to win money and prizes and the winners have been announced. Check below to see who won.Related:Technology in Education Grant Giveaway - win some great tech and mo...

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Zoho Planner - plan, organize, share, and get things done

Zoho Planner is part of Zoho's suite of productivity tools (read more about them here). With Zoho Planner you can create to-do lists, notes, upload images and files add email reminders and access your data anywhere. You can create To Dos, Appointments (calendar), and Reminders and set reminders for each one (will email you).You can create a page where you can create your to dos, appointments, notes, and files and make the page available to others....

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STEM Connector - one stop shop for STEM resources and information

STEM Connector is a website that has a huge amount of resources, information, links and news about STEM in education. There are STEM organizations (national, state, local) listed by subject, area, groups, programs, and much more.It's a great site to go to for STEM resources, news, ideas and more. You can search the different STEM organizations to find more resources, student projects, and more. There is also STEM daily news and a blog with more information...

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Tested by Jamie and Adam - science, technology, engineering, nature news and topics

Jamie and Adam TESTED is a site from Mythbusters Jaime and Adam. The site explores new breakthroughs and topics in science and engineering, exploration, nature, emerging technologies and new products. They explore these topics in depth, including the hows and whys about them.There are articles, links, videos and much more about all these topics. It's a great resource for STEM classes to get topic ideas, research, news, and to learn some cool things....

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BlueHarvest - assessment, feedback, portfolio tool

BlueHarvest is a new resource that allows teachers to assess students and provide feedback to them. You can record formative assessments, make written, video and audio comments, upload files and artifacts for portfolios,  text and email feedback, and collect and analyze data on student proficiency.It also provides a dialogue between teachers, students and parents, allowing them to communicate and discuss assessments and understanding, as well...

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End of the School Year Approaches - lesson ideas and reflections

We are quickly approaching the end of the school year. Advanced Placement Exams start in two weeks, effectively the end of AP classes (although I do a lot of projects with my AP students after their exam) and senior finals start the end of May. The student's last day of school is June 19th, but exams are finished on the 15th. Teachers finish on June 19th. I teach 95% seniors, so I have to finish up everything by May 29th when Senior finals begin. As...

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Google Sells SketchUp 3D modeling software - promises free educational version to continue

Google has just announced that is has sold SketchUp, it's popular 3D modeling software, to Trimble, a mapping, surveying and navigation equipment company. Google had purchased SketchUp in 2006. Many schools use SketchUp in their classes, having students design everything from floor plans, to buildings to project drawings and more.Google is moving towards a "leaner, more focused company" and has been shutting down some services and moving functions...

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Sensory engagement in the teaching environment - guest post

Promethean World Sensory engagement in the teaching environment Post contributed by Charlotte Watson for Promethean World.  Charlotte is a regular contributor to numerous educational sites. She specializes in student response systems as well as interactive whiteboard technologies. Learning difficulties run in the family, so when my sisters and I were just children my mum made sure we were tested by the Dyslexia Institute. The tests quickly showed that my two sisters had severe dyslexia (a learning difficulty that creates difficulty with reading...

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Space Shuttle - free detailed panoramic images of Discovery available from NatGeo

The NASA Space Shuttle is retired and the fleet is being sent to museums for display. National Geographic is releasing some very cool, detailed, panoramic images of Discovery.  You can see a few of them below. These are a great way to explore the space shuttles and learn more about them.To provide an unprecedented look at Discovery and the other retired space shuttles, both inside and out, photographers with National Geographic recently...

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