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Educreations: Adding Value to the Classroom

Double your capacity as a teacher. Let students learn from your own video as you navigate through the room acting as the facilitator to your own instruction, keeping students on task and providing live support where needed.

one month ago by Adam Renfro

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The Viral Mentor

What drives people to create how-to, instructional, and DIY videos? Are they so passionate about their niche, their expertise, that they just have this desire to tutor others? That definitely sounds like the mentor archetype. There’s a little bit of Sal Khan in all of them and all of us.

2 months ago by Adam Renfro

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What Role Does Social Media Have in Education?

Recently, Compass Learning interviewed about 30 educators, including teachers, principals, superintendents, directors of curriculum and learning, and consultants, at the Texas Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development conference held in Dallas. We wanted to know what role—if any—social media (Facebook,...

3 months ago by Compass Learning Staff

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YouTube for Schools Shows Increased Trend in Videos for Learning

YouTube, the online video network that gained fast popularity by giving people a place to create and publish videos, announced this week that it launched a YouTube exclusive to schools in an effort to bring student-appropriate content to the classroom - a challenge the company has faced for years.

one year ago by Getting Smart Staff

How to Teach Online With Screensharing and Screencasts

Sharing ideas visually is no new concept. A hundred years ago, teachers used chalkboards. Then, with the invention of the smelly, dry erase marker, we upgraded our boardrooms and classrooms with shiny whiteboards. Then along came old fashion projectors, and we wrote on clear plastic, shining the ideas up on a pull-down...

one year ago by Mike Shumake

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Foundation for Excellence in Education

The Foundation for Excellence in Education is igniting a movement of reform, state by state, to transform education for the 21st century economy. Excellence in Action, the organization’s flagship initiative, is working with lawmakers and policymakers to advance education reform across America. Learn more at www.Exce...

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YouTube Launches New Channel for Teachers

YouTube announced today the launch of its new channel for teachers that allows educators across the globe to access lesson plans, educational content, training videos and more to better integrate YouTube as a powerful educational tool in the classroom.

one year ago by Getting Smart Staff

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Amazing Facts

Here's a handful of amazing facts about the brave new media world

2 years ago by Tom Vander Ark