Study National Parks with digital tools
Student-created virtual park tours With access to online and tablet-based tools for digital curation and content creation, students can research
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Read moreMeasuring how students approach goal-setting in the 5th and 6th grades Educators at Wallingford Elementary School and Shrewsbury Mountain
Read moreThe impact of PD in a 1:1 teaching environment A trio of middle grades educators from Mill River Union High
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This week on the podcast: Rachel Mark traveled to The Dorset School, in Southern Vermont, to talk with educator Mandy
Read moreHow to make YouTube appropriate for the classroom YouTube can provide students and educators with hundreds of powerful educational videos
Read moreA middle school case study Katie Bryant, an English teacher at Lamoille Union Middle School, presents the results of her
Read moreAsynchronous, flexible & friendly professional development You’ve read the recaps, seen the hashtag fly by and maybe even dipped a toe
Read moreA step-by-step tutorial We helped one of our partner schools, Wallingford Elementary in Wallingford, Vermont, get set up with screencasting
Read moreHow are educators and students tackling PLPs around the state? Vermont’s Act 77, the Flexible Pathways Act, mandates that every
Read moreA step-by-step guide to publishing your first episode Podcasts have been around for awhile now but can be a little
Read more#vted twitter chat, 11/19/15 Two dozen Vermont educators sat down for an hour of their evening to toss around what
Read morePart 1: Finding and editing great videos with your students Flipping your classroom? Found a great video about 18th century French military history
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Who are Generation Z? The term Generation Z refers to teens and pre-teens born after 1995 and was officially launched
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How school change began with just one person, and just one podcast We talk with Richmond Elementary School principal Mike
Read moreHow does edtech affect extra credit? Is extra credit still a valid notion as we move towards ubiquitous learning, and grapple
Read moreWhy voice recordings work for young adolescents As students use technology to explore and capture projects that show both their emerging proficiency
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What does “quality” mean in assessing statewide digital efforts? The Foundation for Excellence in Education recently released its 2014 Digital
Read moreEminent education researcher speaks at UVM Visiting New Zealand researcher Emily Nelson PhD spoke this past week to Vermont educators
Read moreTimeline tools for transformative learning Timeline tools can serve two important purposes: concrete help with project planning (for PLPs, 1:1
Read moreQR codes unlock learning anywhere These simple workhorses of technology — ink and blank spaces on a screen or page — can
Read moreWho decides the acceptable ways to use devices in your school? You’ve jumped through the hoops, filled out the paperwork,
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How to use Minecraft with students Minecraft is an example of welcoming in student-driven modes of learning, exploration and demonstration
Read morePhysical management of tech aka OMG Where Did All These Cords Come From The act of simply registering, storing, charging,
Read more4 edtech tools for family communication How can technology help make communicating with your students’ families easier? These 4 edtech tools
Read moreHelp students prototype mobile apps with these development tools Mobile app development with students can be tricky, because in a lot of
Read moreMama, don’t let your babies grow up to be sea monsters It’s summer and along with a lighter posting schedule
Read moreReflections from Vermont educators embarking on the 1:1 process As the 2015 Middle Grades Institute draws to a close, we
Read moreExperiment with flexibility: tech + assessment At Edmunds Middle School, in Burlington Vermont, Sarah Wright is rethinking assessment to create a
Read moreSetting goals for summer learning and beyond It’s Day 3 of the 2015 Middle Grades Institute, a gathering of more
Read moreEmbed yourself in your video lesson MoveNote lets you create screencasts where you appear alongside the material, making how to screencast
Read moreStudents partner with local scientists in collecting, analyzing & disseminating water data A group of 7th and 8th grade students took
Read moreBe strategic with your time Social media gives you a number of different ways to meet great innovative educators, willing
Read morePutting a human face on science storytelling Lava flows down the halls of Main Street Middle School, in Montpelier, Vermont,
Read moreNOTE: Whoo, five years is a whole *eon*, in tech time, people. So, the original updated version of this post,
Read moreSo many schools in Vermont are engaged in innovative, student-centered, tech-rich education work.We’re proud to partner with The Cabot School
Read moreEducators from around Vermont share a year’s worth of progress Dynamic Landscapes 2015 is right around the corner, and we’re
Read more4th grade researchers share Capstone Projects with community This past Wednesday, 4th grade scholars at Richmond Elementary School, in Richmond, Vermont,
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edmodo vs Schoology, digital badges and how to leave a great comment 5th grade Peoples Academy Middle Level teacher Hannah Lindsey
Read moreThinglink, augmented reality and gaming Alert reader Lucia Hoegeveen asked a question about our suggestion that you create a map of a
Read moreTips and tricks from around the edtech world Successful and powerful integration of iPads in the classroom depends in no
Read moreStudy the Earth’s ecology with deep-digging tech tools Earth Day is April 22, and if you’re looking for some ideas
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Student teaching STEM Academy arduino strand Meet Ian. Ian’s a senior at Essex High School, and he’s not just enrolled
Read more#digitalcitizenship Moderated by Franklin West Supervisory Union superintendent Ned Kirsch (@betavt), the #vted twitter chat takes place every other Wednesday from
Read moreMaking the most of an original generation iPad Yes, you read that right: you can definitely still use an iPad1 in your
Read moreNow with more school board selfies #vted twitter chat takes place every other Wednesday from 8-9pm EST, and is moderated
Read moreHelp your students’ PSAs find their public Student-made PSAs are a great way for students to engage in project-based learning
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New podcast episode: Essex STEM Academy In this episode, we talk with math educator and STEM Academy leader Lea Ann
Read moreFlexible learning environments have a physical component — and effect Do you recognize the object at left? Does it look like a
Read moreCreate compelling audio in iOS Which free iPad audio app will work best for your classroom? That depends on three
Read moreNarrating WW Isaac Robbins’ letters home Ken Burns’ epic nine-part documentary on The U.S. Civil War ranks among the most
Read moreFind new uses for data visualization Free, online timeline tools allow students to break free of the traditional two-dimensional timeline
Read moreSend your students around the world to tell their stories These 6th graders found a way to do some digital
Read moreTie video game authorship to language learning Last time we looked at how hidden object games can support language learning,
Read moreLet language-based video games engage students ELL students and others who struggle with reading issues feature an uphill battle for
Read moreIn 30 minutes with things you find around a hardware store. And a fabric store. You’re gonna have to do a
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Making math and music at The Edge We were lucky enough to get to sit down with three groups of
Read moreConstance is here to help Welcome to the debut of a new feature we like to call “Ask an iPad”.
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The play’s the (learning) thing Also the musical film and the series of novels. Stay with us on this. In
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Essex 7th graders partnering with UVM on food sustainability project Just before the holiday break, we got the chance to
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The journey from learner to educator In this episode of the podcast, I talk with local digital artist and educator Rachel
Read moreStudents report enjoyment and challenges learning programming A huge congratulations to everyone — students, teachers and families — who participated
Read moreHow do you level the digital playing field?How do you even start taking on a task like that? Equity has always
Read moreAddressing student mastery and learning targets in an LMS Kristi McKnight, a 9th grade teacher at Harwood Union High School in
Read moreGetting the most out of Apple’s new OS in the classroom The new Yosemite OS from Apple is out now and
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