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March 31
- Gaggle Long Review: Gaggle is Budding
March 29
- From the Principal's Office: 3 Steps to Leveraging the Power of Technology to Disrupt Your School or District
March 28
- Districts Adopt Windows 8
- Conference Redux
- Symantec Commits One Million to Education
- From the Principal’s Office
- PARCC Releases New Guidelines
- Teachers Embrace Digital RESOURCES To Propel Learning
- Common Core Checklist: What to Know Before You Buy
- Storybook Creation Tools and Apps
- Doc Cam Contest
- Editor’s Note: Apps For All
- Site We Like
- Tech Forum Goes Livestream
- When was the last time you emailed a parent?
- TOP TWEETS
- BLOG BITS
- Top 10 Online Stories
- Working It Out: How today’s districts are preparing students for tomorrow’s jobs
- Back Office Business: Edtech in action
- Assistive Technology 2.0: Special Tech
- PARCC: Is This the Next Big Thing?
- April 2013, What’s New
- Facebook, Edmodo, & Schoology. Oh my! Choosing a social network platform for learning
- Get Organized With Free Apps
March 27
- From the Principal's Office: 5 Guidelines for Rational School Leader Response to Social Media Issues
March 26
- Compass Learning Launches Common Core PD Offering for Educators
- Follett releases Destiny 11.0
March 25
- Video Tutorial: Access 2010 Advanced - Understanding Relationships
- Optoma adds to lamp-free projector line
- itslearning secures new funding for product development
- Class Tech Tips: Revolutionary Resource
- From the Principal's Office: Another Example of How Building A Network Benefits Students
- Casio introduces latest addition to ClassPad Series at NCTM 2013
- HMH selects digital learning platform to provide K-12 core curriculum
- Califone and FundingFactory partner to help schools recycle audio equipment
March 24
- Product Review: Mentor Mob
March 22
- Research Links Student Achievement With On-Demand Professional Learning
- Nationwide campaign to increase digital literacy, internet access launched
- Two new TI-Nspire graphing apps for iPad®
- From the Principal's Office: iOS Kindle App Improvements - 3 New Features for the Power Reader
March 21
- Guide on the Use of Open Educational Resources released
- Dorchester County Public Schools Unveils Solar Array
- Texas District Selects Career Readiness System
- Projectors offer networking capabilities, iPad compatibility
- Wrap-up from CUE 2013: The Power of the Speaker
- Imagine Cup Kodu Challenge launched
- Email/collaboration platform introduced
- Today's Newsletter: Report Card for the States
- Guide on the Use of Open Educational Resources released
- SIIA Announces Education Finalists for 2013 CODiE Awards
- Can social media combat the issue of educator isolation?
- 24 virtual physics lab apps announced
March 20
- Free e-waste awareness curriculum to accompany recycling program
- Lake County Schools Goes Digital District-Wide
- New Tool Aims to Improve Small Group Instruction
- Survey Highlights Need for Solutions as Mobile Devices Take Over the Classroom
- CUE honors ed tech professionals at annual conference
- Online science theme park launched
- Students win app design competition; will work with MIT Media Lab to develop apps
- From the Classroom: Best Tech Practice Video of the Week - Insight 360
- New network architecture available to support wireless applications
- Two new guides on emerging education data initiatives released
- New tool aims to improve small group instruction
- Literacy and intervention readers now available for iPad, Kindle and Nook
- Edgenuity, Northwest Evaluation Association partner to promote English, Math intervention
- CUE honors ed tech professionals at annual conference
- Study links learning gains with classroom technology
- From the Principal's Office: Using Google Forms to Create a Walkthrough-Observation App for the iPad
March 19
- Small District Leverages Online Learning
- HMH Selects Digital Learning Platform
- Virtualization platform upgrades
- From the Principal's Office: Unwrapping the Common Core Standards
- Online library of Common Core resources upgrades features
March 18
- Video Tutorial: Intro to Wordpress 3.3
- From the Principal's Office: If Students Designed Their Own Schools (Video)
- 7 ways to connect with parents via texting
- Free K-5 numeracy app for iPad debuts
- Curriculum Associates partners with Clever to add SIS integration to i-Ready
- Dragon NaturallySpeaking 12 updates
- National Robotics Week 2013 aims to inspire innovation
- Early reading program launched
- ExploraVision Program regional winners announced
March 17
- Interactive Lessons Address Next Generation Science Standards, Provide Instruction, Practice, and Assessment
- FLA Association of Superintendents Launches PD Partnership with ASCD
- Web-based software for higher education expands LMS functionality
- NE FLA Consortium Partners To Meet State Mandates
- Report from CUE 2013: Inspiring Your Staff With Technology
March 15
- New Mathematics Program for Common Core Introduced
- 3.5 MW of Solar Energy Brought to Twelve Arizona Public Schools
- From the Principal's Office: 10 Things School Leaders Do to Kill a Teacher's Enthusiasm for Technology
March 14
- STEM Academy Partners with 3D Printer Stratasys
- Watson Institute Upgrades Remote Access Management and BYOD
- Washington Learning Source Partnership To Provide Lexia Reading To Schools
- NE Florida Educational Consortium Partners To Meet State Mandates
- Designing Education Networks (DEN) Initiative Supports Digital Learning
- Discovery Education Adds Interactive Math Techbook
- Say goodbye to bake sales forever
March 13
- Passaic City Public School Kicks Off One of New Jersey’s Largest 1:1 Computing Deployments
- Technology Tools for Educator Evaluation and PD Announced
- Federal Way Public Schools Selects Education Tablet Solution
- Show Administrators Good Learning, Not Mobile Learning, to Convince them of Mobile Learning
- New app for elementary mathematics education
- Literacy app released for iPad
- Video conferencing platform upgrades
March 12
- PARCC Becomes a Non-Profit
- First National K-12 IT Leadership Survey Results Released
- Interactive projector certified for use with ActivInspire
- From the Principal's Office: Let’s End the Administrator War on Mobile Devices
- Microsoft Office Specialist 2013 certification now available
- PARCC Becomes a Non-Profit
- Expanded line of C7 Chromebooks available for education customers
- K-12 IT leadership survey results released
- Interactive projector certified for use with ActivInspire
- Digital learning solution introduces new sound enhancements
March 11
- Video Tutorial: Introducing VoiceThread
- Sprint and Manage Mobility announce joint offering for K-12 schools
- Blended math program for K–5 learners supports Common Core
- Class Tech Tips: Presidents vs. Aliens
- From the Principal's Office: An Amazing School In The UK
- $1 Million Solve for Tomorrow STEM contest winners announced
- Blended math program for K–5 learners supports Common Core
March 8
- New Tablets to Help Personalize Learning
- 100 Educational iOS Apps
- Vocabulary app for kids released
- New K-8 science program seeks educator input
- New tool to prepare schools for rigorous assessments
- From the Principal's Office: Invisible
March 7
- Solar Power System for 51 Schools to Save Three Million Annually
- New PD In Focus Videos and PD Online Courses Announced
- Reading program now aligned to Common Core
- Entry-level projector line offers 13000:1 contrast ratios
- Sprint and Manage Mobility announce joint offering for K-12 schools
- Free Gmail storage management tool launches
- Math learning apps series launched
- From the Principal's Office: There's An App For That
- In hipster-geek heaven at SXSWedu 2013
- E-Text book app for students and teachers
- New touch screen controller in smart phone-sized design
- Categorize Story Telling Apps by Student Media Use
March 6
- Amplify Education Unveils First-of-Its Kind Tablet for the Classroom
- PBS KIDS PLAY! Adds Streaming Music Service
- From the Classroom: Best Tech Practice Video of the Week - Google Hangouts
- From the Principal's Office: 5 Baby-Steps for Using Twitter to Begin a Personal Learning Network
- Guide to mobile learning for school, district administrators
- ALEKS online math courses now available for iPad and select Android tablets
- Guide to mobile learning for school, district administrators
- Reading program now aligned to Common Core
- Online program helps teachers integrate technology resources
- New cloud networking solutions address challenges of “mobile first” enterprise
- Program Connects More Than 150,000 Low-Income Families to the Internet
- PBS KIDS announces math learning tools for familes
March 5
- 20+ Storybook Creation Tools and Apps
- Promethean and Epson announce partnership
- Class Tech Tips: Tellagami for Story Telling
- Teacher Observation is Collaborative in KY Middle School
- Blackboard Collaborate launches new IMS LTI and Moodle integrations
- From the Principal's Office: Necessary
- PARCC Releases Tool To Prepare Schools for Rigorous Assessments
March 4
- Moving to the Cloud: Myths and Facts
- Study guides for full range of AP exams offered
- Iowa schools and after-school organizations deploy reading software
- Gloucester City Schools Add Customized Online PD Services
- Early literacy, assessment tool upgrades
- Rural Louisiana District Boosts Student Achievement with PD
- San Lorenzo High School Sounds Off With New PA System
- Partnership to bring Smithsonian treasures into library, academic space
- Video Tutorial: Introducing netvibes
- New kit offers fraction calculator, math manipulatives
March 3
- 5 reasons less is more when it comes to STEM
March 1
- Symantec Commits Over $1 Million to STEM, Literacy Education
- Symantec commits over $1 million to STEM, literacy efforts
- HEAL Program Partners With Districts To Provide Education for Homebound Students
- From the Principal's Office: When Interactive Boards and Tablets Aren’t 21st Century Classroom Tools