Big Deal Media K-12 Technology Newsletter

February 01, 2017

 

NetSupport -  02-01-17 - email

Tools for Managing Students in the Classroom and Across the School

NetSupport School, an award-winning multiplatform Classroom Management solution, provides dedicated assessment, monitoring, and collaboration features that can now be combined with education-focused IT Asset Management. NetSupport DNA includes a toolbox of features to effortlessly monitor, manage, and report on all IT assets and endpoints across a school or district, saving time while reducing costs. A unique eSafety module protects students through webcam blocking, keyword monitoring, concern reporting, and more.

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Peace First Challenge

Funding & Recognition

Challenge to Make a Difference

Peace First is launching the Peace First Challenge, a call to action for teams of young people across America to create powerful solutions for issues in their schools and local communities.

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Social Media Global Chat

Social Media

Global Awareness Activities

#GlobalSpeedChat is a worldwide collaboration platform on which students respond to activity prompts, such as “If the world had a flag of its own, what would it look like?”

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Inspire Your Students  and Yourself

Professional Growth

Instructional Design Careers on the Rise

The Educational Technology programs delivered through Penn State World Campus are designed to help you successfully incorporate the use of the Internet and technology into your professional setting. If you work in an educational institution, you can expand your skills in instructional design and learn to evaluate the impact of technology on learning. The courses are designed and taught by the same faculty who teach in residence. Penn State’s College of Education has consistently ranked in the top 10 in the country, according to U.S. News & World Report. Penn State World Campus makes learning online flexible, offers a career-focused curriculum—and, after graduation, you can become part of the largest alumni association in the world.

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Videos Physical Activity gonoodle.com

Digital Learning • Learning Support

Video “Brain Break” Activities

GoNoodle turns movement into a game and makes it easy to be active, the youth way—energetic, playful, and fun.

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Augmented Reality History nytimes.com

Mobile Learning

Augmented Reality Statues

A collaboration between IBM and The New York Times, the T Brand Studio AR app for iOS and Android uses augmented reality (AR) to immerse users in history.

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Coaching Mentoring

Professional Growth

Antiviolence Program

Coaching Boys into Men (CBIM) is an evidence-based violence prevention program, sponsored by Futures Without Violence.

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Robotics Programming Coding

STEM • STEAM • STREAM

Robot Simulator

RobotBASIC is a multifeatured, general purpose, versatile programming language with an integrated robot simulator.

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Music Education jamzone.littlekidsrock.org

Funding & Recognition

Music Program for Underserved Communities

Little Kids Rock partners with public school districts in some of the nation’s most economically disadvantaged communities with the goal of ensuring that all K–12 students have access to music education and its many benefits.

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Diplomacy Global Literacy

Digital Learning • Learning Support

Global Literacy Materials

Through its CFR Campus, The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) helps to prepare citizens to take advantage of opportunities and contend with challenges in a world that is more interconnected than ever.

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3D Video Creator plotagon.com

Mobile Learning

3D Animated Video Creator

Designed by Plotagon, the Plotagon Education app for iOS makes creating 3D animated videos as easy as writing.

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Interactive Video Lessons playposit.com

Digital Learning • Learning Support

Interactive Video Lessons

Backed by AT&T and Stanford University’s startX, PlayPosit is an online learning environment for creating and sharing interactive video lessons.

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Grants for Technology

Funding & Recognition

Grants for Classroom Technology

DirectStarTV provides grants for K–12 teachers to deploy technology in the classroom.

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Kindness Bullying thegreatkindnesschallenge.com

Digital Learning • Learning Support

Bullying Prevention Initiative

The Great Kindness Challenge is a positive and proactive bullying prevention initiative for preK–12 schools.

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STEM Activities Lessons sciencefriday.com

STEM • STEAM • STREAM

Entertaining and Educational STEM Stories

Covering the outer reaches of space to the tiniest microbes in the human body, NPR’s Science Friday podcast is a source for entertaining and educational stories about science, technology, and other cool topics.

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TED Ed Clubs ed.ted.com

Social Media

Global TED-Style Talks

The TED-Ed Clubs program supports students in discovering, exploring, and presenting their big ideas in the form of short, TED-style talks.

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STEAM Learning Lego firstinspires.org

STEM • STEAM • STREAM

STEAM Enrichment Opportunities

Nonprofit NTC Research Foundation is joining forces with FIRST LEGO League Jr. and The National Theatre for Children to launch a first-of-its-kind national program that provides proven STEAM learning experiences for elementary school students.

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Journalism Education wnyc.org

Digital Learning • Learning Support

Media Production Lessons

Produced by WNYC Studios since 2014, Radio Rookies has been developing a series of free lesson plans for educators who are interested in using audio production as a teaching tool.

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