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Insights is designed to help you engage your students, improve grades, and save valuable time. You can use Insights for a variety of purposes including: Formative Assessments: create tests, quizzes, and lesson reviews; Digital Homework: assign a lesson, track …

Evernote is an incredibly useful service for storing notes and clipped items from the web, thanks to its powerful search function and helpful tag system that puts all your saved data at your fingertips. But did you know you …

With great photos becoming a lot more valuable and attainable in this day and age, where do you turn when it comes to keeping them safe and sharing them most efficiently?

http://appadvice.com/appnn/2015/06/how-to-find-the-best-way-to-manage-all-your-photos…

There are a plethora of nonprofits out there dedicated to making technology more affordable, accessible, and secure. Let’s take a look at 10 of them.

http://www.techrepublic.com/article/10-awesome-technology-nonprofits-you-should-know-about/…

Before you can really dig into most of these tools, you’ll need at least a foundation in programming. Not all of these tools even require coding skills, so you might be able to jump right in.

http://lifehacker.com/the-best-free-tools-for-making-your-own-video-games-1689905461…

By integrating video conferencing technology with external smart devices, ProctorExam creates a 360° secure examination environment anywhere.

http://www.startupbootcamp.org/blog/2015/june/forget-disrupting-education-this-startup-wants-to-disrupt-exams.html…

For learners who don’t want to invest in a full residential college ride, or who want to avoid the massive amounts of debt associated with university studies, a program called MITx could be a viable alternative.

http://thefreethoughtproject.com/download-full-courses-worlds-prestigious-universities-free/…

In this brief essay, I’ll take snapshots of nine realities, possibilities, and concerns, all driven by our tech-accelerated move from an Industrial Age into a Global Knowledge/Information Age, even an Age of Knowledge Creation and Breakthrough Thinking.

http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/authors_corner_education_week_press/2015/06/five_ground_rules_to_keep_up_with_technology_in_education.html…

Book Creator for Windows takes a blank-canvas approach to creativity that makes publishing and sharing ebooks easier than ever. With a simple and intuitive design, people of all ages can create their own international standard ePub files, and with …

Extensions are created to add more functionality to the browser, which ultimately people can use it to their benefits. Let’s check out some popular Chrome extensions that teachers are using to make teaching less boring and more fun.

http://blog.nsays.in/2014/11/11-chrome-extensions-every-smart-teacher-loves-use/…

Personalization caricaturizes us and creates a striking gap between our real interests and their digital reflection.

http://techcrunch.com/2015/06/25/the-future-of-algorithmic-personalization/…

Virginia Commonwealth University, like lots of U.S. colleges, has worked to keep its freshmen around for sophomore year. Now the school is turning to big data to help it identify students who are most at risk of falling through …