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Emergency Broadband Benefit
The FCC will soon offer up to $50 a month toward broadband expenses for households that qualify. This will include the families with children that qualify for reduced income meals. Households whose children get free or low-cost school meals will … Continue reading
Tracking COVID cases in schools and reopenings
As COVID is now hopefully being slowed down, schools are gradually reopening. Decisions on this matter differ by locations and parents and teachers are making personal decisions from place to place. Here are a couple of sources that may be … Continue reading
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Newsela a unicorn
I happened across this article in TechCrunch describing the recent financial success of Newsela in securing funding bringing the value of the company to one billion dollars. A billion dollar company is tagged as a unicorn and there are not … Continue reading
Learning with Google 2021
Google recently offered a lengthy session explaining updates in the company’s offerings for education. The event, Learning with Google 2021, was live, but is now available through YouTube. The hour and a half presentation was divided into segments – Google … Continue reading
Doodlebuddy Avatar
I owe Craig Badura for this idea. He suggests that Doodle Buddy can be used to create avatars that resemble students, but still provide some identity protection. Doodlebuddy is an app that allows the creation of simple drawings. I used … Continue reading
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Fediverse
The concept of a fediverse or interconnected servers is that multiple independent servers offering the same service exist and are linked. So instead of an approach such as that of Facebook or Twitter in which the same content may come … Continue reading