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Back to School: New Tech for the Classroom of the Future

Byte Technology

—it makes sense that, finally, designers would begin to look past the frivolous and fun aspects of their gear and towards truly worthwhile applications. Imagine this scenario: instead of staring at a wall map of foreign lands, students can don some hi-tech headgear and be transported to those places in a 360-degree virtual world of images.

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New on SSIR: A New Tool for Digital Storytelling

Amy Sample Ward

I recently attended the US launch event for Historypin is a new (and free) application for Android, iPhone, or the web that arranges photos, videos, and text in the context of time and location (leveraging the Google Maps API). People can follow along via the mobile application or the website.

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Creating an Omnichannel Marketing Experience with Teach For America and Salesforce Interaction Studio

Cloud 4 Good

From classrooms to districts to state houses across America, they are reimagining education to realize the day when every child has an equal opportunity to learn, lead, thrive, and co-create a future filled with possibility. all in an effort to encourage them toward the end goal: completing their application.

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7 Ideas for Virtual Back to School Events

AccelEvents

Consider playing an ice breaker game , introducing everyone, and showing the family your “virtual” classroom. . You can consider spicing up the virtual with a Bitmoji virtual classroom , which can be fun and relatively easy to make. You can shorten the class earlier that day to make things easier for the families.

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7 Ideas for Virtual Back to School Events

AccelEvents

Consider playing an ice breaker game , introducing everyone, and showing the family your “virtual” classroom. . You can consider spicing up the virtual with a Bitmoji virtual classroom , which can be fun and relatively easy to make. You can shorten the class earlier that day to make things easier for the families.

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Augmented Reality and Social Good: The Art of Creating Meaningful AR

Connection Cafe

When they arrive at the location, players see an image of a Pokémon overlaid onto the real world that they can then collect. Before we look at possible applications of AR, let’s take a look at how it works! This form of AR will soon be ubiquitous and has tons of applications–especially for mapping. How does the game work?

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Apps for Youth, By Youth

Tech Soup

Windows Phone) is a point-of-care smartphone application that addresses child mortality rates by lack of detection and availability of treatment for malaria. Image: App Inventor Workshop ( Flickr ). Political Engagement and Activism. These apps encourage young people to get involved in civic and political issues. iStudiez Pro.

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