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A guest post by one of our partner educators, Jacki McCarty. McCarty is an educator at Harwood Union Middle School, in Moretown VT.

“The resource I wish to share is THE STUDENTS and MY COLLEAGUES. Through […]

From the archives and still relevant today: Tarrant Institute director Penny Bishop reflecting on how schools can lead by embracing technology.

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Students at Essex Middle School recently hosted a morning at the movies, and as part of the April 9th Celebration of Learning, shared their iMovie book trailers for The Hobbit, The […]

An illustrated guide to the map apps covered at Friday’s iOS User Group meeting.

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Kids at one of our partner schools, Manchester Elementary/Middle School have recently embarked on building a 3-D printer. Yep, you read that right: a 3-dimensional printer. The parts […]

A one-minute screencast of actual game-play from the free iPad app Germ Blaster, by the Rice University Center for Technology in Teaching and Learning. No medical training required.

The VGO video conferencing robot visited the Tarrant Institute today, and Meredith took it for a spin.

John Downes and Susan Hennessey, of the Tarrant Institute for Innovative Education at the University of Vermont (tarrantinstitute.org), presented this keynote at the 2012 1:1 Schools […]

aka What a Lovely Gravel Path That Is.

Audrey muses on the current wi-fi coverage situation at UVM while trying to place characters for an ARIS game on campus.

Susan Hennessey was on hand with her iPad camera to record the Oasis team at Hunt Middle School, in Burlington, going 1:1. A huge thank you to the Oasis team teachers and students […]

Professional development coordinator Meredith Swallow demonstrates a quick and cheap way to create your own iPad stylus.

A narrated walk-through of our current ARIS game in development: The EpiQRious Caterpillar.

Working through the Dorothy Canfield Fisher books with Edmodo: Warp Speed by Lisa Yee, Inside Out and Back Again by Thanha Lai, incorporating students into Edmodo, badging, book […]

The Tarrant Institute has recently begun piloting a trial of Badgestack, an online badging platform, featuring level dynamics, friending and hidden rewards. As part of a course […]

What it does: Allows students to see video of volcanoes in action, provides geographical data about the relative locations of volcanoes around the world. Includes statistics related to eruptions and dormancy, […]

Of the number of ways I set out to prepare for presidential debate participation to include what twitter streams and live blogging to follow, what livestreaming commentary to watch, and which […]

This is not an escape.

“All you have to do is watch the video until you are given your choices. Click on the one you want to choose and it will take you to the next video. I hope you enjoy!

This game was […]

A Google presentation from Tarrant Institute collaborators Melissa Bushey and Rebecca Boardman . First presented at Dynamic Landscapes 2012. “Students are influenced daily, by advertising propaganda.  It is important to make them aware of media so that they become more critical consumers and less victims of media consumption.  We will share an…[Read more]

In this 40 minute webinar, Rob Gervais, director of technology for
Enosburg Town Schools, goes over the nuts and bolts of deploying a 1:1 iPad environment.
Highly recommended.

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Unable to display content. Adobe Flash is required. Via the UVM Asian Studies Outreach Program , a Jing screencast where Michael Stuart the program director of the Institute on Thailand and Its Cultures explains how he uses GoogleEarth to give student participants an introduction to the country they’ll be traveling [...]

TIIE is proud to have the Navigator students and teachers at Edmunds
Middle School as partners
in our i-Leap program. We joined them in celebrating their success
with technology integration at the first annual EMS Tech Success
Day, Wednesday, May 25th at Edmunds.

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