App Inventor Boot Camp in Western Mass

  App Inventor Boot Camp was a summer professional development experience for teachers to learn MIT App Inventor, a free visual blocks-based programming system for Android mobile devices that can…

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Grab a Grand for Your Classroom

What would you do with an extra $1,000 to spend on your classroom? MassCUE offers as many as 7 competitive initiative grants of up to $1,000 each to our members…

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Simplifying the Hunt

Our students need to see themselves as readers. Reading needs to be part of who they are and, fortunately, our ever-changing digital world makes this endeavor both possible and…

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Trying Something New

We summer staff watch the annual building renovations with excitement and apprehension. Will all of these new “improvements” work like we hope they will? Will they be finished in…

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MassCUE Looking Forward

Just as technology evolves, our organization needs to keep pace. The mission of MassCUE, an organization of technology-using educators, is to create, share, and support visions of teaching and…

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Meet Our New Board Members, 2013

MassCUE is very fortunate to have a dedicated and accomplished Board of Directors, each of whom donates many hours to ensure that MassCUE continues to flourish!  It is…

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We Are All Self-Directed Learners Now

We are experiencing a renaissance of information and ideas with our country’s leading educational institutions like Harvard, MIT, and Stanford offering Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs).  The introduction…

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Message from the Executive Director to the MassCUE Membership

Welcome back to another school year.  Most of us start the year with recounting a summer experience.  I would like to tell you about the MassCUE/LearnLaunch Beta Teacher event…

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Visit LearnLaunch at our fall MassCUE/M.A.S.S. Conference

October 23 and 24, 2014 Welcome back to another school year. Most of us start the year with recounting a summer experience. I would like to tell you about the…

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Authentic Digital Assessments: Web2.0 tools to prepare students for the real world

As a technology teacher, I often focus on tool instruction. As an integration specialist there is less emphasis on tool instruction but more emphasis on choosing tools to accomplish…

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Solid State of Mind

Solid-state storage technologies have greatly elevated our computing devices in the past few years. From flash memory storage found in iPads and other tablets to solid-state drives (SSD) found…

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