There’s another way to apply the flipped model without the problems associated with sending the work home. I’m calling it the “In-Class Flip.”
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/flipped-classroom-in-class-version-jennifer-gonzalez…
There’s another way to apply the flipped model without the problems associated with sending the work home. I’m calling it the “In-Class Flip.”
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/flipped-classroom-in-class-version-jennifer-gonzalez…
Social media is making such huge inroads into education. The visual below sheds more light on the use of social media in education and provides interesting numbers and stats about this use.
http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2014/03/the-11-ways-schools-use-social-media.html
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Linker is the Chrome extension that aims to end all of this madness and make your life incredibly easy when it comes to sending links. Once installed, you need to grant the extension access to Gmail in order to send …
Classrooms going digital bring both the good and the bad. The handy infographic below takes a look at the current state of access, and some examples of different options to improve access.
http://www.edudemic.com/access-digital-learning-devices-infographic/
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When it comes to bookmarking and saving content on the Web, there’s no shortage of solutions. But a new service aptly called Dragdis makes the process a simple drag and drop process.
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/drag-drop-save-anything-web-easily-dragdis/
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Take 140 characters, put them in a blender and mix for eight years. That’s the secret recipe behind Twitter, the social networking powerhouse celebrating a birthday. Whether you’re an addict, a casual tweeter or still a skeptic, Twitter has grown …
Facebook just released a new programming language called ‘HACK’, designed to build complex websites and other software quickly and without many flaws.
http://thehackernews.com/2014/03/hack-new-open-source-programming.html
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Involve and motivate your students into the process of online learning with the help of gamification. Check the following 9 techniques that will help you gamify your digital classroom.
http://elearningindustry.com/9-techniques-for-online-educators-to-gamify-their-digital-classrooms
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Google Slides and Drawings make it easy for you to tell a story and share your ideas. Now it’s even easier to get those images just right, because Slides will let you crop, apply shape masks, and add borders to …
If you are using iPads in your classroom without the Apple TV Unit you are really only getting half the experience. This great video from square group will explain to the uninitiated the process of getting started with Apple TV …
PDFs can be very large, especially if they contain high-resolution images of scanned documents or other graphics. You may need to compress a PDF file to email or upload it somewhere. Learn a few tricks to do that!
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/compress-pdfs-reduce-file-size-free-windows-tools-tricks/
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Microsoft released a Mac version of its cloud-based note taking platform OneNote, Monday. The company also announced it would be offering both Mac and Windows versions of the software to users for free.
http://mashable.com/2014/03/17/microsoft-onenote-for-mac/
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Microsoft will announce the long-awaited Office for iPad on March 27 at an event in San Francisco. The new release would follow Office for iPhone and Office for Android. The applications will require an Office 365 subscription to work.
http://arstechnica.com/apple/2014/03/office-for-ipad-may-finally-arrive-as-soon-as-march-27/…