Presentation of the Week: Facebook in Education and Teacher Training
How to find the perfect app: The Great App Checklist
Our checklist is the result of a meta-analysis, based on several popular app checklists, as well as our own contributions, completed through research and extensive conversations with educators.
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The Teacher’s Guide To Flipped Classrooms
Flipped Learning is a pedagogical approach in which direct instruction moves from the group learning space to the individual learning space, and the resulting group space is transformed into a dynamic, interactive learning environment where the educator guides students as …
5 Online Quizmaker Tools for Creating Quizzes and Polls
The quizmaker tools that we will go through for creating online quizzes and polls are all free and are very easy to use. There’s no need for any sort of training. Most of these quizmaker tools are point and …
AlternativeTo: A New Approach to Finding Good Software
A tool that helps you find the right software for your computer, mobile phone or tablet. It gives you alternatives to software you already know and want to replace.
6 Ways Social Media Can Change Your Classroom
Instead of being seen as a possible distraction, the use of social media in the classroom is now a vehicle for driving engagement and learning. What’s more, by implementing the use of social media as an acceptable form of …
Google ‘should be allowed in examinations’
It is inevitable search engines such as Google will be allowed in public examinations, including GCSEs and A-Levels, the head of an exam board says.
The Rise of Emoji on Instagram Is Causing Language Repercussions
It is a rare privilege to observe the rise of a new language,” Thomas Dimson, a software engineer on Instagram’s data team, said in a company blog post on Friday. “Emoji are becoming a valid and near-universal method of …
How video games could make our kids smarter and learning more engaging
There is not much conclusive research on how video games affect children for good or ill. But there are stories of many game makers and scholars who have found clear signs of such activity promoting learning.
Google Classroom: A Free Learning Management System For eLearning
Google Classroom can be utilized by educators who have already created a Google Apps for Education account for free. In essence, Google Classroom is designed to give online facilitators, content creators and educators the ability to go paperless and …
SoundCloud Is Making It Easier for Anyone to Publish a Podcast
SoundCloud for Podcasting could be a great service to try if you have wanted to try podcasting with your students, but have been overwhelmed or frustrated by the process of distributing the recordings your students have made. The free …
Here is How to Add Page Breaks to Your Google Docs
If you try to print a long Google doc, chances are the printed version will probably look slightly different from the actual one. This is usually the case because the default settings in Google Docs are not set to …