Learn how to use PressBooks, a derivation of WordPress that outputs in html, pdf or e-pub formats.
http://www.tonybates.ca/2014/03/03/getting-started-in-writing-an-open-textbook/
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DawsonITE is a blog devoted to Educational Technology. It's compiled by Rafael Scapin, Coordinator of Educational Technology at Dawson College in Montreal (Canada).
Learn how to use PressBooks, a derivation of WordPress that outputs in html, pdf or e-pub formats.
http://www.tonybates.ca/2014/03/03/getting-started-in-writing-an-open-textbook/
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For this year’s White House Student Film Festival, students were asked to submit videos about how technology is used in their classrooms and how it will change education for kids in the future. Of the 2500 video submissions, 16 were …
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Curriculet enables teachers to deliver customized, Common Core aligned learning and digitally create and share their curriculum and lesson materials.
PClouds is a personal cloud service that, instead of using a third-party cloud server, it links and uses all of your already existing devices and storage. Why opt for this model over traditional third-party cloud storage solutions? Firstly, the security …
TextSecure is as a ‘peer-to-peer messaging app’, where messages are encrypted on one end, and only after they reach their intended recipients they are decrypted.
http://thehackernews.com/2014/03/textsecure-end-to-end-encrypted-and.html
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There are plenty of free apps out there to help you with budgeting, cooking and organising your life.
http://www.theguardian.com/education/2014/mar/05/top-ten-apps-for-students
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OER are teaching and learning materials that are freely available online. Our goals with OER are to find the best possible course materials to engage our students, improve academic achievement, and save the district money.
http://www.edudemic.com/open-educational-resources-2/
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Regardless of where you are on the world map, as of today, Skype announced via an official blog post that they’ll be rolling out a feature that will allow you to launch and hold Skype video calls straight from your …
If you’re integrating technology into your classroom (whatever stage you’re currently at is fine) then this visual step-by-step guide is your friend.
http://www.edudemic.com/the-teachers-guide-to-choosing-the-best-digital-content/…
A common practice for great teachers is to periodically check for student understanding throughout a lesson. Geddit seeks to provide an intuitive solution to this problem with an audience response system that allows students to “check in” with any internet …
For the past three decades I’ve been working to dispel myself of an illusion that’s hard to recognize and even harder to overcome. I call it the “Illusion of Understanding.” It’s the false belief that we understand something but then …
The presentation includes visualizing a syllabus, using clues to make inferences for literacy practice, or to do simple character analyses.
http://www.teachthought.com/literacy-2/19-interesting-ways-to-use-word-clouds-for-learning/
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In their book “Strategies, Research, and Theory for College and University Teachers”, Marilla Svinicki and Wilbert J. McKeachie include ten ways that you can spur on students’ motivation, help them engage in your course, and encourage them to …