The five ideas below are a suggested starting point if you are integrating new technology into your classroom. From a BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) programme, to a class set of hardware, an internet enabled classroom has the potential to …
Finland’s Secret Sauce: Its Teachers
A country that once didn’t warrant much attention, Finland has zipped to the top in international measures of education, and American educators in particular want to know its secret.
http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/transforming_learning/2012/11/finlands_secret_sauce_its_teachers.html…
Dropbox Forms: Receive files from your web site to your Dropbox!
JotForm is the first web based WYSIWYG form builder. By using a drag and drop user interface, it allows you to create forms, integrate them to your site and receive responses by email.
How The Nearpod iPad App Changed An Entire School
Nearpod is an App that allows teachers to share presentations; but wait, there’s more! It also lets you be a fully engaged participant and interact with the presentation through polls, quizzes, videos, drawing interactivity, website-sharing, self-guided quizzes and more.
gClassFolders Helps You Organize Google Drive Files Shared by Your Students
Google Drive is a great tool that can help you create a paperless classroom. gClassFolders is a script that will create folders for you for as many course sections as you need.
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2012/11/gclassfolders-helps-you-organize-google.html…
9 Ways Students Can Host Peer Tutoring Sessions Online
Today, thanks to web conferencing tools, students don’t even need to be in the same country in order to tutor each other. Here are some good tools that students can use to host peer tutoring sessions online.
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2012/11/9-ways-students-can-host-peer-tutoring.html…
Self-taught African Teen Wows M.I.T.
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Presentation of the Week: Sustainability and MOOCs in Historical Perspective
Q&A with Salman Khan, the founder of Khan Academy
An amateur teacher who rocketed to fame on the Internet tells us how he’ll take his free video tutorials to the next level.
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/506356/qa-with-salman-khan/…
Learning Analytics and Messy Learning: Can it be Teacher and Student Centered?
Is learning analytics essentially or especially about large scale, institutional level or higher, views of learning, or can it be situated closer to the learning experience, in the hands of teachers and students?
Free Testing and Quizzing Tools for Online Education
A great list of 15 Free Online Tools that you can use for Testing and Quizzing at your traditional or online classroom!
http://elearningindustry.com/subjects/tools/item/348-free-testing-tools-for-online-education…
How to Devise Passwords That Drive Hackers Away
Chances are, most people will get hacked at some point in their lifetime. How do you possibly come up with different, hard-to-crack passwords for every single news, social network, e-commerce, banking, corporate and e-mail account and still remember them all?…
Educational Apps Checklists Every Teacher Should Have
This one here helps you select the right educational apps to use with your students. Check out those rubrics and get possibly get them printed off.
http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2012/11/educational-apps-checklists-every.html…
How to Speed Up Your WordPress Site
Is your blog slow? Do you want to improve the experience for readers?
In this world of instant gratification, speed of content delivery really can impact your business. Keep reading to discover ways to increase the speed of your website.…
Now E-Textbooks Can Report Back on Students’ Reading Habits
Data mining is creeping into every aspect of student life—classrooms, advising, socializing. Now it’s hitting textbooks, too.