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Academics Anonymous: student feedback is a waste of everyone’s time
Collecting feedback on courses benefits neither staff nor students – often it’s biased, sexist or simply unrealistic.
http://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/blog/2014/may/09/student-feedback-waste-of-time
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Perfect Match: Brazilian Kids Learn English by Video Chatting With Lonely Elderly Americans
It’s such a great, simple idea: Young Brazilians want to learn English. Elderly Americans living in retirement homes just want someone to talk to. Why not connect them?
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3D Printing Explained for Teachers
Basically, 3D printing is a technology that allows users to turn any digital file into a three dimensional physical product. The two videos below will explain what 3D is all about and the different ways it operates.
http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2014/05/3d-printing-explained-for-teachers.html
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28 ways Google’s new add-ons can help teachers now
There’s a lot that educators can do with many of the add-ons. Here’s a selection of several of them (not an exhaustive list) with benefits, drawbacks and things you can do with them. We’ll start with add-ons for Documents and …
How to Choose the Right Photographs for Your Presentation
Many presentations incorporate photographs of some kind — though there’s an art to choosing and using them well. Here are 3 methods for doing so.
http://blog.slideshare.net/2014/05/12/3-ways-to-amplify-your-presentations-impact-with-photographs/
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8 Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do With Google Drive
Google Drive is here to make your life easy, but we’re here to make it even easier.
The multifaceted feature that allows you to create documents, photos, spreadsheets, drawings and more has boundless abilities. However, with Drive’s constant updates and …
Tools for Professional Learning: Curate, Share, Connect
In order to effectively engage in professional learning, we need tools in place to curate content, save what we found, and connect to other educators.
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/professional-learning-curate-share-connect-beth-holland…
12 year-old Eric Zeiberg develops handwriting-to-speech app
At just 12 years old, Eric Zeiberg developed HandySpeech for iOS – a handwriting-to-speech application that allows individuals to draw on a smartphone or tablet screen with their finger and have the text read aloud.
http://whatsnext.nuance.com/handwriting-to-speech-app-handyspeech/
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Deborah Gordon: What ants teach us about the brain, cancer and the Internet
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Presentation of the Week: How do Learning Analytics “act” in Education?
3 Places To Get Free Full-Text Scientific Studies
There are a number of journals making a move to offer full text of scientific journal articles for free, and we’ve put together a short list of them below.
http://www.edudemic.com/scientific-studies/
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How to Backup your Google Drive
Learn different ways to backup your Google Drive data.
http://www.mguhlin.org/2014/05/backing-up-your-googledrive-data.html…
7 Ways To Transform Education By 2030
What will high school look like in 2030? The reality is that we don’t know. Here are 7 big ideas for transforming the educational experience before 2030.
http://www.edudemic.com/7-ways-to-transform-education-by-2030/
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4 Free Web Tools to Boost Student Engagement
See some great examples of (free) motivational tool technologies that meet the above criteria, which you can use (along with thorough instruction) to help boost student engagement.
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/web-tools-boost-student-engagement-nicolas-pino-james
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