A compilation of very useful tips for new teachers put together into a Google Slides presentation.
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2013/08/100-tips-for-new-teachers-and-good.html…
How to take great notes – and then find them again
Chuck out the box files, students. Just drag and drop your notes into folders online.
http://www.theguardian.com/education/2013/aug/08/digital-tools-to-share-and-organise-work
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How To Use Google Forms To Create Your Own Self-Grading Quiz
Google Forms are amazing tools, allowing you to do some really advanced tricks with forms as the front-end and spreadsheets at the heart. Today we’ll look at how to create a self-grading quiz using Google Forms.
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-use-google-forms-to-create-your-own-self-grading-quiz/
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Vittle: Turn your iPad into a Recordable Video Whiteboard
Vittles are engaging videos that combine your photos, handwriting, and voice to help you share your best ideas.
http://www.qrayon.com/home/vittle/
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50 Little-Known Ways Google Docs Can Help In Education
We’ve discovered 50+ great tips for getting the most out of Google Docs as a student, with awesome ideas and tricks for collaboration, sharing, and staying productive.
http://www.edudemic.com/2012/04/50-little-known-ways-google-docs-can-help-in-education/
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8 Tips and Tricks to Redesign Your Classroom
Remake Your Class is a 3-part video series that covers how one educator transformed his classroom with the help of his students, some community volunteers, and design experts.
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/8-tips-redesign-your-classroom-david-bill…
8 Next-Gen Devices Students Will Be Using In A Couple Years
Between official company press releases and leaked information, we generally have a pretty solid idea of what we’re in for by the time a device actually hits the shelves. So what noteworthy items did 2013 bring us? This handy infographic …
The 9 Best Web Tools Teachers Will Use This Year
For this year’s bunch I have gathered the most important items into one single web page of my classroom website. The following is a list of free online tools that I have incorporated (or plan to) for this year’s class. …
Why Organizations Choose an Open Source Learning Management System
Why should an organization choose an open source Learning Management System as opposed to a homegrown or proprietary LMS? Kineo recently distributed a survey to organizations which reveals the reasons why they chose open source.
http://elearningindustry.com/why-organizations-choose-an-open-source-learning-management-system
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Moodle.org introduce their first MOOC for Teachers
Moodle for teachers: An introduction is a 4 week introductory course with a recommended total of 8-12 hours participation time. Registration opens on 19th August 2013 and the course starts on 1st September 2013.
http://blog.matbury.com/2013/08/09/moodle-org-introduce-their-first-mooc/
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What the Stapel scandal can teach us
In the summer of 2011, a Dutch social psychologist was in the process of losing his job. His name was Diederik Stapel and he’d committed an unimaginable fraud: over ten years he’d falsified data for over 55 experiments, some of …
Presentation of the Week: Powerpoint doesn’t suck, you do
Blending Technology and Classroom Learning
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7 Useful Cloud Storage Tools to Back up Your Digital Data
A lot of things have changed since the introduction of cloud storage tools. Problems of data storage and data loss have been tremendously reduced. Users now store their files in the cloud and access them anywhere with internet connection. More …
6 Of The Simplest Ways Teachers Can Embrace Technology
There is no getting around technology in the classroom. You can try to wrench the smartphones from a student’s iron grip, or you can cater to that desire to explore technology. Not every piece of technology is easily accessible, but …