The list includes some of the most highly rated apps, both by educators and by parents, and features a range that spans from interactive iBooks to current images of the universe, and from free video software to award-winning STEM curricula.…
4 Ways To Improve School Communication Using Social Media
The use of social media to communicate with students and parents can help everyone stay up-to-date with what’s going on and what’s coming up.
http://edudemic.com/2013/04/improve-school-communication-using-social-media/…
cloudHQ: Sync Google Drive, Dropbox, Evernote, Basecamp
Real-time sync and replication between Dropbox, Evernote, Google Drive, Basecamp, and SkyDrive.
https://www.cloudhq.net/dropbox
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Create An Interactive, Label-Based Image Quiz!
ImageQuiz is a fantastic new website that lets users create image-based quizzes with ease. Just upload your image, choose a title, and begin tagging the locations of the labels.
http://teachbytes.com/2013/02/22/create-an-interactive-label-based-image-quiz/
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46 Tools To Make Infographics In The Classroom
So if you want to try to make infographics–or better yet have students make them–where do you start? The 46 tools below, curated by Faisal Khan, are a good place to start.
http://www.teachthought.com/technology/46-tools-to-make-infographics-in-the-classroom/…
80 Interesting Ways To Use Google Forms In The Classroom
Questionnaires? Reading inventories? Interest inventories? A mastery-by-standard database?See, I told you it’s not so bad. For 79 other ideas, see the presentation below by Graham Attwell. Even if only 3 fit your needs, that’s 3 more tools in your tool …
An Impressive Web-based App for Photos Editing
Picozu is an impressive web-based image editing app that offers dozes of filters and image effects, support Photoshop layers and is completely free.
http://www.labnol.org/internet/online-image-editor/27968/
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David Pogue: 10 top time-saving tech tips
Presentation of the Week: Open Education, MOOCS, & Student Access
How to Use Google Chrome to Remotely Access Your Computer
We have looked at some of the various ways in which remote access of your computer can be achieved, including using TeamViewer and VNC, but if you have Chrome installed you can do the same with nothing more than a …
How to Add Voice Comments to Google Documents
If you want to really add your voice to then you’ll want to add the Voice Comments application from Learn.ly to your Google Drive account.
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2013/04/how-to-add-voice-comments-to-google.htm…
12 Ways To Integrate (Not Just Use) Technology in Education
Learn 12 ways to properly integrate technology into the classroom. This article details what the difference is between ‘using’ technology versus ‘integrating’ and I simply love it. Hope you do too.
http://edudemic.com/2013/04/integrate-technology-in-education/…
61 Educational Apps For The 21st Century Student
What are often thought of as “productivity apps” are not only “educational,” but are often the real marrow of 21st century learning.
http://www.teachthought.com/apps-2/61-educational-apps-for-the-21st-century-student/…
5 Tips on How to Give Engaging Presentations
I am sharing with you some great tips on how to deliver an engaging presentation which I have learned from professor Tanya. I have made a short slideshow featuring these 5 tips. Feel free to use and share the slides …
Discovery Education on Livestream
Discovery Education is committed to improving teaching and learning by transforming traditional classrooms into engaging digital learning environments.
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