PLNs have a great importance f not only in education but in our overall professional development and that is why I deem it crucial to write a simple and comprehensive guide for teachers to review and hopefully share with their …
12 Tools for Quickly Gathering Informal Feedback from Students
There are many tools for quickly gathering informal feedback from students. Here are twelve tools that you can use to quickly gather informal feedback from students.
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2012/06/12-tools-for-quickly-gathering-informal.html…
How Tablets Will Change Higher Education
Your school should be preparing to incorporate tablets into campus life and the classroom. Below we offer some data and opinions on what college student tablet use looks like and what it means for your campus.
http://doteduguru.com/id8265-how-tablets-will-change-higher-ed.html…
The best iPad apps of 2012 so far
A compilation of the best iPad apps of 2012 by The Next Web website.
http://thenextweb.com/apps/2012/06/29/the-best-ipad-apps-of-2012-so-far/…
5 Free Tools to Remove Annoying Features around YouTube Videos
A list of some great services that you can use with YouTube to drive away the distraction that surrounds YouTube videos particularly inappropriate ads, vulgar language included in the comments section, and indecent pictures and might be displayed in the …
Presentation of the Week: “Exploring Instructional Use of YouTube”
ISTE 2012 Keynote featuring Sir Ken Robinson
The Ultimate Simplified Guide to The Use of Evernote in Education
Evernote is a web tool that allows users to bookmark, record voicemails, take text and voice notes, upload pictures, docs, PDFs and files, and capture images and information on the web as well as as a software download on your …
How to Transfer Files to Your iPhone or iPad (for Beginners)
Here’s a look at the simplest method of transferring files to an iDevice for those who don’t yet know how to do it.
http://lifehacker.com/5806075/how-to-transfer-files-to-your-iphone-or-ipad-for-beginners…
Classroom Lectures Go Digital
The virtual teacher has arrived —thanks to digital media like video-on-demand broadcasts, or VODcasts, lectures that students would normally receive in the classroom are migrating outside of brick and mortar schools.
A Personal Assistant Mines Your Life to Help Out
Cue feeds on e-mail and social-networking accounts to highlight important events and update contacts automatically.
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/428321/a-personal-assistant-mines-your-life-to-help-out/…
Game-Based Learning to Teach and Assess 21st Century Skills
Let’s take a look at what many consider the top three 21st century skills and how games can teach and assess them.
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/game-learning-21st-century-skills-andrew-miller…
Six Lingering Obstacles to Using Technology in Schools
Though educators are finding smart ways to integrate technology and learning, the road has been and continues to be challenging on multiple fronts.
http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/06/six-lingering-obstacles-to-using-technology-in-schools/…
8 Resources for Preventing and Detecting Plagiarism
A great list of resources to prevent and detect plagiarism.
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2012/06/8-resources-for-preventing-and.html…
Which Of These 3 Private Social Networks Is Right For You?
There are boatloads of tools out there that can give you a private social network. From Edmodo to the upcoming Facebook Groups For Schools, there’s plenty of options. Most are free, but some are better than others. So we decided …