A Chrome extension called PrivacyFix will walk you through your privacy settings and let you make changes so advertisers cannot track what you do on the web in order to make ad revenue. It also ensures that friends you’re connected …
10 Cool EdTech Incubators Aiming to Change Education Forever
Here, we highlight just a few of the edtech incubators that are making waves in the world today, a list that’s sure to grow rapidly over the next decade.
http://www.onlineuniversities.com/10-cool-edtech-incubators-aiming-to-change-education-forever…
40 Quick Ways To Use Mobile Phones In Classrooms
Your students have smartphones. If you’re looking for some simple and straightforward ways to easily integrate these powerful little devices into your classroom, look no further. The following 40 tips are simply that: tips. So use a few and toss …
50 Free Android Apps Being Used In Education Right Now
A great list of Android apps being used in Education.
http://edudemic.com/2012/10/50-free-android-apps-being-used-in-education-right-now/…
Report: Students On Facebook Study 10 Times Less Than Non-Users
Students who are Facebook users spend 1-5 hours per week studying, and non-Facebook users spend 11-15 hours per week studying. Effectively, it would seem like students are losing 6+ hours per week of study time to Facebook!
YouTube’s Official Guide for Educators
A great guide designed specifically for teachers and educators. This guide is created by YouTube itself and has a detailed explanation together with some awesome tutorials on everything a teacher needs to know about the use of this video platform …
Shimon Schocken: The self-organizing computer course
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Presentation of the Week: The Best Web 2.0 Tools for Teachers – 2012 Edition
80 Ways To Use Google Forms In Your Classroom
Google Apps are some of the most widely used tools in education today. This extremely powerful tool can do so much and it’s all free. Lucky for all of us, Tom Barrett has built a crowdsourced Google Doc (of course) …
The Flip: End of a Love Affair
The flip’s gradual disappearance from our learning space hasn’t been a conscious decision: it’s simply a casualty of our progression from a teacher-centred classroom to a student-centred one.
8 Awesome New Web Tools Teachers should not Miss
A great list of new tools so that teachers can discover and keep updated with the recent releases in the world of educational technology.
http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2012/10/teacher-web-tools.html…
What You Need to Know About Mobile Learning
New guide helps educators integrate technology for classroom use.
http://www.edtechmagazine.com/k12/article/2012/10/what-you-need-know-about-mobile-learning…
New Presentation Tool Lets You Easily Keep Students Engaged
From Prezi to Google Docs to PowerPoint, there’s no shortage of ways for teachers to put together a dynamic presentation. But Klowd wanted to take a different approach to help improve the presentation experience for both the person at the …
Ways to Support Teachers with Google Apps for Education
See how Google Docs works and many concrete examples of how Google Docs can be used for student projects and best practices for maximizing their workflow as well as student workflow.
http://kylepace.wordpress.com/2012/10/09/ways-to-support-teachers-with-google-apps-for-education/…
The Future of Education: Tablets vs. Textbooks
Educators can point to many positives of digital books. Tablets can easily update information and assignments, high-resolution audio and video illustrate and reinforce concepts, and with online assignments, students gain the ability to interact with the material they’re learning.