James Paul Gee on Learning with Video Games
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Presentation of the Week: Re-envisioning Modern Pedagogy: Educators as Curators
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It Is Not About the Gadgets: Why Every Teacher Should Have to Integrate Tech Into Their Classroom
A review on a couple of things that come to mind when we discuss tech integration in schools.
http://mrspripp.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/it-is-not-about-gadgets-why-every.html…
Audacity 2.0 Update Brings Lots Of Bug Fixes & New Features
Audacity is a widely popular open source free audio editing and recording program that matches in functionality to a lot of paid audio editing applications. Recently, the developers of Audacity have released an update, Audacity 2.0.
http://www.addictivetips.com/windows-tips/audacity-2-0-update-brings-lots-of-bug-fixes-new-features/…
5 Things I Learned About the Future from Stephen Wolfram
Stephen Wolfram talks about “Computation and Its Impact on the Future.” In his view, we’re at the dawn of an age of computing that’s as important as the agricultural and industrial revolutions, if not more so. Here are five key …
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The service delivers personalized news to your email inbox based on your interests and data mined from your favorite social networks and news sources.
Khan Academy: The future of education? (Interview: 60 Minutes)
With the backing of Gates and Google, Khan Academy and its free online educational videos are moving into the classroom and across the world. Their goal: to revolutionize how we teach and learn.
65 Free Interactive Whiteboard Resources
Interactive whiteboards are a great way for teachers to engage classrooms in learning. There are tons of free sources to help teachers learn about and use IWBs with students. Here is a list of 65 interactive whiteboard resources and activities …
80+ Google Forms for the Classroom
A great source of examples on how to use Google Forms.
http://edte.ch/blog/2008/08/23/10-google-forms-for-the-classroom/…
Three Ways to Watch Videos & Discuss Them in Real-time Online
The web makes it possible to take that strategy a step further and have students not only “write it down” but also enable teachers to instantly respond to students’ comments while watching a video. Here are three tools that enable …
A Moodle 2 version of the Moodle Tool Guide
An updated version of the Moodle Tool Guide, comparing the functionality and pedagogical advantages of some standard Moodle tools, with a column to indicate how tricky the tool is to set up.
http://www.somerandomthoughts.com/blog/2012/03/15/a-moodle-2-version-of-the-moodle-tool-guide/…
Google Search Revamp: A Step Closer to Artificial Intelligence
Google is again trying to redefine what it means to search for information on the Web and get closer to delivering on its mission statement to “organize the world’s information” and make it accessible. It may also get us closer …
Free Technology Tools for Teachers
A great resource of tools for teachers, updated daily.
Dragontape – Create Custom YouTube Mixes
This site allows you to search for YouTube videos and drag them to a timeline. You can then trim each movie’s beginning and ending points.
http://www.markbrumley.com/dragontape-create-custom-youtube-mixes/…
Presentation of the Week: 101 Web 2.0 Tools for Teachers That You Should Know About
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