Teaching & Learning in a Networked World (by Alec Couros)
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Magisto makes video editing a snap for the masses
Few people have the time – or even the skill – to trawl through and edit those good bits down into a real sequence. So with one click Magisto finds the good edited highlights automatically.
http://eu.techcrunch.com/2011/04/05/magisto-makes-video-editing-a-snap-for-the-masses/…
Create Useful Charts on the Visual Support Engine
Visuals Engine is a useful free resource from ConnectABILITY. The Visuals Engine provides six customizable templates for creating choice boards, story boards, schedules, and achievement charts.
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2011/04/create-helpful-charts-on-visual-support.html…
Identifying Anonymous Email Authors
A team of researchers from Concordia University (Montreal) has developed an effective new technique to determine the authorship of anonymous emails. Tests showed their method has a high level of accuracy.
http://www.concordia.ca/now/what-we-do/research/20110307/identifying-anonymous-email-authors.php…
Skype Launches a Dedicated Network for Teachers
The company launched Skype in the Classroom, a dedicated teacher network. Using the platform, teachers can create profiles that describe their classes and teaching interests. They can also search a directory of teachers from all over the world by student …
48 Interesting Ways to use an iPad in the Classroom
This guide is constantly being updated by users. It’s a great resource with interesting tips on how to use an iPad in the classroom.
https://docs.google.com/present/view?id=dhn2vcv5_721gdk5jtd8…
Why Use Games in the Language Classroom?
Games help the teacher to create contexts in which the language is useful and meaningful. The learners want to take part and in order to do so must understand what others are saying or have written, and they must speak
Learning Through Digital Media: Experiments in Technology and Pedagogy
This website is the product of a collaboration that started in the fall of 2010 when a total of eighty New School faculty, librarians, students, and staff came together to think about teaching and learning with digital media. These conversations …
Beyond iPad: Top 10 tablets to watch this year
Tablets are hot, thanks to the original iPad and now the iPad 2. The tablet space is going to get really smoking hot this year with some compelling devices hitting the market that will crank things up a notch. Here …
3 New & Superb Ways To Share Files Online
We’ll take a look at some of the newer web-based storage and file-sharing sites that despite their simple looks, offer convenient drag-and-drop, as well as, shortened URLs and statistics (something that most desktop programs don’t provide yet).
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/3-superb-ways-share-files-online/…
An Educators Guide to Twitter
An interesting guide to Twitter created using Livebinders.
What Do Kids Say Is The Biggest Obstacle To Technology At School?
iPads. Interactive Whiteboards. Netbooks. Video games. Although educational technologies are being implemented more and more in classrooms across the country, we don’t often stop and ask students – or their parents – what they think their technology needs are. But …
What Is Amazon Cloud Drive?
You get 5GB of cloud storage, free, that’s yours to do with as you please. The focus is clearly music, but you can put documents, photos, and videos on there as well.
Presentation of the Week
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Twitter for Teachers
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