Gamification in education is a fun way to involve and engage students in their studies. Not just students, gamification is education offers many good things to everyone. Check out the list of amazing videos about gamification and use of …
Taking Notes vs. Taking a Picture of Notes; Which Wins?
So one is easier and much less time consuming, and one seems to improve the ability to “retain” information and be able to share it back. So which one is better for learning?
5 Fantastic Formative Assessment Tools for Teachers
The tools below were chosen because they all offer something just a little bit different and can be a great way to add some variety to how you conduct your online assessments. All of them are free at the …
20 Cool Tools for Creating Infographics
Imagine if you could take 1,000 words a and help people digest that information in only a few seconds? An infographic, put simply, is a creative way to take a “thousand words” and depict them using a picture. These …
The MOOC revolution that wasn’t
Just a few short years after promising higher education for anyone with an Internet connection, MOOCs have scaled back their ambitions, content to become job training for the tech sector and for students who already have college degrees
How will edtech affect the teacher’s role in the classroom?
Elliot-Kelly is on a journey to change the way that education is delivered in the classroom. What is the role of the teacher within that though?
https://www.hottopics.ht/stories/education/how-tech-will-affect-the-teachers-role-in-education/…
How quantum biology might explain life’s biggest questions
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Presentation of the Week: Open Education and Personal Learning
10 Back-To-School Tips For Teachers Using Google Docs
Great tips for better using Google Docs.
http://www.teachthought.com/technology/10-back-to-school-tips-for-teachers-using-google-docs/…
Use These 6 Tips to Become a Google Calendar Guru
Using these 6 tips, you can utilize the full feature set that Google Calendar has to offer. Making a separate calendar for a conference room or embedding a video call in an event invite can drastically increase efficiency and …
10 Emerging Education Technologies
What about the use of digital textbooks, adaptive learning, collaboration with other schools or flipped classrooms? These technologies represent some of the cutting edge tools and trends in education. While some are being implemented now, regular use of others …
The Best Tools for Saving Web Pages, Forever
Web pages change or may even disappear with time. There are quite a few ways to save web pages permanently and your choice of the tool will depend on the kind of web content that you are trying to …
Education Technology is Nothing — without People
“Technology is nothing. What’s important is that you have a faith in people, that they’re basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they’ll do wonderful things with them.” Now, while that sounds like something a back-to-basics, …
Showcase files via Docs.com
Docs.com is Microsoft’s newest sharing platform. It was released at Aug 4, 2015. This new platform allows users to easily share documents regardless of whether they areWord, PowerPoint, Excel, PDF with importing available from your PC or even through …
5 things to know about MoodleCloud
MoodleCloud enables an individual who does not know how to install Moodle themselves, or does not have the money to spare, to get a small Moodle site that they can test out with their training group or class.
http://www.somerandomthoughts.com/blog/2015/07/07/5-things-to-know-about-moodlecloud/…