A Canadian educator reveals why she fell in — and out — of love with the flipped classroom model of instruction.
http://www.edtechmagazine.com/k12/article/2013/03/why-i-flip-flopped-flipped-classroom
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Best free recovery software: 10 top programs to get your deleted files back
Recover deleted files, folders, even complete partitions, without spending a penny.
Tools and Resources to Find Licensed Images for your Classroom Use
It is highly important that you teach your students the ethical use of images they find online. Here are some of the websites you can use to look for free and licensed images.
http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2013/03/tools-and-resources-to-find-licensed.html
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Education in a Digital World
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Presentation of the Week: Embracing OER & MOOCs to Transform Education
Digital technology will continue to revolutionize learning
Digital learning to higher education will become what the forward pass was to football: It will revolutionize education.
A Teacher’s Guide to Classroom Backchannels & Informal Assessment Tools
A short guide to using backchannels for increasing participation in classroom discussions and for informally assessing your students’ knowledge.
Ask3 – An iPad App for Creating Flipped Video Lessons Your Students Can Actually Respond To
Ask3 is a tool that teachers can use to create short instructional videos that are shared directly to their students’ iPads. Students can use Ask3 to ask questions about the video, mark the video with drawing tools, and create their …
How Teachers Are Using Blended Learning Right Now
Lethbridge College (Alberta, CA) recently unveiled an infographic demonstrating the results of their 2012 survey of 164 instructors regarding their teaching (online and face-to-face) and technology.
http://edudemic.com/2013/03/how-teachers-are-using-blended-learning/
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Understand These 10 Principles of Good Design Before You Start Your Next eLearning Project
Whether you’re just getting started with eLearning course design and looking to get a better understanding of eLearning best practices, or you’ve been designing courses for a while and are trying to find ways of making your material more effective, …
Clean Up Your Desktop With These Helpful Tools
Does your PC’s desktop bear a resemblance to a second grader’s? Need some help getting started before wading into the junk? Check out these tools.
http://mashable.com/2013/03/24/clean-up-your-desktop/
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Your visions of the future: The final 10
We asked you to send us your visions of the future; hundreds of you did and now two winners have been chosen.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-21887443
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Kickboard: Big Data for Teachers
Kickboard’s teacher friendly classroom analytics tool enables real-time visibility into class-wide and individual student comprehension to allow teachers to make timely shifts in instruction or provide intervention.
http://gettingsmart.com/cms/edreformer/kickboard-big-data-for-teachers/…
8 Characteristics Of Education 3.0
This chart is broken up into three categories–Education 1.0 (the old way), 2.0 (the current way), and 3.0 (the future way). Whereas Education 1.0 was closed and industrial, 3.0 is open and ubiquitous. It is admittedly a mix of roadmap …
Use Strikingly to Create Beautiful Webpages
Striking.ly is a service that can be used to create one page websites to show off your best digital work or to advertise an event. Striking.ly provides a variety of templates for digital portfolios and digital flyers.
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2013/02/use-strikingly-to-create-beautiful.html…