There are numerous teachers out there who are willing to share their expertise and classroom experiments with teachers young and old. Here are some great blogs that offer insights into what classes of kids are doing around the world as …
Technology Does Not Equal 21st Century Learning
Below you will find a chart that shows the difference between a 20th Century classroom and a 21st century classroom. As you go through the list I don’t think you will see the word technology once.
Flip Your Mind By Flipping Your Classroom
Knewton’s Flipped Classroom Infographic clearly shows how shifting in- and out-of-class emphases can make a huge difference.
http://www.haikulearning.com/blog/2011/09/flip-your-mind-by-flipping-your-classroom/…
Presentation of the Week: The Next Big Thing is Web 3.0. Catch It If You
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A Story About the Semantic Web
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Must-Have Apps for the Classroom
A great list of useful iPhone apps to be used in the classroom. Some of these apps have companion apps for the iPad which also function very well.
http://usatodayeducation.com/ctelounge/index.php/2011/08/the-blog-must-have-apps-for-the-classroom/…
Using Gmail, Calendar and Docs without an Internet connection
It’s inevitable that you’ll occasionally find yourself in situations when you don’t have an internet connection, like planes, trains and carpools. Gmail Offline is a Chrome Web Store app that’s intended for situations when you need to read, respond to, …
Effective Uses of Video in the Online Classroom
How fantastic would it be to take that bulleted list of text of learning objectives, put each bullet on a slide and do a quick audio narration that’s maybe 30 seconds in length for each learning objective? Take a look
… Video Supported Mathematics for Commerce
Matthew Marchant, a Math teacher at Dawson, observed many students struggling to follow explanations from beginning to end. In response to this, he created videos to present in his Calculus 2 course for Commerce. The story explains how he made …
How to Embed Videos into Microsoft Office Documents
Learn how to easily embed YouTube videos into your Microsoft Office documents. For readers who use Microsoft Office, the HP Teacher Experience Exchange has a short video tutorial on how to embed YouTube videos into Microsoft Office 2010 documents.
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2011/08/how-to-embed-videos-into-microsoft.html…
How to Use the iPad with a SMART Board – Connecting the iPad and SMART Board
Here are two ways you can use your iPad with the SMART Board. Please note that only the iPad 2 model has full video mirroring, allowing you to project whatever is on the iPad screen. The original iPad only projects …
Collaborative Learning for the Digital Age
Multitasking is the ideal mode of the 21st century, not just because of information overload but also because our digital age was structured without anything like a central node broadcasting one stream of information that we pay attention to at …
Convert Youtube Videos to Animated GIFs (The Easy Way, No Photoshop!)
There are several online app-only methods for turning YouTube into animated GIFs, but we’ll focus today on a service that doesn’t require a signup or login to make it as easy as possible.
http://www.howtogeek.com/72084/convert-youtube-videos-to-animated-gifs-the-easy-way-no-photoshop/…
Android tablets gain foothold in higher education
The Apple iPad’s reign as higher education’s computer tablet of choice might be put to the test as Seton Hall University announced a pilot program that will put Android-based tablets—the iPad’s main rival—in the hands of 350 students and faculty …
Bring Old PC To Life With Ubuntu
Give an old computer a new life, using Ubuntu. It’s simple if you follow the instructions in this guide. Outlining everything you need to know to get Ubuntu up and running on older computers, this guide isn’t one to be …