The New Google Earth is a fantastic way to flatten the walls of your classroom and explore the world with your students.
https://shakeuplearning.com/blog/flatten-the-walls-of-your-classroom-with-the-new-google-earth/…
Some of The Best Tools for Creating Surveys and Polls in Class
We’ll focus on two basic feedback gathering strategies: polls and surveys. We have curated for you some of the most popular web tools you can use to create various types of polls and surveys. In doing so, we have divided …
How to Stop Third-Party Apps From Reading Your Email
Whenever you click that easy “Sign in With Google” button on a company’s website, you’re granting the app or service access to some of your information.
https://lifehacker.com/how-to-stop-third-party-apps-from-reading-your-email-1829232539…
Two Good Web Tools to Easily Generate Citations in Different Formats
These tools support the popular MLA, APA, and Chicago styles as well as several other citation styles. They also offer two modes of generating citations: an automatic mode and a manual mode. Additionally, the sites feature some interesting step-by-step guides …
YouTube is replacing textbooks in classrooms across America
Generation Z students, classified as being between the ages of 14 and 23, believe that YouTube is a bigger contributor to their education than textbooks, according to a study by Pearson Education.
Presentation of the Week: Increasing Learning Efficiency and Quality of Students Homework by Attendance Monitoring and Polls at Interactive Learning Videos
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Three Ways to Create Online Reading Logs and Progress Trackers
Google Forms and Microsoft Forms and their corresponding Google Sheets and Excel sheets are excellent tools for collecting data then looking at in a variety of ways. Making then grading quizzes is one of the typical uses for Google Forms …
6 YouTube tricks, hacks and features you might not know
Most of us use YouTube as an entertainment media to pass our time or as a mentor to learn new skills. Millions of videos are uploading and billions of views are getting in each day. But are we utilizing YouTube …
20 Ways Blockchain Will Transform (OK, May Improve) Education
Blockchain is a public ledger that automatically records and verifies transactions. With assistance from Educause and CB Insights, we’ve identified 26 ways that DLT could be deployed by school districts, networks, postsecondary institutions and community-based organizations to improve learning opportunities.…
E-Learning 3.0 MOOC
Stephen Downes will be offering a MOOC called “E-Learning 3.0” this fall, launching at the Global Online Learning Summit | Online Learning 2018 in mid-October. The course will explore some of the major themes underlying what has been called Web …
iOS 12 is now available with performance boosts, Screen Time, smarter notifications, much more
iOS 12 is officially out of beta and now available for everyone. The major software update for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch runs on any device that runs iOS 11 — including iPhone 5s and newer, iPad mini 2 and …
A Rubric for Evaluating E-Learning Tools in Higher Education
The Rubric for E-Learning Tool Evaluation offers educators a framework, with criteria and levels of achievement, to assess the suitability of an e-learning tool for their learners’ needs and for their own learning outcomes and classroom context.
https://er.educause.edu/articles/2018/9/a-rubric-for-evaluating-e-learning-tools-in-higher-education…
3 ways to make better decisions — by thinking like a computer
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5 Ways in Which Digital Education is Changing the Face of Education
With the increase in technology, the classroom studies have changed a lot. Distance education and online classes have also come into the picture and are playing a major role in the education sector. It’s great how with the help of …