Google Forms is already a very powerful, full-featured program that allows you to create forms, surveys, polls, quizzes, and more. Google allows third-party people to create Add-Ons that can be easily installed, which add new features and tools to Google …
9 Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do With Your Amazon Kindle
You’d be forgiving for thinking your Amazon Kindle is just a tiny slate only fit for reading. That’s what it’s designed for, sure, but your humble e-reader has some hard-to-find, little-known tricks up its sleeve. Here are the best Kindle …
WebRoom – Free Online Conferencing With Virtual Whiteboard
WebRoom is a free service for hosting online meetings. WebRoom doesn’t require you to download any software and you don’t need to register in order to use it. To launch a meeting on WebRoom you simply enter your name and …
A Guide to Making Open Textbooks with Students
Creative Commons (CC) licenses give people “a simple, standardized way to grant copyright permissions to their creative work” (Creative Commons). Instead of requiring each person wanting to use, share or adapt the creative work to ask permission, a CC license …
26 Innovation Breakthroughs at the World’s Open Universities
This is a short post (6 page PDF) with one-paragraph descriptions of innovations at open universities around the world. Together, the set provides others with a sort of menu of options they can follow. Most usefully, each one has a …
The Boost Students Need to Overcome Obstacles
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Presentation of the Week: Learning by Teaching
An Excellent Gmail Add-on for Teachers
Checker Plus for Gmail is a good Chrome extension you can use with both Gmail and Inbox. It allows you to access, read and delete your emails without having to open Gmail or Inbox. It also supports multiple Gmail and …
College textbooks are going the way of Netflix
Hubbard, dean of Columbia Business School, and O’Brien, his co-author, have spent the last three years transforming their classic textbook into a product that can only be described as “education software.” Hubbard and O’Brien worked with an editor for a …
Do Laptops Help Learning? A Look At The Only Statewide School Laptop Program
Research has shown that “one-to-one” programs, meaning one student one computer, implemented the right way, increase student learning in subjects like writing, math and science.
11 iOS 11 Features for iPad Educators
Apple describes iOS 11 as “a giant leap for iPhones but a monumental leap for iPads.” Whether you agree or not, there are a number of fantastic new features available for iOS devices when iOS 11 is released.
https://jonathanwylie.com/2017/08/18/11-ios-11-features-for-ipad-educators/…
Copyright Lessons for Students and Teachers
The article points to the larger problem of misunderstanding and lack of knowledge of copyright as it pertains to the Internet.
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2017/09/copyright-lessons-for-students-and.html…
HyperNotes? Use Hyperdocs with MS Office 365
Take Hyperdocs to the next level by creating hypernotes with MS Office 365 or OneNote and ensure that students have access to the information they need.
Noam Chomsky Defines What It Means to Be a Truly Educated Person
In the interview, you can hear him discuss why he has devoted his life to educating not only his paying students, but also nearly anyone who asks him a question. He also talks about his own education and further elucidates …
How artificial intelligence is transforming learning
An inside look into how AI is disrupting concepts of learning.