For the last 5 months, I have been privileged to be a BETA tester for the NEW Google Sites … here are some personal reflections as Google launches it to the public.
http://www.teachercast.net/2016/11/13/google-sites-reflection/…
Listenwise: Teach your students to Listen with the Power of Public Radio
Listenwise makes it easy to bring authentic voices and compelling non-fiction stories to the classroom. We curate the best of public radio to keep teaching connected to the real world and build student listening skills at the same time.…
The Emotion Journal performs real-time sentiment analysis on your most personal stories
The Emotion Journal is a voice journaling app that performs real-time emotional analysis to detect the user’s feelings and chart their emotional state over time.
https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/04/emotion-journal-london-hackathon/…
Maps that show us who we are (not just where we are)
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Presentation of the Week: Developing a Personal Learning Infrastructure
Young people aren’t skeptical of ‘fake news’
Young news consumers have trouble distinguishing credible sources from unreliable ones, according to a new report.
http://www.futurity.org/fake-news-literacy-young-people-1303892-2/…
Add storage to Apple products with Leef
If you use an iPad (or, less likely, an iPhone) for business presentations, you may well have run into storage issues because it’s already full of music or other files. If so, it’s worth looking at this neat accessory …
The Fifty Best Web 2.0 Applications For Education In 2016
Instead of ranking each of the fifty tools on this list in order, I have them organized into three general groups: Useful, Good, and Excellent. The “Excellent” tools are added to the “All-Time” list mentioned previously. Here are my …
9 Essential Tools for A Paperless Classroom
Digital classroom and/or paperless classroom is a relatively new concept that revolves around the exclusive use of digital tools and web technologies to not only replace traditional pen and paper ways of teaching and learning but, more importantly, transform …
3 Unusual Ways College Professors Can Use Twitter
From class-based hashtags to office hours, more educators are getting the most out of 140 characters.
http://www.edtechmagazine.com/higher/article/2016/08/3-ways-college-professors-use-twitter…
A child’s brain develops faster with exposure to music education
A two-year study by researchers at the Brain and Creativity Institute (BCI) at the University of Southern California shows that exposure to music and music instruction accelerates the brain development of young children in the areas responsible for language …
EduOpen: a new MOOC Provider Funded by the Italian Government
EduOpen is a new Italian MOOC provider that launched earlier this year in April 2016. Class Central spoke with Prof. Tommaso Minerva from the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Italy) to learn more about EduOpen.
https://www.class-central.com/report/eduopen-italian-mooc-provider/…
The 20 Best New Social Media Tools to Try in 2017 (And How to Use Them)
With all these tools to choose from, how can you stay on top of the latest and greatest? Keep reading to see the full list with all of 2017’s best social media tools.
4 Ways to Create an Authentic Audience for Students
One of the reasons we want to establish authentic audiences for students is so real people can view and interact with the projects students create. We want to take student work out of a pile of papers (or a …
20 books by teachers, for teachers to inspire your teaching
When teachers share their life’s work with other teachers, students and schools flourish. Here are 20 books for teachers, by teachers.
http://ditchthattextbook.com/2016/10/13/20-books-by-teachers-for-teachers-to-inspire-your-teaching/…