You can utilize these applications to create instructional tutorials and explainer videos to incorporate in your teaching. Simplicity, ease of use and user friendliness are features in common among all of these titles.
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You can utilize these applications to create instructional tutorials and explainer videos to incorporate in your teaching. Simplicity, ease of use and user friendliness are features in common among all of these titles.
The social network is teaming up with the French satellite company Eutelsat to launch a satellite that will provide internet access to people in sub-Saharan Africa.
http://money.cnn.com/2015/10/05/technology/facebook-africa-satellites/index.html…
Drop It To Me has recently been updated with some welcome improvements. It originally connected with only Dropbox. Now you can also choose to have your files sent to Google Drive or Microsoft OneDrive. Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive …
Here are 10 study guides that are sure to help you find the information you need to help get your writing back on track and your ideas clearly transferred from thoughts to ink.
http://instructionaltechtalk.com/top-10-free-study-guides-can-use/…
Innovation in education can look like lots of things, like incorporating new technology or teaching methods, going on field trips, rejecting social norms, partnering with the local community. Keep reading to see what the future of education can, and …
Google Expeditions, a virtual reality system for the classroom, is now being offered to select schools for free as part of Google’s pilot launch of its Expeditions Pioneer Program. The field trip simulation system is part of Google’s objectives to …
Through understanding how students’ brains actually work and using that knowledge to benefit classroom learning, we may be able to positively influence classroom education and prepare students to better face unknowable futures. Here are nine scientific insights that educators …
There is another great resource for ensuring students are getting it as they watch. This tool gives teachers the ability to add explanations during videos while individual students watch at their own pace. This free tool, EDpuzzle, is a …
The review of blended MOOCs in classrooms assists to form the emerging consensus on integrating MOOCs in conventional classroom settings, while highlighting potential opportunities and challenges one might face when implementing MOOCs in similar or entirely different contexts.
http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/2222/3402…
Creating videos is a process that students enjoy because the final product is something that they can share with a potentially large audience. Teachers like video projects because students get engaged in developing and sharing their best work. See …
Just providing teachers with an organizational tool, such as an LMS, will not lead to transformative practices. Teachers need on-going support if they are to truly transform their classrooms into ecosystems for digital age learning.
http://byotnetwork.com/2015/09/08/digital-vs-digitized-learning/…
How do you keep face-to-face conversation alive in your family and among your friends? What has happened to face-to-face conversation in a world where so many people say they would rather text than talk?
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/27/opinion/sunday/stop-googling-lets-talk.html?_r=0…
Following are 8 examples of the SAMR process, each taking an example of a typical classroom exercise that does not use technology and walking it through each phase of SAMR.
http://www.emergingedtech.com/2015/04/examples-of-transforming-lessons-through-samr/…