As a teacher, you can use Forms for a variety of purposes including: planning an event, making surveys and polls, creating quizzes, collecting feedback and other information from students and many more. Here is a guide on features you …
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As a teacher, you can use Forms for a variety of purposes including: planning an event, making surveys and polls, creating quizzes, collecting feedback and other information from students and many more. Here is a guide on features you …
The IPEVO Whiteboard app for iPad is a great, free solution for teachers who want the benefits of a document camera, without the added cost of new hardware. It is an extremely versatile app that gives you yet another …
Gabriel Flacks, who currently serves as the Coordinator of the Humanities Department at Champlain Regional College, St. Lambert (QC), has introduced me to a website that he created. It’s calledNewsActivist.com and it has a wide range of applications, but for …
So it’s here. The eagerly anticipated iPad Pro was launched earlier last week in San Francisco. As technological design goes, as with most things with Apple, it is a thing of beauty. I simply can’t wait to get my …
Google released a new collaborative feature called ‘See new changes’. This is particularly useful for co-writing documents. Now when working on a document with other collaborators, you will be able to see the changes added to the document as …
These are apps that allow teachers to store files, manage class rosters, share student work, and consolidate everything into a single, synced calendar.
http://www.teachthought.com/apps-2/best-organization-apps-for-teacher/…
The Silicon Valley company announced that it was working with a local charter school network, Summit Public Schools, to develop software that schools can use to help children learn at their own pace.
Formative assessment is vital to teachers in any classroom environment. Teachers have been formatively assessing students for years, because we must know what our students know in order to help them understand what they do not know.
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/classroom-tools-measure-student-learning-bethany-petty…
Google Docs now supports voice dictation from Chrome and the Docs iOS and Android app. When the feature is enabled (from the Tools menu in Chrome), you can dictate documents using the microphone icon from Docs on Chrome, or …
Images can bring presentations, reports and other student work to life. Students should learn to use images responsibly. Here’s what you need to know to help them.
http://ditchthattextbook.com/2015/09/04/how-to-get-and-use-free-images-the-right-way-in-class/…
Does the Internet encourage plagiarism? A study published in the Journal of Academic Ethics suggests otherwise, finding that instances of academic plagiarism actually decreased.
https://www.edsurge.com/news/2015-09-09-is-plagiarism-down-depends-on-how-you-define-and-measure-it…
A district in Pennsylvania is flying in the face of the trend towards closed systems, instead choosing open source devices and software whenever possible. “We sometimes feel like a pirate island because this is unusual,” said Charlie Reisinger, technology …
I decided to shift to MS OneNote. Why? Because the tools is free and because it seemed to offer a solution. To my opinion: it also offers more structure to your content than Word does.
http://www.zelfstudie.be/blog/en/onenote-creating-digital-textbooks…