Vialogues is a free service that allows you to build online discussions around videos hosted online and videos that you have saved on your computer.
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2015/02/try-vialogues-to-build-discussions.html
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DawsonITE is a blog devoted to Educational Technology. It's compiled by Rafael Scapin, Coordinator of Educational Technology at Dawson College in Montreal (Canada).
Vialogues is a free service that allows you to build online discussions around videos hosted online and videos that you have saved on your computer.
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2015/02/try-vialogues-to-build-discussions.html
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The immense computing power we possess will only make learning easier if we acknowledge it will never make it effortless.
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One of the most important lessons schools must accept is that technology integration in the classroom is a must. With technology, everyday learning will be able to meet society’s ever growing expectations and prepare students for the real world. BYOD …
Classmill is a new service for creating self-paced online courses. On Classmill you can create public or private (invitation-only) courses. Courses are built as a series of modules. In each module you can include videos, text, images, links, and file …
Here are some more good tools that students can use to analyze their own writing.
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2015/04/a-handful-of-tools-that-help-students.html
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A new app called Snapsolve allows students to take photos of their homework and then get tailored, personalized responses and help from both tutors and their peers, and it’s available for the iPhone now.
http://www.redmondpie.com/this-app-can-do-your-homework-using-iphone-camera/…
The below five tools are not just a starting point to help your students manage and maintain their online privacy, they should be the beginning of an ongoing discussion detailing the importance, consequences and risks associated with online privacy and …
Google tools can make classrooms more efficient, effective and interesting. Here are nine tricks to add to your repertoire.
http://ditchthattextbook.com/2015/04/16/google-greatness-9-google-tricks-i-had-never-seen/
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Going paperless in the classroom has many benefits: a greater audience, more accessible materials and more. Take your first step today.
http://ditchthattextbook.com/2014/02/20/20-features-of-a-great-paperless-classroom/
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The notetaking member in Microsoft’s suite is a cross-platform productivity application. There are many unique ways to use OneNote, and using it to change the way you teach or study could be the best one.
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/use-onenote-school-10-tips-students-teachers/
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The requisite twenty-first-century skills fall into three broad categories: foundational literacies, competencies, and character qualities.
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One of the biggest MOOC platforms, edX, is run jointly as a nonprofit by Harvard and MIT. And researchers at both schools have been poring over the data from everyone who participated in 68 courses over more than two years. …
Universities across the world are considering whether to start automatically recording lectures. And the IT industry has created some seductive products to record lectures, a process also known as “lecture capture”. Some onlookers expect a hesitant response from the higher …