Photos for Class is a very good web tool that you and your students can use to search for and download Creative Common licensed images. The search engine of Photos for Class uses Flickr safe search to return results that …
8 tools to help you manage projects at work and at home
Keeping projects organized, whether at home or in the office, used to require a whole lot of ink. In Below is a list of eight project management hacks, both for the home and for the workplace; absolutely no BICs or …
If Freire Made a MOOC: Open Education as Resistance
Critical Pedagogy is, according to Freire, “made and remade.” And, “Critical reflection is also action.” This means that educators and students will need to return again and again to their fundamental assumptions about education, about open education, about MOOCs, about …
Pocket Drive iOS App Transforms Your iPhone Into An External Hard Drive
Pocket Drive comes supplied with a handy built-in zip archiver and file downloader that makes storing data inside the application extremely easy even whilst you are away from a desktop computer or similar.
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Editor’s Choice: The Best Educational Apps For iPad In 2014
So 2014 is almost over, and it’s time to start looking back at what’s happened in the last year. Today, we do that in the form of the best educational apps for iPad in 2014.
http://www.teachthought.com/apps-2/30-best-educational-apps-ipad-2014/
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How Technology Trends Have Influenced the Classroom
Let’s examine which features of society (and media) have changed and then consider what we can do in education to use it as an advantage for learning.
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Presentation of the Week: Understanding Digital Student Development
The SAMR Model Explained By Students
70+ Web Tools Organized For Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy
The web tools are all listed (and clickable!) in the below presentation. Be sure to click on the above-right chart to get a sense of Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy a bit more as well. Always useful for a refresher!
http://www.edudemic.com/70-web-tools-organized-for-blooms-digital-taxonomy/
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Facebook is making ‘Facebook at Work,’ so you can Facebook at work
Facebook is working on extending its network beyond the social realm and into the professional world, according to the Financial Times, citing anonymous sources.
http://mashable.com/2014/11/16/facebook-at-work-2/
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Why Google Glass Isn’t the Future
While Glass may find some specialized, even lucrative, uses in the workplace,“its prospects of becoming a consumer hit in the near future are slim, many developers say.”
https://time.com/3588143/google-glass/
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Now you can use Skype via a Web browser, without downloading an app
Now there’s another way you can get to Skype – via a Web browser. The Skype team said Friday it is rolling out Skype for Web, in beta.
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7 Tricks to Keep Tech Productive in Your Class
Keeping students on task can be a challenge. And putting Internet-ready devices in all of their hands may seem daunting. But there are a number of techniques I’ve used in my classroom that can make technology work for you.
OneOne is a new secure messaging app designed to make your chats untraceable
In the light of Edward Snowden’s revelations last year, interest in truly secure ways of communicating online has been on the rise. OneOneis a new app for Android and iOS that offers “private and untraceable” text messaging.
http://thenextweb.com/apps/2014/11/18/oneone/
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Computers can now describe images using language you’d understand
The program needs to be trained with captioned images, but it produces much more intelligible output than you’d get by picking out individual items.
http://www.engadget.com/2014/11/18/google-natural-language-image-description/
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