Google has announced that Google Earth Pro is now available for free. Google Earth Pro used to cost $399 per year. Google Earth is a geospatial software application that displays a virtual globe, which offers the ability to analyze and …
Guide to Google Apps for the iPad
A great list of Google Apps divided by category.
https://magic.piktochart.com/output/2621468-google-apps-for-the-ipad
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What do the new Facebook privacy changes mean for me?
Last November, Facebook sent a message to users notifying them about privacy policy changes that would be introduced on January 30, 2015. The changes have now come into force, and simply by logging into Facebook you are accepting the new …
What a Classroom Looks Like for Teachers and Students After Flipping
So what are a couple of teachers doing with the increased class time they have due to their flipped instruction? The examples below are taken from direct interviews.
http://blog.educanon.com/flipped-classroom/in-class
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Technology in schools: Future changes in classrooms
Technology has the power to transform how people learn – but walk into some classrooms and you could be forgiven for thinking you were entering a time warp.
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-30814302
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Audible Provides Over 15,000 Audiobooks for your iOS and Android Devices
Audible is an excellent website that provides digital downloads of audiobooks and other audio content. These audiobooks cover a wide variety of categories from mysteries to romance. You can use the search functionality of Audible to search for books or …
Can Students Have Too Much Tech?
Students who gain access to a home computer between the 5th and 8th grades tend to witness a persistent decline in reading and math scores,” the economists wrote, adding that license to surf the Internet was also linked to lower …
Acclaim: A Good Tool to Create Instructional Videos that Embed Comments and Annotations
Acclaim is a web platform for education which facilitates discussion around video content. It allows students and professors to share questions, notes, and feedback by inserting time-specific comments that link to moments in each video.
http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2015/01/acclaim-good-tool-to-create.html
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What Do We Really Mean When We Say ‘Personalized Learning’?
The idea of personalized learning is seductive – it implies moving away from the industrialized form of education that pumps out cookie-cutter students with the same knowledge and skills. After decades of this approach, it is clear that all children …
Presentation of the Week: Mission Possible: Strategies & Resources for Meaningful Technology Integration
How the Internet has made social change easy to organize, hard to win
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Microsoft HoloLens: A Sensational Vision of the PC’s Future
HoloLens is a significantly different experience from using Glass. Whereas Google’s system mostly keeps the digital images out of your field of vision and is thus more suited to be used in public, the HoloLens immerses you more deeply in …
Are we getting closer to having a real universal translator?
We asked Roland Kuhn, the Statistical Machine Translation lead at the National Research Council Canada, to weigh in on the future of machine translation and speech recognition.
Gaming in Education: Gamification?
Gamifying the classroom might be a way to improve engagement, productivity and enthusiasm for what the teacher has to say?
http://www.theedublogger.com/2015/01/20/gaming-in-education-gamification/
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Best EdTech Websites of 2014
Because it was just too hard to pick only 10, here are 14 fantastic edtech websites we reviewed this year. How about that — 14 for 2014!
https://www.graphite.org/blog/best-edtech-websites-of-2014
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