Curriculet enables teachers to deliver customized, Common Core aligned learning and digitally create and share their curriculum and lesson materials.
Get Your Own Personal Cloud With PClouds
PClouds is a personal cloud service that, instead of using a third-party cloud server, it links and uses all of your already existing devices and storage. Why opt for this model over traditional third-party cloud storage solutions? Firstly, the security …
TextSecure: End-to-End encrypted and Open Source Messaging app
TextSecure is as a ‘peer-to-peer messaging app’, where messages are encrypted on one end, and only after they reach their intended recipients they are decrypted.
http://thehackernews.com/2014/03/textsecure-end-to-end-encrypted-and.html
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Top Ten Free Apps for Students
There are plenty of free apps out there to help you with budgeting, cooking and organising your life.
http://www.theguardian.com/education/2014/mar/05/top-ten-apps-for-students
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7 Things To Know Before Using Open Educational Resources
OER are teaching and learning materials that are freely available online. Our goals with OER are to find the best possible course materials to engage our students, improve academic achievement, and save the district money.
http://www.edudemic.com/open-educational-resources-2/
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Skype and Outlook Integration Now Rolled Out to the Rest of the World
Regardless of where you are on the world map, as of today, Skype announced via an official blog post that they’ll be rolling out a feature that will allow you to launch and hold Skype video calls straight from your …
The Teacher’s Guide To Choosing The Best Digital Content
If you’re integrating technology into your classroom (whatever stage you’re currently at is fine) then this visual step-by-step guide is your friend.
http://www.edudemic.com/the-teachers-guide-to-choosing-the-best-digital-content/…
Check for Student Understanding with Geddit
A common practice for great teachers is to periodically check for student understanding throughout a lesson. Geddit seeks to provide an intuitive solution to this problem with an audience response system that allows students to “check in” with any internet …
Khan Academy: The Illusion of Understanding (Part 1)
For the past three decades I’ve been working to dispel myself of an illusion that’s hard to recognize and even harder to overcome. I call it the “Illusion of Understanding.” It’s the false belief that we understand something but then …
40 Interesting Ways To Use Word Clouds For Learning
The presentation includes visualizing a syllabus, using clues to make inferences for literacy practice, or to do simple character analyses.
http://www.teachthought.com/literacy-2/19-interesting-ways-to-use-word-clouds-for-learning/
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Ten Tips for Motivating Students
In their book “Strategies, Research, and Theory for College and University Teachers”, Marilla Svinicki and Wilbert J. McKeachie include ten ways that you can spur on students’ motivation, help them engage in your course, and encourage them to …
Presentation of the Week: Google 2014 – Tips, Tricks, and Tutorials
Stephen Wolfram’s Introduction to the Wolfram Language
How To Save Time Teaching With Technology
Technology is great–when it works. While using technology for learning is easy, mastering it–using it to save time, reduce busy work, and ultimately increase student understanding–is another matter entirely.
http://www.teachthought.com/technology/46-tips-save-time-teaching-technology/
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Stoodle: Instant Free Virtual Classroom
Stoodle is a free, instant online classroom. Stoodle offers real-time collaboration on a virtual whiteboard with as many pages as are needed. With Stoodle you have the ability to use both voice conferencing and text chat for collaboration.
http://ilearntechnology.com/?p=5248
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