Apple is launching its latest iPad into a market flooded with different tablets. Here’s a brief guide to what you can buy and what they do.
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/shortcuts/2013/oct/20/which-tablet-computer-right-for-you
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How To Use The 5 Best Free Collaboration Tools for Teachers
In an increasingly connected world, it’s imperative for individuals to be able to work together on projects. Utilize these 5 Best Free Collaboration Tools for Teachers to collaborate effectively with colleagues or to encourage your students to come together and …
PDF Zen: Free Online PDF Editor
PDFzen is a free online PDF editor that lets you edit & share your PDFs without leaving your browser. Fill out PDF forms, sign documents, highlight text, leave comments, and even draw on the PDF.
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Scrawlar: Cloud-based Word Processing for Education
Scrawlar has been developed to provide classrooms with a safe space to write, collaborate and share ideas without using email. Scrawlar allows students write, edit, collaborate and share work with each other as well as yourself.
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Colleges Mine Data to Help Students Stay on Course
Companies use ‘predictive analytics’ to guide student choices. When students register for classes each semester, they see a list of classes that are ranked on a scale of one to five stars, based on how useful each course is likely …
7 Tips For Writing Effective Multiple Choice Questions
One of the main ways that ExitTicket accelerates student achievement is by identifying misunderstandings while the learning is occurring, and engaging students in a conversation about those misunderstandings.
http://exitticket.org/7-tips-writing-effective-multiple-choice-questions/
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The Differences Between Digital Natives And Digital Immigrants
All of our young digital natives are being taught by “digital immigrants”, or, folks who didn’t grow up with the internet.
http://www.edudemic.com/digital-natives-digital-immigrants/
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9 Tools for Creating Great Animations
These web-based applications will have you creating animations in no time.
http://www.creativebloq.com/animation/tools-animations-10134750
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Presentation of the Week: Best of the Web 2013
Using Google Docs for 21st Century Learning
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Helping Teachers See the Benefits of Social Media
A great list of articles showing the benefits of using social media in education.
Tackk: Create Simple Webpages for Assignments and Announcements
Tackk is a free service that you can use to quickly create simple webpages. Using Tackk you can create a page to announce an important event, to advertise an event, or to show off your best digital works.
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2013/10/tackk-create-simple-webpages-for.html
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New Tool Lets You Visualize Just About Anything in 5 Minutes (Maybe Less)
A new open source tool called RAW makes it remarkably easy to visualize any data that you can copy and paste from a table.
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The Best Web Publishing Tools and Services
The best tools, web apps and resources for any independent web publisher.
https://web-publishing.zeef.com/robin.good
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A Chromebook 101 for Teachers
A great introduction on Chromebooks, personal computers running Chrome OS as its operating system. The devices are designed to be used while connected to the Internet and support applications that reside on the Web, rather than traditional applications that reside …