The purpose behind these resources is to help teachers and educators tap into the full potential of Google in education through introducing them to the different services Google has in store for them and also by walking them through the …
Back To School? How To Organize Your Classroom Work With Evernote
It’s absolutely crucial that you stay as organized as possible so that you know where to find the information you need and make things as easy as possible for yourself. Evernote is a fantastic tool to take care of all …
Top 10 Misconceptions About MOOCs
An interesting list of misconceptions about the Massive Open Online Courses.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/owen-youngman/misconceptions-about-moocs_b_3922278.html
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Presentation of the Week: Learning and Creating Knowledge in Social Networks
Digital Futures: ‘Innovate! Inspire! Invent!’ urge 10 tech leaders at Campus Party
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How To Get Started With A BYOD Classroom
Having a BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) classroom can be a great way to bring technology into your classroom when you might not otherwise have it. You’re letting your students use technology that they’re likely quite familiar with, and both …
Four New Ways to Customize your Google Forms
Starting today, you’ll be able to take advantage of four new features to create your perfect form: progress bars, data validation, embedded YouTube videos, and custom messages.
http://googledrive.blogspot.ca/2013/09/four-new-ways-to-customize-your-google.html…
7 Tech Tools for Collaboration
Here are some of our favorite tools for learning from one another, sharing best practices and growing as an educator along the way.
A Teacher’s Guide to Classroom Backchannels & Informal Assessment
A great guide to using backchannels in the classroom. The guide includes ideas and directions for using Padlet, Socrative, and TodaysMeet.
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2013/09/backchannels.html
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Amara: Caption, translate, subtitle and transcribe video
The easiest way to caption and translate any video. The most powerful and flexible subtitling platform in the world.
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Integrating Active Videos into Active Learning
Yann Brouillette (Dawson College faculty) has created videos that reflect his interests in chemistry, film and active learning. As these films have been posted on YouTube, teachers can use them in the classroom or as a model for other productions.…
The Business of Textbooks or Why do Students Prefer Print?
It is becoming quite clear that, despite the ubiquity of computers and interactive technology in their lives, students preferred textbooks over e-books for learning.
http://clintlalonde.net/2013/08/09/the-business-of-textbooks/
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Learning Analytics: The Emergence of a Discipline
A really good, detailed overview of learning analytics as an “emerging discipline”. Even some good coverage of the institutional adoption of learning analytics.
http://davidtjones.wordpress.com/2013/09/04/learning-analytics-the-emergence-of-a-discipline/
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Samsung Chromebook: Six Months Later
This week we take a look at the Samsung Chromebook, an affordable, yet stylish Chromebook which garnered mostly positive reviews and has been at the top of Amazon’s top sellers list for months. For $250 it looks like a steal, …
7 Interesting Ways You Can Play With Word Clouds
Word clouds or tag clouds can be put to lot of uses because they help to jog our brains and make it see the mundane in alternative ways. Isn’t that the trigger for creativity? Let’s find out with some examples.…