Dr. Zachary Walker, 5 Questions for Today’s Educators
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Presentation of the Week: 7.5 Tips for Becoming a Brainstorming Genius
100+ Tips for New Teachers and Good Reminders for Veteran Teachers
A compilation of very useful tips for new teachers put together into a Google Slides presentation.
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2013/08/100-tips-for-new-teachers-and-good.html…
How to take great notes – and then find them again
Chuck out the box files, students. Just drag and drop your notes into folders online.
http://www.theguardian.com/education/2013/aug/08/digital-tools-to-share-and-organise-work
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How To Use Google Forms To Create Your Own Self-Grading Quiz
Google Forms are amazing tools, allowing you to do some really advanced tricks with forms as the front-end and spreadsheets at the heart. Today we’ll look at how to create a self-grading quiz using Google Forms.
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-use-google-forms-to-create-your-own-self-grading-quiz/
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Vittle: Turn your iPad into a Recordable Video Whiteboard
Vittles are engaging videos that combine your photos, handwriting, and voice to help you share your best ideas.
http://www.qrayon.com/home/vittle/
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50 Little-Known Ways Google Docs Can Help In Education
We’ve discovered 50+ great tips for getting the most out of Google Docs as a student, with awesome ideas and tricks for collaboration, sharing, and staying productive.
http://www.edudemic.com/2012/04/50-little-known-ways-google-docs-can-help-in-education/
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8 Tips and Tricks to Redesign Your Classroom
Remake Your Class is a 3-part video series that covers how one educator transformed his classroom with the help of his students, some community volunteers, and design experts.
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/8-tips-redesign-your-classroom-david-bill…
8 Next-Gen Devices Students Will Be Using In A Couple Years
Between official company press releases and leaked information, we generally have a pretty solid idea of what we’re in for by the time a device actually hits the shelves. So what noteworthy items did 2013 bring us? This handy infographic …
The 9 Best Web Tools Teachers Will Use This Year
For this year’s bunch I have gathered the most important items into one single web page of my classroom website. The following is a list of free online tools that I have incorporated (or plan to) for this year’s class. …
Moodle.org introduce their first MOOC for Teachers
Moodle for teachers: An introduction is a 4 week introductory course with a recommended total of 8-12 hours participation time. Registration opens on 19th August 2013 and the course starts on 1st September 2013.
http://blog.matbury.com/2013/08/09/moodle-org-introduce-their-first-mooc/
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Why Organizations Choose an Open Source Learning Management System
Why should an organization choose an open source Learning Management System as opposed to a homegrown or proprietary LMS? Kineo recently distributed a survey to organizations which reveals the reasons why they chose open source.
http://elearningindustry.com/why-organizations-choose-an-open-source-learning-management-system
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What the Stapel scandal can teach us
In the summer of 2011, a Dutch social psychologist was in the process of losing his job. His name was Diederik Stapel and he’d committed an unimaginable fraud: over ten years he’d falsified data for over 55 experiments, some of …
Presentation of the Week: Powerpoint doesn’t suck, you do
Blending Technology and Classroom Learning
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