A list of some important educational web tools selected from a variety of blogs and websites.
http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2013/07/10-new-educational-web-tools-for.html
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10 Innovative Educational Programs Run By Google
Google’s educational programs provide opportunities, funding, and build the next generation of innovative computer science workers and teachers. From these programs, we have compiled a list of the most cutting-edge and interesting educational programs that Google has recently initiated.
http://www.edudemic.com/2013/07/google-and-their-educational-opportunities/…
26 Teacher Tools To Create Online Assessments
Online assessments could be a boon to your teaching, whether for blended learning, a flipped classroom, eLearning, to better communicate learning progress to parents, or for students to track their own mastery.Take a look on these 26 teacher tools to …
TouchCast Enables You to Create Powerful Interactive Videos on Your iPad
TouchCast is an app that uses your iPad, its camera, and an array of widgets to create unique, fun and interactive videos. TouchCast allows you to record yourself or another subject (either video or just audio) to narrate your production.…
Death of the textbook and the 50-pound bookbag
State governments are moving toward digital open-source college textbooks to reduce costs.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2013/07/06/death-of-the-textbook/2456621/…
Future Learning Short Documentary
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Presentation of the Week: What Constitutes Student Success?
How To Get Your Lessons To ‘Go Viral’ With Students
The lessons that are remembered by students happen because of three reasons outlined by Kevin Allocca: tastemakers, participation, and unexpectedness.
http://www.edudemic.com/2013/06/how-to-get-your-lessons-to-go-viral-with-students/
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Tagul: create gorgeous word/tag clouds
Tagul is a web service that enables you to create gorgeous tag clouds (aka word clouds) that you can place on your webpage or share with friends. Tagul clouds have numerous advantages against ordinary text clouds like words inside words …
Advent of Google means we must rethink our approach to education
We have a romantic attachment to skills from the past which are no longer relevant on a curriculum for today’s children.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2013/jun/15/schools-teaching-curriculum-education-google
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Should students be allowed to use the internet in exams?
Professor Sugata Mitra imagines an alternative education system with no need for memorisation or teaching to test.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/teacher-network/teacher-blog/2013/jun/17/ipads-exams-teaching-test-schools
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100 Google Chrome Tips For Everyone
The 100 tips are organized into 10 categories. Each category contains 10 tips. Starting with tips you can use to set up Chrome after installation.
Study Gauges Value of Technology in Schools
With school districts rushing to buy computers, tablets, digital white boards and other technology, a new report questions whether the investment is worth it.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/14/education/study-gauges-value-of-technology-in-schools.html…
How to Use Twitter to Become an Expert on Any Topic
Sometimes you need to quickly immerse yourself in a new field. You might want to gain expertise or quickly gauge what the current issues are around a particular topic. One way of doing this is by creating a dedicated Twitter …
Create Multimedia Presentations & Quizzes in Edmodo
Soo Meta is a great tool for creating multimedia presentations and quizzes. So if you use Edmodo and you want to create multimedia presentations and quizzes or you want your students to create them, that can happen by using Edmodo …