So below are 30 innovative ways to use Google search in the classroom. And rather than gimmicks, or general ways by typical content areas, the intended outcome here is the student’s sustained ability to self-direct and manage the search process …
Blubbr- Great Tool to Create Quizzes from YouTube Videos
Blubbr is a cool web tool that allows users to create quizzes around YouTube videos. These are basically interactive video quizzes ( called Trivs ) that you can create for your students and which they can answer while they watch …
How are MOOCs organized?
A real-time chronicle of a seasoned professor who is about to give his second massively open online course (MOOC).
If students designed their own school… it would look like this
It’s crazy that in a system that is meant to teach and help the youth there is no voice from the youth at all.” That’s the opening line in a video called “If students designed their own schools,” about The …
A Printable Guide to Social Media
Tips and tricks to keep in mind when using the latest online tools in school.
http://www.edtechmagazine.com/k12/article/2013/02/printable-guide-social-media-infographic
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8 Resources To Find & Edit Digital Images Without Being Sued
If you own or write for a blog, you will know the pain and annoyance of sourcing images for it. No matter what type of post you’re writing, images are always needed to brighten them up and break up the …
Stanford Makes MOOC Open Source Platform, Class2Go, Available to All
The platform is open, meaning that you can grab the code base for free and run it on your very own server. Class2Go is also portable, giving schools the ability to move documents and media to other platforms if they …
5 Ways to Add Interactive Elements to Your Videos
These tools could be used by teachers to enhance the short videos that they create for flipped lessons.
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2013/02/5-ways-to-add-interactive-elements-to.html…
Cell Phone Digital Storytelling with Narrable
Narrable is an app which seeks to “Capture the voices that give life to your photos.” It went out of beta in December 2012, and has some good features.
http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2013/02/09/cell-phones-digital-storytelling-with-narrable/…
The Current State Of Plagiarism In Education (Infographic)
This recent infographic shows some more of the trends in content matching (papers vs. all online sources), shares some statistics about the number of papers written and topics they’re written on, and even offers a few ideas for teachers to …
3 Awesome Apps for Teachers to Create their Own Apps
The platforms like the ones below will serve the purpose to help you create your app in less than a minute and the process is completely free.
http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2013/02/3-awesome-apps-for-teachers-to-create.html…
Gamifying the Classroom
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Presentation of the Week: Ed Tech, MOOCs and Beyond
A Look At The Next Generation Model Of Education
The debate over standardized testing in public education is about as contentious as controversies over charter schools and teacher unions. But perhaps the biggest initiative is for dramatic changes in standards and testing. And while many see this as a …
Are Teachers of Tomorrow Prepared to Use Innovative Tech?
With a new generation of teachers coming into the work force, there’s a discrepancy between what principals expect of teachers-in-training and what they’re actually learning in school.
http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2013/02/are-teachers-of-tomorrow-prepared-to-use-innovative-tech/…