Presentation of the Week: Demystifying MOOCs!
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10 YouTube Channels That Will Make You Smarter
Check out the list for 10 examples from a sea of videos that will leave you eager to learn more.
http://mashable.com/2013/04/04/youtube-education/
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5 Ways Google Glass Can Be Used in Education
Google’s innovative visual technology will have many applications for teaching and learning.
http://www.emergingedtech.com/2013/04/5-ways-google-glass-can-be-used-in-education/
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Use Shared Google Drive Folders to Distribute Assignments to Students
At the beginning of a semester create a folder, share it with your students, and then for the whole semester you can distribute assignments to students by just adding new content to the folder.
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2013/04/use-shared-google-drive-folders-to.html…
5 Tools to Organize Online Course Work
There are ways to manage this information tsunami more efficiently, and tools to help. Here are five of the most popular, effective file management methods available to help you organize your online course work.
http://www.bestcollegesonline.com/blog/2013/04/04/5-tools-to-organize-online-course-work/…
Uruguay’s One Laptop Per Child program: Impact and numbers
Uruguay may only have 3.3 million inhabitants, but this South American country has distributed more than half a million free laptops to its students and teachers over the last five years.
http://thenextweb.com/la/2013/04/07/uruguays-one-laptop-per-child-program-impact-and-numbers/
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The Five Best Tools for Creating Videos Without Installing Software
These are the five tools that I recommend for creating and editing videos without installing any special software.
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2013/04/the-five-best-tools-for-creating-videos.html…
Using Google Drive As an LMS (Learning Management System)
By using Google Apps as the background for my LMS, I can easily use any feature, function or app by working within the Google sphere.
http://edtechvoice.com/using-google-drive-as-an-lms/
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Ten Myths About Technology
Technology has its place. Simply rejecting it outright is as dangerous as accepting it blindly. The point is to think critically about it and to do so with a sense of humility.
http://www.educationrethink.com/2013/04/ten-myths-about-technology.html?spref=tw
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Teachers Manual to A Paperless Classroom
So how about having a paperless classroom ? In this regard I have crafted this little guide to help you better integrate technology into your teaching and drive paper away from you classroom, opps I mean most of it .…
MOOC Interrupted: Top 10 Reasons Our Readers Didn’t Finish a Massive Open Online Course
Here is a summary of the 10 most commonly-cited reasons students don’t finish a MOOC.
http://www.openculture.com/2013/04/10_reasons_you_didnt_complete_a_mooc.html
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mmixr: The Ultimate “All in One” Presentation Management Tool
mmixr is the ultimate “All in One” presentation tool to help individuals, universities, and companies to create, manage and share engaging and animated presentation.
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