A short guide to using backchannels for increasing participation in classroom discussions and for informally assessing your students’ knowledge.
How Teachers Are Using Blended Learning Right Now
Lethbridge College (Alberta, CA) recently unveiled an infographic demonstrating the results of their 2012 survey of 164 instructors regarding their teaching (online and face-to-face) and technology.
http://edudemic.com/2013/03/how-teachers-are-using-blended-learning/
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Understand These 10 Principles of Good Design Before You Start Your Next eLearning Project
Whether you’re just getting started with eLearning course design and looking to get a better understanding of eLearning best practices, or you’ve been designing courses for a while and are trying to find ways of making your material more effective, …
Clean Up Your Desktop With These Helpful Tools
Does your PC’s desktop bear a resemblance to a second grader’s? Need some help getting started before wading into the junk? Check out these tools.
http://mashable.com/2013/03/24/clean-up-your-desktop/
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Your visions of the future: The final 10
We asked you to send us your visions of the future; hundreds of you did and now two winners have been chosen.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-21887443
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Kickboard: Big Data for Teachers
Kickboard’s teacher friendly classroom analytics tool enables real-time visibility into class-wide and individual student comprehension to allow teachers to make timely shifts in instruction or provide intervention.
http://gettingsmart.com/cms/edreformer/kickboard-big-data-for-teachers/…
8 Characteristics Of Education 3.0
This chart is broken up into three categories–Education 1.0 (the old way), 2.0 (the current way), and 3.0 (the future way). Whereas Education 1.0 was closed and industrial, 3.0 is open and ubiquitous. It is admittedly a mix of roadmap …
Use Strikingly to Create Beautiful Webpages
Striking.ly is a service that can be used to create one page websites to show off your best digital work or to advertise an event. Striking.ly provides a variety of templates for digital portfolios and digital flyers.
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2013/02/use-strikingly-to-create-beautiful.html…
Impress.js: Open Source Alternative To Prezi For Creating Presentations
Impress.js is a free presentation tool inspired by the Prezi platform that can be used for creating attractive presentations.
What 60 Schools Can Tell Us About Teaching 21st Century Skills
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Presentation of the Week: Complexification of Higher Education
Moodle Educloud Native App Transforms Android and iPad Tablets Into Full-Featured Mobile Learning Devices
Moodle Educloud allows students and teachers to use open source Moodle as a full-featured learning management system (LMS) on Android tablets with Apple(R) iPad support soon to follow. .
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5 Great Tutorials on How to Build your Personal Learning Network
A personal learning network is a method of linking kids and adults to major sources of information on the Internet. It is like choosing your closest friends that you want to listen to because they keep you up to date, …
What’s the Difference Between “Doing Projects” and “Project Based Learning”?
A fantastic comparison describing the key differences between “doing projects” and project-based learning!
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100 Top Experts in E-learning and Educational Technology
Here’s a list of some of the top experts in eLearning and EdTech who are sharing their wealth of information online for all to read!
http://bestcollegerankings.org/elearning-edtech/
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