Online tutorial site will work with 47 schools and educational programs to make Khan videos a routine part of K-12 learning.
20 Reasons Why you Should Use Google Plus
Just like other social networking websites, Google Plus has a growing potential in education. More and more educators and teachers are using it to connect and learn from each other.
http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2013/03/20-reasons-why-you-should-use-google.html…
How Teachers Can Start Curating Information for Professional Development
This infographic focuses on curation and identifies ways educators can start curating content in order to harness information and become lifelong learners in the digital age.
Presentation of the Week: Digital Fluency
Sugata Mitra: Build a School in the Cloud (TED 2013)
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30 Innovative Ways To Use Google In Education
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 …