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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Finding a Replacement for Google Reader
Before Google Reader goes dark on July 1st, choose a better alternative for it.
http://www.labnol.org/internet/google-reader-alternative/27918/…
5 Interesting Ways To Learn To Code
Many people have realized the importance of learning how to code as a life skill.
The best – and probably most surprising part – is that coding doesn’t have to be a boring ordeal. Don’t believe me? Check out these …
How to Cite Internet Sources
Citing sources under APA and MLA rules is confusing enough for books, magazines, and other hardcopy documents. But there are established rules for how to cite Internet sources, too—and teachers in both traditional and accredited online colleges expect you to …
How Twitter has made me a New Teacher
The other day I managed to pass a couple of Twitter milestones, 500 followers and 3000 tweets, and I made me really stop and think about how this thing that many of us use named Twitter has affected my life …