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10 Ways To Use Technology To Teach Writing
Here, we offer just a few tech-focused ways to help students learn grammar, essay-writing, and, most importantly, why good writing is so important to their futures.
http://edudemic.com/2012/11/10-high-tech-ways-to-teach-writing/…
Social Content Curation for Learning Communities
An infographic I created for a MOOC at Stanford: Designing New Learning Environments. Made with too little space, too little skills, too little time and too little research. Lots of fun though.
Gates Foundation funds online university open access
Online courses provided by some of the top universities in the United States are going to be used by students at local community colleges, in a project funded by the Gates Foundation.
FreeFullPDF: Over 80 million of free scientific publications
A great repository of free scientific publications. The aim of FreeFullPDF is to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific journals, theses, posters and patents. All scientific subjects are covered and all content are freely available …
Why the iPad Mini Is a Disruptive Technology
I believe that the iPad Mini and smaller tablets will be even more disruptive to the traditional PC market than the full-size iPad has been to date.
http://techland.time.com/2012/11/19/why-the-ipad-mini-is-a-disruptive-technology…
Integrate THAT Technology into YOUR Classroom
The five ideas below are a suggested starting point if you are integrating new technology into your classroom. From a BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) programme, to a class set of hardware, an internet enabled classroom has the potential to …
Finland’s Secret Sauce: Its Teachers
A country that once didn’t warrant much attention, Finland has zipped to the top in international measures of education, and American educators in particular want to know its secret.
http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/transforming_learning/2012/11/finlands_secret_sauce_its_teachers.html…
Dropbox Forms: Receive files from your web site to your Dropbox!
JotForm is the first web based WYSIWYG form builder. By using a drag and drop user interface, it allows you to create forms, integrate them to your site and receive responses by email.
How The Nearpod iPad App Changed An Entire School
Nearpod is an App that allows teachers to share presentations; but wait, there’s more! It also lets you be a fully engaged participant and interact with the presentation through polls, quizzes, videos, drawing interactivity, website-sharing, self-guided quizzes and more.
gClassFolders Helps You Organize Google Drive Files Shared by Your Students
Google Drive is a great tool that can help you create a paperless classroom. gClassFolders is a script that will create folders for you for as many course sections as you need.
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2012/11/gclassfolders-helps-you-organize-google.html…
9 Ways Students Can Host Peer Tutoring Sessions Online
Today, thanks to web conferencing tools, students don’t even need to be in the same country in order to tutor each other. Here are some good tools that students can use to host peer tutoring sessions online.
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2012/11/9-ways-students-can-host-peer-tutoring.html…
Self-taught African Teen Wows M.I.T.
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Presentation of the Week: Sustainability and MOOCs in Historical Perspective
Q&A with Salman Khan, the founder of Khan Academy
An amateur teacher who rocketed to fame on the Internet tells us how he’ll take his free video tutorials to the next level.
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/506356/qa-with-salman-khan/…