Technology, once a distraction for students, is finding its way into classrooms in a way that is more seamless than ever.
My personal productivity rules
I’ve learned that keeping a few basic rules in place helps me balance that interest in improving my systems with my desire to actually do the work that productivity systems are supposed to assist. I’ve shared these rules with other …
Presentation of the Week: Curation: Making Meaning & Adding Value
What is a MOOC?
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What Happens to Your Life When the Cloud Disappears?
In the cloud, when something goes wrong, you are screwed. There are no rules to stop it, no protections in place. There’s no responsibility. Your photostream, your calendars, your reminders, your documents, your home movies—they are at their mercy or …
Understanding Content Curation
Why curate? What is the value of curating for teachers? Really –what is the benefit of curating in terms of the learning goals – enduring understandings and 21st century skills for our students?
http://d20innovation.d20blogs.org/2012/07/07/understanding-content-curation/…
50 Indispensable EdTech Tools for 2012
Here is a list of some of the best tech tools, including some that are becoming increasingly popular and widely used, that should be part of any teacher’s tech tool arsenal this year, whether for their own personal use or …
How To Capture Ideas Visually With The iPad
Visual recording is what it sounds like it’d be. As opposed to recording audio, visual recording captures visuals, though not necessarily in photographic form. The process of visually capturing ideas with the iPad isn’t terribly complex in concept. If you …
Amazon Glacier – The Most Affordable Online Backup Service Ever!
Amazon Glacier is a new online backup service where you can store your files for as little as1¢ per GB per month. This is the cheapest storage plan offered by any cloud storage vendor even and Amazon promises 99.999999999% durability …
Are kids really motivated by technology?
You can’t motivate students with technology because technology alone isn’t motivating. Worse yet, students are almostalways ambivalent toward digital tools. While you may be completely jazzed by the interactive whiteboard in your classroom or the wiki that you just whipped …
The Top Educational iPad Apps Every Teacher and Student should Know about
When it comes to searching for educational apps to install on your iPad it feels like you get drowned in an avalanche of apps and resources from which you emerge empty-handed.Thankfully, there are many trusted educational resources where educators and …
6 tech tools to bring out the A student in you
For the students out there, the closing of summer means a change of scenery, from beach and bonfires to classrooms and textbooks. To ready yourself into study mode, we’re highlighting six tech products to bring out the A student in …
Free Online Course Will Rely on Multiple Sites
A group of online-learning ventures is collaborating on a new kind of free class to be offered this fall, known as a mechanical MOOC (for “massive open online course”), that will teach a computer-programming language by patching together existing resources …
5 Alternatives to Aviary for Creating Audio Online
Here are five online tools that you and your students can use to create audio files online.
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2012/08/5-alternatives-to-aviary-for-creating.html…
10 Fun Tools To Easily Make Your Own Infographics
So what if you could make your own infographics? What would you make it of? It’s actually easier than you think… even if you have zero design skills whatsoever.
Below are my two favorite infographic-making web 2.0 tools that I …