A great guide designed specifically for teachers and educators. This guide is created by YouTube itself and has a detailed explanation together with some awesome tutorials on everything a teacher needs to know about the use of this video platform …
Shimon Schocken: The self-organizing computer course
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Presentation of the Week: The Best Web 2.0 Tools for Teachers – 2012 Edition
80 Ways To Use Google Forms In Your Classroom
Google Apps are some of the most widely used tools in education today. This extremely powerful tool can do so much and it’s all free. Lucky for all of us, Tom Barrett has built a crowdsourced Google Doc (of course) …
The Flip: End of a Love Affair
The flip’s gradual disappearance from our learning space hasn’t been a conscious decision: it’s simply a casualty of our progression from a teacher-centred classroom to a student-centred one.
8 Awesome New Web Tools Teachers should not Miss
A great list of new tools so that teachers can discover and keep updated with the recent releases in the world of educational technology.
http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2012/10/teacher-web-tools.html…
What You Need to Know About Mobile Learning
New guide helps educators integrate technology for classroom use.
http://www.edtechmagazine.com/k12/article/2012/10/what-you-need-know-about-mobile-learning…
Excellent iPad Apps to Create eBooks
With iPads, teachers can create ebooks for their students or even help them create ebooks for themselves. Below is a compiled list of such apps.
http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2012/10/excellent-ipad-apps-to-create-ebooks.html…
New Presentation Tool Lets You Easily Keep Students Engaged
From Prezi to Google Docs to PowerPoint, there’s no shortage of ways for teachers to put together a dynamic presentation. But Klowd wanted to take a different approach to help improve the presentation experience for both the person at the …
Ways to Support Teachers with Google Apps for Education
See how Google Docs works and many concrete examples of how Google Docs can be used for student projects and best practices for maximizing their workflow as well as student workflow.
http://kylepace.wordpress.com/2012/10/09/ways-to-support-teachers-with-google-apps-for-education/…
The Future of Education: Tablets vs. Textbooks
Educators can point to many positives of digital books. Tablets can easily update information and assignments, high-resolution audio and video illustrate and reinforce concepts, and with online assignments, students gain the ability to interact with the material they’re learning.
Quickly Create Interactive Text Activities with Textivate
Textivate is a simple web tool which allows users to automatically generate a range of interactive browser-based activities based on any text of up to 500 words.
http://www.whiteboardblog.co.uk/2012/10/quickly-create-interactive-text-activities-with-textivate/…
Montreal researchers seek to make music from raw emotion
Concordia art student Erin Gee and a neuroscientist in Australia have collaborated on a project that records emotional response in the body and turns it into music.
Dispelling the Myths About 1:1 Environments
Reflections on the use of iPad in Education.
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/dispelling-one-to-one-myths-andrew-marcinek…
Classroom Game Design
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