I love project-based learning. Why? Because my students do. Some of my favourite PBL adventures are the Biology 30 projects due at semester’s end. These aren’t the only projects we pursue throughout the semester; we also work on a number …
100 Ways You Should Be Using Facebook in Your Classroom
Facebook isn’t just a great way for you to find old friends or learn about what’s happening this weekend, it is also an incredible learning tool. Teachers can utilize Facebook for class projects, for enhancing communication, and for engaging students …
Characteristics of 21st Century Teachers
As others try to discover the next revolutionary idea to elicit changes in education, educators in the classroom are making things happen now, despite the hurdles they sometimes face. Innovative educators today are often referred to as 21st Century Teachers, …
CosmoLearning: a free educational website for students and teachers
Created with the goal to provide a free online school, CosmoLearning (CL) is an educational website committed to improve the quality of homeschooling, teaching and student excellence, helping educators and self-learners alike anywhere in the world.
16 Ways Educators Use Pinterest
A list of interesting ways teachers can start using this image-based social network.
http://www.onlineuniversities.com/ways-educators-use-pinterest…
Managing Google Docs in the Classroom
Teachers love how easy it is to collaborate with their students, not having to worry about losing the file and all the other bonuses that using Docs brings, but tracking down assignments can be a nightmare. I’ve covered this before …
Presentation of the Week: Sensemaking: Beyond Analytics as a Technical Activity
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20 Amazing Tools to Modify Images
Here is a compilation of the best online applications that may help any individual to make the fine adjustments needed for images.
5 Best Free Screen Capture Software For Windows
Screenshots are used in several situations; from creating a manual to getting help on a forum, screenshots act as a visual aid to the topic or problem under discussion. Here is a list of five of the best screenshot taking …
Free Teacher Guides from Microsoft – great resources
Microsoft has some great Teacher Guides available for free. The guides have teaching tips and step-by-step instructions on a variety of topics and tools and technologies.
http://educationaltechnologyguy.blogspot.ca/2012/03/free-teacher-guides-from-microsoft.html?m=1…
6 Important Wikipedia Tools for Teachers
Wkipedia is a great educational resource for both teachers and students. Its articles appear almost always in the first four links of the search results. Here is a set of tools that are commiserate to Wikipedia. They are great learning …
Ten Fun Ways to Use YouTube Videos in an Online Literature Class
Here are ten ways literature instructors can use YouTube in class. However, regardless of the discipline you teach you’ll likely find that YouTube has similarly appropriate resources for you.
Personalising Learning in Teacher Education through the use of Technology (Article)
The meaningful integration of technology in teaching and learning is consistently called for in all sectors of education. Recently it has appeared as a key tenet for achieving what has been termed as personalising learning.
How to use Dropbox as a Moodle file repository
Dropbox is a popular online file storage app. Imagine it as a type of online USB drive, which you can access anywhere in the world as long as you have a computer and internet connection. If you have a Dropbox …