Educators can turn to free online resources to help students find and organize lesson plans, give them extra help in various subjects, and more.
Ten Videos Every Educator Should Watch (and Reflect on)
The internet abound with videos for educators, some contextual and benefit educators in particular situations at a particular time (e.g. tools tutorials) while others are timeless by focusing on what really matters in education. Below are 10 videos that every …
How Cool is Google Image Search? You Can Even Use a Picture as a Search Parameter!
Google Image Search is a pretty fascinating tool with plenty of possibilities for teaching-related uses.
3 Free And Easy Tools To Help You Flip The Classroom
With so many ways to flip the classroom, here are three of the best tools to help you record, present and host your content online.
http://www.fractuslearning.com/2012/02/27/tools-flip-the-classroom/…
20 tips and resources for using learning technology in higher education
See what panelists from universities including Cornell, Bath, MIT and Glasgow Caledonia suggest on how to successfully extend the classroom into virtual environments.
Awwapp: A Web Whiteboard
A Web Whiteboard is touch-friendly online whiteboard app that lets you use your computer, tablet or smartphone to easily draw sketches, collaborate with others and share them with the world. Works on all modern browsers, no installation needed.
Julian Treasure: 5 ways to listen better (TED Talk)
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Presentation of the Week: The End of Teaching as We Know it
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75 Moodle videos and tutorials
Loads of great videos that are a great source of information for theme designing, Moodle course creation, administrating a Moodle site and more.
http://www.moodlenews.com/2012/75-moodle-videos-and-tutorials-by-hrdnzmoodlebites/…
Best Free PDF Tools
A list of multipurpose programs offering general features for merging PDF files, splitting or re-ordering pages within a single application.
http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/best-free-pdf-tools.htm…
Evernote For Schools Site: Resource for Using Evernote in Education
As more teachers and students adopt new technologies, including Evernote, they’re looking for useful resources to help them along the way. We’re excited to introduce them to Evernote for Schools, our new microsite devoted to helping those in the education …
Would an Internet of Things Threaten the Internet of People?
If 50 billion, or however many billion, devices share the same Internet as some 8 billion humans by the year 2020, will the weakest links in data security be on machines that have any degree of human control?
http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/2012/02/would-an-internet-of-things-th.php…
11 Web-based Polling and Survey Tools
Here are eleven other ways you can conduct polls and surveys online.
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2012/02/11-web-based-polling-and-survey-tool…
The Internet of Things and Education
With the Internet connecting us to many things (media, photos, information, etc.) can it also connect us to physical objects? Can we launch applications on our computer by just touching a physical object? Can one physical object talk to another …
Ten reasons why game based learning works in education
A great list to get hands-on with game based learning techniques across the curriculum.
http://www.connectededucation.com/2012/02/ten-reasons-why-game-based-learning-works-in-education/…