How do you determine what technologies to use in your classroom? Do you have a set of criteria to systematically select the tools? Are they linked to your students‘ characteristics, pedagogy, and learning outcomes?
PISA – Measuring student success around the world
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Presentation of the Week: How to Organize a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course)
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7 Ways to Get Started With Cloud Computing
If you are a cloud virgin, what is the best way to get started and learn more about what the cloud can offer? Here are several suggestions for you!
http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/2011/09/7-ways-to-get-started-with-clo.php…
Texting in the Classroom: Not Just a Distraction
With the ubiquity of cellphones, many schools are facing questions about what to do when students bring cellphones to school. Ban them outright? Require they be kept in a locker or backpack? Require they be turned off? Allow them to …
Semantic Web Technology and the Future of Learning
What’s the next big thing? The Semantic Web is, according to some tech insiders (including Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the Internet), the next big thing on the Internet.
http://www.onlineuniversities.com/blog/2011/09/semantic-web-technology-and-the-future-of-learning/…
11 Predictions Concerning Technology In Education
Here is a list of predictions Terry Freedman made in 2001 about the classroom of the future. What are your predictions for the next ten years? And is it worth bothering to make such predictions anyway?
10+ Sites To Add Amazing Effects To Your Photos
Trying to make your photos more interesting? How about achieving similar results by nothing more than point and click? Check out the following sites to add funny, interesting and artistic effects to your photos.
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/10-sites-to-add-amazing-effects-to-your-photos/…
How Do I Organize My Piles of Paper Into Something Manageable?
Let’s walk through a few ways to get all of your documents organized and in similar formats so you never have to wonder where they are.
http://lifehacker.com/5843845/how-do-i-organize-my-piles-of-paper-into-something-manageable…
How to Download All Your Facebook Information to Your Computer
The world’s largest social networking site has become a habit. From sharing links to photo albums, Facebook is a virtual timeline of our lives. Thus, it is the next best thing to a digital diary. Learn how to download all …
An Attempt at Describing the Schools of Tomorrow
An overview of subjects discussed in the last New York Times’ Schools for Tomorrow summit. Among other subjects, panelists addressed challenges with the school system that obstructed progress towards innovations, practical and ideological concerns about using technology in school, and …
Twenty Everyday Ways to Model Technology Use for Students
Narrate your decisions and your rationale and you will be teaching your students how to make good decisions online and off. Good behavior online is trickle down, after all. Model it, live it, talk about it. It’s all “using” technology.…
Ideas for making school websites more accessible
Adding a few simple accessibility features to your school’s Web site will transform the experience for those with vision or hearing impairment–and everyone else as well.
http://thejournal.com/articles/2011/09/22/8-simple-tips-to-improve-accessibility.aspx…
Moodle Mobile App for iPhone Review
The official Moodle mobile application for iPhone designed to work with your Moodle learning management system has been released. The app is not intended as a replacement for the standard Moodle interface, but rather, it provides some new tools for …
The final plan: Khan Academy, gamification and the flipped classroom
A teacher describes a project to implement the concept of Flipped Classroom. An interesting reading!