The Google+: The New Social Network by Google
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Presentation of the Week: Teaching at the Age of Participation
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Five Projects That Use Technology to Improve Education
On Tuesday the Gates Foundation announced 19 winners of the second phase of its Next Generation Learning Challenges grant competition. While all 19 grantees are noteworthy, here are five that really stand out.
Ten Excellent Online Apps For the Innovative Teacher
Teachers for all levels of students today have so many more teaching aids than even just a few years ago. Here’s a list of some online applications, listed alphabetically, that we feel are excellent for teachers.
http://www.topeducationdegrees.com/online-apps-innovative-teachers…
Choosing the Right Web 2.0 Tool for Education
There are lots of cool things out there that you can use with your class, but the trick is to choose the ‘right’ cool thing for what you want your students to achieve and to not be seduced by the …
Google Doc Discussions for Hybrid Learning
Google Documents rock! Where else can you get a free document editor that you can share and collaborate with others? Recently, Google released Discussions which were an improvement on the comments you could embed within a document. Now students could …
Create an eBook using free software
Create an ebook where students can add images, text and flash animations. This is great for storytelling, presenting a research task, the alphabet, learning a language, instructional manual, art portfolio, digital photo album, etc.
http://digitaltoolsforteachers.blogspot.com/2011/06/create-ebook-using-free-software.html…
TweetWally Lets Teachers Search and Present Relevant Tweets
For all the exposure Twitter is getting these days there is still an alarming number of people that do not realize its value. One way to illustrate the value to students and teachers is to present tweets that really shows …
High Wired: Does Addictive Internet Use Restructure the Brain?
Brain scans hint excessive time online is tied to stark physical changes in the brain.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=does-addictive-internet-use-restructure-brain…
Social Learning Tools for the School Classroom
This is a a list of tools particularly targeted at (or very useful) for the primary, junior, middle and secondary school classroom.
The Problem of ‘Pedagogy’ in a Web 2.0 Era
A great article written by Trent Batson, Ph.D, from MIT.
http://campustechnology.com/Articles/2011/06/15/The-Problem-of-Pedagogy-in-a-Web-2.0-Era.aspx…
From iCloud to Dropbox: 5 Cloud Services Compared
With the recent announcement of iCloud, Apple joins Google, Amazon and Microsoft in their aggressive push into cloud computing, in a race to reel customers into their media ecosystems.
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/06/cloud-services-compared/…
Plagiarism-related Tools
As a teacher, you hope you will never need to use these tools, but once in a while a student turns in a writing assignment, which you suspect is not his own. Here is a great list on plagiarism checking …
Presentation of the Week: New Technologies and the Future of Learning
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Daniel Tammet: Different Ways of Knowing
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