When students create multimedia projects they might be tempted to simply do a Google Images search and use the first images they see. But as educators we have a responsibility to teach students to respect copyright holders’ rights. One of …
Kinect in education…open for ideas and exploration with the new SDK
Since its release, there has been tremendous enthusiasm and fascination about Kinect as not only a tool to help navigation and interaction, but to help students to get even more engaged in learning.
How to Use Google Bookmarks
A great presentation on how to use Google Bookmarks by Richard Byrne.
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2011/06/how-to-use-google-bookmarks.html…
Can Students be Curators of their own Information?
In a continuing pedagogical experiment we have had our students design and then construct their own textbooks. We collaboratively design and construct the e-texts for each group that comes through. See the results of this experiment:
http://edtechtoolbox.blogspot.com/2011/06/can-students-be-curators-of-their-own.html…
How the Flipped Classroom Is Radically Transforming Learning
Learn how flipping the classroom has transformed our teaching practice.
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.