This website is the product of a collaboration that started in the fall of 2010 when a total of eighty New School faculty, librarians, students, and staff came together to think about teaching and learning with digital media. These conversations …
Why Use Games in the Language Classroom?
Games help the teacher to create contexts in which the language is useful and meaningful. The learners want to take part and in order to do so must understand what others are saying or have written, and they must speak
Beyond iPad: Top 10 tablets to watch this year
Tablets are hot, thanks to the original iPad and now the iPad 2. The tablet space is going to get really smoking hot this year with some compelling devices hitting the market that will crank things up a notch. Here …
3 New & Superb Ways To Share Files Online
We’ll take a look at some of the newer web-based storage and file-sharing sites that despite their simple looks, offer convenient drag-and-drop, as well as, shortened URLs and statistics (something that most desktop programs don’t provide yet).
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/3-superb-ways-share-files-online/…
An Educators Guide to Twitter
An interesting guide to Twitter created using Livebinders.
What Do Kids Say Is The Biggest Obstacle To Technology At School?
iPads. Interactive Whiteboards. Netbooks. Video games. Although educational technologies are being implemented more and more in classrooms across the country, we don’t often stop and ask students – or their parents – what they think their technology needs are. But …
What Is Amazon Cloud Drive?
You get 5GB of cloud storage, free, that’s yours to do with as you please. The focus is clearly music, but you can put documents, photos, and videos on there as well.
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Twitter for Teachers
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Using Lessons in Moodle – Removing the clutter from the navigation page
The Lesson activity in Moodle helps creating modules that contain all the information a student needs to complete a block of study.
2 Easy Ways To Create An Impressive Timeline For Free
If you want a quick and easy way to create a timeline, there are many free online services that make it a snap. Tiki-Toki and Dipity are just two of many options.
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/2-easy-ways-create-impressive-timeline-free/
Make Your Videos Compatible With All Devices With The Help Of Vid.ly
There are many ways and devices that you can use to access video on the net but each requires a specific format of video. Meet vid.ly, a web service that promises to do all the hard work for you, so
Social Media in the Modern Classroom
With the rise of social media and online learning, teachers need to strike a balance between using these innovative online tools and exposing them to inappropriate content and misuse.
http://www.aaeteachers.org/index.php/blog/392-social-media-in-the-modern-classroom
How to Use Moodle to Engage Students
It is actually hard for teachers to compete with video games, music, internet, music, etc. I would like to focus on what teachers have to deal with everyday and what they can do to engage students, to make them cooperate,
10 Fantastic Creative Multi-Media & Video Applications
The tools listed below all give you the ability to not only star in, but create, edit, publish, and share your very own artistic video making awesomeness. The fun doesn’t end there, from creating your own slide shows, to your