We increasingly have access to technology in our classrooms. And our students are increasingly bringing their own technology into the classroom in the form of mobile devices. Below are some more focused questions you can ask yourself in the process …
5 Ways for Students to Publish in Under a Minute
If you just want students to occasionally publish an essay to the web for peer review, you might not need a full-fledged blogging platform. Here are five ways that you can have students publish their essays to the web in …
The 100 Things You Need To Know About Social Media
A great list of the best resources and guides on the web that have taken hours to write and are all by some of the best people in their respective fields.
http://www.simplyzesty.com/social-media/the-100-things-you-need-to-know-about-social-media/…
A Big List of Sites That Teach You How To Do Stuff
A great list of resources which focus on such general purpose sites that include some sort of rich media instruction (generally video).
E-Portfolios Evolve Thanks to Web 2.0 Tools
Web 2.0 and other technology tools are making it quicker and easier than ever to create digital portfolios of student work, a method of assessment experts say increases student engagement
http://www.edweek.org/dd/articles/2011/06/15/03e-portfolio.h04.html…
Harvard Students Put Smartphone Usability to the Test
Professor Dennis Galletta has been teaching a summer course at Harvard on Human Factors in Information Systems Design. As part of it, his students conducted some usability testing of the iPhone 4, Samsung’s Windows Phone 7-based Focus, HTC’s Android-based Thunderbolt, …
Presentation of the Week: QR Codes in an Academic Setting
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Sugata Mitra: The child-driven education
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Tia’s Top Ten Ed Tech Tools 2011-2012
A list of great Educational Technology tools. Hopefully some teachers and students will try to incorporate them in the classroom this year.
Classroom ideas for learning with the iPad: Resource booklet for schools
This article provides a range of practical learning and teaching ideas to support the introduction of iPads in schools.
5 Ways To Send Files To Your Dropbox Without Using Dropbox
Many times you find yourself in a predicament, when you know the easiest way to get a file is to use Dropbox, but explaining about Dropbox will just take too long. Or maybe you need to get something into my …
30 Web Sites to Teach You About Technology Integration
A great list of resources to tell you more about Educational Technology.
http://mediaspecialistsguide.blogspot.com/2011/08/30-web-sites-to-teach-you-about.html…
Increasing importance of social media in education
See how social media is revolutionizing education in Asia.
… 50 Reasons to Invite Facebook Into Your Classroom
Educators are beginning to realize the powerful potential that Facebook has in the classroom, not as a distraction, but as a collaborative learning tool. How can Facebook benefit your class? Take a look into these enumerates 50 ways.
http://mindshift.kqed.org/2011/08/50-reasons-to-invite-facebook-into-your-classroom/…
Three generations of distance education pedagogy
This paper defines and examines three generations of distance education pedagogy. Unlike earlier classifications of distance education based on the technology used, this analysis focuses on the pedagogy that defines the learning experiences encapsulated in the learning design.