Clearwater High School is doing away with paper books, opting instead to hand out Kindles to the 2,000 students it educates. The pupils are reacting very positively so far to the change, signaling that for younger readers ebooks may be …
6 Top Free Online Tools for Support Teaching and Learning
These web based resources offer the ability to integrate online technology into some of the best practices for engaging students in learning activities. The selection was made based on reviewing available online resources along with other contributions and feedback from
How to Create a Facebook Group for Your Classes
Below is a simple tutorial on how to create a Facebook community group for your classes. Note: the tutorial assumes that you already have a Facebook account.
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2010/09/how-to-create-facebook-group-for-your.html
Reflections on Teaching with Social Media
There’s a big difference between allowing the use of social media and requiring it. That difference probably explains the ambivalence of students in Brian Croxall’s courses, and he had them bouncing from wikis to Twitter to Wave. You can’t just …
Teaching and technology: presentations and resources for educators
During the last six or so years I have created a number of ‘how-to’ documents and presentations for a variety of web based and related technologies. They are available from the various workshop web pages however I thought it might …