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The new alternative to Todaysmeet. Super Teacher Tools. 200 Ways to Use Word Clouds in the Classroom. Welcome to a post that grows each time I write it.

200 Ways to Use Word Clouds in the Classroom

I am now up to 200 ways that educators can use word clouds in the classroom. I am able to add to my number each year by further reflection and learning from amazing educators as I travel the country. I also think employing word clouds is a great way to begin technology integration with teachers, and also a wonderful way to travel around the SAMR pool. Before reading, please take a moment to subscribe by email or RSS and also give me a follow on Twitter at mjgormans. I promise you will find some great information coming your way in the posts that follow…So sign up now and please pass this on with a retweet. – Mike Gorman ( How to Engage Your Students With No-Cost Technology. Students are more engaged on field trips than they are by a textbook.

How to Engage Your Students With No-Cost Technology

Who can blame them? It's so much more fun to experience an object or a place than to only read about it. But with field trips come costs and logistics, and because of those two things, many times field trips are not possible. Good news! Lyricsgaps.com - Learn Languages Online - Exercises Listening - Fill in the gaps.

Top 100 Sites & Apps of 2014. Well, it's that time of year again for my favorite and most robust list on the top 100 Sites/Apps of the year.

Top 100 Sites & Apps of 2014

As with the previous year's list, more and more mobile apps are making the list as mobile learning continues to be the rising trend in education. However, that's not to say that there aren't plenty of websites and Learning Management Systems showing up as well. Finally, any site or app that was in a previous year's list will not be in this one. * mobile app. Ict & web tools - section 2. Blog Entry. - 6 Ways To Access @YouTube Videos Even If They're Blocked at School. 1 Comment October 13, 2014 By: Lisa Nielsen Oct 12 Written by: 10/12/2014 3:51 PM ShareThis.

- 6 Ways To Access @YouTube Videos Even If They're Blocked at School

ProConIt - EDpuzzle. The 101 Most Useful Websites on the Internet. Here are the most useful websites on the Internet that will make you smarter, increase productivity and help you learn new skills. These incredibly useful websites solve at least one problem really well. And they all have cool URLs that are easy to memorize thus saving you a trip to Google.

Also see: The Best Android Apps Also see: The Best Mac Apps and Utilities seatguru.com – consult this site before choosing a seat for your next flight.webmakerapp.com — an offline playground for building web projects in HTML, CSS and JavaScript. See: The Most Useful Tools for Programmers Also see: The Best Add-ons for Gmail, Docs and Sheets whereami — find the postal address of your current location on Google maps.sway.com — create and share interactive reports, newsletters, presentations, and for storytelling. 9 Tools to Create E-magazines and Newspapers for Your Class. 1- Uniflip UniFlip converts your magazine, brochure or catalog from its original PDF format into an exciting, professional multi-media digital format with pages that flip. 2-Joomag Joomag is a web tool that lets you create your own magazines using a simple online editor.

9 Tools to Create E-magazines and Newspapers for Your Class

You can draw shapes, write texts, add rich media elements like video and audio players. 3- Scribd Scribd is known for being a reading library where you can search for and find ebooks and slides but it is also a magazine creator which allows users to upload their own content and turn it into a magazine 4- Issuu This is like Scribd above. 5- Zinepal This tools lets you create an ebook or magazine from posts and articles of a blog. 6- Build A Newspaper This one is a professional platform that provides teacher based templates to create mazagines. 7- Fodey This is most simple of all the tools mentioned here. 8- Open Zine 9- Calameo Publish your magazine, presentations or documents and share them with the world.

Top 20 LiveBinders you should not Miss. Digital bookmarking is a pivotal learning skill.

Top 20 LiveBinders you should not Miss

It does not only allow you to organize your information into one single platform accessible from anywhere with an internet connection but can also help you in your professional growth. Web2.0 technologies have made it way easier for us to control and curate the content we come across online. I definitely believe that without the power of bookmarking we would never be able to manage the huge influx of information Internet provides. 60 Seconds Guide to Students Effective Search Techniques. 21 Things 4 Students. Top Tools for Learning 2012. - Top 100 Sites & Apps of 2012. It's that time of year again when I get to write my favorite post.

- Top 100 Sites & Apps of 2012

This year instead of doing just my top favorite sites, I'm going to include apps due to the shift in education to mobile learning and the "flipped classroom. " While last year's post included lots of educational networks, this year's has lots of curation sites, as well as writing/grammar sites. I hope you enjoy reading this post as much as I enjoyed writing it. *Any site on the 2011 top 100 list will not appear on this list. Top 100 Sites & Apps of 2012 MentorMob - Probably the coolest site I've come across this year. David Kapuler is an educational consultant with more than 10 years of experience working in the K-12 environment. Tools By Subject.