Celly: Instant Group Text and Polls | Mobile Learning | Text to Screen. The Complete Guide to The Use of Skype in Education. Educational Technology and Mobile Learning has been diligently engaged over the last couple of weeks in writing a series of simple and easy to use guides to help teachers and educators better leverage the use of technology in education and empower them with the necessary tools to better carry out this task. What started as a simple guide on the use of social networking, expanded to be a series of similar guides covering blogging, personal learning networks, Evenote, Facebook and iPad in education. Our purpose is to give hand to both novice and experienced teachers in integrating technology within their classrooms. We are still working on several other guides which will be posted here intermittently and there will be a comprehesive ebook that will contain all these guides, so stay tuned.
Today's guide is about Skype and here is the outline : What is Skype ? What is Skype ? What do I need to use Skype To use Skype you need to : Skype's Importance in Education Skype Tips for Teachers Webliography. Social Studies Flipped Class Community. First, thank you to everyone who has contributed to the SS Flipclass Community form! At the time of writing this, we have about 40 educators who have entered contact & website info in the last week alone. Here is the link: Social Studies Flipped Class Community A couple of quick things:1. If you are a social studies teacher who is (or at least considering) flipping and have yet to enter your info, please consider doing so.
If you are unsure of how to edit the form, please let me know. 2. Contact and connect with the other social studies teachers! Home | Getting Smart. The Power of Educational Technology. Edudemic | Education Technology, Apps, Product Reviews, and Social Media. Digital Education. David Truss :: Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts. The 21st Century Principal. 2¢ Worth. Listen A few weeks ago I worked and attended North Carolina's ISTE affiliate conference. I opened the NCTIES conference with a breakfast keynote address and Marc Prensky closed it with a luncheon keynote the next day.
Sadly, I missed the second day of the conference. I would first offer some constructive criticism to NCTIES , and to all such ed-tech conferences across the nation and around the world. You do a fabulous job of offering dynamic learning experiences for teachers who are new to teaching or new to utilizing contemporary information and communication technologies in their classrooms. What I find missing are opportunities for those of us who have been around the 10, 20 or 30 years.
I attended a number of excellent and very well received and appreciated presentations, that did very little for me. The only idea I can think of is to have one or two session rooms devoted to unconference topics. Now to the surprises “No software. Seeing this was energizing to me. And then, Is this true? The Tech Savvy Educator | a practical guide to integrating technology in the classroom.
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