iPads in the Classroom. 10 Useful iPad Resources for Educators. Home » Education I thought I would share with you some our most popular iPad resources for educators, all of which I learned about inside the Teacher Learning Community!
Effective Mobile Learning: 50+ Quick Tips and Resources "In this e-book find several tips, resources, and links for integrating mobile devices into the curriculum. " -ShellTerrell20 Free iPad Apps Educators Can’t Live Without! "There are thousands of free iPad Apps out there, but finding the perfect ones for you can be tough. We’ve spent hours searching for the best-of-the-best, free iPad Apps for Educators, and we’re sharing all of them with you in this eBook! Let me know what you'd add in as a comment on this post, or better yet, share it as a resource. iPads in Education - Exploring the use of iPads and mobile devices in education. 8 Free Resources on The Use of iPad in Education. I know that most of you have got a tablet device of some sort but if it happens that you have an iPad then this post will relate to you more.
Below is a set of resources dedicated exclusively to the educational uses of the iPad. Emerging Ed Tech has done a great job in providing this list. Check them out. Update : Check out these two new articles of relevant interest : Free Comprehensive Guide to iPad Apps Evaluation and Bloom's Taxonomy for iPad 1- Apple's Education Resources for iPad Apple, the creator and owner of iPad, has provided some great links to education related apps.
CSS Tutorial. Dynamic Drive DHTML(dynamic html) & JavaScript code library. Adobe Photoshop Tutorials from Beginner to Advanced. Kuler. A List of The Best Free File Sharing Tools in 2011. Today I am sharing with you a bunch of awesome file sharing tools.
These tools are practically useful to teachers, educators, and students who are the primary targets of my posts here but anyone else can use them too. Apart from the first two tools which I have just added today all the rest have tutorials here just click on the name of a tool to read it. Here is the list 1- Just BeamIt JustBeamIt is a great HTML5-based web service that allows users to exchange files in a fast way. It is freeIt does not require any sign up or software installationFriends can download files while you are still uploading themIt is very easy to use just drag and drop 2- Minus Minus is a simple file sharing web service with 10 GB free online storage. 3- Sendspace Sendspace is another file sharing tool that allows users to do several tasks such as : Monitor and edit filesRecover downloaded linksDelete filesUse the wizard toolCreate email groups to send links toAutomatic receipt of upload confirmation.
Great Tools to Create Protected Blogs and Web pages for your Class. As I was reading " The Socially Networked Classroom: Teaching in the New Media Age " by William Kist, I stopped by the chapter talking about how teachers can set up blogs for their classrooms ( pages 52 to 64 ).
Dr Kist has mentioned several facts about the educational blogging that I want to share with you. I have also compiled a list of some of the best blogging platforms teachers and students can use to set up secure blogs for their classrooms. According to Dr Kist, teachers will often introduce blogging to their students by teaching the routines and conventions of blogging, feeling that the key to a successful experience, whether offline or online, is setting up the agreed upon group norms at the beginning of the process. These general guidelines can be something like : Staying safe online is part of introducing blogging into the classroom for many teachers.
Click on this link if you want to share it with your colleagues. Here is the presentation in Docstoc. Five Great Free Screen Capture Tools for Teachers and Students. I have recently received some emails from teachers asking me about some free screen capturing and annotating tools.
In fact there are several such tools online but only few work effectively for us in education. There are also various extensions and add-ons for both Chrome and Firefox users that let them exactly do the same thing these tools do. Anyway the following is a meticulously prepared list of tools teachers and even studnets will find useful particularly when preparing annotated pictures for tutorials and other lesson related activities. 1- Bounce Bounce is a great screen capturing tool. 2- Awesome Screenshot This is my favourite and I have it installed on my Chrome browser. 3- Aviary Aviary is a great photo editing software that I have already covered in a seperate post a year ago.
A List of Some of The Best Free Screencasting Tools to Record your Screen and Make Awesome Tutorials. Have you ever wondered how video tutorials are made ?
You might be wrong and think it needs advanced technology knowledge to do them. It is in fact way easier than you have ever thought. The tools below will enable you to make your screencast and broadcast it to the world to see it. Screencasting is all about sharing your screen with others, not in real time ,of course, but in a short or long recorded videos. Free Apps to Create Digital Portfolios for Students and Teachers. Have you or your students ever considered creating digital portfolios on the go?
Well now with the new mobile technology everything is possbile. Free Tools To create and Administer Quizzes.