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20 Education Administrator Blogs. It’s not easy being a school administrator. As leader of your school or department, it may be difficult to find peers you can confide in, discuss challenges or get insights. That’s why it’s great to tap into the opinions, knowledge and research of education administrator blogs. Most of these blogs are written for and by administrators, and can open up a conversation and help you connect with others who, like you, work to provide the best educational opportunities for your students. Others blogs are written from people who aren’t in the trenches, and can provide a different, but necessary perspective. Image via Flickr by Christian Schnettelker Here’s our list of the 20 great blogs to check out, and what makes them intriguing: Connected Principals –this collection of contributions from school administrators who want to share knowledge, learn together and lead effectively.

Edublog lists its top education websites and blogs in its Edublog awards. Augmented Reality | Engage Their Minds. Here are some Augmented Reality Resources for Education. Please contact me at engagetheirminds@gmail.com if you have a suggestion for a new link. Click here for a Flipboard Magazine of current articles on Augmented Reality in Education. I have just published a packet on Teachers Pay Teachers of Lessons and Activities for using Augmented Reality in Education. It is $5. All of the lessons are ones that I have previously blogged about, but the packet collects these resources into one booklet. (A=App Store, G=Google Play) Share this: Like this: Like Loading... 11 thoughts on “Augmented Reality” Leave a Reply Great Minds Don't Think Alike! Follow Get every new post delivered to your Inbox. Join 5,011 other followers Build a website with WordPress.com %d bloggers like this: Witter / ? 6 Ways to Learn Collaboratively with iPads. You’ve heard “collaboration” repeatedly referenced as an important 21st century skill.

With built-in interfaces for connectivity, mobile devices such as iPads offer a wide variety of alternatives for people wanting to connect and work together. Collaboration can take many forms in an educational context and you may want to consider different tools depending on your specific objectives. Here’s a list of some common collaborative activities and the tools and apps you might want to consider for each one. 1. Learning by Sharing Learning starts when you process new information. Often, the best source for that information comes from others that are learning together with you. Synchronous sharing: The ideal classroom environment is one that fosters collaborative learning.

Asynchronous sharing: If you want students to share and access content outside class then consider setting up a cloud service such as Google Drive or Evernote where they can upload and share content. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Sam Gliksman. Ramblings from the digital classroom: One classroom - one ipad. Sadly our class set of iPads has been taken away from us and reassigned to Heads of Departments to use, I suspect, largely as personal management systems. I have had one iPad since November and this recent reassignment of the school's class set of iPads has got me thinking about how my colleagues can use their iPad for more than managing their time and reading online.

Of course, many schools are now embracing new technology and have gone down the route of 1:1 iPads. This has not been the case for me (yet) but I have still been able to use my iPad creatively in my classes. I have been free with the iPad I have been given. I have always taken the line that I am lucky that school gave me the iPad to use and I wanted to repay the gesture by ensuring that the pupils I taught also benefitted from it. This desire, coupled with my increasing awareness through my studies of Digital Technology for Language Teaching, has enabled me to see how my one iPad could be put to good use.

Six tips for the successful online teacher. Image from Openclipart. The other day I was listening to a Technology and Education Today podcast (Smith and Crawford, 2012) where the presenters were discussing an article called “Six Tips for the Successful Online Teacher” (Rose, 2012). As I have just recently started in a role as an online facilitator, I was particularly interested in this topic and how it related to my own experiences so far. So for this blog post I would like to briefly touch on the six points identified in the article. 1. Forget Constant Validation The point the author is making here is to warn online facilitators of the impersonal nature that can sometimes exist in an online environment. 2.

The point made here is that it is easy for an online facilitator to misunderstand students when the non-verbal component of a conversation is removed. 3. 4. Pin by Socrative on Education Visuals. 321 Free Tools for Teachers - Free Educational Technology. Jacob Lund/Shutterstock.com Summary: Would you be interested in the ultimate list of free tools for teachers? At the following post you will find 324 Free Tools for Teachers separated in 18 educational technology categories. Enjoy! Free Educational Technology for Teachers Do you support Free Technology for Teachers? If Yes, I highly encourage you to share this Free Educational Technology Resource with fellow teachers interested in implementing Free Technology in Classroom. I am a great supporter of Free Educational Technology. 19 Free Tools To Create Infographics For Teachers amCharts Visual Editor This editor allows you to use amCharts as a web service. 19 Free Text To Speech Tools For Teachers AnnouncifyListen to your web.

Listen Text-to-Speech Voices with the Right Authoring Tool Vendor Find, choose and compare the top eLearning Authoring Tool Companies featuring Text-to Speech Voices! 21 Free Digital Storytelling Tools For Teachers AnimotoUnlimited Videos For Educators. Beyond the Comfort Zone: 6 Ways to Build Independent Thinking. Image credit: iStockphoto The shift toward applying more executive function (EF) within learning and assessment will cause some discomfort in teachers and students. The transition will not eliminate the need for memorization, as automatic use of foundational knowledge is the toolkit for the executive functions.

Memorization, however, will not be adequate as meaningful learning becomes more about applying, communicating and supporting what one knows. One way you can help your students shift from blindly following instructions and memorizing single right answers is to help them recognize their successful use of executive functions throughout their learning experiences. Start by going through your units of instruction and assessments to recognize where students have previously activated their EFs so that you can review these accomplishments as they are achieved in subsequent units. Low-Risk Experiences Using EFs in Common Core Topics EFs and How to Activate Them 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. TOP 10 FREE Timeline Creation Tools for Teachers.

MOOCs, SPOCs, and LAPs: The Evolving World of Education | Anton Dominique. Not long after educational providers and students alike clocked on to the fast-rising and game-changing trend of free Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) programmes, it quickly expanded to factor in the option of paid MOOCs, otherwise known as MOOC+. And now, just as people were getting comfortable with this possibility, another new and far more futuristic acronym has hit the streets. This one is called SPOCs and stands for Small Private Online Courses. And they do exactly what it says on the tin. They use the same concept of MOOCs, as detailed in my previous columns, in that they develop online programmes and professor-led tutorials and make them available for free online to large bodies of students - but they do so on a smaller and more limited scale.

Enrolment sizes could still be in the hundreds, but they veer decidedly away from the thousands. There is a reason why these trends are impacting higher education specifically. 1. 18 Free Must Have iPad Apps for Teachers and School Administrators. 105 Free Moodle Video Tutorials. 105 Free Moodle Video Tutorials! We know that you love Moodle. This is why we created the following list.

Show your appreciation and share it with people interested in Moodle. Few weeks ago I made a post of 29 Free Moodle Video Tutorials. Several of you supported us and we created a new list with 105 Free Moodle Video Tutorials! The list has a url to the Free Moodle Video Tutorial and a description. We highly encourage you to help us build the Largest Collection of Free Moodle Video Tutorials!

Join for Free Viva eLearning "Free Video Tutorials for eLearning Professionals" and upload your favorite Free Moodle Video Tutorials! You maybe find useful The Ultimate list of Open Source Learning Management Systems Feel Free to Embed the 105 Free Moodle Video Tutorials Slideshare Presentation at your site or blog! 6 Ways to Show Your iPad on a Projector Screen.

The Student's Guide To Proper Social Media Etiquette. If you’re like me, you act differently on different social networks. You share certain things on Facebook that you wouldn’t share on Twitter. You post stuff on Pinterest that you wouldn’t post on Path or share on instant message. Because of this, it’s important for students (and teachers and everyone else!) To remember the proper social media etiquette that you should follow while sharing online. For example, it’s important to maintain a relatively simple layout and minimal amount of content in your emails, while you should act a bit differently on an online message board.

In general, just act right. 5 Great Ways to Document Students Mobile Learni... How Teachers Are Using Blended Learning Right Now. The Importance Of The Evolution Of Education 6.34K Views 0 Likes Over the past century, the modes of both imparting and receiving education have undergone a paradigm shift. The evolution of education has become more important than ever. The World’s Largest Repository of Free Online Learning Tutorials. Here’s a common scenario. Someone emails and asks about an elearning tutorial I have on the blog. It’s not always easy to find the specific tutorial buried in a given post. In fact, there are many times I either forgot that I had created that tutorial or I can’t recall where it’s at either. I know. Today I am going to fix that. Free PowerPoint Templates These tutorials show how to either create or use some of the free PowerPoint templates you’ll find on the blog. Learn How to Use PowerPoint for Online Learning This section covers miscellaneous PowerPoint tips and production techniques.

How to Build Rapid E-Learning Courses Using PowerPoint for rapid elearning is different than using it for building presentations. Tips on Creating Interactive E-Learning This series of tutorials cover some of the basics for creating interactive elearning and branched scenarios. Free Software to Use When Building Online Training Visual & Graphic Design Ideas for Your E-Learning Courses Bonus Tutorials. My 10 Favorite Learnist Boards Built By Teachers. Finally! Research-based proof that students use cell phones for LEARNING. 10 Awesome Infographics about eLearning.

7 Fun Ways to Use QR Codes In Education. QR Codes Quick Response are so fun to integrate in classroom. Quick Response codes are bar codes with information. QR Codes can include contact information, websites, text, SMS, pictures and so much more. My students absolutely love using these in their activities. Here are some ways to Integrate QR Codes in Your Lessons 1. Worksheets ~ Create a 3 – In – A Row worksheets for students to play with another student. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.

Quick Response Codes are so easy to create. Try it…your kids will love it! E-Learning - Lernen mit Elektronischen Medien. 6 iPad Apps That Help You Create Interactive Study Guides. With the end of the semester drawing near, so are the plans of preparing students for final exams and standardized tests. Check out these six iPad apps to create fun, engaging, interactive study guides for your students. 1.

ScreenChomp - Create a list of equations for students to solve. Student’s task will be to work out the equation and record the steps they took to solve the equation. 2. 3. 4. 5. Students love to use engaging activities to review and prepare for exams. What 4,500 Professors and Administrators Think About Online Learning. What do professors and administrators really think about online education? Inside Higher Ed and the Babson Survey Research Group asked more than 4,500 of them.

Here are three important takeaways from their survey. Faculty Are Afraid of Online Education Fifty-eight percent of faculty surveyed feel pessimistic about online education. Faculty Are Wary of Online Learning at For-Profit Institutions A full 79 percent of faculty surveyed agreed or strongly agreed when asked if they have "concerns about the quality of online instruction offered by for-profit institutions.”

Academia is not like the business world, in which an online startup can trounce an established business by building in the cloud and delivering commodity goods with less overhead. (Read Foster’s full post on ReadWrite.) Online Education Doesn’t Pay the Bills The survey reports a huge disconnect between faculty and administrators on the topic of compensation. We encourage you to download the full study for more information. 5 Can’t Miss Mobile Learning Resources. How to design assessments that promote the learning process. Challenge Based Learning Can Teach Students About Disaster Relief. SchulWiki Köln.

Reflecting as an Educator. Geography and Science - Cross over apps. 8 Project-Based Learning Videos By Students - Getting Smart by John Hardison - edchat, EdTech, PBL. How to Build an E-Learning Template in 30 Seconds. 10 Fun Tools To Easily Make Your Own Infographics. Collecting Student Work in an iPad Classroom. Drawing up an #mLearning #strategy in 10 steps. 8 Nations Leading the Way in Online Education. 'Banning Is Not the Answer' to Mobile and Social Tools in Schools. GSMA Reveals How Mobile is Set to Transform Education Worldwide, With the mEducation Market Valued at US$70 Billion by 2020. 25 Ways To Use Twitter In The Classroom, By Degree Of Difficulty. An Innovative Way To Share Lesson Plans With Your Entire PLN.

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