80 Excellent Podcasts for Every Kind of Classroom. THE DIGITAL STORY OF THE NATIVITY. Christmas 2010. _for_education. You're invited to join Dropbox! - Online backup, file sync, and sharing made easy. Facebook for Education. Facebook (fb) was created for social networking and unfortunately is often known more for its negative connotations than it is for the good things that can come from it. There is also a huge debate over whether employers should be allowed to view the profiles of job applicants and current employees. I will not discuss the ethics of this discussion here, as this is about the good things facebook CAN be used for. As a future teacher, I see the potential uses for fb. It can help me increase my involvement as a member of the educational online community (defined below) as well as communicate with students and their parents.
Educational Online Community Teaching is said to be a lonely job. Sure, you’re surrounded by students but you’re on your own when it comes to brainstorming, writing lesson plans, etc.; any collaboration with coworkers is limited to what can be said in the teacher’s lounge during lunch. This is why the internet has become a useful tool for many teachers.
MuseumMobile Wiki. Technology Integration Matrix. Khan Academy. DEN Blog Network » DEN LIVE! There are alternatives to Blackboard and Moodle: Instructure Canvas goes open source. Instructure, creator of the Canvas learning management system (LMS), took an incredibly bold step to disrupt the LMS market today when they open sourced the code for Canvas. In a market dominated by Blackboard and the companies it buys, it's sometimes hard to look elsewhere. However, many schools, students, and teachers end up using Blackboard because either that's what's installed or because everyone else is using it. Sometimes it seems that your only choices in the LMS market are to either pay Blackboard for a relatively turnkey solution, pay a full-time Moodle developer who can really take advantage of the open source system and make it everything it needs to be for your institution, or pay a host like Moodlerooms and miss out on the deep customizability of the LMS.
Canvas, though, provides an elegant solution that can be either hosted or supported on-premise (both for a fee) and supported internally with its now free Community Version. Sumdog. Our Sumdog games website is designed to help you practice your numeracy skills - in an enjoyable way. All of Sumdog's games are free to use at home or in school. Each one covers over 100 mathematics topics, and most are multiplayer - letting you play with other students around the world. Sign up for a free student login If you're a student, you can sign up free to customise your profile picture and your individual progress.
Sign up for a free teacher login If you're a teacher you can sign up free to set up your school, create free logins for your students, and set competitions and activities for them. Track your students' progress with a school subscription Schools can also buy a Sumdog subscription to track their students' progress and analyse their strongest and weakest topics. More information... Why are Sumdog's games free? What does signing up for a free login get me? What topics does Sumdog cover? How do I get started? LBCC Instructors Talk About Using Moodle. Congerjan says Thanks to @KathySchrock for sending link to her resources from her Twitter presentation today at #FE - #ahx3lu. Connecting Your Classroom to the Future. Flisti - Create free online polls without signing-up.
Twittercure. More people are using foursquare (just not me) « SocialSelf.Ca. So…. I use it, ish. Foursquare in my life has come and gone for the most part. I used it when it first launched and was mayor of everything! I had my gym, I had my work, and even my favorite Starbucks. 4sq was an interesting way to engage with my favorite places and see who frequents them often; I even met a guy through foursquare! Much like that relationship, the relationship between me, the app and my kingdom (the places where I once was mayor) has fizzled, and is now nothing more than a annoyance.
I do however still check in at Strategic Objectives only to defend my mayorship from the evil @smichm. Maybe it’s because of the bad incident I had (Click here for deets) or maybe its because I opened my 4sq up to my twitter audience to easily, but I’m over it. Facebook places mind you, is something I am so far enjoying! Here is an infographic just released from Foursquare as to how people (just not me) are using it.
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