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ClassTools.net. Make learning an adventure. Catalogue of Educational WebSites - Educational Web sites for Teachers, Educators, Parents, Students. New Matter | Portal. Fakespot | Analyze and identify fake reviews. Small Business Innovation Research SBIR Success Stories: Mindset Works Product Description: The Mindset Works® SchoolKit is a web-based multimedia intervention to strengthen student success through teaching a growth mindset—the understanding that ability develops with effort and learning.

The SchoolKit includes Brainology®, a blended-learning program with animations and classroom activities to teach students in grades 5 to 9 about the malleable brain and effective study skills. It also includes the EducatorKit interactive professional development program, which uses video training modules, classroom activities, assessments, and online supports to help teachers foster a growth mindset school culture. Research and Development: Based on decades of research in adolescent motivation by Stanford professor Dr. To demonstrate the promise of the product to support learning, a quasi-experimental study was conducted in two waves across 9 middle schools.

Commercialization: Industry Recognition: Silk – Publish your data online. Welcome to MineMum | MineMum. Online Learning Archives. The Teacher's Quick Guide To Digital Scavenger Hunts. If you’ve got a smartphone or a tablet in your classroom, you’re ready for the adventure to begin! By adventure I mean, of course, the world of active learning through digital scavenger hunts. In this hunt, students are tasked with finding a particular physical object, person, or place and have to use technology to track it down.

Note: an ‘online scavenger hunt’ usually implies that you’re hunting around online and not physically with classmates. For the purpose of this article, I’m focusing on the physical version I’ve dubbed ‘digital scavenger hunts’. The Simple Goal So now that you’re all ready to start your very first scavenger hunt, let’s figure out what the goals are.

Finding The Technology Like the movie National Treasure, students will need a lot of ingenuity and tools to help them uncover the mysteries you’ve laid out before them. In an effort to get your scavenger hunt jump-started, here are a few useful tech tools that might be of use. Finding An Objective A Quick Note. Pear Deck. Quick Key | mobile scanner. Video Hosting for Business | Wistia. Tozzl.com. Jeopardy Rocks - Jeopardy game creator for teachers. eQuizShow - Free Online Quiz Show Templates.

Site of the Week | Great Websites for Kids. Learn | DigitalLearn.org. All - techconnect. UniverSoul African Acrobats-DIRECT FROM KENYA. Featured Courses | Sign up, Sign in. Online. A web word processor and web whiteboard for schools. Create, collaborate and share without email! About Gooru. Online safety for the home & SMEs | Cyber Street. Skitch. Portfoliogen - Create a Free Customized Teacher Portfolio Website in Minutes!

Seven Free Online Tools for Scheduling Appointments. If you have ever had to organize volunteers for an event, set appointments for parent-teacher conferences, or tried to organize a potluck, you know that it can become a communication mess. Fortunately, there are some good tools to help you out the next time you find yourself trying to organize appointments. Doodle is a free tool for scheduling group meetings with the input of all group members. Doodle is essentially a polling platform. To use Doodle you create a meeting title, select a series of dates and times for a possible meeting, then invite people to choose the dates and times that work best for them. As the administrator of a scheduling poll you can set the final meeting time based on the most commonly selected date and time. Calendly is a tool that integrates with your Google Calendar and makes it easy to create appointment slots with just a click or two.

SignUp Genius is a free and easy way to create and organize online sign-up forms for all kinds of group activities. Storyboard That: The World's Best FREE Online Storyboard Creator. The Trusted Leader in HTML5 Document Viewing | Crocodoc. Interact with your documents Crocodoc comes with a robust set of commenting and markup tools that enable interactive document workflows. These include: commenting tools, drawing tools, highlighting tools, textbox tools, and strikethrough tools.

When enabled, Crocodoc's commenting and markup tools allow your users to: Collaboratively add and reply to comments on shared documents Take notes when collecting research Fill out forms and submit requested paperwork Send colleagues feedback on presentations Comprehensive API Our comprehensive API allows you to implement custom collaboration workflows by customizing the behavior of our built-in tools. Pass names to Crocodoc so they show up when comments are created Specify which annotations are visible when a document is viewed Receive real-time notifications when annotations are created Set per-user permissions when viewing, creating, or deleting annotations Download annotated PDF copies of any document Sample document. How to use Mentimeter - Mentimeter. Kahoot! | Game-based blended learning & classroom response system.

PixiClip. Stoodle. Website Builders Comparison Chart. ChronoZoom. » Query a Google Spreadsheet like a Database with Google Visualization API Query Language ACRL TechConnect Blog. Libraries make much use of spreadsheets. Spreadsheets are easy to create, and most library staff are familiar with how to use them. But they can quickly get unwieldy as more and more data are entered. The more rows and columns a spreadsheet has, the more difficult it is to browse and quickly identify specific information. Creating a searchable web application with a database at the back-end is a good solution since it will let users to quickly perform a custom search and filter out unnecessary information. But due to the staff time and expertise it requires, creating a full-fledged searchable web database application is not always a feasible option at many libraries.

Creating a MS Access custom database or using a free service such as Zoho can be an alternative to creating a searchable web database application. A free version of Google spreadsheet has a limit in size and complexity. A. The first step is to identify the URL of the Google spreadsheet of your choice. B. C. Presentation.io - The Easiest Way To Present Remotely. On June 27 Cisco announced the acquisition of Assemblage, a company that provides the tools and infrastructure to enable simple, one-click browser-to-browser collaboration without the need for downloads, plugins or installations.

The need to use voice, video, chat and online sharing instantly is more important than ever. In an effort to support mobile workers and global teams, we want to enable new, simplified ways to communicate and collaborate easily, from any device in real-time through the cloud. Assemblage offers real-time collaboration apps for shared whiteboarding, presentation broadcasting and screensharing. Assemblage's technology integrates with popular third party cloud services and supports 40 different file types to enable quick and efficient collaboration. Bringing Assemblage's strong team of engineers with deep web development expertise to Cisco's Collaboration Technology Group will accelerate our innovation in this space.

Create HTML5 Interactive Presentations, Animations, infographics & banners - HTML5 Presenter by Easy WebContent. eQuizShow - Free Online Quiz Show Templates. Welcome to Flubaroo. Otter - Create a Simple Page for Distributing and Collecting Assignments. Quizsocket. Form+ - Create easy forms; easily. OpenEd. ClassTools.net: Create interactive flash tools / games for education. QR Code Treasure Hunt Generator from classtools.net. Watch2gether.com - Watch videos. Together. Speedtest.net - The Global Broadband Speed Test. Memory upgrades from Crucial.com - Determine My Memory Needs. OpenClass. The iPad Guide - How to Get the Most Out of the iPad.

When the iPad was released, Steve Jobs called it "magical". And in many ways, he was right. The iPad is a great device capable of doing everything from streaming movies to entertaining you with great games to becoming your digital library to simply letting you surf the web on your couch. Unfortunately, one of it's magical qualities isn't to instantly allow you to know all of the great ways to use the device. This iPad guide will teach you everything from how to go about picking out the right iPad to the basics of how to go about using it to how to get the most out of it. Did you know you can hook the iPad up to your HDTV and watch streaming movies on the big screen? Or that hitting the space bar twice produces a period and a space, making it an easy way to end a sentence? Read on to find out more about the iPad. How to Buy an iPad Perhaps the most important thing this iPad guide can teach you is how to go about buying an iPad.

Getting Started With the iPad Getting the Most Out of the iPad. Communication made unprecedentedly easy.