Earth Outreach. Google Maps Engine Lite lets you quickly and easily make custom maps, and share them with friends or colleagues. Whether you’d like to visualize protected forest areas, food drive drop-off areas, or the locations of your project sites, this tool gives you the ability to: import data from a spreadsheet, or simply draw and add points of interest, lines and shapes style the points and shapes on your map, and choose from nine base map styles share your map with colleagues and embed it on your website The above map was created by The MAPA Project, and features the locations of Shark Spotters along the False Bay coastline in South Africa, as well as all reported white shark sightings between September 8, 2012, and February 22, 2013.
In the tutorial below, we’ll teach you how to make this map. Prerequisites Absolutely no programming skills needed! Let's get started! In this exercise, we’ll teach you how to import your data, customize the style of your map, and share your map. Import your data. Nature's Kennel Sled Dog Racing & Adventures. Tools to Boost Creativity, Critical Thinking, Community, Communication & Character - Getting Smart by Tom Vander Ark - character, communication, community, creativity, critical thinking, mission. By Tom Vander Ark and Caroline Vander Ark Good schools have a common intellectual mission. They prioritize, encourage, measure, and discuss important outcomes. This week we had the privilege of spending time with educators at Valley Christian Schools in Cerritos, California.
At VCS, the 5Cs translate their mission into practice. Valley Christian Middle School recently implemented 1:1 iPads. Teachers have loaded their lessons and content on iTunes U and have been blown away by the amount of downloads both nationally and internationally (more on that soon). VCS students last year even created a science e-book, Southern California’s Plants & Animals, viewed by classrooms around the world. During our working session we discussed experiences and tools that develop the 5Cs. Creativity: Develop and use abilities, appreciate innovation and creativity. Getting Smart blogs on creativity: Critical Thinking: Analyze with discernment, strive for academic excellence. Getting Smart blogs on community: Scale of Universe - Interactive Scale of the Universe Tool.
Web 2.0. Random Name Generator. Educational Technology and Mobile Learning: Teachers Easy Guide to The Most Important Web Tools in Education. When it comes to using web resources with our students, time plays a decisive role.It is next to impossible for a busy teacher restricted by curriculum constraints, day to day lesson preparations, assignment corrections, to mention but a few of his chores, to effectively search the web and find the adequate resources to share with his/ her students.
Most people just do not have the time to learn all these technologies and some educators pick just one or two websites of interest and start exploring them. This is definitely not the right thing to do particularly if you want to leverage the huge potential of technology into your classroom.There is, however, a simple roudabout to this problem. Look for educational technology blogs ( such as the one you are reading now ) and subscribe to their feeds to stay updated about the latest web tools to use in your instruction. 1- A List of The Best Video Editing Tools for Teachers 2- A List of The Best Digital Story Telling Tools for Teachers. You Media. The New Literacies Research Team at UConn.
Court Quest. Center on Instruction. LessonLAMS. English. Diana Laufenberg: How to learn? From mistakes. Digital Learning Day. Do you want to use more digital learning to meet the needs of each of your students? Teachers, librarians, and instructional coaches from across the country have helped us to develop these toolkits that are ready for you to use today!
These toolkits are not the totality of good information available; instead, they are designed to provide a few ideas about how technology can enhance the educational experience for students in the topic areas addressed. Digital Learning Day 2015 295 days until February 4, 2015. Assessment Tools.
Teachers Pay Teachers. TED. Tech Integration. Teaching Channel: Videos, Lesson Plans and Other Resources for Teachers. YouTubes. Math. iPad in education. Nation-Building Hall of Fame.