Using Flickr as an online classroom - Case study. Pearltrees. Pearltrees I have found that as I introduce Twitter to staff members, they are usually amazed at the amount of K12 information available to educators and support staff.
Twitter Tutorial For Beginners. Student E-book Creation - Not using iPads, but using Barnes and Nobels Tikatok free features. Bringing Your Textbook to Life! 15+ Tips & Resources. Teaching like it's 2999. 22 Top Blogging Tools Loved by the Pros. Do you blog?
Looking for exciting new tools to simplify the blogging experience? If so, keep reading. We decided to get the scoop on today’s hottest blogging tools. We asked 22 pros to share their favorite new finds. Here they are… #1: InboxQ Mitt Ray @MittRay A great blogging tool I discovered a few months ago is InboxQ. InboxQ lets you create campaigns with different keywords. You can work on these questions and come up with better blog topics in your area of specialty. When people type in questions with these keywords, I get an update. Use InboxQ to find the questions people are asking on Twitter. Mitt Ray, founder of Social Marketing Writing, author. #2: Content Idea Generator Rich Brooks @TheRichBrooks The Content Idea Generator (v2) is a Google Doc that will automatically find news and related stories for your blog from a variety of sources… everything from Google News to Reddit, from tweets to public Facebook updates and more.
Long term tweeting #iplod @SgtGaryWatts on why he tweets (#WIT10) @SgtGaryWatts, one of the first police officers to tweet for work, writes about his approach to Tweeting.
I covered the journey that brought me to twitter a while ago here so this post is an update on why - two years and 12,000 tweets later - I’m still here. My foray into twitter began with a personal account after years of Facebook use. At first it scared me and seemed like another language and for a person who rambles on a bit, limiting myself to 140 characters was joke. I had been in a fortunate position previously encouraging Police teams to use Facebook but it wasn’t until I found myself back on the frontline I decided to give Twitter a go. My account started out in the same style I had advised others to go with Facebook, as a team, Falmouth Police. Texting tweens score lower on grammar tests, researcher says - Chickasha Express Star.
To Fly. To read is to fly:it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.- A.
C. Grayling Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. Friendship, by Nirupam Roy. We were in the search of the Kingfisher on the river side of Raidhak.
But it was really a disappointment for us as we have found nothing. It was at the time of evening, and the schools were closed. How to Use Cell Phones as Learning Tools. Does your staff need Educational Technology training?
The K-12 Teachers Alliance can help you plan your in-service professional development at no additional cost. Regardless of your school’s cell phone policy, the reality in most schools is that students have phones in their pockets, purses, or hoodies. Why not get these tools out in plain sight and use them for good and not evil? Here are some easy to use strategies to use cell phones in the classrooms. Proven teaching strategies to boost your students' happiness.
A few suggestions.on classroom activities that involve performance for... We point out some knowledgeable educators who quickly can become your trusted... FounderDating Partners with Teach For America to Help EdTech Entrepreneurs Co-Founder Up. By Michael Carney On August 1, 2012 FounderDating, the pre-eminent co-founder matchmaking service and entrepreneur networking platform, is moving beyond the generalities of a “technology” focus to announce its first sector specific vertical.
The company has partnered with Teach For America’s Social Entrepreneurship Initiative in Launching FounderDating Education. The interest driven network will foster business relationships among the growing number of entrepreneurs in the education sector. With the addition of Teach For America, FounderDating has created otherwise rare serendipity between those with subject matter expertise in education and learning and those with business and technology expertise. “We saw bottom-up demand,” says FounderDating founder and CEO Jessica Alter. Alter and her team developed the idea after noticing that applicants to the network were regularly listing “education” as an interest area on their profiles, despite it not being offered as an option on the site. How one California school uses iPads to support its PE programs.
By Danielle Cherry Read more by Contributor August 1st, 2012 The iPads fill a gap where traditional PE instruction leaves off by ensuring the most accurate assessment of student skills and abilities.
The pressures of being a physical education teacher in today’s public school environment are mounting. We’re being asked to strike a balance between government physical fitness mandates for America’s children and extreme budget cuts.