Beyond Consumption vs Creation. When the iPad first launched, many people reached for a quick analysis that it was a device "only for content consumption".
Despite time and experience having proven those people quite obviously wrong, the debate seems to persist as to what the iPad is, precisely, for. My own opinion is that the iPad is for about 80% of all tasks you can conceivably do on a computer. IS-01 Interactive Whiteboard System. Draw, Annotate, Interact, Inspire No whiteboard?
No problem. The IPEVO Interactive Whiteboard System, or IS-01, transforms most any flat surface into an interactive whiteboard. Planboard — Lesson planning made easy for teachers. ThreeRing - “I feel like a fly on the wall in my child’s classroom.” Three Ring is a powerful tool that allows teachers to create, and share digital portfolios of the students in their classroom.
This application has transformed the way we interact and communicate with the parents of our students. The 10 Most Popular Teacher Tools Being Used This Year. This image shows absolutely no teacher tools. 7 Excellent Resources for Public Domain Pictures Every Teacher should Know about. As the start of a new school year draws closer Educational Technology and Mobile Learning is diligently engaged in posting a series of posts featuring interesting digital resources to help teachers get better equipped for school re-entry.
In today's post, I am sharing with you a set of useful platforms where teachers and students can go to in order to find public domain pictures. 10 Digital Resources For New Teachers. I love watching a new teacher walk through the door. I remember when I was a new teacher. I was a second-career person with list of ideas and qualifications, but I’d soon find out that teaching was nothing like I thought it should be remembering my own classroom experience and watching The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, and Stand and Deliver.
A veteran teacher in my department brought me to my room–the room he was passing down to me. He showed me around a bit, departing with some thoughts, stories, and a bit of advice. He left me to my new room, the one with the old stickers on the teacher desk and the scorch mark from when the heater caught fire. Stock Photos, Royalty-Free Images, Video Footage and Music. Smackdown: Resources Shared at 2013 School Administrators of Iowa Conference. I had the privilege yesterday of leading the Smackdown at the 38th Annual School Administrators of Iowa Conference.
The links and resources were flying furiously, and we did our best to capture them all: SweetSearch, A Search Engine for Students, via @AngelaMaiers YourSphere, a community platform that helps students connect, create & share their work via @AngelaMaiers Common Sense Media. digital citizenship curriculum for students, reviews & advice for adults Hello Slide – give voice to your presentations via @jenwoodley24. Can Technology Help Students Become Better Writers? Send a list of your last dozen text messages to your high school English teacher and it’s easy to imagine him or her cringing at the sentence fragments, the misspellings, and, oh, the syntax.
Despite the many benefits of technology in schools, educators for years have lamented the hatchet job that email programs and mobile devices, from smartphones to tablets, have done on the English language. If you’ve spent any time grading papers over the last half-dozen years, you’ve probably bumped into a few of the more egregious offenders—acronyms such as LOL (laugh out loud) and ROFL (rolling on the floor laughing) have been known to sneak into students’ formal writing. QR Codes in The Classroom- Awesome Guide for Teachers. Visual Social Bookmarking with Pearltrees. Written by Mark Brumley Visual Social Bookmarking This educational technology post introduces you to the amazing world of visual social bookmarking.
Combining a mind-blowing user interface with excellent classroom usability, visual social bookmarking sure to be a valuable tool for you and your students. Wiggio – Online Teamwork. Written by Mark Brumley.
Welcome to Fotobabble - Talking Photos. 20+ Creative Ways Teachers Can Use Google Forms. A couple of days ago I created and shared with you a Google Form tutorial simplifying the process of creating forms to use in your teaching.
The assessment form I included at the end of that post proved to me that you really liked and benefited from this tutorial. 5 FREE Tech Tools For This School Year. Our philosophy is to talk about apps and tools that change the game for us as educators, and our students.
We do not agree with the "100 great apps" approach because you will never make it to #17 let alone #100. Here are a list of 5 FREE tools we recommend to use this upcoming school year to increase student engagement, deeper level thinking, teacher productivity, and make parent communication flawless! Three RingThree Ring is an app that completely changed the way I create student portfolios and communicate with parents. Three Ring allows you to capture and share each learning moment in a photo, video, audio recording, or written note in a secure fashion. The 35 Best Web 2.0 Classroom Tools Chosen By You. 100 Web 2.0 Tools Every Teacher Should Know About 44.24K Views 0 Likes We're always trying to figure out the best tools for teachers, trends in the education technology industry, and generally doing our darnedest to bring you new and exciting ways to enhance the classroom.
35 Digital Tools That Work With Bloom's Taxonomy. Educational Games. FREE - Federal Registry for Educational Excellence. FREE Features These features originally appeared on the FREE.ED.gov features blog. The features highlight resources and ideas related to holidays, awareness months, anniversaries and seasonal topics.
January February March April. Organize your resources in an online binder - LiveBinders. Web tools for Blended Learning. Great Web Tools.