A Guidebook for Social Media in the Classroom. Is Social Media Relevant?
Take the Quiz Before we talk social media, let's talk about the relevance of social media by taking a quiz. Which of the following is most likely to be true? ☐ Should we teach letter-writing in the classroom? Kids need to write letters and mail them. The Social Media Answer ☑ There's one form of writing that can arguably get someone fired, hired or forced to retire faster than any other form of writing.
One form of writing is that powerful. If you guessed social media, you're right. The Social Media Myth The myth about social media in the classroom is that if you use it, kids will be Tweeting, Facebooking and Snapchatting while you're trying to teach. 100 Ways To Use Google Drive In The Classroom. 100 Ways To Use Google Drive In The Classroom by onlineuniversities.com.
8 Online Tools To Help Educate Students With Disability. 8 Online Tools To Help Educate Students With Disability One of the most remarkable aspects of modern education is the great diversity of today’s classroom.
Thanks to mainstreaming and inclusion policies, students of all abilities study in all classrooms from kindergarten through college, even when they have physical, psychological, or cognitive disabilities that seem too challenging to integrate or excluded them from traditional classrooms in the past. This has been a benefit not just for disabled students, who gain educational opportunities, but also for their non-disabled colleagues, who learn that a student with a disability is in most ways just the same as they are, and no one to fear. However, this integration creates challenges for educators. For example, the cost of teaching disabled students has more and more often fell on the already-stretched budgets of public schools. As one American school official told Huffington Post, this “raises an ethical responsibility question.
Google Apps for Learning: 9 Best Practices. Starting March 3, educational technology specialist Jennifer Bloomingdale launches three exciting courses on Google Apps.
Google Apps may be similar to traditional productivity tools. But look a little closer, says Jennifer Bloomingdale, you’ll find they are so much more. 6 Platforms to Create Augmented Reality by Two Guys and Some iPads. I first met this dynamic duo at ISTE 13 last June, just had to share their latest blog post and get more teachers up and running using augmented reality in the classroom!
If you are new to this venue check out this guest blog: Augmented Reality in Education or head directly over to the Two Guys and Some iPads site and get the pro’s point of view - Meaningful Integration of Augmented Reality in Education Drew Minock wrote this piece yesterday and was kind enough to share! 6 Platforms to Create Augmented Reality When most people first try augmented reality(AR) in education, they start with applications that have the AR content already built into the app. 10 Excellent Social Bookmarking Tools for Teachers. February, 2014 Social bookmarking is a new concept that has seen the light with the emergence of bookmarking services like the ones I cited below.Semantically speaking, ' social bookmarking' is made up of the the term " social " which is related to society and general interactions between people, and the verb " to bookmark " (used here as a gerund ending in ing) which has to do with recording and/or saving content for both later use and quick access.
Weaving the semantic reference of the two words results in social bookmarking as we know it today : a collaborative and collective saving and sharing of web content.' Below are some of the best social bookmarking websites I would recommend to teachers and students. Have a look and let us know what you think of them on our Facebook page. 1- Diigo. 100+ Teaching With the iPad Hacks: A Curated Playlist of Quick Start Resources.
A publisher recently asked me if I knew of a good iPad “Quick Start” Guide for teachers just getting started with using the iPad in the classroom.
I didn’t, but had to imagine that I could find resources along these lines on the Web. As I searched, I found many good web pages, and knew right away that this was a great topic for creating a LessonPaths curated Playlist to share them. LessonPaths (formerly known as MentorMob) is an awesome free web tool for easily assembling digital content into an elegantly simple information resource. Just click through the Playlist, stop and further explore resources that interest you (clicking on one will open up the Playlist in full screen mode) then click through to the next one when you’re ready.
10 Great Screen Capture Web Tools for Teachers and Students. January 24, 2014 Screen capture images can be used for a variety of reasons.
You can include them in tutorials and multimedia classroom projects. 31 iPad Apps For A Smoother-Running Classroom. 31 iPad Apps For A Smoother-Running Classroom A smooth-running classroom is about, among other things, organization, workflow, and classroom management.
Organization is about resources, priority, and consistency. Workflow is about clarity, tools, and consistency. And classroom management is about relationships, trust, and consistency. Ultimate list of Minecraft Guides, Cheats and Video Tutorial Apps. Minecraft continues to give students a voice in their own education.
Minecraft is almost perfect for presenting cross curricula projects and the idea that many students direct their own learning in the environment means that it can be a powerful tool in many teacher's toolbox. Students previously disengaged from education have often turned around their love to discover and create and in the process been valued for their particular set of skills. So if you have some little miners in your class here are a bunch of guides, cheats and how-to tutorials apps.
Ultimate Builder Guide for Minecraft: FREE Take your Minecraft experience to the next level with this amazing new app dedicated to helping you build new exciting creations. Apppicker. 6 propuestas para crear cuestionarios y tests. 57 Free Digital Interactives For All Teachers… Plus 8 Free Mobile Apps. Welcome to a post that examines an amazing free collections of educational digital interactive programs and apps. You are sure to find something that will fit your classroom in the very near future.
First, to ensure you do not miss one of these valuable posts or other resources covering PBL, Digital Curriculum, Web 2.0, STEM, 21st century learning, and technology integration, please sign up for 21centuryedtech by email or RSS. As always, I invite you to follow me on twitter (@mjgormans). How to Add Questions for Students to YouTube Videos. With the popularity of flipped classrooms showing no sign of waning, a new crop of web tools for teachers are emerging to help support instruction. In this post, I take a look at four ways that teachers can add questions to a YouTube video for their students to answer when watching a video at home or on their own. 1.
Educanon.com For a more polished approach, check out Educanon.com. It works with YouTube, Vimeo or TeacherTube videos. To get started, simply copy and paste the link to the video into the Educanon video builder. 40+ Places to Find Educational Apps for Your Class. One of the questions I often get asked by readers of this blog concerns the resources I draw on to curate the educational apps I share with you.
App curation and reviewing is a time consuming task and unless you want to start up a blog to share apps I don't think you will need as many resources as I use myself. I follow the feeds of more than 200 blogs and have to spend hours sifting through piles and piles of apps but I really enjoy it not only because it is part of my daily work but the sense of exploring and discovering new tools and getting to learn how these new discoveries could be used for educational purposes provides me with a deep sense of gratification.
That being said, and for those of you keen on learning about and keeping updated on new releases of educational iPad apps to use with your students in class, the list below will definitely serve the purpose. The Best Free Education Web Tools Of 2013. There’s a wealth of education related web tools out there that can make your life easier and turn your computer, phone, and/or tablet into a teaching and learning powerhouse. But because there are SO many tools out there, selecting the best ones can turn into a full time job. Downloading a ton of apps, researching, and testing different web tools can take hours – hours that you probably don’t have if you’re busy teaching and having a life. Thankfully, the folks over at Edublogs have put together this great List.ly that is filled to the brim with the best education tools, and the best part is that they’re all free!
The Best Free Education Web Tools Of 2013. 4 herramientas para enseñar a programar vídeojuegos en el aula. Me llamo Javier Gómez Torres (@javigoto), mi formación es la de Maestro, en la especialidad de educación Primaria, y la de Psicopedagogo en la especialidad de educación especial. Imparto docencia de Tecnología en el colegio SEK Santa Isabel a alumnos de altas capacidades. Al mismo tiempo, compagino este trabajo con otro en el Grupo SM, como coordinador de encargos digitales, elaborando materiales didácticos para ser utilizados en el ordenador, tabletas, etc. Llevo más de quince años (que se dice pronto) enseñando tecnología a alumnos con altas capacidades intelectuales.
Decir esto, en un país en el que la ayuda que reciben estos alumnos dentro del aula ordinaria es prácticamente inexistente, viene a ser lo mismo que decir que llevo más de quince años peleándome y buscando información en muchos foros extranjeros para descubrir programas con los que poder ofrecer la mejor ayuda a estos alumnos. En fin, espero que os animéis a utilizar estas aplicaciones con vuestros alumnos. How to Design an Online Course Infographic. E-Learning Infographics The How to Design an Online Course Infographic outlines some of the key components to creating an online course.
Naturally, not every item is an absolute necessary (many of which will depend on your needs), but they all do provide value for your online courses. More than ever, it is important that you encourage online interaction and feedback mechanisms for the students in the online courses. 14 Free Apps for Higher Order Thinking. 50+ powerful education apps for Android worth trying. Top 5 de herramientas para crear comics. Top 200 Special Education Apps. As a reader of this blog, you might have noticed that Educational Technology and Mobile Learning has a particular focus on the use of iPad in education other than any other tablet in the market.We do in fact love other tablets especially Motorolla Xoom, Samsung GalaxyTab 10.1, and LG Optimus tablet and we do believe they have a promising potential in education as well but for now it seems that iPad is leading the mobile learning revolution.
This is probably due to the kind of investment Apple is having in education. The folks in Apple have taken the issue seriously and they are intent on monopolizing the educational market. The 50+ best free web tools for education. Five Good Online Tools for Creating Infographics. In my previous post shared some advice from Randy Krum, author of Cool Infographics, about creating infographics. The 4 Apps Needed To Run A One iPad Classroom. 6 Online Tools That Will Help The Writing Process. 4 Free Websites Where You Can Learn The Basics Of Game Development. Over a decade ago, I taught myself the basics of game programming and game development through the limited tutorial resources I could find on the Internet.
Since then, the landscape of game development has changed drastically, and anyone can start creating their own games within weeks with a few Google searches. 15 Useful Apps For #BYOD Classrooms. The 30 must-have iPad apps for teachers around the world. Algunas herramientas para publicar trabajos de los alumnos. En la página e-learning industry han seleccionado una lista con 7 herramientas interesantes para publicar los trabajos de los alumnos. Se trata de herramientas de uso internacional donde se pueden encontrar contenidos en varias lenguas, entre ellas español, aunque mayoritariamente están en inglés. Flipsnack Es una herramienta gratuita que permite convertir imágenes o pdf libros digitales. Para crear el libro digital sólo tienes que introducir una URL con el destino del pdf o subirlo desde el mismo ordenador.
Puedes personalizar el documento como quieras añadiendo imágenes además de diferentes widgets que te permiten dar tu propio estilo a la publicación. Y finalmente lo puedes compartir en la red de flipsnack. Wordfaire Esta herramienta es como una especie de blog que permite subir la información en tiempo real. ePubBud Esta herramienta se parece bastante a Flipsnack, permite subir imágenes para crear tu propio libro electrónico o utilizar una plantilla predeterminada.
7 Ways Teachers Use Social Media in the Classroom. Millennials live and breathe on social media, so teachers are learning how to incorporate the medium into the classroom successfully. Beyond Minecraft: Games That Inspire Building and Exploration. By Tanner Higgin, Graphite The success and popularity of Minecraft in and out of classrooms is no surprise. It’s one of the best examples of the potential of learning with games because it embraces exploration, discovery, creation, collaboration, and problem-solving while allowing teachers to shepherd play toward any subject area. But Minecraft is not the only game of this kind. 11 Essential Tools For Better Project-Based Learning - Getting Smart by Guest Author - blended learning, EdTech, PBL. Guide to Free Education Resources. 37 Ways Teachers Can Use Pinterest In The Classroom Teachers with Apps. Teachers EdTech Study Infographic Plus 400+ Free EdTech Tools for Teachers.
13 Tools to Make Your Classroom More Fun From edshelf. Social Media in Education: Resource Roundup. 15 Learning Tools You Never Knew Existed. 10 Time-Saving Videos All About iPads In The Classroom. 10 APPS PARA MAESTROS 3.0. Haiku Deck, a super easy and cool way to create presentations on your iPad! « Blog. Creation Apps Used On The iPad. Create Flashcards from Google Spreadsheets. Resources and Downloads for Collaborative Learning.
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