The Next 10 Education Gurus. I have yet to meet an educator who denies the potential value of online video as a teaching tool. But with more than 48 hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute, there's a vast difference between choosing a video because you can, and spending the time to identify those clips that will have a real impact on student learning. When the YouTube EDU staff joined forces with online learning provider Khan Academy earlier this year to honor the best educational videos on the web, the goal was to identify producers of educational content that teachers, students and parents could rely on and actually use.
Sifting through more than 1,000 entries, the judges tapped 10 "Next EDU" gurus, who we first encountered on the website Edudemic. If you're looking for video-based lessons to engage your students, check out this two-minute preview featuring all 10 "Next EDU" gurus. Introducing the "Next EDU" gurus: AsapSCIENCE Amor Sciendi Bite Sci-zed Profspop KemushiChan: Bringing You Some Japanese Powerm1985. Elementary School. TechTalk.tv. Edutopia: [Trending Video] Teaching... SocialEdCon Ed Tech Unconference Attendees Share Conversation, Web 2.0 Tools. Hundreds of educators attended SocialEdCon, the fifth annual unconference held before the ISTE annual conference and exposition at the San Diego Convention Center earlier today. SocialEdCon is organized onsite based on the interests and expertise of participants. Topics at this year’s event covered a wide range of issues, including social media and student bullying, building online courses, professional development strategies, effective blended learning, and organizing virtual conferences.
“It’s just a really engaging day. It’s about conversations and not presentations. You get to talk about what you want to talk about,” said Steve Hargadon, who developed and organizes the annual event. Formerly known as EduBloggerCon, organizers changed the name of the event this year to indicate greater inclusiveness of all social media tools used in education. The afternoon sessions of the unconference kicked off with the popular Web 2.0 Smackdown, hosted by Vicki Davis. WhatIsYourEduWin? About DOGO. DOGO Media is a next-generation online network empowering kids to engage with digital media in a fun, safe and social environment. “DOGO” means young or small in Swahili. While our young fans may be small, they act BIG as they engage with our websites and express their opinions on the content that interests and inspires them.
DOGOnews was created in ‘09 by a young mother in the SF Bay Area who couldn’t find a reliable and safe source for her grammar school children to use for current events assignments. The word spread…first a couple of classmates read it, then teachers at the school found out about it, and now thousands of students and teachers from around the world are using the DOGO websites in-and-out of the classroom on a daily basis. DOGOnews.com - The leading source for current events, news and non-fictional articles for kids and teachers.
DOGOnews provides compelling and engaging content in the following areas: Meera Dolasia – CEO, Publisher & Editor Ed Meagher – VP of Sales. Learning tools by category. Smart-Briefing and Zite-Seeing. April 6, 2012 by tomwhitby There are few questions that I get from teachers about social media, or sources that I haven’t gotten in some form before over the last three or four years. Two similar questions that I get with frequency are: How do you know all that stuff? And where do you get the time to get all this stuff? My immediate response is that Twitter is my guide to relevant education sources. Those educators who are “unconnected” should know that many “connected educators” consider Twitter an indispensable source for all things education.
Twitter if properly connected to thoughtful and collaborative educators is a virtual cornucopia of endless links for: Posts, Videos, Articles, Podcasts, Webinars, Websites, Lessons, Announcements, Original thoughts, Chats, and all else Education that the internet has to offer. That being said; Where do all those “connected educators” find things to send out on Twitter? Where does one find the time to locate all of these sources? Like this: Web 2.0 NETS Aligned Tools 2010. 6 Free Tools to Easily Cite Resources for Students and Researchers. Citing resources is an important skill for the 21st century students and for any other learner or researcher. I have already included it in my ebook " The 21St Century Skills Teachers and Students Need to Have ". It is a fact universally acknowledged that citing resources nowadays is way harder than it used to be when technology was not a huge issue.
As technology crouches into our life, new ways of communication emerge giving birth to novel content providers. We have now blog posts, online newspapers, ebooks, tweets, emails,.. and several other forms where learners can get the information they want. Do they know how to properly cite these new resources is where the shoe pinches. Just yesterday I posted about MLA new guidelines of how to include tweets in citations. I got several emails asking me for more resources on this topic and after some online research I came up with the list below. 1- How to Include Tweets in your Citations 2- Cite This For Me 3- Son Of Citation Machine 6-Zotero. 25 Tools – and all for free! EmailShare 0EmailShare e.learning age magazine, April 2008 Whether you are a corporate trainer, a Learning & Development manager, a learning designer or developer, or an educator in a school, college or university, these are the 25 must-have tools. What is more they are all free, which makes them very useful for those on a low (or non-existent) budget or simply for experimentation and exploration of the widening e-learning space.
These tools have been taken from the Top 100 Tools for Learning 2008 list compiled from the Top 10 Tools lists of nearly 200 learning professionals worldwideand are a mix of personal productivity tools (for managing personal learning) as well as authoring tools (for creating learning solutions). Many of them are Web 2.0 tools that promote a social, collaborative, sharing approach to learning. Firefox plus extensions – a web browser This is clearly an essential tool; it is your “window on the web” and the basis of everything you do.
14 Ways to Use Garageband in the Classroom. Garageband is a great app that I think any student or teacher using an iPad should consider buying. It is a multi-track audio editing app that is as robust as you will ever need (unless of course you teach audio production). Later this week I will be posting a new page full of Garageband resources for teachers, students and learning. For now, you can get your brain juices flowing by reading the list below, watching the embeded ‘how to’ videos, and then go start playing with Garageband yourself! Download Garageband from iTunes here. 1) Create Soundtracks/Scores to Your iMovie Project – if you’re not already making iMovie projects with your students, you should read ’13 Ways To Use iMovie in the Classroom‘. A great example of creating your own movie score or soundtrack is available here on youtube < YouTube.com 2) Teaching Dance in PhysEd - Dance is sometimes a difficult unit to teach because students aren’t interested or are embarrased or just to shy.
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