PBL: Teaching Online. Free Tools To create and Administer Quizzes. The 30 Best Web 2.0 Tools For Teachers (2012 Edition) Looking for the best cloud computing software for your school? What about a way to remotely store homework and other assignments? It’s time to figure out which web 2.0 tool is right for you! The following presentation contains dozens of the most popular tools being used in classrooms right now. In fact, I’ve personally used more than 90% of these tools in higher education. They’re useful, most are free (some are freemium), and true time-savers. See Also: The 100 Best Web 2.0 Classroom Tools Chosen By You Each slide in the below presentation by Rafael Scapin contains the name, description, link, and screenshot of what each tool looks like and does.
The Teacher's A-Z Guide To Important Education Resources. The 12 Technologies Forever Changing School Libraries 5.66K Views 0 Likes For students at the K-12 or university level, the school library can be the most important stop on a research journey, whether it's the first destination or the last. In order to keep up with modern challenges, some of the most innovative campus media centers in the U.S. are looking for ways to use technology to make the learning process smoother—both in person and remotely. 5 MOOCs Teachers Should Take As Students 6.80K Views 0 Likes MOOCs may or may not save higher education, and if they save it they may further widen the gap between elite and lesser-known schools. The Best 50 Websites of 2012 ( Times List ) Through a tweet from Larry Ferlazzo I learned about the release of this year's best 50 websites from Times.
Every year Times releases a kind of annual report in which they feature the websites they rank as being their best. " Time's annual salute to sites and services which can keep you entertained and informed, save you time and money, and may be change your life ". Checking the education part in this list I found that they listed only a few websites which we have already reviewed here in Educational Technology and Mobile Learning in previous posts, but although these websites are great , I think they should have included some more. Anyway here is the list of the websites they included under the education heading. There are also several other categories besides Education including Productivity, Web Tools, Entertainment, Family and Kids,Social, Games, Shopping, and more. Week in Review - Everyone Back to School! Judging by the massive spike in traffic to the blog this week, I think it's safe to say that almost everyone is back into their school year routines.
Whether it's your first year or thirty-first year in education, I hope your year is off to a great start. Speaking of back to school, this weekend I'm spending some time having a mini-reunion of sorts with friends from my days at the University of Maine at Farmington. I hope that all of you have equally fun plans for the weekend. Here are this week's most popular posts: 1.
A Free Complete Guide to Evernote 2. Please visit the official advertisers and marketing partners that help keep this blog going.Class DoJo is a great student behavior recording keeping service.Discovery Education & Wilkes University offer online courses for earning Master's degrees in Instructional Media.Vocabulary Spelling City offers spelling practice activities that you can customize.The College of St.
20 Web 2.0 Sites that does not Require Sto. This is a post I've been wanting to do for some quite some time but had to do some research to get the information I needed.
A huge factor for schools in dealing w/ students and working online is CIPA/COPPA compliance. This is to ensure student safety as well as monitor/filter their online behavior. As Web 2.0 becomes more popular and Educational Technology online sites replace desktop software this has become more of an issue. A lot of subscription based or Ed Tech sites require a student email address to create an account which can become a BIG issue when dealing w/ CIPA compliance, because a majority of students to not have a school email account. That being said, there are still a number of Web 2.0 sites that do not require a student email address to create an account.
8 Great New Educational Web Tools for Teachers. 1- Class Tools This is a great website that allows users to create free educational games, quizzes, activities and diagrams in seconds.
You can also host them on your own blog, website.No sign up is required. 2- Classroom Jeopardy Using this tool, you will be able to create a custom jeppardy review game for use in classrooms, training sessions, or anywhere else a fun, team based review game is appropriate. 3- Inskilled. A List of Great Free Math Websites for Teachers and Students. This is the third post in a series of posts covering a wide spectrum of free resources on different subject areas.
After reviewing Social Studies and Science resources , today we are providing you with a list of some of the best free Math websites where you can have access to a plethora of Math lesson plans, free printables, games, activities, video tutorials and many more. Check out the list below and share with us your suggestions : 1- PBS Teachers Math PBS Teachers Math provides some great Math resources organized into different grade-subject pages. 2- Education World. 91420cc8-f42d-4b97-9962-76df0ed447ac.pdf. New 11 Educational Web Tools for Teachers to Try. Below is a list of some awesome educational web tools that you can use in your classroom or for your professional development.
As you probably know, each Sunday I post here a list of the new web tools I stumble upon in different blogs, wikis, and websites and because of my time constraints I can not review each one in a single post and hence gathering them here under the one umbrella heading called : Educational Web Tools. Check out the list I have assembled for you this week and tell me what you think about it : 1- StatsGram. Great Websites To Develop Students Vocabulary. Technology has made it dead easy to learn a foreign language.
I can still remember all the difficulties and hardships I went through when I was learning French and German and now that I see all that technology offers to students to learn a new language I just wish I had them back then it would have been not only way easier but more fun too. An important part in the process of learning a language is learning its vocabulary. The richer this latter is the more freedom and possibilities learners have in expressing themselves and communicating messages via the target language. 10 Great Free Web Tools for Teachers and Educators. Educational Technology and Mobile Learning has handpicked for you some great educational web tools that we have come across in different websites and blogs during the last week.
We are adding the list to the section called Educational Web Tools where we provide busy teachers and educators with resources and links about educational web technologies . Check out the list below and let us know what you think. 1- The Borgeson Bunch. This Might Be the Easiest Way to Share Files Yet. 9 Excellent New Web Tools to Try. This post is like the week in review post I publish here every Sunday evening except that this one contains web tools that, because of my time constraints, I have not reviewed before.
Below is a list of some of the best new web tools I came across in different educational blogs and websites in the course of last week. All of these tools have an educational value and can be used for a variety of learning and teaching purposes. Our aim is to help you get the maximum from web 2.0 technologies and leverage their potential to your classroom. 15 Free Tools for Web-based Collaboration. Web 2.0. Web 2.0 Tools for Educators. Web 2.0. 10 talks from inspiring teachers. Professor John Keating of “The Dead Poets Society.”
Calculus teacher Jaime Escalante of “Stand and Deliver.” Marine-turned-teacher Louanne Johnson of “Dangerous Minds.” Hollywood might want to take note of a new award-winning teacher on the block, Stephen Ritz, who gave this fast-paced, highly inspiring talk at TEDxManhattan. Stephen Ritz: A teacher growing green in the South BronxA parent and teacher in the South Bronx, Ritz has noticed his students getting larger and more sickly over the years, not to mention the fact that they’re parsing fewer options for earning a living.
So Ritz began working with his students to grow “indoor edible walls,” beautiful living murals, full of greenery. “Kids from the poorest Congressional district in America can build a 30 x 15 foot wall — design it, plant it, and install it in the middle of New York City,” says Ritz. Since starting the edible wall project, Ritz has seen his kids’ attendance jump from 43 to 90 percent. A List of Awesome 10 New Web Tools for Educators. As you probably know by now, Educational Technology and Mobile Learning has created a separate section labelled educational web tools where we provide quick reviews of websites we assemble from different online resources each week, and because of the time constraint that do not permit us to review each one of these websites in single posts we deem it important that we compile them in a bulleted posts so that you do not miss any resource.
The purpose is to keep teachers and educators updated about the newest web tools that they can use in education. Check out the list below and if you have any suggestions or additions then share them with us below. 1- Keen Talks Keen Talks is similar to TED , it provides some awesome and engaging talks, lectures, and presentations. 5 Important New Web Tools for Educators. Part of our job here in Educational Technology and Mobile Learning is to help you explore and discover the best free web tools to use both in your instruction and for your professional development.Often times we would publish a list of the recent new tools we stumble upon online and because of our time constraints , we are unable to cover each tool in a single post therefore we assemble them in one article with a short description attached to each one of them to help you learn about the tool before you click on it.
Today, we have compiled another list of some awesome tools that you can use for educational purposes. Check out the list below and tell us what you think about them : 1- Vizify This is an awesome new tool that allow users to create visual representation of their activities in multiple social media sites.Registration is based on invitation. See which presidential candidate you side with. 9 Great Online Libraries for Educators. Libraries are significant resources for written text and educational materials. It is true that the surge in blogs, search engines, ebooks catalogues, and document sharing communities has tremendously weakened the online presence of libraries but still often times libraries provide a treasure trove of information and rare documents that you can hardly find elsewhere.
As educators, we should at least know about two or three library resources where to look for and find precious documentations. We should also introduce our students to such links and encourage them to use them in their research.Hence the importance of compiling a list of some of the best libraries online. Check out the list below and hopefully share it with your colleagues. If we were really serious about educational technology. The Best 9 Free Websites That Offer Free eBooks for Teachers. Education nowadays is talking digital and probably by the year 2020 most of the schools in the US and Canada will have already embraced digital textbooks.
Digital learning is gaining ground day after day and the sooner we embrace it the better. 10 Great Free Web Tools for Teachers. Blog.edtechmaestro.com. The EdTech Maestro blends the perfect technology tools with curriculum. The Best Web 2.0 Applications For Education In 2012 — So Far. 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. But I wanted t... - Top 100 Sites of 2011. 0 Comments November 23, 2011 By: David Kapuler Nov 23. Internet Map your Guide to Popular Webistes Online. Today as I was going through my feeds I came across this great web tool called Internet Map and thought it might interest you as well. Internet Map, as its name suggests, is a Google Map of the 350.000 largest websites in the world. Websites are included in circles in the map. The size and visibility of each circle corresponds with the popularity of the website it contains . For instance, the biggest circle that is clearly visible in the interface of the map is of Facebook, the surrounding ones have Tumblr, Yahoo, Google, etc. One of the coolest things about Internet Map is that it lets users easily use the search functionality to look for and find the most popular websites in individual countries.
The 7 Top Document Sharing Websites for Teachers. As a teacher embracing technology in his/ her instruction, you might be in need of some online document sharing communities where you can upload, download, share, and interact with other educators.These communities are so important for your professional development , for they are not only the right places to search for educational and academic papers but you can also get to know people, follow them, and learn from their own experiences. 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.
The 101 Most Useful Websites on the Internet. Here are the most useful websites on the Internet that will make you smarter, increase productivity and help you learn new skills. These incredibly useful websites solve at least one problem really well. 157 of the Most Useful Websites on the Internet. A Quick Guide to 21st Century Critical Thinking Skills for Educators. Educational Technology Buzzwords. Education Blogs. Ed Tech Ideas. Best content in EdTechTalk. 30 Web Sites to Teach You About Technology Integration. Kevin Honeycutt. Great Websites. Resources For The Classroom.
K-12 ...Technology Sites. 25 Great WebSites for Teachers. 10+ Educational Podcasts Worth Listening To! 40 Sites for Educational Games. Mike's Technology Closet-all these sites. - Top 25 Web 2.0 Sites for Education by David Kapuler. Web 2.0... 41 Websites for Teachers to Integrate Tech into Your Classroom « Ask a Tech Teacher. Leslie Fisher. Best Websites for Teaching and Learning.