eLearning, Education Technology and Teacher Blog : InformED. Top 100 Education Blogs. Education blogs are becoming a means for educators, students, and education administrators to interact more effectively than ever before. They are also a great resource for those searching for the best online education programs to jumpstart their teaching careers.
Technorati currently tracks 63.1 million blogs. More than 5,000 of them are about education. It is likely that there are hundreds, if not thousands, more education-related blogs on the Web. (UPDATE: There are over 30,000 blogs hosted at edublogs.org alone. Please note that this is by no means an exhaustive list of all of the great education blogs out there. Blog Topics E-Learning | Education News | Education Policy | Internet Culture | Learning | Library and Research | Specialty | Teaching | Technology E-Learning Technology-assisted learning and online learning are topics discussed in these blogs. Education News This Week in Education Education Policy Internet Culture Learning Library and Research Specialty Teaching Technology. TeacherPop. Thus begins a three-part series of guilty admissions, ahem, lessons learned, March 10, 2014, when I actually took a look at what I was doing and when.
A while back, I decided to track my time in 30-minute increments over the course of a week, as recommended by Laura Vanderkam, author of 168 Hours: You Have More Time Than You Think. I did it, painfully and mostly accurately. As most of you know, I’m a reasonably busy lady with a full-time job, heavy travel, two kids under the age of three, a lovely husband, and friends and family I like to hang out with. And I really want to finish Downton Abbey! The week I chose to track was an interesting one as it involved travel, workshops for teachers, train rides, pediatrician appointments, a book proposal deadline, and a hair appointment. Ewan McIntosh | Digital Media & Learning. ENGAGE Learning. The Edublog Awards. Formative Assessment | mistercooke's teaching blog. “If a teacher attempts to teach knowledge, understanding, and skills as though everyone in the class were at the same point of readiness — that is, in the same zone of proximal development — it is likely that some students will be in the “learning zone” while others are coasting and still others are confused and frustrated.”– from Differentiation and The Brain by David A.
Sousa and Carol Ann Tomlinson I just read this in Sousa and Tomlinson’s book this evening and, for me, it reinforced why I use the Learning Skills Tracking Sheet (“Green Sheets“) in conjunction with the Traffic Light system. Just to summarize, Dr. Jamie Pyper took the idea of the Exit Card and essentially formalized it so that it is a part of everyday classroom practice. But the Green Sheet can also be used to address what Sousa and Tomlinson mention in the quotation above, that a teacher cannot hope to reach most or all of the students at any given time without checking their understanding from time to time. A to Z Web Tools:M. The new letter is M today. MoshiMonsters is a virtual world for children where children can create their own cute monster avatars, play games and practice English with them. MultiURL is a tool to combine links into one short link and share it with others. MyStoryMaker allows you to create a story using different characters, settings and items to move around on the story.
MythsandLegends is a tool to create your own digital stories. MakeBeliefComics is a simple tool to create comics by adding different characters, back grounds and text in speech bubbles. Mixbook is a collaborative tool to create customizable photo books, cards and calendars online. MailFreezer is a site where you can freeze an email up to 100 years and send it any time you want in 100 years of time.
Magnato is a tool to create an online page with text, pictures, videos and stickers. Meetifyr is a site that helps you to find the best time to meet with your friends. Memidex is an online dicitionary and a thesarus. Enjoy! Donald Clark Plan B.