Educational Technology and Mobile Learning: 4 of The Best Podcasts Creating Apps for Teachers. March 10, 2015 Podcasts are audio shows created with the intent to communicate an idea, tell a story, or to simply share audio recordings of whatever sort.
In everyday sense of the term, podcasts are also used to refer to video recordings though many prefer to use the technical terminology: vidcasts or videocasts to refer to them. The educational potential of podcasts is huge and students can use them for a variety of purposes some of which include: delivering research content, creating and sharing audio (video) stories, recording and sharing learning experiences with others and many more. Brainstorming and Voting Amazingly Easy. Free Online Tool The top 5 training tools to keep you on track with Microsoft Technology - TechNet UK Blog. Ed Jones works for Firebrand Training, a Microsoft Gold Learning Partner.
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However, today we are sharing with you our top picks. These are the most downloaded extensions in Chrome store that have generated a huge number of positive user-reviews. Teachers and parents can use them with their kids to assist them in mastering the art of touch typing. 1-Typing Club This is by far the most popular of them all. Educational Technology and Mobile Learning: 10 Excellent New Educational Web Tools for Teachers. March 20, 2015 Here are some very useful educational web tools we have curated over the last few weeks.
These are EdTech tools we came across through posts from other edubloggers. As is the case with previous posts in New EdTech Web Tools for Teachers, we only feature the recent trending tools which we think would be a valued addition to teachers technology toolkit. Check out the ones we have for you today and share with us if you have other suggestions to add to the list: 1- iClicker iClicker is a powerful formative assessment tool and intuitive student response system that allows for dynamic student-teacher interaction. 2- ThinkBinder ThinkBinder is an excellent web tool for creating study and discussion groups. 6 links that will show you what Google knows about you — Productivity in the Cloud.
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These games are particularly helpful for test reviews in classroom and also for any other review activity in class. Using these tools will enable you to customize and edit your games the way you want , adding different questions and answers and also presenting them in a gameshow-style board. Enjoy. Educational Technology and Mobile Learning: Two Useful Web Tools to Create Ed... Educational Technology and Mobile Learning: 6 Great Tools to Share Your Compu... The Top 27 Free Tools to collaborate, hold discussions, and Backchannel with Students. 1- ChannelME ChannelME is a great web tool.
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