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44 Diverse Tools To Publish Student Work. 44 Diverse Tools To Publish Student Work by TeachThought Staff Educators are often admonished to design work that “leaves the classroom.”

44 Diverse Tools To Publish Student Work

This is partly a push for authenticity. Work that is “real world” will naturally be more engaging to students because it has more chance to have credibility in their eyes, and usefulness in their daily lives. This kind of work has value beyond the current grading period and culminating report card. But work that is made public has other benefits as well. Tony Vincent from learninginhand.com revisited that idea with the following graphic that clarifies another talent of education technology–shared thinking. Publishing Student Work vs Assessment In lieu of its perceived art and science, assessment is a murky practice. Anything a student “does” can be used as a kind of assessment. When students publish their thinking with their right audience or collaborators at the right time, the tone and purpose of the work are able to shift dramatically.

iOS App Development Tutorial for Beginners. Infinite Skills have a wide range of tutorials covering all the popular applications and programming languages.

iOS App Development Tutorial for Beginners

A full list of courses complete with free demos can be seen here on the Infinite Skills Web Site About This Tutorial In this iOS app development tutorial, you will learn how to create apps for iPhone and iPad devices. Expert trainer and published author Tony Bove introduces you to using the iOS Software Development Kit (SDK) and Xcode to build apps for the iPhone, iPad and Universal apps. Even if you have never programmed before or built apps before, by the end of this iOS app development tutorial you will be fully capable of building apps and submitting them to the App Store.

Before you even start building an app, Tony takes you through what makes a good app, and the limitations you will face on the iPhone and iPad platforms. Please Note:- My 24 Most-Used Education Apps (What Are Yours?) 16 Technology Leaders I Follow On Twitter 5.11K Views 0 Likes I often get asked to list off my favorite people I follow on Twitter. That's a big question with no real specific answer.

WDWDT: A New App That Keeps Teachers, Students, Parents In Sync. There’s a new classroom messaging app that goes beyond your typical mobile classroom app. It’s called WDWDT (stands for What Did We Do Today? ) and is a messaging service custom-built for students, parents, teachers, and others to stay in the loop about what’s been happening in class lately. 8 Ways To Get The Word Out About Your School's App. Whether a private or independent school, a public school or district, or an educational organization or association, it is likely you’ve thought about an app for your school.

8 Ways To Get The Word Out About Your School's App

17 Ways Teachers Are Using iPhones In Education. Think iPhones don’t belong in the classroom? Well, think again. Technology in higher education is going mobile, and smartphones are becoming more and more ingrained in daily life for faculty and students alike. At Education Dive, we have already looked at the role of Apple’s iPad in schools , as well as some of the major app releases that educations should be paying attention to. 7 Little-Known Tech Tools Teachers Should Try Out. There are hundreds of thousands of apps, tools, and websites that teachers could learn from.

7 Little-Known Tech Tools Teachers Should Try Out

But, well, teachers don’t have that kinda time. In fact, the lack of time is a big issue when it comes to education technology integration. Handing off an iPad to a teacher and saying ‘there now you have an iPad, go revolutionize learning!’ Is how most districts still approach integration. So in an effort to boil down the most effective (even if they’re not the most popular) education technology tools, many people like myself test out and recommend just a small fraction of the many offerings out there. Since we’ve established that teachers are short on time but not on resources, these kind of articles are great for a connected educator on the go. 7 Online Quiz Tools Perfect For Classrooms. Whether you want to have students turn in homework via an online form or simply take a quiz or test, online quiz tools are critical to having a connected classroom. Most tools are free, all are robust, and they’re quite easy to use.

What could be better than that? You can use any of these below tools to get feedback from parents, students, colleagues, and more. How Evernote Is Revolutionzing My Classroom. From 8th January – 22nd March I chose one class, my First Year class (aged 11-12) to give up using exercise books, reading books and textbooks. Instead, they would use only digital mediums that were available to them through an iPad that they were supplied with during each lesson. We are now at the halfway point of this test, and I wanted to reflect a little on what I have found so far.

The first stumbling block was the fact that the iPads that they had access to were not theirs to take home – they were issued at the start of each lesson and collected in at the end. So, I needed something stable, reliable and powerful that would work across any platform to be at the core of what we did. The natural choice for this was Evernote.

See Also: Top 5 Apps for Organizing School Work On the surface of it, this meant that I had simply digitized what has always been; they have an exercise book that is held on the cloud instead of on physical pages. So is it worth it? The answer is, yes. 2 Simple Ways To Use QR Codes In Education. QR codes are a great and easy way to share digital materials and resources within your classroom. I use it in 2 different ways. 1. From the teacher to the students: