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I am a huge proponent and user of Google tools, both for myself and in my classroom. Here are some great resources for educators who want to learn more about using Google's many tools in their classroom. Last week, Kathy Schrock posted a great interactive image of Google tools listed by Bloom's taxonomy levels.
Google for Educators - Resources for using Google in school
QR Codes Connect Art on the Wall With Music on Your iPhone
Portuguese artist Nuno Serrão wants to make art viewing more stimulating by incorporating music through an iPhone app and QR codes. The artist’s photography exhibit called Project Paperclip is currently housed at the Centro das Artes in Madeira Island, Portugal. People can walk in and do something usually discouraged at galleries — wear headphones and listen to music while taking in the images. “It can carry you to a different interpretation of that moment in the frame,” Serrão, who has a background in programming, design and music, told Mashable. “All the pictures are inspired by science, curiosity and imagination.” People can experience it by downloading the free Project Paperclip app.
How would I prepare to teach a BYOD class?
1. A class blog to tell the learning narrative of the class. It will also serve as assignment distribution hub and reflection archive; the kids will blog.
Last month I posted a neat interactive chart made by Kathy Schrock that matches Google tools to the levels of Bloom's Revised Taxonomy. That chart is very helpful for selecting a Google tool to support your lesson plans. This morning through a Tweet by Kyle Pace I've learned of another useful resource for teachers interested in exploring the use of Google tools in their classrooms.
Free Technology for Teachers: Google Apps K-12 Lesson Plan Selector
For Students | For Teachers | For Staff | Help Forum A full day with teachers at Warner Unified School District Monday, April 9,2012 was a beautiful day in Warner Springs, CA. Joe Hartman, Mary Kraus and I drove out to Warner Springs early Monday morning to conduct an all ... Posted Apr 10, 2012 9:12 AM by Alicia Gallegos Butters Training at SDCOE On Monday, February 27, 2012, we conducted our first Google Apps for Education training at the San Diego County Office of Education.
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Andrew Miller ( @betamiller on Twitter) is a National Faculty member for the Buck Institute for Education , an organization specializing in 21st century project-based learning, as well as for ASCD , an organization providing expertise in a variety of professional development needs. He is also a regular blogger for Edutopia . Ok, I'll be honest. I get very nervous when I hear education reformists and politicians tout how "incredible" the flipped classroom model , or how it will "solve" many of the problems of education. It doesn't solve anything.
Five Best Practices for the Flipped Classroom | Edutopia
Free Technology for Teachers: The Awesome Highlighter is Awesome
The Awesome Highlighter is an easy-to-use tool for highlighting, clipping, saving, and sharing interesting things you find on the web. Using The Awesome Highlighter you can highlight chunks of text from a website and save just that text, along with the url, to your Awesome Highlighter account. If you want to add some notes of your own to the text you can do that as well. Should you decide to share your findings with others, The Awesome Highlighter provides a shortened url that you can email, Tweet, or post on the web. The shortened url provided by The Awesome Highlighter will lead others to what you highlighted and the notes you wrote.
Evernote as Portfolio | The story of using Evernote as a portfolio in my k-12 school
I get a lot of questions about my work with Evernote and I like to use them as blog entries. I imagine that many people out there have similar questions and I hope this format is helpful. This list of questions comes from an Information Technology Specialist at a University here in the United States. What did the on-boarding process look like?
Free Technology for Teachers: Read Cube - A Desktop Tool for Organizing Research
Read Cube is a desktop application, for Windows and Mac, that is designed to help students organize their research. Read Cube provides a place for students to save and annotate scholarly documents.
Web 20.11 is Discovery Education's FREE Web 2.0 for 2011 resource page.
Web 20.11 - Web 2.0 for 2011 - resources, tips, ideas from Discovery Education
Earlier this month, I wrote "10 Important Skills Students Need for the Future." After reading a few articles about specific tech skills, I thought I write what I think are the 10 Important Tech Skills Students Need. 1. Internet Search - students need to know how to do a proper internet search, using search terms and modifiers. This skill is needed for school, work and life in general.
10 Tech Skills Every Student Should Have
Top 5 Apps for Administrators I am not an administrator (yet) but in my past life I was a project engineer and I really wish I had some of these tools back then (ok, we had email). I do help the administration and work on many projects at school and these 5 apps have helped me. I do use a lot of other apps on a daily basis , but I think that these are the top 5 apps that administrators should learn and use, especially if they are new to Web 2.0 and Social Networking. 1.
Top 5 Apps for Administrators to learn and use
Scribblar - Free Interactive Online Whiteboard
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Ever see those little square codes in magazines and newspapers?Teaching with Google Plus - tips and resources
Google Plus is a great resource for education. Edutopia, a great resource in itself, has a great article " Teaching with Google Plus ."Digital Literacy
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