65+ Ways to Use ThingLink In Your Classroom. EduClipper Enables Social Resource Sharing Inside and Outside the Classroom. Educators are embracing social media inside and outside the classroom but sometimes platforms created for the consumer market do not meet all their needs. Adam Bellow, founder and president, explains the origins of eduClipper is and how it helps educators optimize how they consume massive amounts of content coming their way on social channels to improve their lessons and better engage learners.
The need for school-friendly social curation Adam Bellow first began finding and sharing free web tools six years ago with eduTecher. About a year and a half ago (December 2011), Adam heard from bloggers, teachers and his community on Twitter encouraging him to focus on visual curation tools. What’s eduClipper? “eduClipper is a visual curation tool that allows you to share and display content on eduClipboards. Sharing resources inside and outside the classroom Social classrooms Enabling better PLNs About Adam BellowAdam Bellow is the founder and president of eduTecher and eduClipper.
ThingLinkToolkit. Schedule - Minnesota 1:1 Learning Summit. Three Approaches for Getting Content to Elementary Students' iPads - No Email, No Problem. This is a guest post from Beth Holland of EdTechTeacher.org From the beginning, a major challenge of working with iPads is actually working with iPads. Unlike a computer, there are no multi-user logins, no file structures, and no easy way to share these devices with multiple students. Additionally, in elementary classrooms the challenge becomes even more difficult. Students don't have email addresses. The Terms of Service of many cloud storage options preclude those under the age of 13 from having an account, and devices are often shared.
Here are three ways to approach distributing content to students without using email or having them log in and out of an account. Approach #1: Cloud Storage and ______ One of the most obvious answers to distributing content to students, is to leverage a cloud storage solution such as Drive, Dropbox, Box, or even Evernote. Use the App One option with elementary students is to create a single account with one of these services for all of the shared iPads. Communicate, Collect & Collaborate with Sticky Notes. Transcript This is the Learning in Hand podcast. I'm Tony Vincent and this is the show where I share tips, how-tos, and ideas for using today's digital tools for teaching and learning.
Episode 26: Communicate, Collect & Collaborate with Sticky Notes, recorded May 2013, happens now! I like digital tools that work on many different kinds of devices. I also like tools that don't require students to sign in. So, have you ever given each student a Post-It note to stick to a wall to gather ideas? For example, Steve Kirkpatrick's elementary students in Salford, U.K. posted to their Dinosaur Question Wall. Kathleen McGready's second grade students contributed to a wall to share what they learned after their dinosaur unit. And, Mr. Padlet calls the virtual bulletin board a wall. I'll talk about setting up your own wall or canvas shortly, but here's how a student contributes to one. Digital sticky notes don't have to be limited to text. Here are some of them….
You can change the layout. Workshop Activities for Technology Integration. Hands-on lessons and activities you can adapt for discussion and exploration in your technology integration workshops. Now that you've established the basics of technology integration, you're ready to explore. On this page, you will find a wide range of activities that will get workshop participants thinking and talking about the best ways to integrate technology into everyday lessons: These activities are grouped by topic, grade level, and subject area so they can be easily incorporated into a workshop with varied participants. All of the tools used are free or have free versions. Activity One: Digital Storytelling The purpose of this activity is to give workshop participants a chance to experiment with various grade- and subject-appropriate digital tools that will enable their students to tell a story or relay ideas through multimedia. Back to Top Activity Two: Digital Citizenship Activity Three: Checking for Understanding Activity Four: Creating Screencasts.
Edina Tech Camp. You are invited to participate in the 2012 Edina Tech Camp Below you will find over 35 classes either online or face to face to engage you in integrating technology into your classroom. $250 Stipend for Student Learning Experience If you choose to complete 9 hours of face to face training at tech camp or one of the online classes develop a student learning project to implement into your classroom and have a face to face meeting with your technology integration specialist you will earn a $250 stipend. In order to earn the stipend you need to... 2. 3. 4. *You may only earn one stipend per summer. Everyone is welcome to sign up for Tech Camp regardless of the stipend. Registration Process Online Courses run June 11th- August 1st August 13-16th *There is a "My Schedule" document attached at the bottom of the page for your planning and scheduling.
Monday, August 13, 2012 Tuesday, August 14, 2012 Wednesday, August 15, 2012 Thursday, August 16, 2012 Also... These classes are free to Edina employees. How To Join Twitter. How To Published on April 27th, 2013 | by Jeff Herb Simply stated, Twitter is an incredible resource for educators. There are thousands of educators collaborating on Twitter, with many more joining daily. The wealth of information shared on a daily basis is staggering – especially compared to the minimal amounts of cross-country or even international collaboration that has existed in the past. This post will detail the steps necessary to set yourself up with a Twitter account, create your profile, find some great people to start following, and some information on how to post updates and share resources you find across the web.
I. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. II. One of the most important parts of your Twitter account is your picture and your bio. Go to the Settings area (the Gear icon) and then click Profile. Fill out all the fields and click save changes. III. Your home stream is the place to see the tweets for everyone you follow. Red Arrow: The person’s Twitter handle IV – Composing a Tweet of Your Own. iPad-Spectrum-PBL-Higher.png 930×1,065 pixels. PBL DO-IT-YOURSELF : Guidance, Tools and Tips for Your Projects | Buck Institute for Education. Top 5 Ways to Stay in Touch with PBL World. Suzie Boss, BIE National Faculty PBL World attendees had their horizons expanded—even more! —on the final day of the conference, when they learned about schools that are part of the Deeper Learning Network. Supported by the Hewlett Foundation, the Deeper Learning Network connects and showcases school models that prepare students to:Master core academic content Think critically and solve complex problems Work collaboratively Learn how to learn Marc Chun of the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation explained that the Deeper Learning concept grew out of extensive research “about how do we prepare students for future careers, and for being good citizens in a civil society.”
School models that are part of the network “have different flavors, but similar outcomes,” Chun said. They also emphasize Project Based Learning “as the way to get students to collaborate, problem solve, think critically, and so forth. Keep ‘on tweeting: The #pblworld hashtag has kept us all connected on Twitter this week. What should every teacher in the 21st century know and be able to do? What should every teacher in the 21st century know and be able to do? That’s an interesting question. The original blog post was written a year ago by Med Kharbach in Educators Technology and re-posted by Terry Heick, from TeachThought. This blog has taken on a life of its own over the last year. It’s been used in several digital literacy courses in universities around the States and Canada and also been published in printed journals. 36 Things Every 21st Century Teacher Should Be Able To Do: 1.
Whether you choose a text message, email, social media message, Skype session, or a Google+ Hangouts depends on who you need to communicate with and why—purpose and audience. 2. Email won’t always work. 3. Hit the Print Screen button near your number pad on a keyboard on Windows. 4. Know what it means to be Rick Roll’d, the difference between a fail and an epic fail, why Steve is a scumbag, and who sad Keannu is. 5. Not everyone loves technology. An RT as an olive branch. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. Best Twitter Chat Tools. With the sale of TweetChat – formerly the most popular, and the first, Twitter chat tool – to Internet Media Labs, the Twitter chat market is a bit of a Wild West these days. People are still engaging in these hour-or-so long live chats on Twitter, but the tools they’re using are quite fractured. Tweet chats popped up on Twitter around the same time the community created the hashtag, with people gathering for short periods of time to chat about business, hobbies, politics and much more using a single hashtag to organize the conversation.
Today, you’d be hard pressed to find a topic that doesn’t have a weekly or monthly tweet chat. In fact, there are over 600 recurring chats listed on this community-curated Google Doc, and that doesn’t even include the hundreds of one-time chats that pop up every week featuring sports stars, celebrities, brands and more. Tweet Chats Today The Tools Still, tweet chats have remained relatively fringe in the Twitter-sphere. What Twitter Chats Are Still Missing. Be Ready When New Technology Appears. While we cannot predict what educational technology will look like in the next 10 years (or even the next 3 years) there are ways to anticipate technological change and be ready when new technology appears that can benefit your classroom. By planning for these technological changes in advance, you will be good to go when you find the next best tech tool on Twitter.
Here are some suggestions to be ready when that new tech tool appears: Design lessons that are adaptable. Developing a lesson based on the functionality of one tech tool is extremely limiting. We are already at a place with instructional technology that you can design your lesson and specify your desired outcomes and then choose the tool that would work best at the given time. If your lesson is based on your content, scaling and adapting your content to fit a new tool should be easy. Tags: New Technology About the Author. Learning Theories Every Teacher should Know about. Have you ever asked yourself what learning theories you know about and which ones you feel more connected to and apply in your teaching ?
Generally speaking, theories inform and guide practice in any content area and a learning theory is a set of concepts on how people learn. It is more or less an investigation of the strategies and the underlying cognitive processes involved in learning. The educational field abounds in learning theories to the extent that it becomes hard to draw clear boundaries between some of them. The graphic I have for you below provides a clear categorization of the learning theories you need to know as a teacher and educator. Check it out and as always share with us your feedback. Enjoy courtesy of edudemic. 14 Technology Concepts Every Teacher should Know about. We have compiled for you this list of some trending educational technology terms.The list below is a simple attempt to help you better capture the full picture of what all these tech terms are about by providing clear definitions to each one of them.
The sources of each definition is included in the last section of this post enjoy 1 - Adaptive Learning This is an educational method which uses computers as interactive teaching devices. Computers adapt the presentation of educational material according to students' learning needs, as indicated by their responses to questions and tasks. The motivation is to allow electronic education to incorporate the value of the interactivity afforded to a student by an actual human teacher or tutor. The technology encompasses aspects derived from various fields of study including computer science, education, and psychology (1) 2 - Virtual Classroom "A virtual classroom is an online learning environment. 4 - Synchronous Vs Asynchronous Learning. 6 Reasons to Incorporate “Smithsonian Quests” Into Your Classroom. iPad Prepared Certification. Validated Evaluation Rubric for Apps. iPad uPad wePad; Going 1-1 at St Oliver Plunkett. A few weeks ago I was fortunate enough to be invited to St Oliver Plunkett to be a part of their 1-1 iPad rollout to the very excited Year 6 class.
Led by their fabulous teacher librarian, Ann-Marie Furber and fearless class teacher, Brooke Maguire, with consultation from the very dedicated and talented Education Officer Learning and Teaching Technologies, Danielle Carter, the Year 6 class participated in a series of workshops in order to develop their skills before they were officially given management of their very own devices. Cannon Hill Feb 2013 <p>JavaScript required to play <a hreflang="en" type="video/mp4" href=" Hill Feb 2013</a>. </p> While the school maintains ownership, the students manage the purchasing of additional apps, and the care and maintenance of the iPads for the time they are at the school. This means the students have 24-7 access to their learning. This is a list of what the students learnt: iPads in Education. Apps in Education.
15 Free Tools for Storing and Sharing Files. Six months ago I shared a list of good file sharing tools for teachers and students. Since then, I've come across some more tools to add to that list. Here is my new list of file sharing tools for students and teachers. Using these tools can help you avoid having an email inbox that is overflowing with file attachments.
The tools that I frequently use: I use Google Documents and Google Drive for nearly all of my document storage needs. Google Documents (now a part of Google Drive) is best known for document, presentation, and spreadsheet creation. But you can also use Google Drive just to upload and store files that you have created elsewhere. The other tool that I frequently use for collecting, storing, and sharing files is Dropbox. DROPitTOme is a free service that works with Dropbox to allow people to upload files to your Dropbox account without giving them access to the contents of your Dropbox account. Other file sharing tools that I have tried. 10 iPad Apps for Web Curation. Curation vs. Aggregation? Curation is such a necessity these days. The overwhelming wave of information we are exposed to is drowning us in facts and opinion. Not only do we need to be curating the information that we are consuming but we need to be insisting that our students have the skills and necessary tools in which to curate their own world.
I tend to use more than one of these and in fact there are days that I would use three or four. Pearltrees: FREE Pearltrees is a place to collect, organize, discover everything you like on the web. Flipboard: FREE Flipboard creates a personalized magazine out of everything being shared with you, from Instagram photos and Facebook updates to Tumblr posts and articles from your favorite publications. News360: FREE. Great Tips and Tools to Create Digital e-Portfolio.
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