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Creative Quiz Ideas: Reinventing Classroom Assessment. Davey D sur Twitter : "Honored to be sharing the stage w/ @chrisemdin tonite in Oakland #hiphop #education... FieldFlips. All things education.

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Curated by the FieldResearch team at AnEstuary.com. Inside Duolingo Test Center Is a $20 Alternative to Standardized Tests thenextweb.com Photo: thenextweb.com Also Duolingo Test Center Is a $20 Alternative to Standardized Tests thenextweb.com DataBall grantland.com Easy Arduino: Two Projects To Help You Get Started readwrite.com grantland.com / NBA On Feb­ru­ary 13, 2013, the San Anto­nio Spurs found them­selves in a sur­pris­ing­ly close game in Cleve­land. The Spurs called a time­out, advanced the ball to half court, and decid­ed to run one of their favorite plays. Kawhi Leonard was stand­ing unat­tend­ed in the weak­side cor­ner. The box score reduces that sequence to a few basic inte­gers; Kawhi Leonard is cred­it­ed with one field goal attempt, one field goal made, and three points scored. After­ward, Park­er reflect­ed on the game’s final sequence: “I thought I could have made the layup, but I saw Kawhi open.

A few weeks after the call, I got m … ClassFlow Uncomplicates Your Classroom. Ever listen to a technology demonstration where the introduction takes forever, and the actual presentation starts your eyes blinking uncontrollably, and even your hair hurts trying to understand?

ClassFlow Uncomplicates Your Classroom

Most times we make technology too difficult by making it too complicated. When that happens during a presentation to a group of multi-level and technology-varied educators, there is no way they’re going to jump up and shout, “We can do this! We need this!” Enter ClassFlow—it’s free—and it has educators shouting, “We can do this! We need this!” Recently, groups of educators, administrators, and school leaders previewed a learning-changing classroom concept and solution called ClassFlow (@MyClassFlow on Twitter). General Blogs/Websites on iPads in Education.

Two Guys and Some iPads. Animoby - Create Presentations, Tutorials and A... Use Google Chrome as a Free Voice Recognition Software with Dictation. You can use Google Chrome as a free voice recognition software to write longer emails and documents without even installing anything on your Windows or Mac computer.

Use Google Chrome as a Free Voice Recognition Software with Dictation

Meet Dictation v2.0, a web-based speech recognition app that will transcribe your voice into digital text using the Chrome Speech API. You can also install Dictation as a Chrome App. Unlike the regular Chrome web apps that are nothing but fancy bookmarks, the Dictation App for Chrome will run entirely on your computer. Getting started with Dictation in simple. Just plug in the microphone to your computer, click the Start Dictation button and watch as your spoken words are magically transformed into text. Say “new sentence” to begin a new sentence. If you make a mistake, or if Chrome makes an error while recognizing your speech, simple click the incorrect word and edit it inline.

Dictation 2.0 – What’s New The first release of Dictation happened in August 2012 and much has changed since then. Digital Storytelling - 100+ Free Internet Resources for Real Teachers in Real Classrooms. 10 incredible iPad apps for education. Learning is rarely fun; it’s even less fun when being taught within the confines of a lecture hall or classroom.

10 incredible iPad apps for education

While this may be true, there’s no reason why you can’t make the process more entertaining and challenging. The tablet market has paved the way for educational resources in the form of slick, new apps, with text-books now being replaced by online downloadable versions of themselves. An array of stunning apps are at your disposal waiting to be exercised, so with this in mind, we decided to whittle down our top 10 iPad educational apps for students. Evernote It seems wherever you look nowadays, there’s Evernote. . ➤ Evernote Price: Free Paper Winner at the 2012 Apple Design Awards for Best iPad app, Paper has taken creativity of app development to new heights.

. ➤ Paper Goodreader You could be forgiven for thinking Goodreader as just as a PDF reader for the iPad. Price: $4.99. 20 Amazing iPad Apps for Educators. When one looks at how technology has changed education over the past decade, one can’t help but be blown away by the sheer number of iPad apps for educators that have absolutely flooded the electronic marketplace.

20 Amazing iPad Apps for Educators

There are so many iPad apps for teachers released every month that even the most plugged-in educator would have a difficult time processing and utilizing them all. Luckily, when teachers are looking to learn how to use iPads in the classroom, they need to look no further than TeachHUB magazine and TeachHUB.com -- an educator’s primary go-to resource when researching iPad apps for teachers and iPads in the classroom. Read on to learn about TeachHUB magazine and TeachHUB.com’s updated list of the hottest iPad apps for teachers and iPad apps for education, destined to forever alter your curriculum landscape, organized here by subject. Scroll down for an index of many of TeachHUB's helpful iPads in the classroom app reviews and more of the best usage of iPads in the classroom.