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I write this while sitting at a marvelous presentation all about creativity at the 2012 CALI Conference . The presentation is all about encouraging you to creatively approach problems, recognizing when there’s a solution, and how to basically be at your best.
The 10 Things I Know About Innovation In Education
181 Google Tricks That Will Save You Time
In nearly three years, Google has developed new products, discontinued a few, and offered new features, and more people have found great ways to save time with Google. So we’ve gone and found even more great tips for saving time with Google, and this time around, the list has made it all the way to 181 different tricks. Explore our collection of tricks to find new, faster ways to search, read email, manage your time, and more.
Just returned home from speaking at another large international conference where meaningless clichés filled the air and rolled off of people’s tongues. Aside from being boring, clichés oversimplify complex issues and distract us from making forward progress.
Confronting a Cliché
Qwiki Creator: Create the textbook of the future with a few clicks
A Qwiki lives here but you need a modern browser to view it.Blogging Is the New Persuasive Essay
As an English teacher, I’ve had numerous conversations with college professors who lament the writing skills of their first year students. But not all writing.
Shakespeare's The Tempest for iPad for iPad on the iTunes App Store
Description Shakespeare's The Tempest for iPad is designed for social reading, authoring, and sharing, for all readers from students to professional scholars.
Evernote is a great web service and software application that we can use in education.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning: The Ultimate Simplified Guide to The Use of Evernote in Education
The following article is by Julie Delello of the University of Texas at Tyler. She can be reached at jdelello[at]uttyler.edu if you have any questions or comments.
The Teacher’s Quick Guide To Pinterest
Guest Post - Using Pinterest in the Classroom
This Guest Post is by Samantha Peters, who runs theeducationupdate.com and enjoys writing about new ways for teachers can use Pinterest and other social media platforms to enhance learning in the classroom.
Five Trends to Watch in Educational Technology
Thanks to EdSurge for providing a link to this informative presentation by Frank Catalano on trends in educational technology . In it, he outlines five trends that cross K-12 and higher education, and it's certainly hard to argue with any of them. Tablets Digital Chunked Content Games/Simulations Paradata (Learning Analytics) UnCollege Movement Reading through this made me think about my own lists of trends and, more importantly, the reasoning behind what research I am pursuing at the moment, and why I clip the articles I do.A group of publishers and tech companies gathered in Washington today to talk about getting digital textbooks into U.S. classrooms. The gathering, convened by the FCC and the Department of Education, included everyone from Apple to Intel to McGraw-Hill, and it was premised on the idea that digitizing classrooms is a good thing .
Tablets In the Classroom Could Save Schools $3 Billion a Year - Peter Kafka - Media
iBooks Author (Review & Free Textbook)
iBooks Author is Apple’s new move into the world of eBook self publishing. I recently wrote a textbook for an event we had at New Hampton School and I thought I would share my impressions of the tool.A Rubric for Evaluating Student Blogs
University of Wisconsin - Stout — Schedule of Online Courses, Online Certificate Programs, and Graduate Degree Follow us on Facebook . This rubric may be used for assessing individual blog entries, including comments on peers’ blogs.Feast your eyes on the future of the Internet — beautiful websites built with HTML5. The newest version of HTML effectively catapults words and graphics into another dimension without plug-ins or the annoying lag time.