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Videos, Common Core Resources And Lesson Plans For Teachers: Teaching Channel. Nine Lessons on How to Teach 21st Century Skills and Knowledge - Global Learning. Purchase Confirmation. Jim Collins - Home. ePortfolio. Life Without Pants. By Matt Cheuvront. Mobile Phone Apps with App Inventor (Part 1) High School English Class Looking to Skype with other classes about Hamlet. E portfolios: An Introduction. For Students – Google in Education. For Teachers – Google in Education. Download YouTube Videos Using Google Chrome [Updated 10-8-12] - Interlocked Pieces. The Google Chrome extension I use to download YouTube videos is Chrome YouTube Downloader.

This extension is not available in the Chrome Web Store so you will have to install it yourself. If you would like to add this to your Chrome here is what to do: First, go to the extension’s website. Then, click the “Add to Chrome” button and a .crx file will be downloaded to your computer. Open up Google Chrome and use the Tools menu to select Extensions.

Locate the extension file on your computer and drag the file onto the Extensions page. Quit and relaunch Chrome. UPDATE (10-8-12): This extension doesn’t work if you are accessing YouTube with HTTPS. Tagged as: Download, Extension, google chrome, YouTube. Edcamp - home. The 15 Education Technologies To Know About This Year. What latest gadgets and gizmos are going to change your classroom in 2013? It’s hard to know exactly what will catch on and what won’t, but the following list showcases some of the emerging new technologies, software, and platforms available. With their innovation and practicality, many of these are poised to enter the classroom and change the way students and teachers learn permanently. 1. Flashnotes Remember the days of doodling on the side of your spiral notebook while you tried to take copious notes from your boring biology teacher?

Flashnotes allows students to upload their lecture notes and sell them to other students who need more help or resources. 2. The new startup is using a Facebook type platform- riding the wave of what works- and tailoring it for education. In addition to the social aspect, it allows for document uploads, calendar sharing, and a grade book option. 3. Imagine your smartphone as your primary source for study materials. Social Media Mayhem / Twitter. 101 Tweet-Tastic Tools for 2013. The ‘Washing Hands’ of Learning: Think Pair Share. A blog about something really obvious but worth spelling out.

After 25 years of teaching, I’ve been through a fair amount of dodgy INSET/CPD. As a result I am something of a ‘visiting speaker’ sceptic. However, it hasn’t all been bad; far from it. Some ideas have been very influential such as the ideas behind CASE (Cognitive Acceleration through Science Education) developed at Kings in the 1990s; also the principles of formative assessment that have trickled into our collective consciousness as teachers since ‘Inside the Black Box’. Whilst some ideas have helped me to frame an overarching philosophy for teaching or have augmented my armoury of teaching tools, there is one simple strategy that has transformed the way I teach every lesson, every day: Think, Pair, Share. I used to be a ‘hands up’ merchant just like a lot of people. But the solution came: Every time you ask a question, get the students to think first, then discuss it in pairs before they answer. An everyday hands-up moment.. The Crazy Brilliant Idea Behind Duolingo. Ever wanted to learn a language or translate the entirety of Wikipedia into another language?

Wait. What? You can do both of these things with Duolingo . It’s a free web resource that lets you learn just about any language you want … for free. No ads, payments, or anything. How It Works. Google and the future of search: Amit Singhal and the Knowledge Graph. Thinking about Google over the last week, I have fallen into the typically procrastinatory habit of every so often typing the words "what is" or "what" or "wha" into the Google search box at the top right of my computer screen.

Those prompts are all the omnipotent engine needs to inform me of the current instant top 10 of the virtual world's most urgent desires. At the time of typing, this list reads, in descending order: What is the fiscal cliffWhat is my ipWhat is obamacareWhat is loveWhat is glutenWhat is instagramWhat does yolo meanWhat is the illuminatiWhat is a good credit scoreWhat is lupus It is a list that indicates anxieties, not least the ways in which we are restlessly fixated with our money, our bodies and our technology – and paranoid and confused in just about equal measure. Create a new Mangatar. Free Online Conference on WiZiQ: CO13 - Feb 1-3, 2013. You are cordially invited to join the live online conference on the weekend of Feb 1-3, 2013.

Each presentation will be for 45 min with 10 min for questions and answers. Please enroll in the conference: The conference will be of interest to educators, administrators, students, and community members who value the importance of integrating technology into the curriculum to improve instruction, learning, and business. Online learning involves various skills on the part of the instructor and learner. These include social and communication skills, social networking, independent learning strategies, critical and higher order thinking skills, creativity, and effective online and face-to-face facilitation.

The theme of the conference is, connecting online for instruction and learning that goes beyond the classroom. Gone Google. Optical Illusion Video.