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Learnist For Teachers: Trending Boards For November 12

In this week’s post, teaching with infographics is the theme.1. Visualizing Data: Using Infographics to learn about privacy, research, networks, geopolitics, and more. 2. Infographics for the Writing Classroom: Grammar and writing infographics to include in a digital classroom. 3. 4. 5. FutureLearn — Free online courses. Online video tutorials & training. Janetabruzzo - VRT 2013 Resources.

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Mobile Learning. Copyright & Plagiarism. Social Bookmarking. iPads. Web Searching. Online Safety. ICT Integration. New Report on e-Learning Market Trends and Forecast 2014 - 2016 just released. Latest research reveals facts you probably don’t know about the Global e-Learning Market.

New Report on e-Learning Market Trends and Forecast 2014 - 2016 just released

This research analyzes the global value of e-Learning, market trends and predictions by continent and sector, and tells you why it is important to embrace innovative training strategies to serve corporate objectives. Microsoft Word - mobile learning.doc - mobile_learning.pdf. Digital Classrooms - Online Video.

The book will be the first in a series of low cost interactive e-books that teachers will be able to download in different formats and take round with them on iPads, e-readers or as PDF and ePub on their computer.

Digital Classrooms - Online Video

These books will always be available for just-in-time learning support and for new teaching ideas. The first book will deal with how to create and exploit web-based video both inside and outside the classroom. As I said, if this book is successful, it will be the first in a series of digital teaching manuals for the digital classroom. Other titles I'm planning include: Exploiting tablets and mobile phones in educationDeveloping writing skills in the digital classroomDeveloping 21st century comprehension skillsCreating and exploiting digital narrative Back in September 2009 I wrote a short book called Web 2.0 Tools for Teachers. Since then, the book has been read and downloaded well over 180,000 times by teachers from all over the world. EUscreen - Providing online access to Europe's television heritage.

5 Ways to Add Interactive Elements to Your Videos. Over the last few days I've featured a couple of free tools for adding interactive elements to your videos.

5 Ways to Add Interactive Elements to Your Videos

In the last year I've reviewed a few other services and methods for doing the same thing. This is a round-up of the ways that you can add interactive elements to your videos. The first four tools could be used by students to create a series of choose your own adventure videos. These tools could be used by teachers to enhance the short videos that they create for flipped lessons. YouTube has annotation tools built right into the editor that you can use when you upload your own content to the site. The Mad Video is a new service for creating interactive videos. Intro to QR Codes: A lesson for EFL students. I’m currently in Cambridge in the UK, doing two weeks of EFL classroom teaching. Because… I wanted to get back into the language classroom for an intensive period with a group of language students.

I spend almost all of my time on f2f and online teacher training, and I miss EFL classesI’m writing a methodology book on learning with mobile and handheld devices (with Gavin Dudeney), and am trialling some of the activitiesI’ve have been commissioned by the International TESOL International Research Foundation (TIRF) to carry out a project on mobile and handheld learning. The two classes I’m teaching here are providing me with some data for this One area I’ve been experimenting with is the use of QR codes with my learners here in Cambridge. Custom QR Code Generator - Free & Premium plans - Unitag. Badges for Lifelong Learning: An Open Conversation. My Top 10 Web Tools as A Teacher. I have been doing a lot of reviewing of educational web tools over the last couple of years.

My Top 10 Web Tools as A Teacher

It has been such a rewarding experience to be able to keep with this growing influx of web 2.0 tools. Every new day comes with its new batch of tools and I don't think the journey of discovery will ever stop. One of the repeated questions I often get from my readers is about the kind of web services I use in my teaching. I am not really sure how to answer this question because it depends on the kind of lesson or activity you are teaching. Códigos QR y uso del iPad en el aula. Una de las tecnologías que cada vez más nos encontramos en la vida real, son los populares códigos QR ( ), creados en 1994 por la compañía japonesa Denso Wave .

Códigos QR y uso del iPad en el aula

Para los menos entendidos, es un sistema de codificación 2D con capacidad de representar más información. Para que los dispositivos puedan leer los códigos QR, necesitamos que éstos tengan un cámara y una aplicación. En el mercado existen una gran oferta de App de lectura de códigos gratuitas para todos los dispositivos. En el ámbito educativo, los códigos QR, los profesores empiezan a utilizarlos en las aulas y fuera de ellas, con una finalidad de aprendizaje. Os adjuntamos una buena presentación que ilustra els uso de códigos QR en educación. TinyURL.com - shorten that long URL into a tiny URL.

21st century Pedagogy. Even if you have a 21st Century classroom, flexible and adaptable; even if you are a 21st Century teacher ; An adaptor, a communicator, a leader and a learner, a visionary and a model, a collaborator and risk taker; even if your curriculum reflects the new paradigm and you have the facilities and resources that could enable 21st century learning – you will only be a 21st century teacher if how we teach changes as well.

21st century Pedagogy

Our pedagogy must also change. So what is 21st Century pedagogy? Definition: pedagogy – noun the profession, science, or theory of teaching. Source: How we teach must reflect how our students learn, it must also reflect the world they will emerge into. The key features are: KnowledgeYou will notice that Knowledge does not specifically appear in this diagram. We need to teach knowledge or content in context with the tasks and activities the students are undertaking. Thinking skillsThinking Skills are another key area. “… communication skills. Education Revolution: 7 TED-Ed Videos About Technology. The mission of TED, short for Technology, Entertainment, Design, is to share “Ideas Worth Spreading.”

Education Revolution: 7 TED-Ed Videos About Technology

The inspirational talks cover a broad range of topics, from leadership and productivity to nuclear fission and domestic violence. The organization has existed since 1984 and found huge success in the era of YouTube and social media. My ebook. Free EBooks. We understand that reading is the simplest way for human to derive and constructing meaning in order to gain a particular knowledge from a source.

Free EBooks

This tendency has been digitized when books evolve into digital media equivalent – E-Books. It would be nice if we’re able to download free e-book and take it with us. That’s why we’ve again crawled deep into the Internet to compile this list of 20 places to download free e-books for your use. Great Websites to Download Ebooks FreeBookSpot. Search Results » storybird. Did you know that today is National Literacy Day? It is! I think that literacy is something to celebrate, being literate is a gift I enjoy every day but don’t stop to appreciate nearly enough. In honor of National Literacy Day, I thought I would share my favorite technology enhanced literacy tools.

In no particular order, here are my favorite ways to celebrate literacy. What are your favorites? 1. Excerpted from Netiquette by Virginia Shea.