Technology in education. Blogs. 41 Websites for Teachers to Integrate Tech into Your Classroom. How to use Google for Education. Wave III Challenges | Next Gen Learning. Breakthrough Models in Education Grants NGLC's third and fourth grant competitions support educators and innovators who have a vision for highly engaging, technology-enabled learning pathways that a) span secondary school through postsecondary completion and b) prepare students for economic, social, and civic success. The grant competitions are now closed, but these waves of funding have sought approaches that could help all students—but especially low-income students and students of color—develop the skills and knowledge they need to lead successful lives.
Models that have a clear, sustainable expansion or adoption plan to meet the need have risen to the top of our list. WAVE III A: Breakthrough Models for College Readiness (K-12) launched in October 2011 and awarded grant funding to 20 school operators developing new, personalized, competency-based, blended learning whole school models. Application Process: MakeUseOf (Mobile) The 100 Best Web 2.0 Classroom Tools Chosen By You. The Wordle of this list! (Click image to enlarge) One of the most popular posts on Edudemic in 2010 was The 35 Best Web 2.0 Classroom Tools Chosen By You and I felt it might be time for an update to that list for 2011. In order to put together a list of the best Web 2.0 classroom tools, I polled my Twitter followers, Facebook fans (are they still called fans?
Likes?) And ran a contest to try and get as many submissions as possible. There were more than 900 submissions but many were duplicates. QR-Code Generator. Education Exchange. Pivot Stickfigure Animator download and reviews from SnapFiles. Triptico | Inspiration for Imaginative Teachers | Interactive Resources for Imaginative Teachers.
Visual Art as Critical Thinking. We've heard this story before. The first thing to go in budget cuts is the visual art program or another related art. Proponents of arts education counter with the usual rhetoric on the importance of self-expression and creativity. I, myself, am a product of arts education. From the early age of kindergarten I was in musical theater.
I eventually transitioned in music as a focus, and was a choir nerd in middle school and into college. In fact, my participation in Jazz Choir kept me in school, as I struggled with depression as a young adult. I kept singing into college, where I led the jazz and a cappella ensemble, and participated in a semiprofessional jazz ensemble the Seattle Jazz Singers. Well, I have another argument to advocate for arts education. I had the privilege of visiting High Tech High and Middle in San Diego, California. Chris Uyeda was nice enough to sit down with me to talk about a recent chemistry project by his students. Projects on Skype in the classroom. Create Great-Looking Interactive Quizzes (in minutes) - embed in any website / blog! Museum Box Homepage. Collaborative storytelling.
WatchKnow - Free Educational Videos for K-12 Students. Masher - create free online video, photo and music mashups. Kerpoof Studio. Teachers's Channel. Aviary Education. Scribblar: Online Whiteboard & Collaboration Tool. 100+ Google Tricks for Teachers.
It's Google's world, we're just teaching in it. Now, we can use it a little more easily. With classes, homework, and projects–not to mention your social life–time is truly at a premium for all teachers, so why not take advantage of the wide world that Google has to offer? From super-effective search tricks to Google tools specifically for education to tricks and tips for using Gmail, Google Docs, and Google Calendar, these tricks will surely save you some precious time. Search Tricks These search tricks can save you time when researching online for your next project or just to find out what time it is across the world, so start using these right away. Convert units. Google Specifically for Education From Google Scholar that returns only results from scholarly literature to learning more about computer science, these Google items will help you at school. Google Scholar. Google Docs 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31.
Gmail 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. Google Calendar 44. Introducing: Prezi Templates. 100+ Google Tricks for Teachers. Secure Social Learning Network for Teachers and Students.