Embedding PebblePad into the curriculum. Ideas on how educators and tutors can use PebblePad to make learning and assessment richer and more engaging.
Create online forms (or collections of forms) for your students to complete Completed forms can be returned to you, used within a peer review activity, included in a student webfolio or simply retained as a private asset. Encourage students to build a webfolio Students can easily create evidence-based websites, pictures, movies or links to external references. Webfolios can be individual or can be developed by a group of students. Keep a blog You could keep a blog for your students adding in topical comments about the news or a suggesting a provocative 'thought for the day'.
Try a peer assessment task Assets submitted to a workspace in ATLAS can be distributed to members of the workspace for peer review and comment, anonymously if desired, and comments (and/or marks) moderated or simply returned to the author for consideration. The Boy With The Incredible Brain - Documentary - The Educator's PLN. Guardian Professional. Incorrect use of an apostrophe is a common grammatical mistake for students.
Photograph: Alamy Do your students often confuse the subject with the object, or the comparative adjective with the superlative? The Guardian Teacher Network has collected a range of lesson resources on grammar to help you bring clarity to your pupils' sentences. The first worth mentioning is eight parts of speech, a succinct guide to English grammar. Nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions and interjections are all covered in this handy printable document. 64 Sites for Digital Storytelling Tools and Information. Big Universe- for younger childrenBlurb- prices start at $10.95 (small book) discounts on quantity orders Bookemon BoomWriter- students write a book together; class gets one free copy (free shipping) ClassikTV- create a movie by adding subtitles to old movie scenes Creaza- suite of creative tools, including cartoonist, movie editor, audio editor and mindmaps DigiTales- create 3-5 minute stories from these types: living memories, beyond words, itza wrap.
Computing curriculum levels poster. Internet Catalogue. Diagrams, charts and graphs - OpenLearn - Open University - MU120_4M5. Why the Smart Reading Device of the Future May Be … Paper. Paper books were supposed to be dead by now.
For years, information theorists, marketers, and early adopters have told us their demise was imminent. Ikea even redesigned a bookshelf to hold something other than books. Yet in a world of screen ubiquity, many people still prefer to do their serious reading on paper. Count me among them. When I need to read deeply—when I want to lose myself in a story or an intellectual journey, when focus and comprehension are paramount—I still turn to paper. To those who see dead tree editions as successors to scrolls and clay tablets in history’s remainder bin, this might seem like literary Luddism.
What I’ve read on screen seems slippery, though. The usual explanation is that internet devices foster distraction, or that my late-thirty-something brain isn’t that of a true digital native, accustomed to screens since infancy. “Reading is human-technology interaction,” says literacy professor Anne Mangen of Norway’s University of Stavenger. A Quick Visual Guide on How to Create An eBook from Wikipedia Articles. February 18, 2014 It's been awhile now since Wikipedia has made it possible for users to create formatted eBooks from the content of its pages.
Wikipedia provides you with an integrated tool called "Book Creator" which upon enabling it allows you to create ebooks from wikipedia content. These ebooks can be downloaded in different formats. As a teacher you can use this tool with your students to allow them to aggregate learning materials they need to work on into a single downloadable eBook.And yes there are no issues with copyright because all the content of Wikipedia is available under a Creative Commons ( share alike) license. Here is how you can compile Wikipedia articles into an ebook : Stanford’s NovoEd Brings Collaboration And Group Learning To MOOCs To Help Fight Attrition. What is it with Stanford professors and Massive Open Online Courses (a.k.a.
MOOCs)? For those who have no idea what I’m talking about, two of the three most popular MOOCs — Udacity and Coursera — were both founded by Stanford professors. Then there’s Class2Go, an open-source MOOC platform created by a team of Stanford engineers and professors, which recently “merged” with edX (the third member of that aforementioned MOOC trifecta) to help it create an open-source platform. But the university’s MOOC contributions don’t end there. In early 2012, Stanford professor Amin Saberi and PhD student Farnaz Ronaghi created a project called Venture Lab to offer Stanford courses for free on the Web, with its first class on technology entrepreneurship attracting 40,000 students from over 150 countries. And that’s really the key differentiator for NovoEd. Tab2013_0. Symbaloo - Your Bookmarks and favorites in the cloud. Readable.