gClassFolders Version 2 Improves Google Drive File Management. Next Generation Learning Challenge: Simulating Teaching (EDUCAUSE Quarterly. Key Takeaways Can someone learn to teach by practicing with a classroom simulation? Simulations provide multiple chances to practice, including making attempts with higher risks and spectacular failures, and to learn, retry, and master new skills faster and with less effort than through experiences not mediated by computers. Simulations can also be shown to help stimulate the development of heuristic skills in teachers. The goal of advancing technologies of everyday life in education can be realized through creative application of education simulators.
Online learning environments have been said to be facing a “perfect e-storm” linking pedagogy, technology, and learner needs.3 This article aims to answer the question “Can someone learn to teach by practicing with a classroom simulation?” The simSchool project addresses key systemic challenges of teacher education including: Twitter for Teachers. Digital Literacy: Skills for the 21st Century: Introduction. This Digital Literacy Toolkit began with the premise that multimedia authoring, which is happening with the extensive use of PowerPoint in classrooms, must be taught as a skill, just as traditional text-based writing is taught. While teachers and students have become familiar with the technical skills required to use images in multimedia productions, they lack a critical language to determine whether an image or a sound is used appropriately.
Images, sounds and animations — like words — are building blocks whose meanings can be changed to suit the communicative purpose of the author. Just as the same words and phrases can be arranged or manipulated to express different meanings depending on the author’s intent, so can sounds and images. Pinterest: 13 Tips and Tricks for Cutting Edge Users. On Pinterest?
Follow Mashable to check out our favorite infographics, tech news, internet memes and digital culture! Pinterest has been one of the hottest new social networks on the radar for a few months now. In fact, Pinterest has cracked the current list of top 10 social networks — and it's technically still invite-only. For many users, Pinterest serves as a comprehensive wish list of sorts. Users (a.k.a. SEE ALSO: Pinterest: A Beginner’s Guide to the Hot New Social Network. WeVideo - Collaborative Online Video Editor in the Cloud. 3 Super Handy Page Highlight Tools For Annotating Online.
A key skill to project preparation is collecting, organizing and sharing information. Highlighters, sticky notes and a red pen have always been the tools of choice for working with paper. But, what are the best page highlight tools when we take our notes online? Here are three tools that will help your class organize, highlight, note and share their annotations on the web. 1. Awesome Highlighter Awesome Highlighter, as the name suggests is a very useful tool. 2. inFocus.cc InFocus.cc is new page highlight tool that is about as easy as it gets. ECAR National Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology, 2011 Report. Key Findings The ECAR study of undergraduate students and information technology sheds lights on how information technology affects the college experience.
ECAR has conducted this annual study since 2004, and though students' ownership and utilization of technology changes from year to year, students consistently rely upon their instructors and institutions to meet their technology expectations and needs. The Art of Visual Inquiry. Online schools. FileStork - Request files from anyone using Dropbox. Prezi - The Zooming Presentation Editor.
Blogs / Sites. #edtech20 @web20education - free project in the clouds for teachers around the world was selected finalist in eLearning Awards 2010 . See and join project in the clouds. Global Social Innovation. Ed Tech in news. Ressources. How to. Tools. Elearning tools. Online Presentation Software. Are Your Presentations Powerful Or Pathetic? 4 Persuasive Presentation Preparation Tips. Over the past month, I attended three conferences.
Each one brought together some of the greatest minds in B2B sales and marketing. Sadly, some of their presentations distracted us from their important messages. A chronic case of PPD (Pathetic Presentation Disorder) surreptitiously sabotaged their agenda. HootSuite University, Social Media Certification. Teach, learn ,play in XXI Century using free tools and applications Web 2.0 , social media eSafety - social networking.
Free File Hosting Made Simple - MediaFire. Create an Online Radio Show. Related Posts with Thumbnails. Fun Free Edtechy Endeavors for You! Home » 2 Min EdTech Talk, Education We're keeping busy at SimpleK12, and we want to include YOU in our upcoming projects.
If you're one of the many with the EdTech fever, read on about how you can get involved. Edtechy Endeavor #1: EdTech UNconference Call for Presenters Do you have what it takes to present at the EdTech UNconference? We're looking for individuals with a strong online presence, previous experience as a presenter at a major conference, and a current position in the field of education (check out our current list of presenters). Click here to answer the call. iOS 4.2: Our Complete Walkthrough. A few minutes ago Apple announced the release of iOS 4.2 today.
The download links aren’t live yet, and we speculate the engineers at Cupertino will flip the switch at 10AM PST. In the meantime,though, you can check out our complete iOS 4.2 for iPad walkthrough below. Social Customer Service - salesforce. My PLN -PERSONAL LEARNING NETWORK. The Case For Technology in the Classroom… {Educational Technology, 21st Century Learning} Social Learning Tools for the School Classroom. Connexion. Facebook to Launch Project Titan “Gmail Killer” on Monday? If the rumors are true, Facebook will launch its own web-based e-mail service, nicknamed “Project Titan,” on Monday at a special press event.
Facebook’s invite certainly hints at something like that – the icon is used for its rudimentary messaging service, and the border is reminiscent of air mail envelopes. Users will get an “@facebook.com” email address, and the service will have POP/IMAP support, according to a TechCrunch story earlier this year about project Titan. Global Education Conference 2010 #globaled10 offer gateway through knowledge for teachers worldwide .
Social Learning Tools for the School Classroom. Social Learning Tools for the School Classroom (ages 5-18) This is a special page of the Directory showing SOCIAL tools particularly targeted at (or very useful) for the primary, junior, middle and secondary school CLASSROOM.. ( The rest of the Directory also provides useful tools) If you want to add a tool specifically to this list of social learning tools for the classroom, you can do so in the comments below Key Stage: Open source e-portfolio and social networking software. Top Ten Technology Tools for Teachers via @Chickensaltash #edtech20 #pbl #iearn #edchat #etchat #safedchat. International Society for Technology in Education.
OOo4Kids. GoGoEd - Home Page. Google And Microsoft Take Their Mobile War To The Ad Section Of Twitter. As we’re all well aware, with the recent launch of Windows Phone 7, Microsoft is about to enter into yet another major war with Google, this time in the mobile space (or at least, they hope it will be a war).
So perhaps it shouldn’t be too surprising today that when one of them bought an ad on Twitter, the other followed suit. Yes, both Microsoft and Google are running Promoted ads right next to each other today. Now, this obviously could be a coincidence. But it seems like it could be calculated as well. After all, they’re both specifically targeting the mobile crowd with these ads. Bienvenue sur Facebook. 25 Important Twitter Guides and Apps For Teachers via @edudemic #edtech20 #etchat #safedchat #edchat #ELTchat #ed. 25 Important Twitter Guides and Apps For Teachers. Diving into a rich and overwhelming social network like Twitter can be difficult. I know of many teachers and academic-minded people who are still unsure about the merits of the tool or are simply unsure where to start.
The following 10 (+1 bonus!) Beginner’s guides to Twitter each do a tremendous job at informing without confusing. Over 75 Free Rapid E-Learning Resources via @tomkuhlmann #edtech20 #etchat #safedchat #edchat #ELTchat #edreform. Photos de Web 2.0 and new tehnologies in education still 2010 - Photos du mur. The Super-Secret, Never-Before-Revealed Guide to Web 2.0 in the Classroom. Web 2.0 The Super-Secret, Never-Before-Revealed Guide to Web 2.0 in the Classroom 8 easy steps to put even your most reluctant faculty on the pathway to social media mastery.
DUMA CORNEL LUCIAN. WeblogMatrix - Compare them all. #edtech20 project. Using Free Websites as Learning & Teaching Tools via @AngelynCheatham #GlobalEd10 #edtech20 #pbl #iearn #edchat. ELT and the Crisis in Education. In this first blog posting I’d like us to look at some of the major issues that are affecting education at this time and try to examine them in relation to English language teaching and how they may affect it.
One of the reasons I want to start this series by looking at the broader field of education and the changes taking place is that over the years it has been a source of annoyance to me that English language teaching or EFL, ESL has so often been seen as a kind of ‘poor relation’ within the field of education. English language teachers, particularly native speaker ones who have graduated, as I did, through the kind of 1 month certificate course followed perhaps by a diploma course some years later are very often not viewed as ‘proper teachers’ within the education establishment. ELT and the Crisis in Education I’d also like to leave you with a few questions to comment on: 1. I look forward to your comments and questions.
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