Stoodle - Tableau blanc collaboratif. Browsing visualizations. Top Tips for Tweeting Teachers. Since the advent of e-learning and PLNs (personal learning networks), tech-savvy teachers have turned in their droves to the social networking site Twitter.
But whilst the site provides a host of useful #edtech functions, from networking and making connections to sharing great new resources, some teachers are undeniably more successful at harnessing its power than others. 33 (of the) Best Social Media Guides, Tips and Resoures of 2012 So Far. Given the widespread adoption of social media marketing practices, the “if” and “when” questions seemed to have now been resolved by most midsized and larger companies (and a lot of small companies as well).
However, as the posts and articles highlighted below show, plenty of questions remain, such as how much should we budget for social media? What’s the best process for developing a social media marketing plan? Aspects pédagogiques. Facebook Launches Groups for Schools. In a throwback to its college-only days, Facebook has launched a new type of community page for schools that requires an active “.edu” email address to join. Within individual schools' Groups for Schools pages, their students and faculty members can exchange files, create events and message each other. Aside from creating school-based online communities, the pages mainly serve as hubs for campus-related groups. From them, students can browse, search for and create these groups. Facebook makes recommendations on which ones to join based on classes and activities.
The social network has not, however, incorporated existing groups into its new campus groups listings. Les vidéos Pocket Campus. Price Comparison Website – MonsterMarketplace.com. BeSeen - a Free Mobile App about Social Networking for Educators and Families. Le Web 2.0 - Une synthèse. Search Results for Mobile Learning Tool – MonsterMarketplace.com. Le smartphone, nouvel outil de formation.
iPads In Education – How’s It Going So Far? A growing number of schools have launched programs to provide iPads to students.
What returns is this investment yielding? There’s no doubt the iPad is a hot topic in education technology today. Just about every week, my preconfigured Google Alerts deliver stories about schools that have decided to provide iPads to their students. With this trend on the rise, the question arises as to how well this investment is paying off at schools that have taken the plunge. Pour les mobiles. Il existe plusieurs méthodes pour accéder à Moodle sur des appareils mobile (Iphone, Android, Ipad).
Utiliser le navigateur web embarqué sur le téléphone. Utiliser une application web mobile spécifique pour Moodle La première méthode est d'utiliser le navigateur embarqué sur votre téléphone pour surfer sur Moodle. Cependant, l'affichage de page web en trois colonnes n'est pas facile à consulter sur un écran si petit. Les fonctions de zoom et d'affichage paysage facilitent la lecture et l'interactivité mais ce n'est pas la panacée.
Une voie de développement possible est l'usage des CSS et de fonctions javascript dédiées. Utiliser des applications web pour mobile Quelques tentatives de développement se font jour. Il est probable que nous sommes confrontés à deux auditoires : l'un confortable avec les navigateurs et un autre plutôt à l'aise avec les applications web sur mobile et qui évite systématiquement les navigateurs. LUDOVIA TV: Les pratiques du socialbookmarking pour l'éducation. Vidéos publiées par M-Learning : L'I-PAD à l'école [HQ] (2) 10 Open Education Resources You May Not Know About (But Should) This week, the OCW Consortium is holding its annual meeting, celebrating 10 years of OpenCourseWare.
The movement to make university-level content freely and openly available online began a decade ago, when the faculty at MIT agreed to put the materials from all 2,000 of the university’s courses on the Web. With that gesture, MIT OpenCourseWare helped launch an important educational movement, one that MIT President Susan Hockfield described in her opening remarks at yesterday’s meeting as both the child of technology and of a far more ancient academic tradition: “the tradition of the global intellectual commons.”
We have looked here before at how OCW has shaped education in the last ten years, but in many ways much of the content that has been posted online remains very much “Web 1.0.” But as open educational resources and OCW increase in popularity and usage, there are a number of new resources out there that do offer just that. Evaluating the iPad in Higher Education. Last week’s Sloan Consortium (Sloan-C) Annual Conference on Online Learning presented a number of interesting trends in the session topics, including the use of iPads in college courses.
The projects presented covered a wide range of perspectives and data collection. Student Use and Feedback: At Memorial University of Newfoundland iPads, pre-loaded with class texts and required applications, were loaned to students in a blended English Directing course. Interviews with students revealed their thoughts about using these devices in a structured learning environment. The iPad and the academy. Tara Brabazon identifies 10 scholarly uses for Apple’s latest gadget, and the new ways of reading, writing, watching and thinking that the platform supports Among his 10 rules for successful design, Dieter Rams, the German industrial designer, listed usefulness as a key attribute.
Other characteristics included consistency, simplicity, honesty, understandability, unobtrusiveness and innovation. TIC et IPad.