Seven Ways to Build Your Own Educational Games
There are hundreds of places to find educational games and quizzes on the Internet. That said, sometimes you still cannot find quite what you're looking for. In those cases you're better off creating your own games. Sharendipity makes it possible for students and teachers to quickly create and share simple video games. ClassTools.net is a free service teachers can use to create their own educational games. Purpose Games is a free service that allows users to create custom games, share games, and play games. What 2 Learn is a website offering more than two thousand educational games for middle school and high school age students. YoYo Games hosts hundreds of relatively simple online games created by amateur and professional game developers. Jeopardy Labs is a free service you can use to create your own online Jeopardy game. ProProfs Brain Games allows you to build interactive crossword puzzles, jigsaw puzzles, word searches, hangman games, and sliding puzzle games.
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How To Integrate Live Tweets Into Your Presentations
I’ve seen plenty of presentations that try to incorporate social media, polling, and other interactive tools. It’s all an effort to engage the audience and keep the conversation going. But usually these presentations don’t do it right. They say ‘mention my presentation with the XYZ hashtag’ or ‘like us on Facebook to see back-channel conversations’ and whatnot. But all of that is passive participation. Lucky for you, we just stumbled across a new tool that’s designed to incorporate live tweets into your presentation. It’s called SAP Web 2.0 it’s as simple to use as PowerPoint. Using It In The Classroom SAP Web 2.0 could be a great way to encourage students to start / keep using Twitter. How will you use Twitter in the classroom? Screenshots
Project-based learning
Project-based learning (PBL) is considered an alternative to paper-based, rote memorization, teacher-led classrooms. Proponents of project-based learning cite numerous benefits to the implementation of these strategies in the classroom including a greater depth of understanding of concepts, broader knowledge base, improved communication and interpersonal/social skills, enhanced leadership skills, increased creativity, and improved writing skills. John Dewey initially promoted the idea of "learning by doing." John Dewey, 1902 Markham (2011) describes project-based learning (PBL) as: " PBL integrates knowing and doing. Students learn knowledge and elements of the core curriculum, but also apply what they know to solve authentic problems and produce results that matter. Project-based learning has been associated with the "situated learning" perspective of James G. Structure[edit] Elements[edit] Comprehensive Project-based Learning: Examples[edit] Roles[edit] PBL relies on learning groups.
Everyone Sits in the Prison of His Own Ideas - TNW Entrepreneur
“Everyone sits in the prison of his own ideas. A human being is a part of the whole called by us “Universe,” a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. – Albert Einstein There are several ways to build a succesful company. Apple doesn’t do market research, or so they say. When Jeff Hawkins was developing the first PalmPilot he walked around with a wooden prototype in his back pocket. Chad Hurley and Steve Chen built YouTube because they needed an easier way to share videos with their friends. Google wasn’t the first search engine and it also wasn’t the first search engine to use hyperlinks to index pages. You can skip every entrepreneurial guidance post ever written and every piece of advice ever given.
EdTech: 100 Tech Tools for Teachers and Students
This post is #12 in DailyTekk’s famous Top 100 series which explores the best startups, gadgets, apps, websites and services in a given category. Total items listed: 104. Time to compile: 8+ hours. This post is quite a departure from last week’s subject: 100 Tools to Develop the Next Killer iOS or Android App. So here’s what I’ve got for all you educators our there: some random and cool EduTech tools, tech tools ... There’s more to this article!
PBL + Edmodo = Awesome
Tagged with: Bianca HewesFeatured BloggerPBL Friday with Bianca! I find myself sitting in a lecture by philosopher David Chalmers (it’s titled ‘The Singularity: A Philosophical Analysis’) and realise that once again I am behind in writing my weekly post for edmodo – where do the hours go?! The layout of the room (a university lecture theatre) contradicts the focus of this post. It puts me in an uncomfortable and uncertain mood. I plan (as my title suggests) to blog about a student-centred, inquiry-based style of learning that seems anathema to the arrangement of this philosophy talk. David Chalmers is a very clever guy who uses very impressive logical/mathematical formulas to present his ideas about artificial intelligence and the relationship between consciousness and technology. PBL + edmodo = Awesome This formula has been proven in my class over the last 6 months. To make this post as user-friendly as possible, I’m just going to give you my ‘Top 5 reasons why PBL + edmodo = awesome’:
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"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." — John Quincy Adams I’ve created a leadership checklist that should act like a hub and spoke of effective leadership practices. The challenge is distilling effective leadership practices into one-liner reminders that are easy to evaluate the behavior, where possible. I used a specific “user story” format (“As a leader, I …”) to both make each line item a standalone story, but also to test these as personal “unit tests” for leadership. By making each one more precise, insightful, and actionable, while pinning to effective practices, this should serve as a simple and scannable cheat sheet of proven practices for leadership. If done well, it should reflect years of insight and lessons at a glance. It’s a work in progress. Top 10 Leadership Checks As a leader, I seek first to understand, and I listen to people until they feel heard (empathic listening.) Core Checks Action Change Communication
