Educational Technology
TPACK, shown below, is a useful model for educators as they begin to use digital tools and strategies to support teaching and learning. This model, developed by educational researchers Mishra and Kohler (2006), is designed around the idea that content (what you teach) and pedagogy (how you teach) must be the basis for any technology that you plan to use in your classroom to enhance learning. Diagram and explanation ©2012 by tpack.org. Reproduced by permission of the publisher. The circles in the TPACK diagram represent content knowledge, pedagogical knowledge, and technical knowledge.
20 Ways to Search the Invisible Web
When you access the invisible/deep web, you're uncovering information a regular search engine won't find. This is because data on the invisible web isn't made available to software spiders and crawlers that create search engine indexes. Given that the invisible web makes up a huge majority of the content on the web, it's fair to say that you're missing out on quite a lot if you never venture away from popular search engines like Google and Bing. Below are 20 invisible web search engines, directories, and databases that you can use to uncover an astounding amount of content. The invisible web is only part of the web that common search engines don't catalog.
The 8 Best Free Word Cloud Creation Tools For Teachers
Editor's note: We have originally written and published this article in November 2013. Thanks to your useful suggestions and our own following of the latest developments in the fast paced field of technology, we have updated this piece in November 2015 in the hope that you will keep finding it useful. Thank you for sharing! ABCYa! Word CloudsAbout ABCYa! Word Clouds: ABCYa!
How to Find Someone's Phone Number Online
It used to be that if you needed to find a phone number, you picked up the phone book for your area and thumbed through the listings until you found what you needed. These days, those phone books exist in a much smaller format, and in most places include only landline phone numbers or even only business phone numbers. So how do you find someone's phone number? What do you do if you have a name or address but need the person's number? Or maybe you have the number but no name to go with it.
The absurdly simple guide to backing up your PC
The first rule of the royal society for keeping-your-hard-work-and-data-safe is: Always, always back up. The second rule is "it's not that hard so get off your duff and do it." It's the latter that most of us have issues with.
10 Best Free Ways to Find Someone Online
Need to find someone online? With all the new websites available to help you find someone online, people are finding surprising tidbits of information about their coworkers, loved ones, and friends that often don't turn up in a simple web search. There's not a single source where you can find all the information you might want to uncover on someone. However, the web presents us with more ways than ever before in history to find that long-lost connection, see what a former work colleague might be up to, or do a quick background check on a potential love interest.
5 Easy Fixes for Most Computer Problems
You may have already decided that the computer problem you're dealing with is too hard to fix yourself, or at least not something you're interested spending your time doing. I'd argue that you should almost always try to fix your own computer problem, but I understand if you're just completely against it. No hard feelings.
Webinars – STAR Net
Playful Building Hands-on Activities Presentation Slides | How-To Video Join us for a FREE online training in conducting a selection of hands-on engineering activities.
Google Reverse Image Search
Know more about any photograph with Google Reverse Image Search Google Reverse Image Search helps you quickly discover visually similar images from around the web. Upload a photograph from your desktop to Google Images and it will show you related images used on other websites and also different sizes of the same photo almost instantly. Journalists can use the reverse search option to find the original source of an image or to know the approximate date when a picture was first published on the Internet.
Author & Book Resources to Support Reading Education
Quantitative Measures Source: National Governors Association for Best Practices and Council of Chief State School Officers.[1] View all grade bands Qualitative Measures Reader and Task Considerations
Is Now Free to All « The LibraryThing Blog
Starting today, LibraryThing is free to all! We’re dropping all membership fees and limits. Since opening in 2005, LibraryThing has charged a fee to catalog more than 200 books—$10 per year, or $25 for a lifetime. We felt it was important to have customers, not an “audience” we sell to advertisers. So we focused on attracting customers who paid us by choice—and kept us alive.
An A to Z Guide to Literary Devices and Tools
This post contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, Book Riot may earn a commission. One of my favorite magazines is the creativity-based Uppercase. This quarterly publication offers a look at various artists, art forms, and design across the world, and it’s packed with colors and shapes that make it not just fabulous to read, but inspiring to simply page through. Each issue contains an A–Z feature on a topic and no matter what the focus is, I find myself revisiting this particular piece again and again. It’s a highly designed double spread, and always leads me to leaning new things about arts and crafts I never knew before.
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