Free Technology for Teachers Google Plus Blog » El Blog no oficial de Google+, la Red Social de Google The Teacher List » www.theteacherlist.ca Postly 10 Best Free Educational Games: Online Learning That's Fun and Interactive Part 1 of Online Learning Games for Families These educational games are some of the best learning experiences that can be found on the Internet, but who knew they could also be so much fun! A recent study showed that of our 53 million K–12 students, 51 million of them (or 93%) play video games.1 Wouldn't it be better if a higher percentage of these games were educational? Online Learning Games for Families This series of articles rounds up some of the best online games that will educate everyone in your family.
Benefits of SEL There is a growing awareness in the U.S. among educators and policymakers about the importance of social and emotional development for successful student performance in preschool and elementary school. The five sets of SEL competencies are important from very early in life but are especially relevant as children begin to spend time with adults outside the home and to socialize with peers. Social and emotional skills play a role in determining how well-equipped children will be to meet the demands of the classroom. Research shows that SEL can have a positive impact on school climate and promote a host of academic, social, and emotional benefits for students.
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20+ Tools to Create Your Own Infographics A picture is worth a thousand words – based on this, infographics would carry hundreds of thousands of words, yet if you let a reader choose between a full-length 1000-word article and an infographic that needs a few scroll-downs, they’d probably prefer absorbing information straight from the infographic. What’s not to like? Colored charts and illustrations deliver connections better than tables and figures and as users spend time looking back and forth the full infographic, they stay on the site longer. Plus, readers who like what they see are more likely to share visual guides more than articles. While not everyone can make infographics from scratch, there are tools available on the Web that will help you create your very own infographics. In this article, we’re listing more than 20 such options to help you get your messages across to your readers, visually. Read Also: The Infographic Revolution: Where Do We Go From Here? What About Me? “What About Me?” Vizualize.me Piktochart easel.ly
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Your Social Media Marketing Plan in 5 Easy Steps Jasmine Sandler | December 26, 2012 | 30 Comments inShare151 This solid, measurable plan (along with a commitment to developing consistent and valuable content) will help you drive online brand awareness, customer engagement, and audience growth. Many marketers launch their social media programs because they feel they need to and then scramble to understand both how they will make these work and how they will be managed. Most of them do this with no goal in mind and worse, no understanding of how social media marketing (SMM) works. Many believe that social is the answer to customer acquisition and are short-sided in defining realistic results. Stop chasing your tail in social. SMM Step 1: Create Your Executive Overview Business Plan Spell out your business in a one-pager to realize why you need social: Your Business Mission and HistoryYour Business or Revenue ModelDescriptions of your Products & ServicesDetails of Your Target AudienceReview of Your Current Marketing Efforts Summary
Visible Thinking Purpose and Goals Visible Thinking is a flexible and systematic research-based approach to integrating the development of students' thinking with content learning across subject matters. An extensive and adaptable collection of practices, Visible Thinking has a double goal: on the one hand, to cultivate students' thinking skills and dispositions, and, on the other, to deepen content learning. By thinking dispositions, we mean curiosity, concern for truth and understanding, a creative mindset, not just being skilled but also alert to thinking and learning opportunities and eager to take them Who is it for? Key Features and Practices At the core of Visible Thinking are practices that help make thinking visible: Thinking Routines loosely guide learners' thought processes and encourage active processing. A key feature of the Visible Thinking approach is the Teacher Study Group as described in the School-Wide Culture of Thinking section. License
Creativity Resource for Teachers 20 Technology Skills Every Educator Should Have 20 Technology Skills Every Educator Should Have By Laura Turner06/01/05 During the last 15 years, we in education have moved at light speed in the area of educational technology. With that in mind, here is a comprehensive listing of the technology skills that every educator should have. Here are 20 basic technology skills that all educators should now have: Word Processing SkillsSpreadsheets SkillsDatabase SkillsElectronic Presentation SkillsWeb Navigation SkillsWeb Site Design SkillsE-Mail Management SkillsDigital CamerasComputer Network Knowledge Applicable to your School SystemFile Management & Windows Explorer SkillsDownloading Software From the Web (Knowledge including eBooks)Installing Computer Software onto a Computer SystemWebCT or Blackboard Teaching SkillsVideoconferencing skillsComputer-Related Storage Devices (Knowledge: disks, CDs, USB drives, zip disks, DVDs, etc.)Scanner KnowledgeKnowledge of PDAsDeep Web KnowledgeEducational Copyright KnowledgeComputer Security Knowledge
Pottery History for Kids Pottery is dishes, plates, cups, and cooking pots made out of clay. It is a good idea to make dishes and pots out of clay for several reasons. Clay is cheap and easy to get, pretty much anybody can make a useful pot out of it, and you can make it waterproof pretty easily too. Plus it can be made very beautiful, if you know what you are doing. People first started making pottery out of clay around 6000 BC, near the beginning of the Neolithic period. By around 3000 BC, at the beginning of the Bronze Age, people had begun to use the slow potter's wheel. A woman in Mexico digging clay and using a slow wheel to make a pot. But by 2000 BC, the slow wheel had been almost entirely replaced in Europe and Asia by the fast wheel, which is also a platform, but one which spins on an axle, like a top. From the beginning, people used pottery as a way of constructing their social identity, or showing who they were and how they were different from other people. Fired Up! Welcome to Kidipede! or