Webinars – Google Apps for Education Generale Scopri tutte le funzioni e i vantaggi offerti da Google Apps for Education. In questo seminario registrato online potrai: Sapere perché altre organizzazioni sono passate a Google Apps Sapere come altre organizzazioni utilizzano questi servizi Guardare una demo di Google Apps for Education Guarda ora Caso di successo Ascolta direttamente dalla Arizona State University il racconto della migrazione a Google Apps for Education, seguito da una sessione di domande e risposte in diretta con Google e ASU. Relatore: Kari Barlow, Assistant Vice President, University Technology OfficeCategoria: Istruzione superioreData: 25/6/2009 Quando la University of Notre Dame ha eseguito la migrazione dei suoi 15.000 studenti e 150.000 ex studenti a Google Apps, ha realizzato un risparmio di 1,5 milioni di dollari e ha incrementato la soddisfazione degli studenti del 36%. Relatore: Katie Rose, Program Manager for Enterprise InitiativesCategoria: Istruzione superioreData: 13/8/2009 Data: 18/11/2009
The 5 Keys to Educational Technology Ed Tech | Viewpoint The 5 Keys to Educational Technology What is educational technology? What are its purposes and goals, and how can it best be implemented? Hap Aziz, director of the School of Technology and Design at Rasmussen College, explores what he terms the "five key components" to approaching educational technology. By Hap Aziz09/16/10 Educational technology is the considered implementation of appropriate tools, techniques, or processes that facilitate the application of senses, memory, and cognition to enhance teaching practices and improve learning outcomes. Educational technology has a multi-faceted nature comprising a cyclical process, an arsenal of tools (both physical and conceptual), and a multiple-node relationship between learners and facilitators of instruction, as well as between learners themselves. There are five key components of my own definition of educational technology that are meant to tie the multiple facets of the concept together. 1. Januszewski, A. (2001).
state-of-the-art classroom: New state-of-the-art physics class at Bishop Moore Catholic High has students buzzing October 9, 2011|By Leslie Postal, Orlando Sentinel The students in Rob McCall's honors physics class pay scant attention to their teacher as they chat, scribble and even mark up windows with crayon. McCall doesn't mind. Working in small groups, the teenagers look occasionally to McCall for advice or direction but not, ideally, for answers. They work in Bishop Moore Catholic High's new "studio" classroom, figuring their equations on velocity and vertical displacement on white "smart boards," "writable windows" and giant touch-screen computer monitors. The room is a showcase for state-of-the-art technology, but also for the belief that students learn best if teachers ask questions, present problems, prod them to think and then get out of the way and let them work. "You want them hands-on. In the lab, said senior Austin Whan, "we all get more involved in it." The 17-year-old pointed to the physics problem his group of four had just solved. "I definitely enjoy it more," he said.
Gluten-Free Japanese Milk Bread – the softest bread ever — Gluten-Free on a Shoestring This is about to knock your gluten free socks off: a loaf of super soft gluten free bread that is easy to make, and doesn’t intimidate (I’m here for you!). BOOM! Have you ever heard of Japanese Water Roux (Tangzhong)? But if you make this supersoft gluten free bread that stays fresh forever, you might just see that I’m tons of fun in the kitchen. This is what it looks like. To make the water roux, I placed 47 grams (about 1/3 cup) all-purpose gluten-free flour and 1 cup water in a small saucepan and whisked to combine well. Then let it cool. The dough is shaggy. Then roll each piece out into a disk about 1/2 inch thick. * I once had an editor — not my esteemed book editor whom I adore — tell me that the word “shaggy” is not a proper term for describing bread dough. Loosely stack the folded pieces of dough in a loaf pan. Spray the loaf with warm water, cover the pan with plastic wrap and place the pan in a warm, draft-free place to rise until it’s about 150% its original size. Prep time:
The Most Popular Posts on Free Technology for Teachers This Week Good morning from Hartford, Connecticut where later today I'll be watching one of my younger brothers get married (he's the one with the duck in the picture, and he might kill me for posting that picture). As I do every week regardless of where I am and what's happening I have put together a list of the most popular posts of the week. I do this every week for two reasons; it gives me a sense of what people are interested in and it gives you a chance to catch up on what other educators found useful this week. Here are this week's most popular posts: 1. 93 Android Apps for Teachers to Try This Summer 2. EPIC 2020 | Higher Education Reform Chunky Monkey Super Omega-3 Energy Bars Servings: 12 bars Preparation Time: 10 minutes 1 ripe banana 12 medjool dates, pitted 1 cup raw walnuts 1 cup quinoa flakes 1/2 cup chia seed 1/4 cup milled flaxseed 2 tablespoons virgin coconut oil1/4 cup shredded unsweetened coconut1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract1/4 cup cacao nibs (or dark chocolate chunks) 1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. 2. 3. 4. Recipe submitted by Kristen, Mattapoisett, MA Submit your recipe here!
ED Tech Cheat Sheet Every Educator Should Know about One of the perplexing things that teachers and educators encounter when trying to understand educational technology and leverage it to their classrooms is the abundance of those baffling techy terms. Blended Learning is different from Differentiated Learning, Educational Technology might not be necessarily Instructional Technology, a Virtual Classroom is different from an Electronic Classroom or Flipped Classroom; There is also asynchronous, synchronous, and personalized learning, these and many more are but some examples of the growing terminology in this field. Boundless has created this wonderful visual explaining some of the major trending EdTech terms. Browse more data visualizations. Evernote as Portfolio | The story of using Evernote as a portfolio in my k-12 school
Educational Videos and Games for Kids about Science, Math, Social Studies and English Conspiracy Theories in Aerospace History You can’t believe everything you read on the Internet. How do you evaluate the reliability of online information? Check out the conference archives from this National Air and Space Museum interactive online conference developed especially for teachers and secondary students. Historians and educators from the Museum, and guests from the Department of the Navy and National History Day, demonstrate critical thinking skills they use to evaluate information. Access Recordings Related Resources During the event, thousands of teachers and students from around the world asked questions and shared their questions and opinions.
BadgeStack: A Badge-Empowered Learning System - Produced by LearningTimes BadgeOS™ is a powerful free plugin to WordPress that lets you easily create achievements and issue sharable badges as your users succeed. Activate the free BadgeStack extension to instantly create Levels, Quests and Badge Achievement Types — and start badging! Each BadgeOS site can be customized to your goals, community, visual identity, and the right mix of social and self-directed activity. You define the achievement requirements and choose the assessment options. As members progress, they earn digital badges they can share anywhere, from Facebook, LinkedIn, or Twitter, to their own blog, or resume. Ready to Build? Get it Now Want to Know More? Dive Deeper Need Expert Help? Reach Out Many organizations are using BadgeOS to enable achievement recognition and community engagement.
The Clarifying Routine: Elaborating Vocabulary Instruction By: Edwin S. Ellis When you think of vocabulary, there is a good chance that you think of long lists of words from social studies or science textbooks, spelling word lists, or even the humongous lists of terms to study for college entrance exams. Zillions of flash cards also may come to mind. No doubt you share the common childhood experience of having to "go look up the words in a dictionary, write the definition, and then write a sentence using the term" — but how much of that vocabulary do you remember now? Do you remember how you could rote copy the definition of a term as part of a homework assignment, but have no real idea what the definition meant and still get an 'A' on the assignment? Perhaps the least effective way to study vocabulary is the "look and remember" technique. Ross Perot, with his unique use of the English language, said it best — "That dog don't hunt!" Elaborating definitions of new terms Elaboration technique #1: Figure 1 Elaboration technique #2:
Engaging Education Instead of glowing in the light of a new day, each morning thousands of educators walk the halls of schools beneath burdensome shadows. For looming not too far off on the horizon are the towering silhouettes of imminent standardized tests. And whether intentionally or not, many educators cannot help but allow the presence of such looming silhouettes to drive their teaching methods. Their motivations are usually good, for who would fault them for trying to prepare students for success on these standards-based, institutionally important assessments. The government, and even your administration, might even commend teachers for such behavior, pushing NCLB criteria and pay for performance evaluations measured by those ensuing student test scores. Yet, the act of teaching to the test is a futile endeavor of Sisyphean proportions, motivated by the desire to attain standards of “success” on standardized tests that will, unfortunately, always be changing. So, as educators, we have a choice.