Learn, Learner, Learni.st? What Is It? A Corkboard For Your Thoughts. Learni.st is a new educational service provided by the good people over at Grockit. Not content with cornering the market on test preparation, Grockit is also looking to shape how people teach and communicate the full range of interesting stuff in the world. A little bit like Scoop.it, which I took a look at the other week, Learni.st is an application that helps you to create your own page containing information that you think is worthwhile. In their terminology, the author creates a “Board”, or permalinked webpage, on which they share “Learnings”, posts which contain the knowledge they want to share. Learni.st’s most interesting and promoted features are centered around making this content easy to share and collect. Getting Started Caption: Sometimes Your Best Option Is To Say “This Is All Her Fault.” What Can You Do With It? Here are some ways that you, as an educator, can put Learni.st to good use: Aggregating a useful feed.
A List of 20 Free Tools for Teachers to Create Awesome Presentations and Slideshows Below is a list of some of the best free tools teachers and students can use to create awesome slideshow and presentations. 1- KnovioKnovio gives life to static slides and with a simple click you will be able to turn them into rich video and audio presentations that you can share with your friends and colleagues via email or popular social media websites. Knovio does not require any software installation or download, it is all web based. 2- AheadAhead is a great presentation tool for educators. It works in such a way that it instantly transforms your layouts into a zooming presentation. 3- HelloSlideHelloSlide is a cool web tool that allows its users to create awesome slides together with voice narration. 4- JuxJux is one of the best showcase for your stories. 5- SlidestaxxSlidestaxx is a great presentation tool. 6- Present.meIt allows its users to record and share their presentations using their webcams. 9- ZentationZentation is one of the best video presentation tools . 11- Zoho Show
(Edu)Clipping, Pinning, Linking and Sharing Educational Resources eduClipper: I got my early access today to Adam Bellow’s newest venture, eduClipper. I have been hounding him to let me have a peek for a while now. I hound because I care, I hope he realizes, because like the 3000+ teachers who’ve already signed up for the waiting list for eduClipper, I’m eager to see what the educator and eduTecher is doing next. Long before “curation” became an edu buzzword, Bellow has been pulling together lists of Web tools for educators on his eduTecher site – a rich resource with links, ratings, comments, and ideas about how these tools could be used in the classroom. An award-winning, former high school teacher and district tech trainer, Bellow has made a career out of thinking and speaking and teaching smartly about sharing Web resources among teachers. That makes it ever-the-more interesting, I think, that Bellow has built a tool that puts this resource-gathering and sharing capability into the hands of teachers themselves. Pinterest: I note several: Alternatives:
Help us find the new way of working and learning A collaborative experiment by kicking off a ‘Blog Carnival’ We’ve seen a lot of change over the past years, not only with the popularity and influence of social networks and tools such as Facebook, LinkedIn or Twitter, etc. With new generations of employees coming in, we have also seen new approaches and trends emerging in the work place and society at large. For example, over 64% of our over 48,000 employees already belong to the so-called ‘Generation YGeneration Y is the generation born in the 1980s and 1990s, comprising primarily the children of the baby boomers and typically perceived as increasingly familiar with digital and electronic technology. With this, we are seeing new trends in collaboration, knowledge management and learning – in the way people work together, share their knowledge and experience, and also how people develop and learn. We, at the adidas Group, always try to embrace changing conditions. Our vision of a capabilities incubator Let’s collaborate! 1. 2. 3.
Sweet! You Can Now Embed Learnist Boards Into Your Blog We’re big fans of Learnist , the ‘Pinterest for Education’ and have an exclusive update you should know about. Learnist has just upgraded their site to now allow for the ability to embed your learning boards into your website or blog. It’s been fun to follow the early stages of Learnist and see how the folks at Grockit (they made Learnist) have taken the idea of pinning educational content and turned into a social experience. If you want to learn more about Learnist, check out our first post on how it signals a change in education technology . If you’re already on Learnist, check out my Learnist page here to follow us and keep up with our news, resources, and trends.
CompendiumLD learning design software The 25 Best Pinterest Boards in Educational Technology Thanks to OnlineUniversities for this list of the Best Pinterest Boards in Educational Technology. Blogs and Twitter aren’t the only social tools out there that can help you keep up with the latest and greatest developments in educational technology. Pinterest is rapidly becoming a favorite tool of educators all over the nation, and many have amassed some pretty great collections of edtech-related pins that teachers and students alike can use to explore new ways to learn, share, teach, and grow. While it would be nearly impossible to highlight every edtech pinboard out there, we’ve shared some of the boards we think stand out among the crowd here. Many are maintained by major educational websites, key figures in edtech, and well-known bloggers, but others were created by teachers just like you who simply want to share resources and tips with others in education.
What Does It Take to Implement Change Successfully? A Study of the Behaviors of Successful Change Leaders Malcolm Higgs, School of Management, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK Email: malcolm.higgs@soton.ac.uk Abstract This article seeks to explore the impact of leaders’ behaviors on the successful implementation of change. Article Notes Malcolm Higgs is professor of organization behavior and human resource management in the University of Southampton School of Management. © 2011 NTL Institute 25 Of The Best Pinterest Boards In Education Blogs and Twitter aren’t the only social tools out there that can help you keep up with the latest and greatest developments in educational technology. Pinterest is rapidly becoming a favorite tool of educators all over the nation, and many have amassed some pretty great collections of edtech-related pins that teachers and students alike can use to explore new ways to learn, share, teach, and grow. While it would be nearly impossible to highlight every edtech pinboard out there, we’ve shared some of the boards we think stand out among the crowd here. Many are maintained by major educational websites, key figures in edtech, and well-known bloggers, but others were created by teachers just like you who simply want to share resources and tips with others in education. Oh–and don’t forget TeachThought’s burgeoning Pinterest board!
eMeet.me - Free Web Meetings for all... 10 Ways To Use Learnist In The Classroom We’re big fans of the newest educational social network on the block, Learnist. It’s a highly intuitive social network just for learners. If you want to find a new way to understand something, say goodbye to Wikipedia and hello to Learnist, the “Pinterest For Education.” But enough of the marketing nonsense. The below boards are from Dawn and are meant for high schools but are quite clearly easy to use in any classroom. Use One: Organizing Materials Learnist allows you to organize your lesson plans and materials in one place: Select materialsPost them to your learnboardAdd commentary.Choose materials from anywhere on the InternetUse a variety of formats to benefit students’ different learning styles. Once you’ve gathered your materials and made your learnboard, you’ll have something tangible to use in class or to give to students to use at home. Use Two: Collaboration It seems one has time to collaborate. Imagine interdisciplinary lessons that connect all of students’ academic areas!
untitled Blogger Quick View Twitter Quick View Scoop.It Quick View MentorMob Quick View ThingLink Quick View Wikispaces Quick View Screencast-O-Matic Quick View Google Docs Quick View Glogster.Edu Quick View Glogster.Edu Touredu.glogster.com Screencast-O-Matic Tour Google Docs Tourwww.google.com Google Docs Interactive Demo - Try collaborating on each of the different types of Docs by sharing the demo link with a friend.docs.google.com Sign up for a free Blogger Accountwww.diigo.com Sign up for a free Twitter account Sign up for a free Scoop.It accountwww.scoop.it Sign up for a free MentorMob account Sign up for a free ThingLink accountwww.thinglink.com Sign up for a free Wikispaces account for teachers and get an upgraded accountwww.wikispaces.com Sign up for a free Screencast-O-Matic account OR use the tool without logging in. Log in with your existing Gmail or Google account and click on "Drive" at the top of the page OR sign up for a Google account if you don't have one.accounts.google.com Oh no! Glog On!
Pinterest Tips for Teachers Pinterest is a fantastic online pinboard that lets you organise and share things that you find on the web. It’s possible to ‘pin’ lots of different types of content to your boards to help you find it all again later, as well as share it with friends and colleagues. Lots of teachers are using Pinterest, so I thought that it might be useful to share some tips and suggest some top users to follow. First, here’s a great video tutorial that gives more information about how to use Pinterest. It isn’t aimed at educators but it explains the different features of the site and how to use them. Our Teaching Ideas site has had a popular Pinterest account for a few months and has a number of different boards that share lots of content… Classroom Management ideas, Resources linked to books, Maths Resources, Cool Pictures and more. The Teaching Ideas Pinterest account also has lots of great followers who are involved in education. Who are your favourite Pinterest users?