Want to revamp your presentations? Try these 10 programs! « Eduhowto Posted on December 3, 2010 by eduhowto Lets face it, when students see a PowerPoint presentation they moan and grown. PowerPoint has been used so much that anymore students often tune out. Prezi is the first program that I found to be easy to use and entertaining for students. Like this: Like Loading... Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: | classroom ideas, Educational Technology, Educators, interactive, K through 12, lesson plans, online environment, PointPoint, Power, presentation sites, presentations, School, successful teaching, technology, technology in classroom, webtools
Online Teaching Certificate | School of Education and Human Development Online Teaching Certificate Online Teaching Certificate Page Content The demand for online teachers is growing and expanding in K-12 settings, and the practice is increasingly common at higher-education institutions. The Online Teaching Certificate program is designed for K-12, college and university educators interested in creating and teaching online and blended courses, or using web-based/web 2.0 components to enhance face-to-face instruction. Certificate Structure Each course stands alone; you may want to take one class or all three. Certificate Format Online Cost All courses are 3 graduate credit hours. Related Degree Programs MA Information and Learning Technologies
Author pronunciation guide - authors name begins with A al-bum (as in record album) pole Ees-abel Ay-enday (or ä-YEN-d?) OW(-uh)l AB-ag-nail ni-CO-lo ama-NEE-tee The pen name of Grigory Chkhartishvili, pronounced CHAHAR-kesh-veely ar-der AH-boo JAH-ber leave ar-nesen All-bright tuh-MEEM un-saw-REE A-BR-HAMs (first syllable rhymes with May) Aboul-Ela or-ster AL-da. Chim-muh-MAHN-duh en-GOH-zee ah-DEECH-ee-(ay) The “ay” is soft, not quite a diphthong. AIM-as sher-mn a-lexie To quote the author, his name is pronounced "just like the nut" Rah-be-a Ahl-ah-meh-dean Gil is short for Gillian, thus pronounced Jill u-em ak-pan Halse rhymes with waltz ah-vee The phonetic pronunciation of each author's name has been verified by the author's publisher.
Education Article :: 100+ Google Tricks for Teachers It's Google's world, we're just teaching in it. Now, we can use it a little more easily. With classes, homework, and projects–not to mention your social life–time is truly at a premium for all teachers, so why not take advantage of the wide world that Google has to offer? From super-effective search tricks to Google tools specifically for education to tricks and tips for using Gmail, Google Docs, and Google Calendar, these tricks will surely save you some precious time. Search Tricks These search tricks can save you time when researching online for your next project or just to find out what time it is across the world, so start using these right away. Convert units. Google Specifically for Education From Google Scholar that returns only results from scholarly literature to learning more about computer science, these Google items will help you at school. Google Scholar. Google Docs 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. Gmail 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. Google Calendar 44.
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Outlook Live Blog - Outlook Live Answers Have you launched Live@edu at your institution? We’re excited to introduce a new series of instructional videos that can help. Bobby Kishore, general manager at Live@edu, kicks off the series with an overview of your Live@edu services. General Manager Bobby Kishore welcomes you to Live@edu and shares Microsoft’s overall vision for the education sector. The first step to successfully deploying your Live@edu services is to verify your domain ownership. Technical planning is the next step toward successful deployment. Watch David Hurley, Test Lead for Microsoft’s Live@edu program, demonstrate how to create a test domain, set up test accounts, and configure co-branding. Finally, learn how to enable content filtering, add domains, and publicize your services to successfully launch Live@edu at your institution. Did you find these videos helpful?
28 Tech Tools to Bring out the Story in History Below is an article I wrote for theapple.com. For the full article complete with links, please visit the original article. Kelly Tenkely | TheApple When I was in school, I dreaded history. I found it completely uninteresting, dry, irrelevant, and quite frankly…boring. I can count on one hand the things I remember learning in history. How can we engage our students with history? Access to history has expanded, students today have learning opportunities that have never been possible before. Primary resources are the actual documents, artifacts, and writings from history. Primary Resources: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Videos have the unique ability to make students feel as if they are witnesses to history. Historical Videos: 6. 7. 8. There are many websites that let students interact with history. Interacting with History: 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. Static timelines are a thing of the past, today’s timelines are interactive, informative, and fun to explore. Interactive Timelines: 18. 19. 20. 21. 22.
Restorative Approaches / Practices in Schools Restorative Approaches provides an underpinning ethos and philosophy for making, maintaining and repairing relationships and for fostering a sense of social responsibility and shared accountability. There are many challenges in implementing an organisation or institution-wide approach since the restorative way challenges deeply-held notions about power and control and the urge to make things unpleasant for someone when they have done something wrong or ‘misbehaved’. When harm has been caused by inappropriate, sometimes thoughtless, negative behaviour then all sides need: a chance to tell their side of the story and feel heard- to understand better how the situation happened to understand how it can be avoided another time- to feel understood by the others involved to find a way to move on and feel better about themselves Punitive disciplinary responses, on the other hand: The institution-wide restorative model can be based on the following diagram:
Volcano - The shape of the land, Forces and changes, Spotlight on famous forms, For More Information Photo by: Beboy Volcanoes are landforms whose shapes may remain unchanged for centuries or may change drastically in minutes. Some exist singly, looming over a flat landscape. The material and processes deep within Earth that form volcanoes have shaped the planet's surface since its beginning more than four billion years ago. The word volcano comes from the name of the Roman god of fire and a small island that is part of a group of volcanic islands located just north of Sicily in the Tyrrhenian Sea. The world's highest active volcano, Mount Cotopaxi, rises 19,388 feet above the surrounding highland plain in central Ecuador. The shape of the land Technically, a volcano is a vent or hole in Earth's surface through which heated material escapes from underground. Volcanologists recognize various volcanic landforms, such as shield volcanoes, stratovolcanoes, cinder cones, lava domes, calderas, and lava plateaus. Volcano: Words to Know Asthenosphere: Basalt: Convection current: Crust: Hot spot: