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Jeff's Edublog Naked Eye Observation Telescopic Observation Spacecraft flyby mission Orbiter observations Planetary Lander Detailed view of landscape Finding Life continue reading This post contains information and resources presented by Jeff Stanger at the 15th Biennial Science Teachers Workshop, The University of Sydney, November 5th, 2012. Wikis, Google or Office Docs as collaborative workspaces A summary of my use of wikis or shared documents as collaborative workspaces is contained within this article A video illustrating the use [...] continue reading Two examples of pedagogies that can be used with Clickers in the high school classroom are summaries in this document www.jeffstanger.net/Science Teaching/Handout.pdf A pdf copy of the presentation from the CONASTA conference can be found at Teaching/Stanger SGGHS Clickers Case Study CONASTA 2012.pdf
50 Free Collaboration Tools That Are Awesome for Education April 7th, 2010 Whether you are looking for tools that can bring a distance education class together or tools to help students and teachers in traditional classrooms working on group projects, the following collaboration tools will help with any need. From group papers to file sharing to group communication, the following tools will help bring any educational group together seamlessly to produce awesome results. Group Projects and Papers When working on group projects or research papers, these tools make collaboration a breeze. Nicenet.
bit by bit » bob sprankle Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes… Well, it’s been a long time since I’ve written on this Blog. I’m dusting off the old server to officially announce some changes. As some of you know, due to health reasons, I haven’t been able to be in the classroom since November 2014. ict4meandyou.wikispaces You are not a member of this wiki. Join now Dismiss guest | Join | Help | Sign In HOME Photos & Videos Sessions PhotoShop iPod & iPads Webtools Captivate SRN Adobe Presenter Photos & Videos Edit Top 10 Networking Tips for the College Student and Recent Graduate Online & Blended Learning Can Less Successful Students Help with Retention? (by Dr.
OneNote – A Practical Tip « First Steps We started using OneNote with our Year 9 English classes in 2009 and continued with the process as they moved into Year 10 in 2010. Our Year 9 students that have just received their laptops have now also begun the process of using OneNote as their English book. (Please see my previous post for how we set up the OneNote notebooks as templates for the entire cohorts.) How universities and students can benefit from smart inventions 10 March 2011Last updated at 07:42 By Andrew Bomford BBC Radio 4's PM programme In an age of plunging government grants, universities need to get smarter at coming up with good commercial ideas and getting them to market. Graduate Jeremy Innes-Hopkins' invention is to be marketed by a US company One way of doing that is to exploit their own talent pools of students in a way that benefits them and their students.
The Rapid eLearning Blog Creating great interactive learning experiences requires a few core building blocks: relevant content, pull versus push, and real-world decisions. With those building blocks you're able to structure effective learning scenarios that are meaningful to the learner and helps meet the objectives of the course. One of those building blocks in creating relevant content or content that is placed in a meaningful context. Essentially, you want to recreate the types of scenarios that are similar to the ones the learner has in real life. This allows them to see the content in ... 3 Ways to Privately Share Videos Videos are great for sharing the highlights of school events. That said, there are some parents who don't want videos of their children viewable by the general public. In those cases you might want to try sharing videos in a private online environment. Here are three methods for doing that. KinKast is a new service that offers free private sharing of the videos you record. KinKast is both an iPhone application and a web application.
Creating an Online Resource Library on Edmodo Although I use Evernote on a daily basis to bookmark useful websites and clip interesting articles/lesson ideas to build up an enormous bank of resources, it isn't the most tidy of places as I literally just save there quickly knowing that I can find it again later by doing a keyword/tag search. I do share this collection with people online and in school but I've never really seen it used much because it's not that visually attractive and can sometimes seem a little overwhelming due to she sheer amount of stuff on it. For these reasons, I also store duplicates of my favourite resources on Edmodo using their 'Library' tool. You can upload documents (up to 100mb) in size as well as save links to websites and embeddable content (e.g. YouTube videos).
Excerpt From My Book On Teaching English Language Learners My second book, English Language Learners: Teaching Strategies That Work, was published by Linworth Publishing in April, 2010. You can read a summary of it that I wrote as a guest post on The New York Times website. It now has a page on Amazon and you can also order it directly from the publisher. Create Your Own E-Book for Your iPad Recently I had created a “Read-Along” book for our first graders to accompany their Magic Tree House podcast and am continuing to have fun creating e-books for my iPad from Word Documents, pdfs and thematic blog posts from Langwitches. Next year, we will have an iPad cart to use with our students and I am looking forward to brainstorming more ideas and opportunities to allow students to create and organize their own e-books on the iPad. What are the advantages/disadvantages of creating our own e-books instead of purchased textbooks?