trainingICTinclassroom - CRC Resources Try Wikispaces Classroom now. Brand new from Wikispaces. guest Join | Help | Sign In trainingICTinclassroom Home guest| Join | Help | Sign In Turn off "Getting Started" Loading... 10 Social Media Mistakes You're Probably Making Social media. Connecting teachers. Intriguing students Offering resources. Cataloguing information with hashtags. Streamlining information consumption. Copyright for Educators & Librarians Will I get a Statement of Accomplishment after completing this class? Yes. Students who successfully complete the class will receive a Statement of Accomplishment signed by the instructor. What resources will I need for this class? For this course, all you need is an Internet connection and the time to read, write, discuss, and think about our topic. Is this course only for Americans? Throughout the class we will be discussing the copyright law of the United States, and applying that law to the examples we discuss. What is the coolest thing I'll learn if I take this class? Our goal is to help you become a copyright maven, and the coolest thing you will get from this class, we hope, is confidence to do your jobs without undue fear about copyright. For example, is it copyright infringement to decorate a library floor with the complete text from published books? Can I get professional credit for this class? You can get a Statement of Accomplishment that will be signed by the instructors.
What is the point of innovation? If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! I feel the “point” of innovation is NOW! Now? Yes NOW! How? Forget the past. Innovate now. Try a clean slate. A new look from a different angle. Rewrite the rule books. Explore timeless thinking. Involve everyone! Absorb different cultures. Incorporate other fields. Enquire. Delve. Question. Hatch. Concoct. Brew. Do. I hope you enjoy viewing my Mind Maps – there are hundreds more planned here at the Mind Map Inspiration Blog plus ongoing creativity and drawing tips. Also available: E-Books designed to help you create stylish and artistic mind maps of your own. If you know someone who could benefit from this post and others here at the Mind Map Inspiration Blog please share with them.
9 Tools to Create E-magazines and Newspapers for Your Class 1- Uniflip UniFlip converts your magazine, brochure or catalog from its original PDF format into an exciting, professional multi-media digital format with pages that flip. 2-Joomag Joomag is a web tool that lets you create your own magazines using a simple online editor. 3- Scribd Scribd is known for being a reading library where you can search for and find ebooks and slides but it is also a magazine creator which allows users to upload their own content and turn it into a magazine 4- Issuu This is like Scribd above. 5- Zinepal This tools lets you create an ebook or magazine from posts and articles of a blog. 6- Build A Newspaper This one is a professional platform that provides teacher based templates to create mazagines. 7- Fodey This is most simple of all the tools mentioned here. 8- Open Zine This is another web tool that allows users to create their own magazines without any need for advanced tech knowledge. 9- Calameo
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Content Curation: The Art of a Curated Post [Infographic] For content marketers wanting to economically increase content production, content curation is the optimal solution. It benefits both publishers and audiences—who appreciate expertly selected, third party, independent content. In fact, according to Curata’s study, best-in-class marketers use a content marketing mix of 65 percent created content and 25 percent curated content. But many people interested in content curation—and some who are already curating—may still have lingering questions about best practices. What should a curated post look like? How much of the original article should I include? To help answer some of these questions and outline the anatomy of curated piece of content, we created “The Art of a Curated Post.” 1. It’s vital to always craft a new headline to avoid competing with the original article in search engine results. Remember, even if a title worked well on the original post you’re curating (it got you to click, didn’t it?) 2. 3. 4. 5.
Bluffton middle school students draw, digitize town landmarks | Education A year after Pam Davis' Google Apps class documented historic locations on Daufuskie Island, 150 of her students re-created historic landmarks closer to home. Six classes at H.E. McCracken Middle School in Bluffton used Google's 3-D design program SketchUp to re-create 14 locations around Old Town this spring, drawing models of local landmarks like the Thomas Heyward House and the Bluffton Oyster Factory. Students in the class, in its second year at H.E. McCracken, learn to use SketchUp and other Google programs, culminating in the historic-locations project. After the students learned how to draw in the program, they photographed and measured 14 of the 26 historic buildings in Bluffton during a field trip in February. Using Google Earth and the photos and measurements the classes took, students worked to accurately digitize them in SketchUp, presenting their efforts Tuesday to the Bluffton Town Council. "After the first sketch, we pretty much had it down pat," she said.
Focus on Form-ative Assessment A few months ago I wrote a post about the value of utilizing Google Forms in education and shared a super cool resource containing 80+ ways to incorporate them into the classroom. Well, I’m back again… With more reasons why you should become a fan of this edtech gem… Yep, this geeky girl love, loves this particular component of Google Apps for Education. Why? Because forms can be created quickly and easily for an unlimited amount of purposes: assessment, polls, surveys, questionnaires and so much more! That said, whether you are a forms believer or not, check out the interactive image shown below—one I developed with ThingLink for a professional development session I facilitated last week in my district. Be sure to hover over the image to reveal the really good stuff! And by the way—no, you are not seeing things. A full screen version of this image can be found here.
Rubrics for Assessment Teachers who integrate technology into student activities and projects often ask us this question - “How do I grade it?” Fundamentally, assessing multimedia activities and projects is no different than evaluating traditional assignments, such as written essays. The primary distinctions between them are the unique features and divergent possibilities associated with their respective medium. For instance, a blog has a unique set of possibilities (such as hypertext, embedded video, interactive imagery, etc) vastly different than those of a notebook (paper and pen notes and drawings within a contained document). The first thing to realize is that you cannot separate the user from the device. iPads, Chromebooks, and tech tools themselves don’t demonstrate great learning; it’s about what students do with the technology that matters.
- Ten Engaging Digital Education Sites For Any Social Studies Classroom 0 Comments November 5, 2014 By: Michael Gorman Nov 4 Written by: 11/4/2014 8:57 PM ShareThis If you have performed a recent search you may have found there is a countless number of social studies resources on the internet. National Council for Social Studies – While NCSS has an outstanding website loaded with great information, you may wish to take a closer look at the Teacher Library. Edsitement – The link brings you to the lesson plan page, be sure to explore other amazing areas in the site. New York Times Learning Network – The New York Times has a wonderful selection of articles and lessons that have a wide range of social studies ideas. SAS Curriculum Pathways – This is a wonderful collection of highly engaging lessons plans available for free from SAS Curriculum Pathways in North Carolina. Teachers Pay Teachers – On a recent visit to this site there were close to 80,000 social studies and history resources available.. cross-posted at 21centuryedtech.wordpress.com
3 Steps to Creating an Awesome Virtual Museum in Class You're spending an afternoon browsing the exhibits at an art museum. If you're anything like me, you'd probably appreciate the art a lot more if you could bring someone along that could explain the history and nuances of the pieces on display. Now imagine pointing a device at the painting and seeing it morph into a dynamic video giving you all the information you wanted about the art. Welcome to augmented reality. Virtual reality replaces the real world with an artificial, digital environment. The Virtual Museum I've worked with teachers at several schools to created virtual museums - student created exhibits that use augmented reality to display student videos when a device is pointed at an exhibit. We used a popular augmented reality app called Aurasma. Visitors were sent an email asking them to download the free Aurasma app and bring their device. We talk about the importance of "depth" in education. I'm sure you'll come up with lots of ideas of your own. A. Media: Create video. B.