Top 10 Free Content Curation Tools For Teachers - eLearning Industry Summary: Finding educational content in the web is no big deal- but managing it, is. Educational content curation is the art – rather than the act – of sorting out the vast amounts of educational content on the web and organizing them around a specific educational topic in a coherent way. General speak all teachers are educational information curators, or should be. Modern web tools help both students and teachers to contribute online discoveries to class conversations. But which is the best way to collect and share relevant educational content with your students Which are the best free education tools to manage presentation of educational resources? In the following list you will find the Top 10 Free Content Curation Tools for Teachers that I highly encourage you to try out. Create the best Course for your School with the Right Vendor Find, choose and compare the top eLearning Content Development Companies for K12!
This is what it's like to grow up in the age of likes, lols and longing | The Washington Post “It kind of, almost, promotes you as a good person. If someone says, ‘tbh you’re nice and pretty,’ that kind of like, validates you in the comments. Then people can look at it and say ‘Oh, she’s nice and pretty.’” “It kind of, almost, promotes you as a good person. Tbh, Katherine is both nice and pretty. School is where she thrives: She is beloved by her teachers, will soon star as young Simba in the eighth-grade performance of “The Lion King” musical, and gets straight A’s. Now she’s on her own page, checking the comments beneath a photo of her friend Aisha, which she posted for Aisha’s birthday. “Happy birthday posts are a pretty big deal,” she says. Katherine is the point guard on her basketball team. Rachel, Katherine’s au pair, comes in the room and tells her it’s time to get ready for basketball practice.
8 Tips to Create a Twitter-Driven School Culture Author's Note: Thanks to Joe Manko, Liberty Elementary School principal, for inspiring this blog post during an impromptu edcamp at #SXSWEdu this year. For an example of a school trying to create a connected culture through Twitter, follow Liberty Elementary's hashtag and jump into the conversation. Twitter is one of the most powerful tools that you can use for your professional development -- 24/7. While it's fantastic that educators are flocking to Twitter, many of them still feel even more alone and isolated within their own school and district. So I ask -- why can't we have both? Creating a More Connected Culture 1. First and foremost, you need to model the change you want to see in your school. 2. It may sound simple, but make sure you add your @name on Twitter to your email signature, your voicemail, and your school website. 3. Take a minute or two out of your day and scan your staff's tweets. 4. Display the real-time flow of tweets from your staff or school hashtag on a screen.
The Teacher's Guide To Twitter Twitter has proven itself to be an indispensable tool for educators around the globe. Whatever skill level you may be, Twitter is downright fun and worth your time. So here’s a useful guide that we curated from Edudemic’s archives in an effort to put something together that was a bit easier to read than random blog posts. We hope you enjoy and will be regularly adding to this guide so feel free to leave your ideas down in the comments or by, what else, tweeting us @edudemic anytime! Our Biggest Twitter Tips For Teachers For many teachers making a foray into the edtech world, Twitter is an excellent tool for consuming and learning. Many are also harnessing Twitter as a part of their PLN (personal learning network) to connect, share, and network. Check out our biggest Twitter tips for teachers below! Create, Don’t Just Consume The best way to get the most out of Twitter is to use it. Connect and Network Share Your Resources Keep At It Guide To Education-Oriented Twitter Hashtags Search Rule #1
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. 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.
Using social media to support school library services Helen Stower & Margaret Donaghue Mt Alvernia iCentre was an early adopter of social media for school library services, and is now five years into the journey which began experimentally and involved a steep learning curve. Currently, we are in the process of drafting social media guidelines and strategies. If we were to embark on using social media today, these guidelines would be our first step. This article shares our story about learning to use social media platforms as one avenue of moving our library services into the digital age. Learning about new information landscapes We began investigating the use of social media in the spirit of leading pedagogical change. At that time, our vision was to connect our learners with the skills, tools, and information they needed to live and work in the digital age. Learning how to engage in social media Along the journey, we have discovered many things. Learning how social media supports school library services The need for social media guidelines
School-Wide Twitter Chats Have you ever had a student say to you, "Wow, this is so much fun, do we have to stop?" This is the kind of excitement that children have shared with teachers after participating in the New Zealand school-wide Twitter chat called Kidsedchatnz. The Kidsedchatnz idea was born out of numerous worldwide Twitter chats for educators. So What Exactly Is Kidsedchatnz and How Does It Work? Kidsedchatnz is a weekly Twitter chat between New Zealand classes and students, every Thursday at 2:00-3:00PM. Each week, a topic is chosen, and 5-10 discussion questions are generated on that topic. During the weekly session, questions are posted every 5-10 minutes on Twitter for the students to discuss and respond to. Literacy Maths Technology Digital citizenship Teachers Education outside the classroom Rules Courage Culture Learning Homework Modern Learning Environments Football World Cup Elections and Student Issues Passions and Talents Sports Hack Your Learning Inquiry Learning
The Best 15 Twitter Hashtags for Teachers Twitter speaks volumes of itself and does not really require any introduction. I am pretty sure everyone of you has an account there.That`s great ! but have you ever considered using Twitter for educational and professional development purposes ? Twitter has a huge potential in education and there are many amazed at creative ways teachers can leverage this social media in the classroom as you will learn in the Teacher Twitter guide I am working on and that will be published here very soon. As was the case with the three Twitter tools every teacher should be using, I have again chopped another part from this guide and this time it is about the power of hashtags as learning mediums. According to Twitter help center, `` The # symbol, called hashtag, is used to mark keywords or topics in a tweet. `` For instance, if you wanted to make a comment about Sarah Palin, you could include her name in the tweet, or you could make the comment and follow it with her name marked by hashtag.
5 Great Online Tools for Creating Infographics Professional infographic designers rely primarily on a core vector graphics software program to create their infographics designs. The main advantage is that all the icons, charts, images, illustrations, and data visualizations are treated as separate objects that can be easily moved, resized, overlapped, and rotated. No matter where you create the individual design elements, the final infographic design is usually put together in a vector graphics program. Creating infographics using online tools has never been easier. In the last few years a number of online tools have emerged that allow anyone to create great visual content. These new tools are vector graphics applications that run in your browser as a replacement for using an expensive professional desktop application like Adobe Illustrator to put your infographic design together. In this article, we take a quick look at 5 of the best online tools for creating infographics: Visme, Canva, Easel.ly, Piktochart, and Infogr.am. Pros:
Social Media FOR Schools: Developing Shareable Content for Schools Interested in working with me? Consider hiring me as a consultant to coach your administration and staff to develop shareable content for your school. There is a difference between Social Media IN schools and Social Media FOR schools. There is a difference between Social Media IN schools and Social Media FOR schools. While social media in schools deals primarily with policies around how to use (or not use) social media in the classroom with students, social media for schools is about storytelling and getting their stakeholders (teachers, students, administrators, parents, community) to spread these stories. In the best case scenarios, social media IN schools is focused on: developing best practices HOW to use social media to support teaching and learningconnect, communicate and collaborate through social media to an authentic global audience In worst case scenario, social media IN schools is focused on: Column Five states in the video, The Value of Visualization, WHY SHARE? Students share 15.