The 35 Best Web 2.0 Classroom Tools Chosen By You [UPDATED] 100 Web 2.0 Tools Every Teacher Should Know About 44.24K Views 0 Likes We're always trying to figure out the best tools for teachers, trends in the education technology industry, and generally doing our darnedest to bring you new and exciting ways to enhance the classroom. But I wanted t... 20 Free and Fun Ways To Curate Web Content 23.98K Views 0 Likes What's the best way to organize it all into at least some reasonable manner? It’s Time To Crowdsource Your School’s Social Media Policy 12.53K Views 0 Likes Every school has a different policy when it comes to social media.
ANIMATION LESSONS MAIN PAGE With never before seen production work on some of your favorite KC cartoons including Rugrats, Wild Thornberrys, AAAHH!!! Real Monsters, Santo Bugito and more! Part 1: Creating Characters Out of Basic Shapes Part 2: Determining Height and Basic Details Part 3: Turnarounds Part 4: Movement Sketches Part 5: Off Model/On Model Part 6: Advanced Animation Drawing Part 7: Backgrounds Part 8: Coloring and Props
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Tech Learning TL Advisor Blog and Ed Tech Ticker Blogs from TL Blog Staff – TechLearning.com 1 Comment November 28, 2010 By: Tech Learning Blog Staff Nov 28 Written by: 11/28/2010 7:54 AM ShareThis Having a website for a teacher is an ideal way to share information with parents and the community. Weebly - Excellent site for creating a classroom website or blog that has a secure educational environment. David Kapuler is an educational consultant with more than 10 years of experience working in the K-12 environment.
The Best Sites for Royalty Free Stock Music and Sound Effects You can't have video without audio... it just doesn't work. That's why in high school it was A/V club, not just V Club... although that does sound pretty rad. Anywho... if you want to complete an animation, short film, commercial or whatever... you have to have good audio, and that means scores and sound effects! I have found some of the best places around the web to purchase packages, find individual songs, and even snag some free tracks for you and your work! AudioJungle AudioJungleWe can't leave out one of our most useful sites on the Envato Network! The Rest SmartSound.comA division of SonicFire Pro's awesome scoring software, the SmartSound library lets you pick from thousands of songs and hundreds of albums in their library. If you enjoyed this post, please give it a vote on Digg or a stumble to say thanks!
How High-Performing Nations Teach Global Skills By Heather Singmaster Education specialists have been looking to practices in other countries for quite some time. Many of the questions remain unchanged: What explains the Finland phenomenon? A far deeper question is starting to emerge: how do high-achieving nations teach global skills? Here is a summary of what four nations have done: China In China, there was a major overhaul of the education system in the mid-1990s. China is currently involved in another round of education reform, the 2020 education reform plan, which will update the curriculum to meet real-world needs. China also has announced a new plan to send 50,000 principals to study successful schools in other countries in order to gain new perspectives and learn best practices. Singapore In 2010, the Singapore Ministry of Education announced a plan to strengthen their curriculum around a framework of 21st century competencies. Competencies for a Changing World: Korea India India is not an OECD high-performing country.
Ten Excellent Online Apps For the Innovative Teacher Teachers for all levels of students today have so many more teaching aids than even just a few years ago. That’s not just because of greater access to the Internet but also because of the growing number of web applications that they can use. Some applications are specifically geared towards teaching and learning. 1. Pricing ranges from a free plan up to US$14.95/ month. 2. Edublogs offers 10 ways to use an edublog for teaching, which includes class publications and newsletters, online discussions, allowing student blogs, and adding multimedia. 3. Essentially, you can put together slideshows and upload them to the Empressr site. Similar tools are Slide, which let’s you upload a selection of images to produce a slideshow. 4. Accounts are completely free of charge and the site claims over 200,000 teachers, parents and students are using Engrade. 5. Similar applications are Thumbstacks and Zoho Show. 6. 7. Similar applications include MyProjectPages and Nuvvo. 8. 9. 10.
8 Cheat Sheet Wallpapers for Designers and Developers Web designers and developers have a lot to remember, from keyboard shortcuts to function names. That’s why it’s handy to have cheat sheets near by for a quick reference. Most people like to print out there cheat sheets on paper and have them sitting on their desk, but another convenient place for a cheat sheet is right on your computers desktop in the form of a wallpaper. Here we’ve rounded up a few very useful cheat sheets for web designers and developers that can be used as desktop wallpapers. Photoshop Keyboard Shortcuts Color Theory Quick Reference Poster Periodic Table of Typefaces The Anatomy of Type Web Accessibility Checklist TextMate Shortcuts jQuery 1.3 Cheat Sheet WordPress Help Sheet About the Author Henry Jones is a web developer, designer, and entrepreneur with over 14 years of experience. Related Posts 1932 shares 8 Must-have Cheat Sheets for Web Designers and Developers Read More 2750 shares Photoshop CS6 Cheat Sheet
A New Look at the Twenty-First-Century Student's Mind Almost any teacher will agree that technology is changing how students learn, but is it changing how student think? Not really, says Daniel Willingham, a teacher and cognitive neuroscientist who authored Why Don’t Students Like School?: A Cognitive Neuroscientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What it Means for the Classroom (Jossey-Bass, 2009) and who regularly publishes education-related articles, which you can find on his Web site. “Technology has certainly changed how students access and integrate information,” he wrote in a piece published summer 2010 by the American Federation of Teachers. “But laboratory research indicates that today’s students don’t think in fundamentally different ways than students did a generation ago.” To the contrary, Willingham sees a huge continuing role for books: “Many students are quite engaged by the Twilight series of novels despite the lack of technological flair,” he points out. Nonetheless, we like to engage in it.
Entienda la Web 2.0 y sus principales servicios En 15 años la Web ha crecido y ha pasado de ser un grupo de herramientas de trabajo para los científicos del CERN [1] a convertirse en un espacio global de información con más de mil millones de usuarios. En la actualidad está tanto volviendo a sus raíces como herramienta de lectura y/o escritura como entrando en una fase más social y participativa. Estas tendencias han generado la sensación de que la Web esta entrando en una “segunda fase”, una versión nueva y “mejorada”: la Web 2.0. La introducción de la Web 2.0, vista como versión nueva y mejorada de la Web anterior y jalonada por el usuario es bastante nueva, podríamos decir que se remonta al 2006. Pero en lo que no hay acuerdo es en si esta aseveración es cierta o si al menos tiene fundamento sustancial, qué tanto obedece a una revolución publicitaria o a una revolución social y lo que es más, si verdaderamente se trata de una revolución en el sentido de un cambio radical. “Por supuesto que no. BLOGS (bitácora, en español): Aula 21