Udemy Launches iPad App To Enhance Mobile Learning We’ve written about Udemy before . In the age of online learning and MOOCs, there’s always a lot to talk about – who has what for course offerings, do you have to pay for it, who are the teachers? Now, Udemy has taken online learning one step further, and made it available on your iPad. As of the publication of this article, Udemy , the largest marketplace for online courses, will have officially launched its iPad app. With over 5,000 courses available through the (free) app, students and curious life-long learners now have an easier way to learn real-world skills whenever and wherever making lifelong learning even more accessible. Download The App Here And with Apple’s iPad Mini announcement , there are more options than ever to turn a daily commute or couch time into a learning opportunity. iPads everywhere can now be used for online, on-demand learning transforming commutes and couch time. App Features Screenshots The Details From Udemy Notable iPad app features include:
The 100 Best Web 2.0 Classroom Tools Chosen By You The Wordle of this list! (Click image to enlarge) One of the most popular posts on Edudemic in 2010 was The 35 Best Web 2.0 Classroom Tools Chosen By You and I felt it might be time for an update to that list for 2011. In order to put together a list of the best Web 2.0 classroom tools, I polled my Twitter followers, Facebook fans (are they still called fans? Likes?) and ran a contest to try and get as many submissions as possible. There were more than 900 submissions but many were duplicates. 50 Ideas For Using Skype In Your Classroom Skype, the free, ubiquitous VOIP downloadable, offers some unique opportunities for tech-savvy teachers to get their students learning in exciting new ways. It might prove a buggy affair depending on the version, but all the same the service still makes for a phenomenal classroom tool. Read on to find out how you can put this cool tool to work in your classroom. Collaborate! Meet with other classrooms: One of the most common projects educators utilize Skype for is setting up exchanges with classrooms around the world, usually for cultural exchange purposes or working together on a common assignment. Communicate! Connect! Art crits: Schedule time with professional artists and receive thorough crits about how to improve a piece. And here are the tools to help you do it!
Le point sur : Instagram Gros coup de coeur pour ce réseau social ! Instagram est une application et un service de partage de photos disponibles sur plateformes mobiles de type iOS, soit les iPod, iPad et iPhone.Cette application permet de partager ses propres photographies avec son réseau d’amis, de noter et de laisser des commentaires sur les clichés déposés par les autres utilisateurs.Elle a été désignée application de l’année 2011 par Apple1. (Wikipedia) Pour commencer, ce réseau (comprenant aujourd’hui 15M d’utilisateurs) est exclusivement animé via votre mobile. Il ne sert a rien de vouloir ajouter une photo depuis le site internet (www.instagr.am) car celui-ci vous permettra uniquement de modifier votre compte déjà créé. Ensuite, pourquoi Instagram ? Le principe est donc simple : envoyer un message à tous vos contacts via une image, accompagnée si vous le souhaitez d’une localisation et d’une petite description. Parlons maintenant du partage. Kevin Poudoulec - Fondateur
What Teachers Need to Know about BYOD ( Bring Your Own Device ) Trend in Education BYOD is the catch phrase in the 2012 educational technology spheres. This acronym stands for " Bring Your Own Device ", I am pretty sure you might have heard of this new trend because wherever you turn you hear people talking about embracing it. I actually have been reading a lot about it to the point that I deem it important that I share with you some of what I understood from BYOD . Bring Your Own Device or BYOT ( Bring Your Own Technology ) has started in the business world with corporations encouraging their employees to bring their own technology devices such as laptops to use in the work place. This was a strategy to cut down on technology costs and spendings because of the financial crisis the world has witnessed in the recent couple of years. The strategy worked quite well and without even knowing it, it moved to education and so many school districts are embracing it. Advantages of BYOD in education Todays students are digital natives. Myths about BYOD debunked
How I Made Learning Fun in My Classroom using Quizlet Live This is a guest blog post by Josh Kurzweil, a teacher who uses Quizlet Live with his class. I have been using Quizlet with my adult ESL classes for many years and have often been puzzled by how to motivate students to develop better study habits to learn more effectively. While some students immediately take to Quizlet’s individual study features and see big improvements in their learning, others seem to be less motivated to study with it. My dilemma has been how to integrate different kinds of review exercises into the classroom to help my students successfully learn material and become more motivated to study with Quizlet at home. Recently, Quizlet released a new feature called Quizlet Live, which has been instrumental in integrating quick bursts of vocabulary study into my classes. Understand your classroom dynamics I generally assign students between 30 and 75 vocabulary words a week and they get a quiz every Monday on about 10-12 of those words. Using the game to enliven your lessons
Digitaalinen muistinjatkeesi pilvessä: Evernote ja Diigo Suurin osa siitä tiedosta, minkä olen yliopisto-opinnoissani ahtanut päähäni, on jo kadonnut mielestäni. Kun tenttejä varten päntätty tieto oli oksennettu ulos, jäljelle jäi vähän. Tein toki muistiinpanot, mutta nyt paperit lojuvat vintillä mapeissa ja ovat käytännössä käyttökelvottomia – tarpeellisen tiedon palasen löytämiseen voisi mennä tunteja. Olisin enemmän kuin tyytyväinen, jos muistiinpanoni olisivat siinä digitaalisessa muodossa, jolla niitä nykyisin teen. Vaikka tieto ei olisi selvänä muistissasi, se voi olla hallinnassasi Kun tieto on pilvessä, minulla on aina tarvitessani nopea pääsy sen äärelle, kiitos mobiililaitteiden ja tehokkaiden hakutoimintojen. Vaikka kaikki pilvessä oleva tieto ei olisi selvänä muistissani, se on hallinnassani: tarvitessani pystyn etsimään sen nopeasti käsiini ja soveltamaan sitä kulloinkin käsillä olevassa tilanteessa. Suuret tietomassat hallintaan! Pystyn nykyisin hallitsemaan suurempia tietomassoja nopeammin ja tehokkaammin kuin aiemmin. Ps.
Itéractive Plusieurs enseignants mettent en place des pratiques pédagogiques innovantes dans le cadre d’activités d’apprentissage, d’enseignement et d’évaluation. Certaines de ces pratiques sont supportées par les technologies de l’information et de la communication (TIC), visant entre autres à outiller les étudiants et à les faire profiter des possibilités qu’offrent différentes applications web. Ces applications sont issues d’une évolution du web que l’on nomme désormais web social, aussi appelé web 2.0 ou web participatif. Elles sont principalement caractérisées par leurs fonctionnalités permettant des activités de communication, de participation, de collaboration et de partage. L’explosion du nombre d’outils répondant aux caractéristiques du web social ainsi que la popularité grandissante des médias sociaux ont encouragé certains enseignants à expérimenter des activités pédagogiques soutenues par ce type d’outils.
11 ways Quizlet.com can supercharge your teaching What is Quizlet? Quizlet.com is a free website which enables teachers and students to create digital flash cards. That’s not where the magic stops, however. Quizlet can automatically generate interactive games and even tests of the material you enter into it. How do I make a set of flash cards for my students? Luckily, Quizlet already has wonderful resources available to help first-time flash card creators. 11 ways Quizlet.com can supercharge your teaching Now that we’ve covered the basics, here are eleven specific ways in which Quizlet can help your students robustly acquire and remember class material. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Glossary: terms and definitions side by side — good for cramming lots of info in your pocket.Table: terms and definitions in a table — great for studying line-by-line with a covering piece of paper moving down the page.Small: 10 flashcards per page.Large: 5 flashcards per page.3×5 Index Card: double-sided index cards. 8. 9. 10. 11. References Karpicke, J. Martin, K.
The 20 best typography apps for iPhone and iPad From iOS to Android, Windows to web apps, the app world is brimming with ways to improve your typography skills and make working with fonts quicker and easier. So typographers, this one's for you – our pick of the essential typography apps that will make your font-oriented life a little easier (and in some cases a lot more fun). 01. AnyFont Platform: iOS (iPhone and iPad) AnyFont lets you install any TrueTypeFont (.ttf), TrueTypeCollection (.ttc) or OpenTypeFont (.otf) for system-wide usage on an iPhone or iPad, without the need for a jailbreak. 02. Platform: iOS / Windows Mask your photos custom captions, symbols and gorgeous fonts with the Font Candy app. 03. Platform: iOS (iPhone and iPad), Android PicLab makes it easy to add typography to your photos, offering lots of fonts and full control over size, positioning, opacity, rotation and colour. 04. Platform: Web With MyFontbook, you can organise and view installed fonts easily. 05. 06. 07. 08. 09. 10.