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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

30+ Websites to Download Free Photos If you are a blogger looking for free photos to use in your blog posts or a designer looking for free photography to use in your designs, then check out the websites below and you will find the best free stock photos. All of the photos that you will find on the websites below are free to use for commercial purposes, without asking permission or they need attribution so make sure you check before you use a photo. If you enjoyed this post please subscribe. Unsplash Unsplash offers you 10 high-resolution stock photos every 10 days. All the photos are licensed under Creative Commons Zero which means you can copy, modify, distribute and use the photos, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Little Visuals Little Visuals posts 7 high-resolution images every 7 days. Death to the Stock Photo You can subscribe to get free photos every month for commercial use that you can use in your blog posts, social accounts and mockups. Picjumbo Gratisography Tinyography SplitShire New Old Stock

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.

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

We Need You to Vote on Whether these Explorers are Heroes or Villains! | Barrow Media Center Fourth grade has been hard at work. They have been researching multiple explorers in their social studies standards and considering whether those explorers are heroes or villains. It all started with a lesson in the library using a video about Christopher Columbus, Encounter by Jane Yolen, and Tagxedo. After that, students selected an explorer and began their research. Now, this is where you come in! If you choose to do this with a class, we would love to hear about it! Soon after our Thanksgiving break, we will take a look at the results and most likely connect with our friends at Flipgrid to talk about coding and our project’s reach. We hope that our project makes you think about the many perspectives in our world’s history and that you enjoy hearing our voices. Click here to access our Explorer Google Site! Like this: Like Loading...

GoAnimate A web app that lets you generate fully animated cartoons where you can make animated characters act out whatever you’d like (from Techcrunch.com) Resources links and/or class examples This is a short and sweet example of an animation helping to explain Newton’s Laws. Strengths Free No limit on how many videos one can produce. Weaknesses Characters can fight, kiss, flirt, drink beer and other cocktails Profanity is not allowed but one can get away with it by using symbols for letters (i.e., @ss) Promotes consumerism by using well-known characters Users are enticed to buy GoBucks which you use to gain access to the “premium features” of GoAnimate Users cannot download GoAnimate animations to a desktop or disk No downloadable version available, purely an online tool. Opportunities Users can upload and share their videos via GoAnimate or Facebook, digg, StumbleUpon, myspace, reddit, and del.icio.us. Threats Ideas for the Classroom

These 6 questions determine if you're technology rich, innovation poor Think your school is innovative with tech? Answer these 6 questions and prepare to reassess At the start of a webinar I recently conducted for school leaders, I asked attendees if they felt they were leading an innovative school as a result of the implementation of technology. More than 90 percent responded that they were. At the end of the webinar, when polled again, only one leader claimed to be leading an innovative school. The complete reversal was due to a presentation on the six questions that you will read about in this article—a list of questions that were developed to help clarify for educators the unique added value of a digital learning environment, and whether their assignments were making the best use of this environment. Want to test your own level of innovation? (Beyond SAMR: Special note to those of you applying SAMR. (Next page: the 6 questions and how to shape your lessons for innovation)

Free Webinars from Microsoft Help Educators Get up to Speed New to Windows 8.1? Looking for great ideas for Windows-using classrooms and schools? If so, Microsoft has some helpful webinars for you! For starters, you can join Microsoft, educators and industry experts for a monthly webinar series designed to help educators and administrators support students to meet college and career goals. These free educasts are offered by the Microsoft IT Academy and the the Microsoft Educator Network. How You can Transform Your Classroom with Technology [now available on demand] Flip This Classroom! Check out the Microsoft EduCast landing page for a complete schedule and registration info. If you’re looking for a broader array of Microsoft webinars – ranging from What’s New in Windows 8.1 and What it Means for Education to Exploring Microsoft Cloud Services – visit the Microsoft Events landing page and search using the pull-down menus and tabs.