20 Sites to Find Design Inspiration
Designers often rely on inspiration from other designers to feed our creativity. Here are 21 websites to find great inspiration. Blogs Here are some other blogs which provide quality inspiration. If you think I should add any, let me know. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. designfeedr 6. 7. Galleries Here are some awesome galleries. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. illyPads 7. 8. 9. Networks Although it may not be as obvious, networks are a great source of inspiration. 1. 2. 3. 4. design: related 5. deviantART Update Here are some that have been suggested. Pattern Tap Tagged as: blogs, design, Inspiration
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Over 100 ideas for using Twitter in the Classroom
This handful of resources provide about 100 different ideas for, and examples of, using Twitter in the classroom. It’s been almost 8 months since I published the post, “6 Examples of Using Twitter in the Classroom”, about uses of the popular micro-blogging tool in the instructional setting. This post generated a lot of traffic, and continues to attract hundreds of viewers every week. Since that brief posting, I’ve come across a lot of articles containing examples and suggestions for using Twitter in instructional applications. I’ve combed through many of these and tried to boil down the redundancies to create a rich set of idea-laden resources. I also want to mention these 100 Serious Twitter Tips for Academics, which are worth reviewing to learn more and plan your approach to using Twitter in (and out of) the classroom. Here are the original “6 Examples” from last June’s post: About Kelly Walsh Print This Post
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Introduction Welcome to Building Better Courses tutorials. In this series of tutorials what I'm going to do is walk you through the process of building an elearning course. We'll start with an existing course that for many people is "good enough" and make it something better. What do we mean by better? Get it online. We like to call this the "Rapid E-Learning Story." How Do I Create My First Course? While that's a very broad overview of how the tutorials are organized, here's a little more detail on some of the topics that are covered: Designing custom themes for your course Using PowerPoint as a graphic design tool to create your visual and navigational elements Working with external audio editors for recording and editing audio Branching techniques for video and scenarios Building creative and interactive quizzes Elearning production, workflow and development best practices And a whole lot more! Getting the Most Out of the Tutorials Who is this course for? 99% of people found this useful
42 New Digital Media Resources You May Have Missed
No doubt your summer celebrations this weekend will leave you little time to catch up on reading. To help you out, we've compiled a handy roundup of this week's most helpful, informative and inspiring stories. We've celebrated iPhone's birthday, we've pondered celebrity impact on social good, and we've laughed over geeky gadgets. This week Mashable overflowed with engaging content. Find out what you missed! Editors' Picks HOW TO: Manage Your Online Reputation Using SEOWhile you might not be able to remove damaging content from the Internet, there's a good chance you can minimize its impact using simple SEO techniques.Meet the People Who Scored Twitter's Shortest UsernamesHere's a look at the users who snagged premium social real estate with the shortest Twitter usernames on Earth. Social Media
Education World ® : Curriculum: Substitute Survival: Tools You Can Use
Are you a substitute -- or potential substitute -- wondering whether you'll survive the challenges that lie ahead? Are you an administrator or a classroom teacher wondering how to help a substitute get through the day? If so, the Education World Online Substitute Survival Kit is for you! Included: Songs, games, lesson activities, and templates to help a sub survive even the most difficult experience! You've signed up to be a substitute teacher, and now you're wondering whether it was really such a good idea? The kind of substituting experience you have is pretty much up to you, say the subs we talked to. "The first ten minutes set the tone for the whole day," Peg Arseneaux, a former classroom teacher and long-time sub from Glastonbury, Connecticut, told Education World. "I usually tell students that I have only two rules," Arseneaux added. Over the years, Arseneaux has developed some rules for subs that can help your day go smoothly too: Sing!
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Responses of learners and teachers to active learning approaches in previous Teaching and Learning Programme resources provide overwhelming evidence of their success in motivating and engaging learners and supporting their learning. The 10 approaches that form this framework have shown to be particularly valuable stepping stones to improving professional practice. Each approach is supported by evidence-based research. The 10 approaches do not claim to provide an exhaustive list of strategies for teaching and learning. You will also notice that there is overlap and complementarity between them. Find out more about the approaches and try them out as part of your continuing professional development (CPD). The resources and ideas in the Effective teaching and learning section have been developed in discussion with the Centres for Excellence in Teacher Training (CETTs). Next
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Exploring the World of Free Teaching Productivity Resources on the Web | Emerging Internet Technologies for Education
There are so many free productivity tools available on the Internet for today’s educators. I’m creating a resource page that list many of the most useful ones, and I’d love to have your input! By “productivity” tools and resources, I am referring to tools that can help teachers get their jobs done more efficiently or effectively, at no cost (beyond the effort required to use the resources, of course). READERS: CLICK HERE (or the tab in top menu) TO ACCESS THE “Free Productivity Resources For Educators” PAGE that this post resulted in It would be nice to have a page here on EmergingEdTech where I would collect and organize links to good quality sites like this as I come across them, a page that educators could reference any time that they are looking for these types of resources. I did a lot of searching around the ‘net for this sort of thing over the long holiday weekend, and developed a list of categories, with some example sites for each category. Activity & Materials Creators Clipart
