Educational Technology - "Techmecula"

YoYo Games offers a free game development tool called Game Maker 8. Game Maker 8 enables users to develop simple video games using a drag and drop editor. Game Maker 8 gives users the ability to customize backgrounds and actions throughout their games.

From iPads in classrooms to mobile apps for educators, new technologies are changing how teachers teach and educational institutions are run. Whether they flip the classroom model, blend the learning experience or just make educators’ lives easier, lots of innovators are talking about technology and how it is transforming education as we know it.

To give you an idea of what’s coming, we’ve turned the spotlight on five technologies that are driving the ed tech revolution.

What is screencasting? Why would you want to record your computer screen, anyway? Well, I’m glad you asked! Recording what is happening on your screen can be a pretty useful tool for teachers who want to create video tutorials or presentations for their classrooms, and many teachers are using screencasting tools in their flipped classroom models.

After a big investment from some venture capital firms and ten months of testing and revising features eduClipper is better than ever. In fact, I think it's what teachers wish Pinterest could be.

Aside from having a somewhat tidier desk, going paperless has been enormously beneficial. I can now access student information anywhere and at any time.

You can use custom timelines in book reports, projects, and just about every other piece of coursework in K-12. These tools will help.

Zondle enables teachers and students to create games to support exactly their learning needs: phonics games, science games, language games and lots more.

Boy Scouts do it. Video games do it. Sometimes grades aren't enough. What's a teacher to do? Check out this handy guide to using badges in your classroom!

Vocabla is a service for learning English, Spanish, and Polish vocabulary. The service can be used online or with the free iPhone and Android apps. The concept behind Vocabla is similar to a lot of other language learning applications. In Vocabla you can create lists of words and phrases that you want to learn.

The truth is, the single best educational tool that we all have is simple to deploy and worth the very small amount of effort needed.

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With the advent of technology and the uptake of web2.0 tools, portfolios migrated to the cloud making it dead easy for teachers and students to easily create and save their portfolios online. The good thing about digital portfolios is that they can be accessed anytime, anywhere and from any device with internet connection.