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This year, I admitted a hard truth to myself. I wasn't having my students write enough. In an attempt to follow Kelly Gallagher’s advice that students should write more than we can assess, I decided
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I often begin my workshop on personal learning networks (PLN) for educators by asking these questions: Who is in your learning network? Who do you learn from on a regular basis? Who do you turn to for your own professional development?
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Create flowcharts and more with SmartDraw's flowcharting software.
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A list of online resources used to compliment Google Docs workshop given by MaryFran Lynch.
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WeVideo lets you tell your story with video. Our online video editing platform is affordable, simple to use, and uniquely collaborative. Learn more today.
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A List of The Best Free Digital Storytelling Tools for Teachers. Here some of the pluses of digital storytelling in education :
- It develops creativity and critical thinking Students who are shy or afraid to talk in class get a chance to speak out their minds - It empowers students voice to deliver rich, deep message that is capable of conveying a powerful message. - It helps students explore the meaning of their own experience, give value to it, and communicate that experience with others. - It promotes the notions of life long learning and independent learning - It develops students communicative skills It is a reflective process that helps students reflect upon their learning and find deep connections with the subject matter of a course or with an out-of-class experience. - It fosters students sense of individuality It also gives students an opportunity to experiment with self-representation and establish their identityStudents creating digital stories develop proficiency with multimedia applications
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23 Free Learning Tools For Monological, Dialogical and Polyphonic Forms of Teaching - A Follow Up To The Article: A Pedagogical Framework for Digital Tools
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Teaching ideas and themes, lesson plans, discussion guides, extension activities, and other teaching resources for teachers of K-12 grades.
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MathCast is an equation editor, an application that allows you to input mathematical equations. These equations can be used in written documents and webpages. The equations can be rendered graphically to the screen, to picture files, or to MathML - today's leading standard language for describing mathematics.
MathCast is a free and open source application. Feel free to use it to help your studies, to add mathematics to your website, etc.
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The buzz around Instagram might have you thinking about jumping ship. Instead, why not consider a few ways to use the app in your classroom?
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Wes Freyer's awesome interactive resource for product-based learning. ============================================= Gust MEES Great examples how one can use 21st Century tools in the classroom while every part is well described with "Definition", *Workflow", *Tools", "Workshop Description"... This is how it should be, take it as a very good practice example! ============================================= Read more, a MUST: http://maps.playingwithmedia.com/
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Fred Sitkins takes a closer look at how teachers and other educators are integrating technology into the common core.
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Sketch Star is a fantastic place where you can create animations and drawings, see them online and and share them with a community of fellow artists!
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UtellStory is a new service for creating and sharing audio slideshows. To create and share your story through UtellStory you can upload pictures, add text captions, add audio narration to each slide, and upload a soundtrack to support your entire story. Completed projects can be embedded into your blog, emailed to your friends, or shared through your favorite social networking sites.
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The Raspberry Pi foundation has signalled that a camera module for the device could be available in a matter of weeks.
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Interactive learning Sites for the Classroom
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Google Forms just got a nice little refresh and now allows you to build questionnaires and collect the data in a Google Drive spreadsheet a bit easier.
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Pinterest is a promising visual bookmarking platform. It is gaining in popularity more and more and of course teachers and educators are part of this success for there are now a burgeoning number of educational boards on Pinterest where you can get free access to tons of web tools and teaching tips.There are also some great educational Pinners that are committed to sharing useful resources with their fellow teachers. In this regard, Educational Technology and Mobile Learning has its own Pinterest Board where we have been pinning everything we publish here or we find in other blogs and websites, make sure to follow us to stay updated about our future pinnings.
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Teaching resources and classroom activities: lesson plans, worksheets, classroom games and video clips for all curriculum school subjects.
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Kimai - the free and easy Time-Tracking software application.
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By Med Kharbach "I want to share with you some of the articles I have curated and read about creativity, a topic of much relevance to us in education. I have collected these articles probably over a period of 6 or 7 months but they are some of the best reads you can find online and I enjoyed reading every single line of them. You can bookmark them too and read them when you have time. Enjoy."
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