Pinterest is a great social networking site, but it is definitely still young and lacking in some features.
...If you’d like the Pinterest experience but with more features, you can either use an entirely different Pinterest alternative, or you can try using one of these Pinterest-based tools.
Via Jeff Domansky, ABroaderView, Jim Lerman 
For every correct answer you choose, 10 grains of rice are raised to help end world hunger through the United Nations World Food Programme.
The site slogan is "Not your average online trivia game", which is true because this is both an online learning tool and a powerful tool to raise meals for the world's hungry.
It's free to use, and players can choose from a range of subjects: English vocab or grammar, other languages such as Spanish, Italian, German and French, Human Antomy, Geography subjects, Math, Famous Paintings, and much more.
If you get an answer wrong, it gets repeated later to help you learn. You can login and track your totals by rice, join and create groups, and share all of this learning on your social media profiles.
For every correct answer, 10 grains are raised and paid for by a sponsored advert that displays below the answer. It's a simple but highly effective tool. With over 1.3 million registered players, the site has raised enough to feed over 5million people... so far.
The more people who play Freerice, the more we can achieve. So it would be great if you could share this as an effective edu-tool!
And it doesn't cost the player a cent, which means the average person who may not be able to donate, can take an active role in being part of the solution.
Food for thought, and thought for food... 
Suggested by Abby Ravera
The Flat Classroom® Project is a global collaborative project that joins together middle and high school students (typically grade 9-12, 14-18 years old).Co-founded in 2006 by Vicki Davis (Westwood Schools, USA) and Julie Lindsay (now in Beijing, China) in 2006, this project uses Web 2.0 tools to support communication and interaction as well as collaboration and creation between students and teachers from classrooms around the world. One of the main goals of the project is to 'flatten' or lower the classroom walls so that instead of each class working isolated and alone, 2 or more classes are joined virtually to become one large classroom. Via Andrea Zeitz 
Exude mic post on why schools aren't jumping in with social media.
C4LPT is a free resource site on the use of new technologies for learning and performance. 
ClassroomWindow™: Providing an unprecedented view into what works - and for which kids - in U.S. classrooms. 
Google search has just gotten a lot smarter. You can use their new Knowledge Graph to search for things in much more intuitive ways. Rather than using strings, it searchs for things. It does this by analysing previous searches, searches others have made, and by using the collective intelligence of the web.
If you’ve been dying to find a decent — let me just say it, great — WordPress blogging app for the tablet then Blogsy might just be what you were looking for... Via Sam Gliksman 
By Kevin Makice
"Evansville (Indiana) science teacher Brian Bennett describes the Flipped Classroom as an ideology, not a methodology:
'Video itself will not help kids achieve more in your class. The flipped classroom is about making connections with learners and differentiating your instruction. If videos are a part of that multi-faceted plan, great. If they are not, still great.'
"Sams seems to concur: “Anyone who blindly adopts ‘The Flipped Classroom’ (or inquiry, or lecturing, or unschooling, or whatever) model and never modifies it to meet the needs of his or her students will blindly lead his or her students into educational ruin.”
Entering Phase Three
Moving a lecture online changes where that information is consumed, not necessarily the degree of student engagement or its effectiveness. Curricula provider Mathalicious critiqued Khan Academy as “one of the most dangerous phenomena in education today.” That argument is not directed at the site itself, but centers around the negative impact Khan may have on innovation. The Khan style of teaching is the same step-by-step process that students have seen for generations:
'Khan Academy is great for what it is — a supplemental resource; homework help — but we’ve turned it into something it’s not. Indeed, something it was never intended to be.'
"For Fred Singer, CEO of Echo360, the Flipped Classroom movement represents an important progression toward “Phase Three” of education reform: blended learning. Meaning, the digital form moves beyond simply augmenting face-to-face teaching into a peer role where online and offline interaction directly supports learning goals. State legislators are coming closer to endorsing blended learning as a required experience." Via Jim Lerman |
Grabbit is an app in multiple languages great for teaching and playing. Grab the frog's tongue and swipe it to collect bugs. Becomes more challenging as you go. Great app with comments in multiple languages.
Pretty much anything has to be better than PowerPoint!
Via Timo Ilomäki 
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning: Top 36 Social Networks for Educators | @scoopit http://t.co/s4TfvW4u #edtech #mlearning...
Via David W. Deeds, JoelleYalin 
great, educational activities for middle school and high school science students. The CSI Web Adventures are also useful for teaching a research and investigation process that can be useful in almost any content area in which students complete research assignments. The CSI Web Adventures teach students to pay attention to details and examine all of the available evidence before reaching a conclusion. Via Patty Ball 
It's easy and doesn't cost the earth to give your students a worldwide platform to showcase their work.
By Richard Byrne
"This is another post that was prompted by a reader's email. The email was looking for a list of recommended note-taking tools. I've reviewed a lot of note-taking tools over the last five years, but I have never made a list. So here's my list of seven great note-taking tools for students and teachers." Via Jim Lerman 
Free art lessons on drawing, painting and digital art. Over 100 video tutorials! Learn how to draw and paint online.
Via BChomeschoolmom, michel verstrepen 
Use engaging videos on TED-Ed to create customized lessons. You can use, tweak, or completely redo any lesson featured on TED-Ed, or create lessons from scratch based on any video from YouTube. 
Richard Byrne's how to use Evernote post. 
"Pastiche™ by Xyleme allows you to port existing course materials into interactive and engaging iPad mobile learning application content. Source content is open XML and its output HTML5. Now it also delivers to the Kindle Fire. " Now the issue is buying into a whole system just to deliver mLearning through an outside source. Via DBliton, JoelleYalin 
Last week an educator asked the question, “What digital learning technology can my school district invest in that will not become obsolete?” The answer… teacher training technology! More ...
Via Felix Jacomino, Mary Dernalowicz |
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