We’re just a few weeks removed from a major Apple announcement regarding the release of a new eTextbooks initiative. 
History Animated provides Flash animations of key battles of World War 2, the Civil War, and the Revolutionary War... One too many click awaz but great resource for history buffs of the visual ilk. 
Virtually every industry has made efforts to go green, but higher education has made some major changes to help reduce its carbon footprint and present a... 
Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) released a list of the top 50 Best Student Cities in the World for 2012 and the results may be welcome by those who enjoy bashing education in America. Via Gust MEES 
Social media change the way we communicate. Write a blog for a year or more and your writing will change. Use Twitter for some time and get a sense of being connected to many people and understanding them on a different level. Patterns emerge over time. Even the ubiquitous Facebook changes how we react to being apart from friends. Social media change the way we think. Search/browse most accurate word frequency lists of English. 
Welcome to my new blog which reflects my thoughts whilst I am writing my Guernsey Evacuees book.
Grammar Girl http://grammar.quick
Learning 2.0 is Dumb: Use ‘Connected Learning’ Instead - brave new org | brave new org via @pgsimoes
Going forward, and as best I can, I’ll use the term ‘Connected Learning’ to describe a knowledge ecosystem made up of formal, informal and social learning... 
—John Taylor Gatto, The Underground History of American Education. I didn't think that this piece got into the real why behind the increase in the number of parents who are homeschooling their children in the U.S.
If you're teaching addition, your students can play carrot sticks free. There is a fee for advanced games. Targeted to grades 1-5, this is a multiplayer math game. tags: teaching lessonplans elemchat math_teacher ...
See how these administrators are using social media to connect with peers--and improve how they run their schools. Via Miss Noor 
She was complaining that she had several writing projects with impending due dates and couldn't spend as much time on teaching as she would like and I complained that my teaching preparation was leaving little time for ... |
The all-new iTunes U gives educators an easy way to design and distribute complete courses featuring audio, video, books, and other content. 
History Animated provides Flash animations of key battles of World War 2, the Civil War, and the Revolutionary War... It does take quite a few click to get there but once you do, you find spectacular animations of some great (as in big not good) battles. Via Raul Kohl 
A practical guide for teaching-people (teachers, professors, educators, instructors...) on HowTo teach (coach) learners on a... Via Gust MEES A Prezi Guide to my "Taxonomy of Reflection: Critical Thinking For Students, Teachers, and Principals" http://bit.ly/8cLsBX... 
We love this document that Mark Anderson has produced for a training day at his school in North Somerset, UK. It succinctly provides the name of Web2.0 tools and gives you examples of how to use them. From our experience teachers did need quick, easy and fast ways to connect to new technology ideas. We think Mark achieves this very well! 
DocumentaryHeaven is a site filled with thousands of free online documentaries just waiting to be seen. So come on in! 
Reform Education, Change the World http://t.co/NHZFqsyE... 
Distance learning has come far since the days of late-night TV lectures. 
A former student, pondering a teaching career, asks me a few questions, and I offer short answers. What do you think is the purpose of education? Not to teach but to enable learning. That will sometimes entail teaching, but ...
The Obama Administration's push for digital textbooks, while useful, represents only initial steps on the proverbial thousand mile journey.
This post is about innovation in education. Background: last August we posted a brief note on Stanford's free Introduction to Artificial Intelligence Course offering. That announcement was very exciting – but it wasn't practical to ...
Trascribe is a free online tool to help you with transcription of interviews or other audio files easily. Via Ana Cristina Pratas, k3hamilton |
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