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Please check out the other videos in our Classroom Series: https://g.co/edu/classroomvideos Via EDTECH@UTRGV 
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Social media can pose risks to students' privacy, but these risks can be managed with informed, intentional use. There's also a huge upside: Teachers can use social media to share best practices, provide an authentic audience for students' work, cultivate and model digital citizenship among their students and build more connected school communities. Via EDTECH@UTRGV
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Using augmented reality apps like Quiver, Elements 4D, and Aurasma, you can engage students with learning materials that spring to life in three-dimensional overlays.
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Sometimes, you want to have quick access to a bunch of related notes. By creating a table of contents with Evernote, you can seamlessly tie notes together for quick access later.
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At the Blended Learning Infographic: 10 Trends you will find in-depth information on the 10 latests trends in blended learning.
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Increasingly, educators are turning to Open Educational Resources (OERs) as teaching tools. OERs are free publicly available educational resources that anyone can copy, use, adapt, and re-share. Numerous OERs exist for teachers, but ever wondered if you could create your own? Do-it-yourself OER is n
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Over the past decade or so, there’s been a fair amount of discussion relating to the impact that our omnipresent technology has on handwriting. Cursive handwriting is no longer a mainstay of elementary education as it once was, usurped by typing on laptops and tablets. Teachers with many subjects to teach and time in …
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Are you looking for tips on how to record audio narration? Check out this post and the weekly challenge to learn more about how to record audio narration.
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One of the biggest productivity tools has gotten a solid redesign. In case you didn’t notice, Google Drive got trimmed down and made into a lean, mean, time-saving machine. Plus there’s a bunch of Google+ integrations that will actually make your life a bit easier. For example, you can now easily share Google Drive files …
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Google Hangout is an excellent service that enables both one-on-one and group chats with up to ten people at a time.Google Hangouts are not all video based. You can hold a hangout using only the textual chat functionality or you can add voice.
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As the density of visual information increases, consider introducing your students to infographics as a means of more thoughtfully engaging with and creating written content.
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I talked about Google Forms in general, and gave an example of how you can create a differentiated Google Form using the "Go To Page Based on Answer" option. Many people were interested in this particular Form, so I decided to create a tutorial.
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This area of the Discover Jisc explores examples of seven different teaching techniques and shows how Jisc resources can be used to support each of them.
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In my first post in this blog series I outlined the changes taking place in schools due to the adoption of online forms of education. I promised I would pose at least 3 key questions around this context. In my follow-up post, I posed a key question for teachers to answer if they wished to become successful online educators. Below is the second question I promised:
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“What do you mean, I shouldn’t accommodate people’s learning styles? You can’t tell me people don’t learn differently! I see it in the classroom all the time!”
Maybe you’ve heard that from a classroom presenter (I have). Or maybe you’ve heard this from a client: “Be sure to include narration for the audio learners! And add lots of drag-and-drops for the kinesthetic people.” The rare and neglected accordion learnerLearning styles have been popularized by well-intentioned people, including possibly your professor of instructional design. However, the claim that we have to adapt our design to accommodate different learning styles has been repeatedly debunked by research.
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Searching by file type and searching by domains is a great way for students to refine their Google searches. Searching for and within a DOC, a PPT, or XLS file can lead students to resources that they might not otherwise have seen. Via Becky Roehrs
Becky Roehrs's curator insight,
February 17, 2015 11:54 PM
This is new to me and helpful since so many educators use Google docs/slides..
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Discover how some teachers have creatively applied the flipped learning model to increase quality class time in PE, woodworking, dance education, and elementary classrooms.
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Learning analytics expert explains trends about the new learning environment that blends traditional and virtual instruction.
Ali's curator insight,
November 12, 2014 11:42 PM
Statistician explores how faculty can excel in blended learning environments
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Google Presentation is one of the powerful presentation tools that students can use to easily create and share slideshows. Its simplicity and its practical performance features makes it an ideal tool for using in class. Besides the different guides and tutorials I published on Google Presentation, today I decided to sketch out 3 main things every student should be able to do.
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This is a short video showing how you can make an image capture with Snagit for Google Chrome, and then attach that capture as a new assignment in Google Cla...
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When we ‘research’ things now, we generally aren’t referring to spending time in a library – or even referring to spending time online accessing specific library or school research databases. The word ‘research’ largely refers to the act of typing words into your internet search bar and seeing what the Wise Old Web tells you. …
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Padlet is one of my favorite tools for hosting brainstorming sessions, collecting exit ticket information, and creating collaborative KWL charts. I often use it in my workshops to create a place for participants to share the things that they are creating. This week Padlet released a new tool called Padlet Mini. Padlet Mini is a Chrome extension that you can use to bookmark websites. When you click the Padlet Mini extension in your browser you will be presented with the option to save to one of your existing walls or create a new Padlet wall.
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Check out UTRGV Educational Technology graduate student, Carlos Garcia's video on how to capture creative work and improve imagery in Google Classroom.