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Teachers all over America are faced with this challenge of keeping students engaged in the classroom when their world outside of school is one of constant engagement and stimulation.
November 24, 2014
I have just come across this excellent Google Drive tip and want to bring it to your attention as well. The tip is about adding subtitles to videos in Google Drive.This time it is...
VideoTo those who are only marginally familiar with bitcoin, the world’s leading digital cryptocurrency, the idea of adapting the tech into a type of globally accessible passport may seem odd.
Unknown devices show up in the Windows Device Manager when Windows can’t identify a piece of hardware and provide a driver for it. An unknown device isn’t just unknown — it’s not functioning until you install the right driver.
Voxer, an iOS and Andriod app, has recently become the latest and greatest way to quickly communicate with others via voice, text, and pictures.
Privacy is a hot-button issue in the tech world. How will it fare in the age of pervasive computing a world of billions of connected devices, systems, and services exchanging personal data? Continue reading...
downes.ca Stephen's Web, the home page of Stephen Downes, with news and information on e-learning, new media, instructional technology, educational design, and related subjects posted by friends: (2) @cafepedagogique: "@Hubert_edu: 10 useful reports...
June 21, 2014
Sometimes people send you files and you need to be able to open them, make some edits, and send them back. If they don’t use Docs, Sheets and Slides it can be a challenge. With the...
July12, 2014
As a follow-up to "teachers' guide to the use of Padlet in class" in which I featured a variety of tips and ideas on how teachers can create a classroom padlet and how to use it with...
July 13, 2014
I must admit that not until recently that I have started spending much more time on Google Plus. I even like it better than Twitter and most of the ideas for the posts I share with you...
Do you have a file on your computer that you want to obliterate? Well, it's going to take a lot more than dragging and dropping it into the little trash can at the corner of your desktop.
Linux isn’t a complete operating system — it’s just a kernel. Linux distributions take the Linux kernel and combine it with other free software to create complete packages. There are many different Linux distributions out there.
10 Characteristics Of A Highly Effective Learning Environment by Terry Heick Ed note: This is an updated version of a related post published last year. Wherever we are, we’d all like to think our classrooms are...
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November, 2014
Photos for Class is a very good web tool that you and your students can use to search for and download Creative Common licensed images. The search engine of Photos for Class uses...
Editor's Choice: The Best Educational Apps For iPad In 2014
Matching, out-of-date sweatsuits. The ability to recite lines from the Iliad in response to your peers’ discussion of a television show. Parroting your parents’ values.
There are a lot of online bibliography tools out there that can help students learn to build bibliographies and ensure that their citations are correct, (6 Online Tools to Help Students Build Bibliographies http://t.co/Ae1kgKDK0B)...
July 28, 2014
A few days ago I came across a post published by Teachthought on the 9 roles for teachers that lead. This post was based on a book that has recently been published under the title "The...
TEST 10 Emaciated Terms That Keep Education In A Box by Thom Markham Albert Einstein nailed it–“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” That truth will decide whether we develop a 21st-century friendly...
How To Cite Social Media In Scholarly Writing
If you’ve been to this site more than once. you’ll know that (a) social media is everywhere and (b) it can be extraordinarily useful for teachers.
I stumbled across this neat site via a mention on Twitter recently, and I thought it was definitely worth a share.
Whether your device was stolen or simply lost, you can remotely track, lock, and wipe it. Don’t wait until you’ve lost your hardware to think about this — these features need to be enabled ahead of time.
Linux isn’t a complete operating system — it’s just a kernel. Linux distributions take the Linux kernel and combine it with other free software to create complete packages. There are many different Linux distributions out there.
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