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So you want to create a digital magazine for your students but still did not find the right web tools to do so. Well now you can . we have just finished reviewing some great web services that you can use with your students to create and publish highly customizable magazines and newspapers for your class. 
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Creating a school yearbook is a hindrance for teachers who are time poor and struggle to layout images and text in an aesthetic and meaningful manner. Picasa - that brilliant free photo editing tool from Google has a couple of great features that will make your class page look like it was done by a professional by using the collage tool.
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SlideShare is the world’s largest community for sharing presentations. Discover great content and connect with like-minded individuals.
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In today’s world, digital technology is now providing a growing selection of means for teachers and school administrators to reach parents anywhere and anytime.
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Educators have caught on to Pinterest in a big way. From kindergarten to college, teachers, professors and students are using Pinterest creatively to organize and share ideas from all around the Web and even in their own classrooms and campuses.
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Japanese communications company NTT docomo celebrates its 20th anniversary with a visual documentation of the progress made in mobile phone culture from 1987 to the present day.
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This page contains some useful resources and links to help teachers in their art teaching. You will basically be directed to websites where you can find art materials, videos, printables, worksheets, activities, games, and many other teaching ideas that are art informed.
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What is a techno-tale? A techno-tale is a digitally told story. There are many ways to create digital stories. One option is to create an illustrated book-style movie with students telling the story in their own recorded voices. 1. Decide if you will create a collaborative classroom story (each student contributing one page or part to the book) or an individual student story (each student illustrates and records the entire book). 2. Have students illustrate each part of the story. 3. Take pictures or scan in the illustrations. 4. Upload theses images to your computer. Organize them in one folder for convenient access.
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Today, thanks to web conferencing tools, students don't even need to be in the same country in order to tutor each other. Here are some good tools that students can use to host peer tutoring sessions online.
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As the movement against excessive homework continues to grow, some parents say they’re drawing a line in the sand between home and school. Schools, in turn, are starting to rethink the role of homework and how it should be assigned.
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Creating e-magazines and newspaper is no longer a job of only high tech guys but anyone with the rudimentary knowledge of internet surfing can now set up and run his/her own e-magazine in a matter of minutes. You want a proof ? check out these tools we have previously posted for teachers and that let them create newspapers for their students.
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Here are some online resources where teachers can have access to a plethora of Art lesson plans. I have handpicked these websites in such a way to cover almost all the grades. Just browse through the links and I am pretty sure you will find something for your students.
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Before we solve a problem it’s important to make sure we’re working on the right problem. We need to do the same when improving education. Popular efforts to improve education are focusing on the wrong problem. Millions of dollars and hours of innovation are being spent on improving how we deliver content in an era when content matters less and how we interact with it matters more.
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Teachers wear many hats: counselor, coach, referee, probation officer. If you’re a young educator and want to have some conflict resolution tricks up your sleeve before you’re thrown into the ring, or you’re an experienced educator looking for some new ideas, we’ve lined up 15 conflict resolution tips to help you win the fight.
Nigerian Institute of Chartered Arbitrators's curator insight,
March 30, 2017 12:21 PM
15 Conflict Resolution Tips For Educators
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15 Conflict Resolution Tips For Educators
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Our book-selling friends at Scholastic have put together a helpful infographic that gives teachers stats and tips on using social media. The piece explores the basics of Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Pinterest.
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Shakespeare In Bits is a multimedia approach to tackling the works of Shakespeare aimed at middle and high school teachers and students, providing a more engaging and interactive experience...
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In September Google added 10,000 indoor maps to Google Maps for Android. This week Google added those same indoor maps to the Google Maps that you use on your desktop.
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Twitter is definitely a great conversational tool but until you start following others,it is just a blank boring page. Educational Technology and Mobile Learning has shared several tips on how to find other like-minded tweeters and how to build your own community.
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This English grammar video by Jane Hirchfield explains metaphors with quirky animation and a nice clear voiceover. It is also accompanied by TedEd lesson aids ‘Think’ and ‘Dig Deeper’ which are excellent supplements to the learning. We think that it would be a great addition to any English grammar teachers video arsenal! View full lesson on ed.ted.com http://ed.ted.com/lessons/jane-hirshfield-the-art-of-the-metaphor How do metaphors help us better understand the world? And, w...
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If a picture is worth a thousand words, then an animated gif must be priceless! Below you will find a collection of simple and elegant animations that explain how various things work. From geometry to mechanics and everything in between, these animations help educate and explain how the world around us functions.
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The Internet has made the world smaller. Teachers can now collaborate with classrooms around the world to expose different culture to students.
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I recently wrote about Thinking About Learning Differently- Talking to Strangers, where I mentioned our third graders journey of skyping around the world to learn about different communities. The goal is not to only collect cold data, but to: -make connections between the different locations and communities
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January 25, 2014 5:14 PM
Glad to see my '90's Kidlink experiences being expanded using Skype etc. We would have loved to be able to "see" each other back then! |
