CREATING, SHARING AND CELEBRATING THE WORLD’S VISUAL LANGUAGE The Noun Project is a platform empowering the community to build a global visual language that everyone can understand.
Visual communication is incredibly powerful. Symbols have the ability to transcend cultural and language barriers and deliver concise information effortlessly and instantaneously. For the first time, this image-based system of communication is being combined with technology to create a social language that unites the world.
Whether you’re an art teacher, interested in design, or just want to figure out how beautiful design is made, there’s a host of blogs you should know about.
Blogger Richard Byrne's short webinar to Florida State University. The webinar was a mix of theory with some specific tool demos. The slides can be found here.
Here is a section of web tools in review, our aim behind such lists is to provide busy teachers and educators with a platform from which they can discover and keep updated with the recent releases in the world of educational technology.
Here’s a question you may not hear at all in 2017: “Did you get my fax?”
LinkedIn surveyed more than 7,000 global professionals about which tools and trends will disappear from offices in the next five years and which will become even more common. Nearly three quarters of those surveyed said they expected fax machines to disappear, making it the second most likely office technology to go extinct behind tape recorders.
Visible Thinking is a flexible and systematic research-based approach to integrating the development of students' thinking with content learning across subject matters. An extensive and adaptable collection of practices, Visible Thinking has a double goal: on the one hand, to cultivate students' thinking skills and dispositions, and, on the other, to deepen content learning. By thinking dispositions, we mean curiosity, concern for truth and understanding, a creative mindset, not just being skilled but also alert to thinking and learning opportunities and eager to take them
Text 2 Mind Map offers a great way to turn your typed outlines into mind maps. To create a mind map on Text 2 Mind Map type out an outline in the text box. After typing your outline click "draw mind map" to have your mind map created for you.
How amazing would it be to start the first day of school receiving random acts of kindness from your fellow students? Last year, a hundred students at Kansas State huddled early in the morning to see just how they could pool their time, money and creativity to surprise (and perhaps shock!) their fellow students with unexpected generosity. From a welcome applause to paying for meals to wowing a driver with parallel park assistance, this is a video that'll make you smile.
Choose from three sets of games to learn about place value, addition and subtraction. Activities can be customised to ones, tens and hundreds. Each mode has audio help and written instructions describing how to play.
I can remember building my first classroom website. It had every detail about our class. Our schedule. Classroom jobs. My phone contact information. A link to my email. Our school. Then? I let it sit. Until one day...
The Digital Learning Now! Smart Series is a collection of interactive papers that gives guidance to policy makers and educational leaders about the adoption of Common Core Standards, and the shift to personal digital learning. The reports have some interesting case studies on schools that have implemented strategies for digital learning, and give guidance on how to do so for educators and policy makers.
When Twyla Tharp said, “Art is the only way to run away without leaving home,” she probably wasn’t referring to artCircles, the free iPad app from Art.com — yeah, that’s right the people who sold you posters for your dorm room just made an iPad app, and it’s impressive.
Art.sy is a new site that has indexed thousands of works of art that you can view online. Art.sy allows you to browse for artworks according to medium, style, subject matter, movement, or region in which the art is produced. Once you've found an artwork that you like, Art.sy helps you find more by suggesting related works.
Neuroscience offers an exciting glimpse into how the human brain develops and changes over time. And while theories on the brain and its development abound, brain research can help to clear up a handful of myths about how students learn and develop.
Science Netlinks offers dozens of lesson plans and online learning activities. The lessons and activities are cover a wide variety of science topics. All of the lesson plans are sorted by grade level, but you can also sort the lesson plans by science benchmark standards. A series of icons also indicates if each lesson plan has a printable worksheet, e-worksheet, or is an interactive experience.
In this powerful video by Edutopia, we learn how a public school in Annapolis, Maryland has found a way to integrate the arts into every aspect of school life. Using the lens of art to ask critical thinking questions, students from all backgrounds have blossomed as a result.
Among the many challenges teachers face, often the most difficult is how to engage students who seem unreachable, who resist learning activities, or who disrupt them for others. This is also one of the challenges that skilled teachers have some control over. In my nine years of teaching high school, I've found that one of the best approaches to engaging challenging students is to develop their intrinsic motivation.
"What's a digital story? The folks at the Digital Storytelling initiative at The Ohio State University define it thusly: "a short (3-5 minute) movie which uses images, voice, and music to tell a story."
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