A Wonderful Free Tool for Creating Interactive eBooks for Your Class
August 2, 2015Kindle Textbook Creator is a free software application that allows you to easily convert your educational content saved in PDF format into Kindle books.These include textbooks, course notes, study guides and many more. Using Kindle Textbook Creator, you will be able to enhance the readability of your content with features such as audio, video, and image pop-ups. Once your eBook is ready, you can publish it through Kindle direct publishing and make it available for readers on different devices including fire tablets, iPad, Android tables and Mac and PC computers. Kindle Textbook Creator also includes a preview mode that shows authors which interactive features are supported on different devices.
Basic PDF Tips Every Teacher Using Mac Should Know about
July 29, 2015 In an earlier post entitled ‘10 Mac Tips Every Teacher Should Know about’ we fleetingly touched on a quick hack on how to annotate your PDFs. We subsequently received few questions from teachers inquiring about PDF tips for Mac users so we decided to feature some of the basic yet overlooked things you can do with your PDFs on Mac. For any of these tips to work, make sure you open your PDF then click on ‘View’ in Mac’s menu bar and select ’Show markup toolbar’. 1 Add signature to PDFs You can easily sign PDFs using the sign feature in the mark-up toolbar. 2- Add notes and sketches to PDFs To add a note to a PDF document, click on the note icon as shown in the screenshot below and start typing in the displayed text box. The same with sketches, click on the pen icon to start sketching . 3- Add text to PDFs Similar to the notes feature mentioned above, you can add your own text to a PDF document by simply clicking on text icon.
eQuizShow - Free Online Quiz Show Templates
Europe Code Week 2015 - France
Coding resources from France EU Code Week 2017 Cette page reprend les ressources présentées sur le wiki de jecode.org. Ressouces généralistes France-ioi Apprendre la programmation et l'algorithmique par la pratique (en Python, C/C++, Java ou Caml), avec des cours et exercices évalués automatiquement. Ressouces liées au programme ISN Know any other resources?
Microsoft Released A New Website to Help Teachers Use Minecraft in Their Classes
July 10, 2015 Minecraft is an immersive learning environment that has started as a game about creating, exploring and managing resources before it becomes one of the leading educational learning platforms for students. A few days ago, Microsoft, Minecraft’s parent company, announced the release of a new website, Minecraft for Education, geared towards providing teachers with a forum where they can share their ideas about how they use Minecraft in their teaching. ‘Minecraft in education is a way to teach, learn and inspire. It’s students visiting ancient civilizations to create and play out their own stories. It’s exploring mathematical concepts like perimeter, area, and volume by breaking and placing Minecraft blocks. Here are some examples of how some teachers are using Minecraft in their classes: Elementary students in Seattle are learning foundational math skills by calculating perimeter, area and volume in Minecraft during a Saturday math program.
Create Professionally Looking Posters for Your Class Using Lucidpress
May 21, 2015 A few months ago we posted here a list of some powerful web tools to use for creating educational flyers and posters. Today, we were reminded by Briton that the popular Lucidpress does provide a very good poster maker that teachers can use to create professionally looking posters for their class. Lucidpress poster maker is an easy to use web tool with a simple drag-and-drop interface that allows teachers to design beautiful posters and flyers to use in classroom. Besides the premium templates, Lucidpress maker provides a wide variety of inspirational templates to use with your posters. You have the flexibility to customize the size of your poster the way you want it. All of the poster templates in Lucidpress are set to 18” x 24”. The free Lucidpress plan offers only 25MB of storage space and few other features, basic and pro plans have more advanced features and a storage capacity that goes up to 5 GB. Watch the short video below to learn more about Lucidpmess.
Quizalize - A Fun Quiz Platform
Quizalize is a newer quiz game platform that reminds me of Kahoot. Like Kahoot, students play your quiz games on their laptops or tablets by going to the Quizalize website then entering their names and a class code. Students are awarded points for correctly answering questions quickly. Creating quizzes on Quizalize is a simple process. Quizalize offers a marketplace in which you can find quizzes created by other users. An overview of Quizalize is provided in the video embedded below. Applications for Education One of the better aspects of Quizalize is found in the results page that you see as a teacher.
Embroidery Designs at Urban Threads - Projects
Now it's time to grab that other sock, provided it hasn't disappeared. Don't laugh -- I have about a half dozen socks whose partners have mysteriously vanished. It can happen. Turn the sock inside out and flatten it the other way, so the heel is folded in half. The long front half of the sock is the tail. Before cutting anything, I'll give you a bit of advice I learned the hard way: You'll notice the tail and the arms are the uppermost section.
Lancement avec Axelle Lemaire de la Semaine européenne du Code au ministère de l’Éducation nationale
Éducation nationale Publié le 10 octobre 2015 Ce vendredi 9 octobre 2015, Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, ministre de l’Éducation nationale, de l’Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche et Axelle Lemaire, secrétaire d’État chargée du numérique, ont reçu, rue de Grenelle, les ambassadeurs organisateurs de la Code Week Europe et de la Code Week France, ainsi que les responsables des consortiums lauréats de l’appel à projet FNI « Culture de l’entrepreneuriat et de l’innovation », pour le lancement, de la Semaine du Code en Europe / Code Week dans les 28 pays de l’Union européenne. A cette occasion, les ambassadeurs de la Code Week ont organisé au ministère de l’Éducation 5 ateliers d’initiation à la programmation informatique pour 48 élèves de CM1 et de 5ème de Montreuil (93). Retrouvez ici quelques images de ce lancement au ministère de l’Éducation nationale et sur cette page les discours des ministres Najat Vallaud-Belkacem et Axelle Lemaire. Photos © Philippe Devernay / MENESR
