Crowdsourcing Digital Breakouts - Get Paid for Your Contributions
Earlier this week I shared Metaverse's directions for creating digital breakout games. Yesterday, I had a conversation with Johnathan Miller, one of the founders of Metaverse, who was excited to share that they are now paying teachers for making digital breakout games. Use the free Metaverse platform to create a digital breakout game to use in your classroom.
8 Tips To Use Stock Images In eLearning
In this article, I'll share 8 unexpected and powerful uses for stock images that you'll want to consider when designing your next eLearning deliverable. Each of these can help you to create engaging, interactive, and effective eLearning courses that your learners aren't soon to forget! Written content is just one piece of the eLearning puzzle. Thanks to stock image sites, eLearning professionals can now integrate attention grabbing images into their eLearning courses, without spending a dime of their project budget.
The Ultimate Guide to Using iPads in the Classroom
There is no doubt to anyone who has used an iPad or any tablet for that matter that they show a clear alternative to teaching learning in the classroom beyond laptops, screens and monitors. The iPads simplicity of use and massive range of apps give it a great deal of appeal as a teaching and learning tool and the future looks bright for this trend to continue. Yes it does have a number of shortfalls in some areas - like any early technology so I am going to share some great resources with you that I have come across which highlight the benefits of iPads in the class room and hopefully they will be of use to you.
Wisemapping
A mind map is a diagram used to represent words, ideas, tasks, or other items linked to and arranged around a central key word or idea. Especially in British English, the terms spidergram and spidergraph are more common,[1] but they can cause confusion with the term spider diagram used in mathematics and logic. Mind maps are used to generate, visualize, structure, and classify ideas, and as an aid to studying and organizing information, solving problems, making decisions, and writing. The elements of a given mind map are arranged intuitively according to the importance of the concepts, and are classified into groupings, branches, or areas, with the goal of representing semantic or other connections between portions of information. Mind maps may also aid recall of existing memories.
Love Greetings
Smilebox knows that sometimes romance simply must be conveyed immediately, just because. And that every now and then, a devoted grandmother across the country needs to hear from her biggest little fans—and see their smiling faces. For all the ways love needs to be shared, Smilebox helps you send personal greetings from the heart. And nothing could be sweeter. At Smilebox we believe that how you share your photos should be as memorable as the photos themselves.
Fall Time-lapse - A Video Project
The fall is my favorite season of the year. I love waking up to cold, crisp mornings then enjoying mild days outside. In fact, that's what I'm planning to do tomorrow morning.
Free Resources That Will Make You Smarter
Being a successful entrepreneur means you have to wear a lot of hats, especially when your company is just starting out and you don’t have enough employees to cover all the areas you need. Learning the new skills necessary to start a new business can be expensive, but fortunately the initiative for free, high-quality, educational resources online has only continued to grow in the past few years. Below are some of the resources available to learn more about marketing, entrepreneurship, business management and more. 1.
BOOKS TOOLBOX: 50+ Sites for Book Lovers
Lulu, a book publishing site, is in the news this week. But there are many more sites for book reviews, self-publishing and exchange. Here are more than 50 of our favorites. Disclosure: Lulu currently has an ad campaign running on Mashable.
