The 82 Hottest EdTech Tools of 2017 According to Education Experts If you work in education, you’ll know there’s a HUGE array of applications, services, products and tools created to serve a multitude of functions in education. Tools for teaching and learning, parent-teacher communication apps, lesson planning software, home-tutoring websites, revision blogs, SEN education information, professional development qualifications and more. There are so many companies creating new products for education, though, that it can be difficult to keep up - especially with the massive volumes of planning and marking teachers have to do, never mind finding the time to actually teach! So how do you know which ones are the best?
Coggle - Simple Collaborative Mind Maps Realtime Collaboration Invite your friends and colleagues to work with you, at the same time, on your diagrams. Save Every Change Look through all the changes to a diagram and make a copy from any point to revert to a previous version. Unlimited Image Uploads Drag-and-drop images right from your desktop to your diagrams. 20 incredible apps teachers can use in a single-iPad classroom - BookWidgets Yes! You finally got your brand new and shiny iPad for the classroom! There’s only one tiny (read: enormous) problem. There’s one iPad and there are 25 students. So how are you going to use this iPad? Don’t worry.
45 Best Content Curation Tools For Fail-Proof Marketing Automation These days, content is the engine that drives your business reputation and helps you make sales. But it’s not always easy to keep that content machine fully tuned up. That’s why a content curation tool is so important. 9 Tools for Making the Classroom Paperless - Oxford TEFL There are many reasons for making your classroom paperless. Beyond the ecological ones of saving paper and hours of time and stress spent in front of a photocopier to produce multiple handouts that end up forgotten in a folder somewhere. There are also the more pedagogical drivers of building students’ digital literacies and making our materials more interactive and engaging. Digital materials are also a great way to make good use of those students’ mobile devices and keep their attention on using the screen for learning rather than other distractions. In this article I’d like to share with you a few of the tools and applications that I use in my training sessions and materials design work to cut out the paper and add some opportunities for the development of digital literacy skills and a greater degree of student autonomy.
Webinar: Games or Gamification… What’s Right For You? In this week’s webinar, we had our friends from The Game Agency stop by to discuss several game mechanics from their interactive gaming library and identify how to most effectively pair them with your learning objectives to improve learning outcomes. They announced the release of a new game that is being added to the Training Arcade and showed how easy it is to build games in The Training Arcade. You can learn more about implementing a Training Arcade game into your eLearning in another webinar we did not too long ago. We also showcased Motivate Cloud, a gamified-socialized learning platform that is being used to boost engagement, foster team collaboration and turn a passive learning experience into an active learning journey. For more information about The Training Arcade click here.
DTSDkindergarten - Links for Kids Skip to main content Create interactive lessons using any digital content including wikis with our free sister product TES Teach. Get it on the web or iPad! guest Join | Help | Sign In DTSDkindergarten Home 35 Awesome Apps that Integrate with Google Classroom Save Pinterest Google Classroom Apps! Did you know that Google Classroom plays well with others? Yep! Google is known for making their applications open to working with third-party applications, and Google Classroom is no exception. 19 Sketchnote Styles Cheat Sheet – Makayla Lewis 19 Sketchnote Style Examples: Broken Window Rain Rectangle Fixed Trail Speech Bubble Puzzle Race Comic Down Mindmap Linear Right Storyboard Random Linked River Fallen Rectangle 19 Sketchnote Styles Cheat Sheet and linked examples are for viewing purposes ONLY. They are NOT royalty free works and may not be used for commercial or private use.