Teachers Easy Guide to The Most Important Web Tools in Education When it comes to using web resources with our students, time plays a decisive role.It is next to impossible for a busy teacher restricted by curriculum constraints, day to day lesson preparations, assignment corrections, to mention but a few of his chores, to effectively search the web and find the adequate resources to share with his/ her students. Most people just do not have the time to learn all these technologies and some educators pick just one or two websites of interest and start exploring them. This is definitely not the right thing to do particularly if you want to leverage the huge potential of technology into your classroom.There is, however, a simple roudabout to this problem. 1- A List of The Best Video Editing Tools for Teachers 2- A List of The Best Digital Story Telling Tools for Teachers 3- A List of The Best drawing and Painting Tools for Teachers 4- A List of The Best Presentation Making Tools for Teachers 5- A List of The Best PDF Tools for Teachers
Portfolio Development for Early Childhood Educators How to recognize true learning Skip to main content Browse All Briefs by Topic How to recognize true learning Forward to a friend 07/22/2012 | SmartBrief/SmartBlog on Education Veteran educator David Warlick reflects in this blog post on common traits that true learning experiences share. View Full Article in: SmartBrief/SmartBlog on Education Education | Educational Leadership | K-12 Published in Brief: ASCD SmartBrief SmartBrief Job Listings for Education View More Job Openings ©2014 SmartBrief
10 Great Flashcard Making Tools for Educators 1- FauxFlash FauxFlash is a great online application that takes the hassle out of flash cards and lets you easily get right to studying. 2- Flashcard DB FlashcardDB is another cool web tool that allows users to make , study and share flashcards online. 3- FunnelBrain FunnelBrain gives your students a new way to learn. 4- StudyDroid You can use StudyDroid to create cards on the web right from your browser. 5- Braineos Braines is an awesome web tool where students can create flashcards, and play games. 6- ProProfs Flashcards This is an online free flashcards maker that lets users print, download, and study using free flashcard software. 7- Flashcards Friends Flashcards Friends allows users to find and modify existing flashcards, share them with friends and many more. 8- Cobo Cards Cobo Cards is a great free flashcard software that enables users to create- alone or in team - flash cards online and save your knowledge. 9- Study Stack 10- Edisco
4 Lessons In Creativity From John Cleese There’s a certain generation (or two) that owes its twisted, awkward, scorchingly black sense humor to John Cleese. Famous for his work with the Monty Python films and television series, the BBC comedy Fawlty Towers, as well as feature films like A Fish Called Wanda, the writer, actor, comedian and film producer knows from funny. But he also knows a thing or two about wrestling the creative beast, which is the topic Cleese was invited to speak about at last week’s Cannes International Festival of Creativity. Through a series of stories, Cleese spoke of the importance of succumbing to the unconscious mind, two key traits possessed by highly successful creative people, the necessity of allowing for contemplative thinking, and why all of these together result in creative breakthroughs. A story about your unconscious saving your ass; or letting your ideas bake Cleese began his talk recounting one of his epic writing sessions with longtime writing partner Graham Chapman.
Digital Immigrants & Natives Did You Like The Presentation?Please take a moment and visit my 21centuryedtech Blog and sign up for a free RSS or Email Subscription. I can be followed on twitter at mjgormans. Contact me about workshops, seminars, and presentations at your school or conference. You can reach me at mjgormans@google.com - Mike Gorman (21centuryedtech) It is true! Part Three: Ten Steps… Transforming Past Lessons For the 21st Century Digital Classroom First… thanks for the great feedback on my Flip Classroom Post that happen to be in the middle of this 10 Step Series to Digital Transformation. It is great to see that it got thousands and thousands of reads. I welcome to Part Three of this four part series devoted to bringing curriculum to the digital era. In this series of posts I want to walk you through ten practical steps I have found helpful in transforming yesterday’s lessons into 21st century digital treasures! I am certain you will enjoy the includes resource filled links. Before bringing you another goldmine of resources… I want to thank you for continuing to return and for continuing to share this blog with others. Quick Note – I have been getting a lot of request asking if I will make a visit to your school, organization, or conference. Introduction In the last two articles before the Flipped Class PostI introduced the first five steps in this Ten Steps… Transforming Past Lessons for the 21st Century Classroom Series.
Looking Back At Year One of 1:1 (With iPads) - Part One As I look to unplug a bit during the first week of summer vacation, I am continuing to repost my top posts from last year. Below is #6 from last June. As I reflect on our first year as a 1:1 school, I am overwhelmed by the insights that we gained after distributing over 1,000 mobile devices to our students in grades 9-12. As I look at the data from an end-of-the-year survey completed by students, I am reminded of an excerpt from Milton Chen's book Education Nation - Six Leading Edges of Innovation in our Schools. Chapter 3 of the book is titled The Technology Edge: Putting Modern Tools in Young Hands.There is a great excerpt from the Abilene, Kansas High School Dialogue Buzz Website that sums up what we will do for students when we create a 1:1 environment for our studentsHere's the excerpt: Let’s have a little competition at school and get ready for the future. I will access up-to-date information - you have a textbook that is 5 years old. The cost of a laptop per year?
The Best Resources For Beginning iPad Users Though I haven’t gotten an iPad yet (NOTE: Now I have!), we did get one for my mother-in-law. So, with an eye towards helping her now, and me in the future, I put out a call to readers to their suggested resources as well as hunting for them on my own. You might also be interested in The Best Sites For Beginning iPhone Users Like Me. Here are my choices, and choices suggested by readers (their recommendations are better than mine!) iPad Getting Started is from TC Geeks. The 10 best iOS apps of 2011 comes from The Telegraph. The best iOS apps for children, 2011 is also from The Telegraph. The top 50 iPad apps is from The Guardian. Choosing the Right Keyboard For Your iPad is from Read Write Web. The Best iPad Apps: 10 Essential Apps For The New iPad You Got For The Holidays is from The Huffington Post. Educreations lets you easily create video lessons. Fill Your New Kindle, iPad, iPhone with Free eBooks, Movies, Audio Books, Courses & More is from Open Culture. iPads In The Art Room Melissa A.
The Top 10 Education APIs (And Why They’re Important) First off, what is an API? API stands for A pplication P rogram I nterface. It’s a tool which allows web applications (websites and apps to the layman) to communicate with each other and share information stored in each other’s databases. How APIs Work (Simple Version) We like to think about it in culinary terms. Next door, at Mexicana Meals, they make excellent guacamole. If Mexicana Meals does have an API, the chef can walk through the back door into the kitchen and politely ask the other chef if he can borrow an avocado. An API (a.k.a Avocado Procurement Interface) is what allows you to sign into Noodle with Facebook and read our Tweets on this blog. Why is it important? API’s are incredibly valuable for education. The White House recently gathered a number of education professionals to brainstorm how to put education data to use to better help students, educators and governments. [Click the title of any of the listings below to learn more.] Khan Academy Blackboard Collaborate Knewton
Design Thinking Workshop for Educators: Applying Creative Problem Solving to Classrooms 7.30.12 | Edutopia today launched a free online workshop, “Design Thinking for Educators,” to help educators consider how design thinking—a problem-solving process built around five stages—might be applied in the classroom and in their professional lives. Developed in collaboration with IDEO and Riverdale Country School, a pre-K-12 independent school in New York City, the workshop is scheduled for five weeks but can be completed at any pace. Included is a free, downloadable Design Thinking Toolkit—94 pages that take users through the key steps involved in defining a challenge and building a solution: discovery, interpretation, ideation, experimentation, and evolution. Workshop participants can also join collaborative design challenges and weekly online brainstorms. The concept of design thinking has been around for decades, taking root first in architecture and urban planning spaces and later in the business and public sectors and now education.
20 Things New Teachers Need to Know Are your knees knocking at the thought of walking into a classroom for the very first time this fall? Have no fear! We asked our friends on Facebook to share their best pearls of wisdom for new teachers, and they generously sent their inspiration, advice and need-to-know strategies. Think of them as your virtual mentors—like all teachers, we’re here to help one another succeed! 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Number 2: The decorations on your walls don't need to come from Teachers Supply stores, because the ones from Dollar Tree will do the job. Number 3: Invest in a good pair of shoes that fit you well, because you'll be on your feet all day.” 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20.