Don't Miss These Excellent Back to School Resources from Wikispaces
Back in spring, the popular wiki-hosting platform Wikispaces debuted the-just-for-education product called Wikispace Classroom offering teachers and educators a more convenient space to create and host their classroom wikis. For those of you who are not yet familiar with the concept of using wikis in education I would recommend reading this excellent guide. Part of your work during this first month of your back to school would probably be channeled towards setting up a virtual space where you can share learning materials, assignments, homework, upload files, and where you can also engage parents in the learning taking place inside the classroom. Of course based on your digital inclinations and what works best for your teaching/ learning situation, your classroom virtual space can either be anything like a website, blog, or a wiki. Tutorials Here is a list of some god tutorials created by Wikispaces to help you better understand and use their platform effectively. Handouts
10 Great Google Search Tips for Teachers and Students
1- Search for an exact word or phrase Use quotes to search for an exact word or set of words. This option is handy when searching for song lyrics or a line from literature." Tip: Only use this if you're looking for a very precise word or phrase, because otherwise you could be excluding helpful results by mistake. 2-Exclude a word Add a dash (-) before a word or site to exclude all results that include that word. Tip: You can also exclude results based on other operators, like excluding all results from a specific site. 3- Search within a site or domain If you are looking for more results from a certain website, include site: in your query. Tip: Also search within a specific top-level domain like .org or .edu or country top-level domain like .de or .jp.olympics site:.gov 4- Search for Pages that link to a URL Using the link: operator, you can find pages that link to a certain page. Tip: You can also search for links to specific pages, like google.com/images.link:google.com/images
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9 Great Google Alternatives for Academics and Student Researchers
Related : 9 Tips Every Teacher Should Know about Google Scholar JURN is another wonderful search engine to use to search for millions of free academic articles, chapters, and theses across multiple disciplines ( Arts, History, Humanities, Business, Economics, Ecology, Science and more). JURN is also a directory of over 3000 free arts and humanities journals that you can easily search from one single platform. 4- RefSeek RefSeek is a web search engine for students and researchers that aims to make academic information easily accessible to everyone. RefSeek searches more than one billion documents, including web pages, books, encyclopedias, journals, and newspapers. 5- HighBeam HighBeam Research is a premium information service built for students, instructors, researchers, professionals, and others looking to gain deep knowledge on subjects of interest. 6- Springer BASE is a voluminous search engine especially for academic open access web resources.
Wikispaces Introduces a Brand New Look for Classroom Wikis
Wikispaces has been a great supporter of classrooms for years now. They allow any teacher to use their services to create wikis for free and without advertising. Today, Wikispaces introduced a brand new look for classroom wikis. Wikispaces Classroom is a new, free offering from Wikispaces. From the first look you'll notice that Wikispaces Classroom is quite different from the old Wikispaces format. Wikispaces is offering some free webinars about the new Wikispaces Classroom.
Utmärkt visuell sökmotor för studenter ~ Educational Technology och mobilt lärande
November 7, 2014 InstaGrok is an interactive search engine that allows students to search for any topic in a visually engaging way. When students conduct a search query, InstaGrok finds the relevant information related to that query and present it in the form of interactive concept maps (grok). Using InstaGrok, students will be able to explore educational content including videos and images, evaluate sources, collect evidence and use it to craft a search report. InstaGrok also allows students to take notes while researching a topic and provides teachers with a section where they can review students work and create new assignments together with the ability to guides students throughout their research project. 1- How to Use InstaGrok with students in class , by Pascale Ngo 2- Instagrok demo
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Introduction Wikispaces Classroom is a social writing platform for education. We make it incredibly easy to create a classroom workspace where you and your students can communicate and work on writing projects alone or in teams. Rich assessment tools give you the power to measure student contribution and engagement in real-time. Wikispaces Classroom is free for teachers and students. Learn more about Wikispaces Campus, our Wikispaces Classroom solution for entire schools, school districts and universities. Why Wikispaces Classroom? Our mission is to help teachers help students. Wikispaces has been adopted and loved by so many teachers and students precisely because it has done these things implicitly. Read more below about how Wikispaces Classroom delivers on this promise. What We Call It Make teachers' lives easier. What the Industry Calls It Increase teacher capacity. We're different. Help students achieve more. Improve student outcomes. Make teaching and learning fun. Classroom Management Yes.
The 5 Best Plagiarism Detection Tools for Educators
In a perfect world students would understand that education is for their benefit and put their all into every assignment. Unfortunately, every educator working today knows how far off the reality is from that ideal. Cheating isn’t just something that a few bad apples do every now and then, it proliferates. In a 2010 survey of high school students, one in three admitted to using the web to plagiarize. That makes it a problem no teacher can ignore. How Technology Makes it Worse Plagiarism is nothing new. How much work would you have to do to copy the words of this article in a new document of your own? Then, of course, there’s the availability of information. 5 Plagiarism Tools That Will Turn Tech into the Solution While it has played a role in making plagiarism easier, technology also helps teachers spot when it is happening. Of the many plagiarism detection tools out there, only a few are specifically designed for educator use. 1. Fast Facts: 2. 3. 4. 5. Which One Should You Choose?
A Quick Visual Guide on How to Create An eBook from Wikipedia Articles
February 18, 2014 It's been awhile now since Wikipedia has made it possible for users to create formatted eBooks from the content of its pages. Wikipedia provides you with an integrated tool called "Book Creator" which upon enabling it allows you to create ebooks from wikipedia content. These ebooks can be downloaded in different formats. As a teacher you can use this tool with your students to allow them to aggregate learning materials they need to work on into a single downloadable eBook.And yes there are no issues with copyright because all the content of Wikipedia is available under a Creative Commons ( share alike) license. Here is how you can compile Wikipedia articles into an ebook : 1- First head over to Wikipedia and preferably log in but you do not need to log in to do this. 2- On the tool box on the right hand click on " Print 'Export" and select : 'create a book'. 2- Click on "Start Book Creator" to enable your book creator .
