The 10 Most Popular Teacher Tools Being Used This Year This image shows absolutely no teacher tools. Aside from that pencil maybe. But seriously, that says a lot about how far we’ve come! The school year is upon us. It’s quite literally the time for teachers, students, parents, school administrators, and everyone else to begin spending the vast majority of their day at a school. Whether it’s college, high school, middle school, or elementary levels, it’s school time. ‘Battle-tested’ might be a more appropriate term. In any case, these teacher tools are useful for a variety of reasons. 1.Google Apps Okay, this one is more than a single tool. 2. The king of PLNing (is that a word?) 3. I’ve been using Skype in education for years now and it’s proven to be an effective way to collaborate and communicate with others around the world. 4. What can’t you find on YouTube? 5. Evernote is valued to be worth more than the New York Times. 6. Like Evernote, Dropbox lets you keep your digital life in sync. 7. 8. 9. 10.
Open Educational Resources (OER): Resource Roundup Resources by Topic: OER, a part of the global open content movement, are shared teaching, learning, and research resources available under legally recognized open licenses -- free for people to reuse, revise, remix, and redistribute. Why are OER important? Getting Started Sharing Resources The nonprofit Creative Commons offers free, easy-to-use copyright licenses that allow you to specify which rights to your works you want to reserve and which rights you'd like to waive. Quality Considerations With all the promise of OER, some challenges remain. Back to Top How to Find OER Open Lesson Plans, Courses, and Activities 5-Minute Film Festival: 10 Sources for Free Lesson Plans, by Amy Erin Borovoy (2013) Exploring free lesson planning resources can be overwhelming. Open Alternatives to Textbooks
Ideas for Using iPads for Digital Storytelling By Sam Gliksman The following is the first of a series of excerpts from Gliksman’s book iPad in Education for Dummies. The digital aspect of storytelling raises the art to a new level of experience. The emergence of technology and digital media has resulted in some significant departures from the traditional role of storytelling in education: Stories have become media-rich experiences. Reading and writing remain crucial educational components. When you think of storytelling from a traditional perspective, you might conjure up any of these images of Danny Kaye telling a story to a group of children seated on the ground; a kindergarten teacher reading a book to a group of young students; a parent reading a bedtime story to a child. Then we reached the information age. Students are becoming producers of knowledge: digital storytellers who use technology to express themselves. Students traditionally produced a product for an audience of one: their teacher. Related
Five-Minute Film Festival: Copyright and Fair Use for Educators I absolutely love it when teachers and students create, remix, and mash up media; it's a fantastic way to encourage deeper learning and media literacy. But one issue that complicates digital freedom of expression is copyright law. While many would argue that copyright law is outdated and badly in need of an overhaul, it's still critical that adults and kids alike have a basic understanding of what's legal and ethical while playing with other people's intellectual property. Here's a list of videos I collected to help you navigate the murky waters of copyright law in educational settings. Video Playlist: Understanding Copyright and Fair Use Watch the player below to see the whole playlist, or view it on YouTube. Understanding "Fair Use" in a Digital World (06:14) This excellent video by Common Sense Media and Teaching Channel shows students evaluating video remixes during a lesson in fair use. More Resources for Teaching Copyright and Fair Use
Educavox WebQuest.Org: Home Bientôt en librairie : Éducation: émancipation ? | Le carnet de Tracés Alors que, face au reflux des projets de démocratisation scolaire, l’école semble plus que jamais prise dans la contradiction entre reproduction indéniable des inégalités scolaires et sociales et persistance d’une ambition à former des citoyens libres et égaux, ce numéro choisit de réinterroger l’articulation classique entre éducation et émancipation. L’accent y est tout d’abord mis sur les discours et dispositifs qui organisent les parcours des élèves, depuis le principe même de l’obligation scolaire (Elsa Roland) jusqu’aux mécanismes d’orientation (Fabien Truong) et aux réformes qui individualisent l’encadrement des élèves (Camille Giraudon). L’éducation au prisme de l’émancipationpar Hourya Bentouhami, Adrien Chassain, Gilles Couffignal, Clémence Fourton, Chloé Le Meur, Marc Lenormand, Damien Simonin et Marine Trégan Rendre l’école obligatoire : une opération de défense sociale ? Récit d’une expérience : l’école Nadi al Toufoula (Damas, 1993-2012)par Damien Simonin Guillaume Calafat
home Droits d’auteur, droits de copie, droits de l’image : 4 bons réflexes L’espace pédagogique de l’Académie de¨Poitiers met à disposition sur son site Internet, un document ressource sous la forme d’un dépliant 4 volets (en pdf) intitulé Droits d’auteur, droits de copie, droits de l’image : les bons réflexes… pour informer les élèves sur ces notions. Plus largement, cette brochure sera utile aux acteurs de terrain des EPN, à leurs usagers et aux internautes qui souhaitent s’informer « pour un meilleur respect de la propriété intellectuelle » avec des réponses à des questions concrètes notamment sur le Droit et Internet. Les points abordés dans l’aide-mémoire Droits d’auteur, droits de copie, droits de l’image : les bons réflexes : Qu’est-ce que le droit d’auteur ? Ce document propose 4 bons réflexes à adopter pour l’Internet : Je respecte le droit moral.Je consulte les mentions légales des sites Web.Je m’adresse à l’auteur si nécessaire.Je me réapproprie l’information pour donner plus d’intérêt à mon travail et j’évite ainsi le copier-coller. Licence :
GeorgiaNETS - home Copyleft Copyleft symbol Copyleft (a play on the word copyright) is the practice of using copyright law to offer the right to distribute copies and modified versions of a work and requiring that the same rights be preserved in modified versions of the work. In other words, copyleft is a general method for marking a creative work as freely available to be modified, and requiring all modified and extended versions of the creative work to be free as well.[1] Copyleft is a form of and can be used to maintain copyright conditions for works such as computer software, documents, and art. In general, copyright law is used by an author to prohibit recipients from reproducing, adapting, or distributing copies of the work. In contrast, under copyleft, an author may give every person who receives a copy of a work permission to reproduce, adapt or distribute it and require that any resulting copies or adaptations are also bound by the same licensing agreement. Reciprocity[edit] History[edit] Some[who?]
23 Excellent Professional Development Tools for Teachers Today we are sharing with you some web tools to help you grow professionally. These are probably the best you can ever find online. Check out the list below and share with us your suggestions and additions. 1- Education World This is a great website that offers all the resources you need to grow professionally. 2- Classroom2.0 In this networking group, you can get connected with other educators who are interested in Web 2.0, social media, and more in the classroom. 3- Diigo Collect, highlight, remember, and share all of the great resources you find online with your PLN on Diigo, and annotation and online bookmarking tool. 4- Discovery Education There is no way that you did not hear about this awesome website. 5- Google Rss With Google Reader or any other great RSS tool, you can subscribe to blogs and stay on top of it all. 6- Twitter 7- Staff Develop This is another great resource for professional development.It provides articles, books, workshops, and many resources links. 8- Yahoo!
eSafety Kit We believe that the best way to protect younger users is to educate and empower them by providing the tools they need to safeguard themselves, as part of our commitment to 'Promoting a Digital Society'. The safety of young people as they access the digital world is becoming an increasingly important issue, as internet and digital TV use continues to increase worldwide. Insafe and Liberty Global have developed a Family eSafety Kit for children aged 6–12 years, which explores online safety issues such as security, communication, cyberbullying and entertainment, while offering parents, teachers and young people advice on how to overcome these issues. To date, over one million copies of the Family e-Safety Kit have been distributed in 18 languages across 23 countries. On the interactive website, you can find quizzes, online games, golden rules and fun downloads on the four topics discussed in the eSafety Kit. Visit the eSafety Kit website and select your country from the site homepage.
Finding the Right Tool WebTools4U2Use will introduce you to a lot of different, powerful, useful tools.But... how do you choose the right one? By Task This mindmap by Toy Waterman provides a basic list of webtools from which to choose those most appropriate to different kinds of classroom activities. Click on the + near each type of activity to see some of the best tools for that task. (Click and drag the image in the box to reveal more.) Check out Project Bamboo's Digital Research Tools(Bamboo DiRT), Created and maintained by a partnership of several U. By Product By Cognitive Level By Learning Style Brian Gray created this ThingLink image that links to lists of recommended tools for each learning style. Another way to look at these tools: 100 Helpful Web Tools for Every Type of Learner recaps some of the tools listed in this wiki and more. By Instructional Strategy By Stage of Inquiry By NETS*S By Category By Types of Learning By Curriculum Area By Teaching Style