Guide: Creating great content with iBooks Author
Traditional textbooks generally contain great content, but they are fraught with problems. They are often very expensive, easily damaged and can only be updated by purchasing any new editions. In addition, for the vast majority of people, publishing a printed book of our own is out of reach, making it difficult to produce your own content. Nowadays, students have grown accustomed to using technology to interact with their world, so why not take advantage of this and produce books that can be tailored to the way they learn? That’s where iBooks Author comes in. iBooks Author is an amazing free app that enables you to create stunning iBooks for both iOS and OS X devices.
12 must-have apps for supply teachers
What are the essential resources for the supply teacher? Sharon Wood, founder of National Supply Teacher Week, takes a look at her absolute favourites. On supply, normal rules don’t apply. You may be left a set of plans, fully resourced, for the day. Or you may turn up with five minutes (10 minutes after you received the call to go) before the children arrive, to an empty desk, a missing laptop, and no password for the photocopier. You don’t know that the children have some work to finish off in any spare five minutes.
PowToon – a Powerful Free Tool for Creating Awesome Animated Presentations – Flipped Classroom Workshop
I am a huge fan of PowToon. If you haven’t check out PowToon, you don’t know what you’re missing. I created this video with PowToon, for free: PowToon can be a great teaching tool, letting you create fun, unique animated presentations. It can also provide students a unique platform for creating presentations as well, which can be a great tool in a Project Based Learning or other type of Active Learning classroom environment. PowToon can certainly be a fun addition to the Flipped Classroom.
15 - YouTube Capture: Easily Record, Edit, and Upload Video to YouTube
Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: iTunes | Android | EdTech You Should Know – 15 – YouTube Capture If you’re interested in an easy way to capture, edit, and upload video to YouTube from a mobile device you’re going to love YouTube Capture.
Top 10 Educational Technology Resources for the Classroom
by Holly Poulos Engage students in your classroom with our Top 10 favorite interactive educational technology resources. These websites will help you create new and captivating lesson plans for your curriculum.
7 of The Best iPad Augmented Reality Apps for Teachers
February 9, 2016 The use of augmented reality (AR) technology in education is on the raise. Some speculate that the year 2016 will be an AR year par excellence. The basic premise behind augmented reality is the extension of the physical world to include components of the virtual world. The potential of augmented reality in teaching and learning is huge. Our AR section here in EdTech and mLearning features a number of key resources to help you better understand how to include AR technologies in your class. We are also adding this handy collection of what we think are some of the best iPad AR apps to use with your students.
Tech in the Classroom
Tech in the Classroom is a recurring feature that examines widely available technology, software and gadgets and how they might be used in a school setting. What favorite gadget or tool are you using in the classroom? As this new content area grows, let us know what products you’d like to read about. Tech in the Classroom: Google Chromebook These inexpensive laptops run the Chrome browser and offer more laptop functionality than a tablet. Tech in the Classroom: 6-Word Memoir This teacher-developed interactive workbook series for students prompts them to express themselves and discover their world in only six words.
Use These Chrome Apps to Unleash Students Creativity
March 26, 2016 Chrome web store is packed full of all kinds of educational apps and extensions some of which are also integrated with Google Drive. For those of you looking for a handy resource of Chrome apps to use with students in class, check out this comprehensive chart. In today’s post we are sharing with you a collection of some practical Chrome extensions to unleash learners creativity.
6 Flipped Learning Technologies To Watch in 2016
Flipped Learning 6 Flipped Learning Technologies To Watch in 2016 The top 6 technologies that are either under development or already in use in the flipped learning environment, as seen by our education professionals
Snapchat As A Tool For Teachers : NPR Ed
What's the first step of learning? Paying attention. Which may be hard for students to do when they're constantly peeking at their phones. So, as the adage goes: If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.
The Best Interactive Web Tools for Educators
Most of us are working at full capacity, and keeping up with technology can feel like one more chore on the to-do list. Still, learning your way around a few of the best Web tools is worth your time. Innovative teachers are frequently using intuitive programs and websites that are easy to learn. These web tool can save you a lot of daily hassles that you might not even realize you have been tolerating.
This Data-Viz Tool Is As Easy To Use As A Post-It Note
Data visualization, infographics, data posters—whatever you want to call them, the genre is having its "Instagram moment." Like typography and photo editing before it, the craft of expressing ideas with graphically plotted numbers is now so ubiquitous that you hardly need to take a course with Edward Tufte before trying your hand at it. Of course, with democratization comes ... a ton of crap, to put it bluntly.
5 Ways Teachers and Students Can Use Sway in the Classroom
I bet you never thought that you can use Sway for formative assessment but the insert in tweets feature is what I love most about Sway. You can easily find tweets by searching hashtags and if you tweet in your classroom than this is the perfect tool to assess with. Still no idea how, here are some tips. The first game is called shape thoughts, Students tweet of the most important idea form the lesson using #triangle (or you can set your own hashtag) #square for how I can use this outside the classroom, #heart for how I feel about using what I learnt and #circle for the thought still going round my head.
