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Why Twitter and Facebook Are Not Good Instructional Tools
Once an advocate for using social media applications and cell phones in class, this English teacher has changed his stance on the kinds of technology teachers should incorporate into their...
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Jeopardy Template | Jeopardy Game | Jeopardy Online Game
Make your own jeopardy template easily without PowerPoint, or play jeopardy games created by other peopleEllen Graber's insight:This looks like a great way to review vocabulary for TKT exams, concept...
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Millennial Students and Middle-aged Faculty: A Learner-centered Approach |...
The problem is my age. It relentlessly advances while the faces staring back at me in the classroom remain the same, fixed between late adolescence and early adulthood. In short, I grow old while my...
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Mix Images and Animation on Your Mobile
The app runs on a mobile device and allows users to add animated speaking characters to a selection of backgrounds or to the users' own images. You can then either use text to speech to write a script...
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ActiveTextbook | Interactive Textbook Software
Active Textbook provides educators with the tools to extend and customize digital learning materials, making them truly engaging for effective learning outcomes. Students can interact with customized...
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Mural.ly - Google Docs for Visual People
Mural.ly - Google Docs for Visual People. Thousands of creative people from all over the world are using Mural.ly to grow ideas.Ellen Graber's insight:This lookes incredibly easy to manage...more so...
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Ten of the best virtual field trips | eSchool News
To help educators save time, we've chosen these 10 virtual field trips based on their relevancy, depth and quality of resources, and potential for student excitement.Ellen Graber's insight:Field trips...
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Podcast Gallery - The Best Audio and Video Podcasts
Podcast Gallery is an online directory of the best audio and video podcasts across all genres. You can watch your favorite podcast shows in the browser or download them to your Dropbox or Google...
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Why online education is mostly a fantasy
In the end, MOOCs and online programs primarily help those who are self motivated to learn, and the vast majority of these people would have figured out how to educate themselves, whether in college or...
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The Flipped Class Revealed
Switching from a traditional classroom to a flipped classroom can be daunting because there are a lack of effective models. So, what should an effective flipped classroom look like? In our...
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Flipped Classroom 2.0: Competency Learning With Videos
The two teachers admit when they started flipping their classrooms they put everything into video form. Now, they’ve taken a step back and realized some things shouldn’t be in lecture form, and...
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10 big ideas from eduTECH...
Billed as the biggest educational technology conference in Australia, I note with interest as I sum up the big ideas from EduTECH, that they are not about the technology. These were some of the...
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PhotoBlab - Welcome
An app in which you can take or add some photos, attached some audio or record some sounds, edit the audio to your liking then share it with your own network of followers!Ellen Graber's insight:Wow,...
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10 Podcasting Projects Every Teacher Should Try
Now that teachers have easy access to tools like Garage Band and iPods that make recording a breeze, podcasting is quickly becoming the latest creative mode of learning and presenting in schools. Here...
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Nik's QuickShout: Comparing Texts to Aid Noticing
Ellen Graber's insight:When giving a writing assignment which might have all tehs tudents doig ore or less the same thing, this could work. CUrrently, we are putting them up on a sticky wall and...
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Nik's QuickShout: Get Students Checking Grammar and Collocation
Ellen Graber's insight:This site looks really helpful for many situations.See it on Scoop.it, via I can do this, even with technology.
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Roon — The easiest way to blog
Ellen Graber's insight:I can't wait to try this out!See it on Scoop.it, via I can do this, even with technology.
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10 Emerging Educational Technologies and How They Are Being Used Across the...
For over a decade, the New Media Consortium (NMC) has been charting the landscape of emerging technologies in teaching, learning, and creative inquiry on a global scale. The NMC’s advisory board...
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Use Your Voice to Do Even More with Google Docs
Using screencasts or google drive inbuilt apps to leave voice comments is a good idea to engage learners online and respond to them while correcting their writing.Ellen Graber's insight:I can't wait...
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Draft. Write Better.
Write better with Draft. Easy version control and collaboration to improve your writing.Ellen Graber's insight:This is even easeir than Gogle Docs!See it on Scoop.it, via I can do this, even with...
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8 Things to Look For in Today's Classroom
cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by chrisbb@prodigy.net As I think that leaders should be able to describe what they are looking for in schools I have thought of eight things that I really...
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Authentic materials with beginners: Charlene Polio
Ellen Graber's insight:This gives some good ideas to modify authentic materials so even beginners can use the 'real thing'.See it on Scoop.it, via I can do this, even with technology.
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Easily Turn Google Spreadsheets into Online Flashcards
The place where you can easily convert a Google™ Spreadsheet into a set of online flashcardsEllen Graber's insight:Looks like a great way to get activeSee it on Scoop.it, via I can do this, even with...
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10 Ways to Show Your iPad on a Projector Screen
Projecting your iPad on a large screen is great for demonstrations, simulations, explanations, and showing examples. There are several ways this can be done in the classroom.Ellen Graber's insight:This...
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MOOCs in the developing world – Pros and cons
Several of the challenges cited by sceptics in raising the international profile of MOOCs – how to prevent cheating and improve completion rates, for example – are identical to those faced by Western...
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