All Blog Posts Tagged 'tools' (6)

Education Blog Award Winner, Jose Picardo shares A-Z Internet resources: "some of the best free internet resources for education. This page is constantly updated; every time I come across a new piece of software or an exciting website, I list it here." 

Resources include everything from an audio blogging site, Glass Giant for making pictures, Hot Potatoes for making interactive exercises, JamGlue for recording and mixing tracks, Mahara for creating online portfolios, Pen.io for simple…

From Google's Official Blog - you can read the entire blog post but I thought that lots of folks might be interested in how to protect your personal data if you still want to use Google tools: If you don’t think information sharing will improve your experience, you can use our privacy tools to do things like edit or turn off your…

In some classrooms, digital instructional resources are ubiquitous—from clicker systems tallying student responses to electronic white boards to digital probes to libraries of online resources. Other educators eschew technology for many reasons including budgetary considerations, structural limitations, network restrictions, or their own discomfort.

Take…

Educator-friendly EduBlogs is sponsoring the Teacher Challenge, a series of themed posts that guide participants toward goals like "30 days to get your students blogging" or "30 days to ensuring privacy and student safety on the Web."This month's challenge introduces you to 30 web tools that can support good teaching. The archive of all the past Teacher Challenge posts are available…

Skype has launched a global community for educators called Skype in the classroom. The free service connects teachers from around the world to allow them to communicate, collaborate on projects, draw expertise from one another, and share learning materials and best practices. It also serves as a launchpad for connecting students with their peers in classrooms across the planet using Skype video.  You can read more in this week's issue…

My colleague Kim Lightle forwarded me an article about Quick Response (QR) codes. This was the first I'd heard about QRs. Thank you, Kim!

As often happens with these kinds of articles, I followed my interests and found some fascinating and entrepreneurial…