 Your new post is loading...
Your new post is loading...
Robin Good: If you are looking for a free video conferencing solution, here is my selection of the top 15 (and more) solutions available right now online.
I have personally checked each one of them, and while you may not like each one, they all guarantee the ability to video conference with more than two people (FlashMeeting is the only exception I have included) without you needing to pay anything for it. Some, as good as Vidyo or Zoom.us may provide HD quality video and even full support for mobile platforms. Others, like MeBeam or Sinfor offer bare-bone ad-supported solutions that have zero frills but can do the job if you need an immediate, zero-cost solution. Check it out here: http://pinterest.com/robingood/top-15-free-video-conferencing-tools-2012/ P.S.: Feel free to suggest tools you know that should belong in this collection.
Via Robin Good, Gust MEES, Lynnette Van Dyke
By Med Kharbach "Educational Technology and Mobile Learning has been diligently engaged over the last couple of weeks in writing a series of simple and easy to use guides to help teachers and educators better leverage the use of technology in education and empower them with the necessary tools to better carry out this task. What started as a simple guide on the use of social networking, expanded to be a series of similar guides covering blogging, personal learning networks, Evernote, Facebook and iPad in education. Our purpose is to give hand to both novice and experienced teachers in integrating technology within their classrooms. We are still working on several other guides which will be posted here intermittently and there will be a comprehesive ebook that will contain all these guides, so stay tuned." Read more: http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2012/06/complete-guide-to-use-of-skype-in.html#.T--zBzsgfQw.facebook
Via Gust MEES
Social Networking for Kids - Yoursphere is a safe kids only social networking site. The site is free and is exclusively for children and young people through age 18. Read more: http://yoursphere.com/
Via Gust MEES
Possible instructions for educators on how they can work together with the learners… Knowing the tools for 21st Century Learning is primordial to give ===> quality courses. <=== Read more: http://gustmees.wordpress.com
Via Gust MEES
Robin Good: Course Hero is a platform which allows the creation and delivery of online video courses curated from the best existing published content on that topic. There are already ready-made courses to access or you can submit a topic that you would like to video-curate into a course. "You can learn just about anything from YouTube...if you're willing to dig through millions of videos." From Techcrunch: "Luckily, Course Hero has done the work for you, offering coherent classes by hosting collections of the best educational YouTube videos and other content. The newly launched courses section of the eduTech startup’s site now has classes in entrepreneurship, business plan development, and programming in a variety of languages. ... By drawing from YouTube and other openly available education, Course Hero plans to set up courses for anything it, or you, can think of. ... Each course breaks down into roughly 6 chapters of 6 concept YouTube videos, Justin.tv videos, articles, and more. Unlike Udemy‘s one-teacher-per-class approach, Course Hero courses are compiled from content by many teachers. Rather than put you at the mercy of long-winded professors, Course Hero trims videos and articles down to their most important teachings. Along the way you’ll answer quiz questions, take tests to complete chapters, and face a final exam to finish a course and earn proficiency badges..." Full article: http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/12/course-hero/ ; Courses: http://www.coursehero.com/courses/ ; More info: http://www.coursehero.com/ ;
Via Robin Good, Let's Learn IT, Heiko Idensen, Gust MEES
From the website: "Would you like to challenge your students with an online quiz or trivia game? Get Started with Pinnion to create quizzes, surveys, trivia games, or polls with unlimited questions and unlimited responses for free. Then, collect responses through any of the following: Smartphones Individual computers Shared or classroom computers, using Pinnion in kiosk mode "All of these responses are fed back into your Pinnion account, where real-time results are available for instant viewing using presentation mode."
Via Gust MEES
Blogger Terry Heick unravels the mysteries of Google+ and suggests how this emerging social media tool can become a valuable teaching aid.
Via Gust MEES
We need to start envisioning our teachers as knowledge generators and creative professionals whom we trust to innovate and implement unorthodox ideas that might transform teaching and learning. The time has come to reward innovation among our best and most creative teachers. They should be given the time and resources to reflect on their practice, experiment with new ideas, and implement strategies to more effectively engage learners.
Via Peter John Baskerville, Gust MEES
In today’s dynamic classrooms, the teaching and learning process is becoming more nuanced, more seamless, and it flows back and forth from students to teachers. Here’s a look at current trends in teaching and learning, their implications, and changes to watch for.
Via Gust MEES
|
Bloom's digital taxonomy Wheel and Knowledge Dimension
This is quite a clever and helpful device to tie together a large number of ideas about Bloom's Taxonomy in the Cognitive Domain. I highly recommend that interested readers visit the website and play with it. It's done quite well (although it would be even better if the few misspellings were attended to). Access it at http://eductechalogy.org/swfapp/blooms/wheel/engage.swf But this gets me up on my soapbox because it highlights quite a significant oversight, in my opinion. When Benjamin Bloom wrote his original work, he spoke of 3 domains, not just one. All 3 were, and are, of roughly equal importance in educating young people. The other 2 are the Affective Domain and the Psychomotor Domain. These correspond roughly to what, in today's parlance, might be called Social and Emotional Learning (Affective) and Mental and Physical Health (Psychomotor). Too much (or too little) emphasis on any one of the domains almost guarantees a lack of balance in childrens' learning and development. We can see this in the pejorative, hurtful names students call their peers when one of the domains assumes an unblanced priority over the others. Cognitive imbalance can lead to students being called eggheads or nerds, Affective imbalance to students being called geeks or loners, and Psychomotor imbalance to students being called dumb jocks or crazies. It seems to me that the standards movement and the high-stakes testing movement have come to represent an educational environment that is seriously out of balance...with far too much emphasis on the Cognitive Domain, and too little on the Affective and Psychomotor. We have too many students who excel in one domain, and too few who are well rounded in two or three, as well as too many who do not reach their potential in any. Furthermore, the emphasis on the separation of the Cognitive from the Affective and Psychomotor, has created structural imbalances in the operation of schools (read allocations of time, financial and material resources, personnel, and intellectual energy) that work to the detriment of our young people and our communities.The drive toward home schooling and charter schools can be viewed as two manifestations of this structural imbalance...increasing numbers of parents view schools (especially public ones) as unsuitable places to send their children and clamor for alternatives that offer a better balance among the 3 domains. This is a great graphic organizeer, but it represents only an exaggeratedly large part of a much more important whole. -JL
Via Gust MEES, Paulo Simões, Shary Lyssy Marshall, Lynnette Van Dyke, Freddy Håkansson, Katharina Kulle, Rui Guimarães Lima
Communication and empathy are the basis of all social and relationship skills, and a core competency of emotional intelligence. The communication competency includes listening with an open mind, sending convincing and clear messages, and cultivating an empathetic give-and-take. The empathy competency includes understanding other people and being actively interested in other people’s concerns, thoughts, and feelings. Here are my 11 secrets of effective communication and empathy. Read more, very interesting...: http://appitive.com/business/2012/08/10/11-secrets-of-effective-communication-and-empathy/
Via Gust MEES
Happiness interview: Andrew Mangino. By Gretchen Rubin... How can we usher in a new era of happiness (and inspiration) in America's schools?
I had to include this question because it's the one I think about every day!
Our team at The Future Project believes that just as there is an achievement gap, there is also an inspiration deficit in our schools. When students (and teachers, administrators, custodians, coaches, and parents) are not inspired, they are not happy -- at least not as happy as they could be! Nor do they learn well; reform, we believe, must be built on a foundation of inspiration. So, we're aiming to bring about the world in which all students have found something that inspires and truly excites them, whether civil engineering, French food, botany, or the Roaring Twenties, and channeled it to improve the world around them. All before finishing high school! Read more, very interesting...: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-happiness-project/201107/when-students-are-inspired-they-and-their-teachers-are-happier
Via Gust MEES, Jim Lerman
I believe this is the best, most complete and accurate list of valuable Twitter applications available on the internet right now.
Via Gust MEES
You’re going to want to print out this infographic and, at the very least, share it with your fellow teachers and even students. It’s all about the history of education technology and could be used to educate just about anyone on how far we’ve come in a short period of time. We did a more in-depth look at the history of education technology about a year ago but this infographic is a lot more… fun. Anyway, the below infographic from CTU can be viewed below or downloaded as a PDF here (so you can fire up that color printer). Enjoy the walk down memory lane!
Via Gust MEES
I am from the UK, but I live and work in Curitiba in the south of Brazil. I have found that students are often very interested in how things are done in different countries... This means that cultural awareness was a part of my teaching long before the current obsession with doing everything with technology. I am a firm believer in using technolgoy when it offers something different and there is a strong pedagogigcal case for doing so. All too often people use the latest high-tech gizmo just for the sake of using it. However, technology has opened up certain ways of raising cultural awareness that perhaps weren't there before." Using YouTube, Twitter, and WebQuests -JL
Via Gust MEES
"With classes, homework, and projects–not to mention your social life–time is truly at a premium for you, so why not latch onto the wide world that Google has to offer? From super-effective search tricks to Google hacks specifically for education to tricks and tips for using Gmail, Google Docs, and Google Calendar, these tricks will surely save you some precious time."
Via Gust MEES
Adopting a new communication tool is not easy. Figuring out the best way YOU can use Twitter is even harder. Luckily you are not going it alone. We have culled the following resources from an array of websites that try to help anyone understand and better use Twitter. Gust MEES: A MUST READ! All information on one place!
Via Gust MEES, Jenny Pesina, Jimi Paradise
The following ===> infographic <=== covers the topic of social media and how it affects our content. Would you imagine how social networking would be if there were no websites in the calibre of Stumble Upon, Twitter, Reddit, Digg, and Facebook ? I don't think we will have the same easy and instant access to the information as we do now. We should be so thankful to those people behind the creation of such tools especially when we measure their importance and benefit in education.
Via Gust MEES
|
Scoop.it!
![The History Of Learning Tools [Infographic] | Into the Driver's Seat | Scoop.it](https://img.scoop.it/RKngruDWGkBADBO0jr9ifjl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVvK0kTmF0xjctABnaLJIm9)
