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Why Digital Writing Matters in Education | Edutopia What distinguishes “digital” writing from other writing forms? Digital writing is networked, and because of this, often deeply collaborative or coordinated. The cultural changes are in how we write that examples like Faebook and Wikipedia makes clear. These are the most pervasive and commonplace collaborative writing platform in human history. “Professor, researcher and ed tech developer Jeff Grabill explains that, while writing is no longer exclusively about setting pen to paper, learning to write well is an increasingly important digital age skill.”
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Google for Educators: The Best Features for Busy Teachers | Edutopia There are a lot of links in the digital world. It can be difficult for teachers to know which ones work best. Google has tried to make it easier by creating Google for Educators,. This compiles some of the search engine’s most useful features in one place. No matter what you may be teaching, thereis probably a free Google feature that may help you with your lessons The site offers step-by-step visual toursas as well videos to help you get set up.
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Google Blockly Is a Visual, Drag-and-Drop Tool for Building Apps and Learning to Code Google Blockly is a visual programming language that can help you get started quickly.The webapp lets you drag blocks together to build apps, which can then be exported to actual programming languages.
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Editor for Google Maps [MapFab.com] This tool is an great free map creation tool built on top of Google Maps. MapFab offers a few advantages over Google Maps, but the most notable advantage is that you do not have to create an account in order to create your custom maps.
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The Image Language “Every word we search online is represented by the first image that Google Image shows. By using the most popular online search engine, we are able to turn the images into a new language. Creating an interactive visual experiment that explores the possibilities of two things: words and images.”
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The Best Research Available On The Use Of Technology In Schools | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… Larry Ferlazzo updates his “The Best Research Available On The Use Of Technology In Schools”
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Major Changes in the Use of WordPress in Education | The WordPress Experts – WPMU.org
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Using QR codes for school communications | eSchool News The QR codes (print-based hyperlinks to websites and social media networks) are gaining traction because they allow on-the-go consumers to access websites more quickly from their mobile phones.
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7 Habits of Highly Effective Tech-leading Principals — THE Journal Whilst the article is about leadership in educational technology, much of it also applies to leadership across many areas of educational innovation. “The conventional wisdom in education is that any school reform–be it curriculum, instruction, assessment, or teacher professionalism–is most likely to take hold in schools that have strong leadership. The same holds true for technology. Any educator will tell you the most successful implementation of technology programs takes place in schools where the principal sees him or herself as a technology leader.”
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Ten Tips for Select From online publication “Education Week”. Common Sense Media has released a list of 10 suggestions for parents and teachers looking for ways to determine the relative quality of educational video games. It offers guidance in sorting out the best from the rest.
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Free Technology for Teachers: Free Digital Citizenship Posters Post by Richard Byrne. Information about two good posters for students on digital citizenship that are also free
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On this day in history: Mabo sets native title precedent – Australian Geographic From Australian Geographic. An overview of how Eddie Mabo changed indigenous land rights in Australia.
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Gorgeous Vintage Soviet Propaganda and Art Posters | Brain Pickings Ben Perry’s massive collection of 20th-century Soviet and Russian propaganda, advertising, and art posters, created between 1917 and 1991, offers a beautiful perspective on mid-century design and the modernist aesthetic from the other side of the Iron Curtain.
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