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Clarisketch Through the narration and illustration of photos, Clarisketch saves time and improves the quality of messaging using a combination of photographs and annotated commentary. Clarisketch enables you to quickly comment and draw on diagrams, map routes, photos etc and share it with friends/colleagues via email, Facebook, Google+, Twitter or other social networks.
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The World’s Easiest Video Calls – Gruveo This offers instant, secure and anonymous video calls. There are no downloads or registration required. It is a simple and useful tool that could get students using video communication.
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Readymag — Your own publishing platform “Readymag was founded in 2012 starting with the simple idea that everyone can be a publisher. Finding inspiration in the beauty of printing and functionalist design philosophy, we started to rethink digital interfaces to build the most elegant, powerful and easy-to-use online publishing tool. At Readymag, we’re passionate about thoughtful design and truly believe that better tools empower people to self-express and inspire to create a better content.” This looks like it could be a good tool to get students enthusiastic about publishing online magazines of their own. I a wondering if I can get some of our writers and reviewers to create a magazine for the library. You can do one for free or a basic package is $9/month (US)
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Clyp – Record and share audio, simply. This could be a useful tool for recording and sharing audio, either from a desktop computer or an iOS device. Although you can register, it is not mandatory to use the tool.
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Classcraft – Make learning an adventure “An online educational role-playing game that teachers and students play together in the classroom. Acting as a gamification layer around any existing curriculum, the game transforms the way a class.” This looks as though it could be a useful free tool this will help to gamify a classroom. It could help with to help to improve motivation and classroom behaviour.
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A Gold Mine of #EdTech Resources | Getting Smart An interesting annotated list that is organised by how each tool is used.
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5 Research-Based Tips for Providing Students with Meaningful Feedback | Edutopia
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What Are The Biggest Online Learning Trends And Challenges? | Edudemic “Online learning can take many different forms. It is interesting to look at some of the trends and challenges that moving from an in-person to a virtual environment can pose. The infographic in the post (developed by Education Dive), takes a gander at some of the trends in online learning (and a few fun statistics) and some of the challenges that online learning poses.”
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10 Team-Building Games That Promote Collaborative Critical Thinking “The team-building games in this post are designed to promote cooperation and communication, help establish a positive classroom environment and (most importantly) provide a fun, much-needed reprieve from routine.”
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Curriculum & Leadership Journal | Skills for the 21st Century: teaching higher-order thinking
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A Teacher’s Guide to Keeping Up With Your Tech Savvy Students | EdSurge News “We live in a technology-driven society that provides us with quick and easy access to just about anything at anytime. Teachers can no longer use the, “I’m too old to learn tech” excuse, because technology is here to stay. As teachers, it is our job to protect our children from the dangers that exist, and help them develop healthy tech habits, and become responsible digital citizens.” This posy offer 4 simple tips to assist teachers prepare students for the digital world they live in.
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Bookless library opened by new US university | Books | theguardian.com “Florida’s Polytechnic University is entirely digital and has no print books at all. This enormous facility promises to make ‘many more books available for the students’ in digital form.”
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Flickr: Internet Archive Book Images’ Photostream The photos and drawings are sourced from more than 600 million library book pages scanned in by the Internet Archive organisation. These images have been difficult to access until now. Internet Archive Book Images Visitors to the site are free to copy and make use of the pictures without charge. Most of the images that are in the books are not in any of the art galleries of the world – the original copies have long ago been lost. The pictures range from 1500 to 1922, when copyright restrictions kick in. “
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National Cyber Security Awareness Month Cyber security from Google – images and quotes.
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A Little Help, Please! A Guide to Help-Seeking Behavior – Education Week “Offers a way of learning about the different types of help-seeking behaviors in students and what might work with each.”
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Craig Leager on Twitter: Things that students pay attention to… http://t.co/ZgGoqwByac
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European Film and the First World War The virtual exhibition European Film and the First World War is particularly recommended as representing a unique European view of history through another set of eyes. Organised under the headings: At the front, *Film and propaganda, Science and technical innovation, Suffering in and after the war, Beyond the trenches, Neutral countries, Commemorating the war This site is ideally suited to senior students who have an understanding of the complexity of World War I and are seeking to gain an understanding from the Axis point of view in addition to the British Allies. It explains the purpose of film and propaganda for instance, and provides examples.
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What Twitter offers teachers: The evidence | EduResearch Matters This offers some research-based evidence about how Twitter can be useful to educators. “In order to convince teachers of the possible benefits of using a new technology, such as Twitter, we decided to look for evidence of its qualities. What in particular, does Twitter offer educators? Is it worth getting involved?” 30 leading educators (with an interest in educational technology) were identified. They were the ones who were currently using Twitter. The study analysed samples of their tweets in order to determine their purpose and the possible benefits of the tweets to their followers. Also examined were a sample of tweets from the twitter streams of two popular educational hashtags: #edchat and #edtech, in order to determine what ‘followers’ may gain.”
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Listen and learn | transformative LEARNING Post about how one educator makes the best use of his time to fit in listening to podcasts and curating the information his social media identifies.
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Research in Learning Technology “Research in Learning Technology is the journal of the Association for Learning Technology. It aims to raise the profile of research in learning technology, encouraging research that informs good practice and contributes to the development of policy. The journal publishes papers concerning the use of technology in learning and teaching in all sectors of education, as well as in industry.”
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Quiz Yourself: How Good Are You at Teaching the Art of Learning? | MindShift Quickly done that reflect on your answers and the ones they suggest. Good discussion starter.
A Defense of Deeper Learning: Watch What’s Working, Part 5 | Edutopia “Give kids the experience of a learning community, as well as the skills to create one, sets them up well for the future demands of college and career, and helps them develop the academic mindsets they need to succeed.”
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12 great ways to start using Google Classroom now | Ditch That Textbook “Google Classroom is finally available to all Google Apps for Education teachers and students. The venture into the world of learning management systems seems to be a pretty solid one. First impressions: It looks and feels like a Google product and so is familiar to most. It’s clean and simple (which should make it easy to use) It provides a home base for everything you do in Drive” The author then briefly explains 12 ways she would use some of the features in a classroom situation. They offer ideas worth considering.
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New Minecraft Mod Teaches You Code as You Play | Enterprise | WIRED There is an add-on teaches kids to code their own modifications to the game. In this Wired article, Klint Finley explains how the creators of the add-on called LearnToMod hope their tool could be a gateway for students to discover a love of computer programming.
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