10 Sites to use with Mobile Phones in Education

- 10 Sites to use with Mobile Phones in Education

The use of mobile technology has opened up a whole new world in education. Terms like BYOD (bring your own device) are a commonplace occurrence. These devices have allowed educators and students to learn, teach, and study in a whole new way. Learning is no longer limited to the classroom and can occur in real-time almost anywhere. Following are my favorite sites, listed alphabetically, that help learners use mobile phones for educational purposes.

Digitize Student Work With the Three Ring App

Free Technology for Teachers: Digitize Student Work With the Three Ring App

Digitize Student Work With the Three Ring App

Three Ring is a new free service offering free Android and iPhone apps for digitizing and organizing student work. Using the app teachers can take a picture of a student's work and upload it to a free Three Ring account. Three Ring offers teachers a lot of organizational flexibility. You could organize artifacts by student name, class, date, or just about any other tagging system that works for you.

80+ Google Forms for the Classroom | edte.ch

80+ Google Forms for the Classroom | edte.ch

Google Forms is a great tool and I hope to use it more throughout this year. Take a look here for a more detailed introduction and guide to using and creating a Google Form – this was written prior to Google bringing forms into the NEW menu.

Learn and teach anything.

ShowMe - The Online Learning Community

Learn and teach anything.

ShowMe is an open learning community where you can learn or teach any subject. Watch great lessons for free, or create your own.

Why Schools Need to Catch Up With Social and Mobile Media

Why Schools Need to Catch Up With Social and Mobile Media

Ever since its introduction, the personal computer has been hailed as a savior that would revolutionize education. Yet almost 30 years after the debut of the Apple Macintosh, many classrooms still look very much the same as they did in the 1950s. Students still lug around heavy books in thick bags and sit at metal-frame desks while a teacher writes with chalk on a blackboard........

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What's different about mobile learning?

What's different about mobile learning?

What's different about mobile learning?

As the doors open to a new era of mobile learning and performance support, it's a good time to step back and think about the new mindset required when designing for mobile.

Although a mobile pedagogy will continue to evolve, we already know quite a bit about how people use mobile devices and some of the advantages of mobile learning.What's different about mobile learning?
As the doors open to a new era of mobile learning and performance support, it's a good time to step back and think about the new mindset required when designing for mobile.

Although a mobile pedagogy will continue to evolve, we already know quite a bit about how people use mobile devices and some of the advantages of mobile learning.....

Use Custom HTML and Javascript in Google Sites

Free Technology for Teachers: Use Custom HTML and Javascript in Google Sites

Use Custom HTML and Javascript in Google Sites

This afternoon the Google Docs and Sites team announced some very useful enhancements to both products. To me, the most exciting news in the announcement is that you can now use custom HTML and Javascript in your Google Sites pages. I have long be frustrated by how difficult, impossible actually without a lot of work arounds, it is to use many custom widgets like some of these survey tools in Google Sites. Now if you want to use custom HTML, Javascript, or CSS in Google Sites all you have to do is select the "HTML box" from the "insert menu" then paste your code. Read Google's directions here.

A student guide to studying online

A student guide to studying online

What you need to know before you enroll for an online course

Although most students adjust very quickly, studying online is different in some ways from studying in class. In particular, it requires discipline to keep ‘on schedule’ when there are no daily set lectures or classes to attend.

The importance of online course design

The way a course is designed can make an enormous difference to how easy it is to study online. Well designed courses do provide strong guidelines for when work, and what kind of work (writing assignments, tests or online class discussion), needs to be done. Poorly designed courses place much more onus on the student to organize their work, although a well designed program will deliberately encourage more and more independence and self-management as students progress through the program. However, if you are taking an undergraduate or two year college online course, it should be well designed, and that means being very clear about what is expected of you as a student.

Ten Videos Every Educator Should Watch (and Reflect on)

Ten Videos Every Educator Should Watch (and Reflect on) | Eductechalogy

The internet abound with videos for educators, some contextual and benefit educators in particular situations at a particular time (e.g. tools tutorials) while others are timeless by focusing on what really matters in education.

50 Sites in 60 Minutes, Volume Three

- 50 Sites in 60 Minutes, Volume Three

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This is a collection of sites that I like to use in a one-hour session of professional development. I like to update it twice a year to keep things fresh and because the first two were such a huge success. The last volume received over 21,000 views on Slideshare alone. As with all my resources, feel free to use them any way you see fit and I hope you enjoy it. I've even seen this used as teaching tool for a blogging exercise at the college level. Stay tuned for volume four sometime this summer!