Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Monday, April 25, 2011
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Chrome Extensions for Educators
A Principal's Reflections: Chrome Extensions for Educators
Some great extensions to consider if you use Chrome.
Some great extensions to consider if you use Chrome.
Gmail Security Tips: 5 Ways To Backup, Secure And Recover Your Account
Read on for five essential tips for protecting and backing up your Gmail account.....
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Spaaze
Free Technology for Teachers: Spaaze - Online Sticky Notes and More
Spaaze is a free online sticky note service that offers some handy functions for teachers and students. Spaaze allows you to write notes, edit notes and reorder your notes. Your notes can be simple text notes or you can create notes that contain videos, images, or links.
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Digital Media: New Learners of the 21st Century
I just watched this PBS Special - excellent!
Watch the full episode. See more Digital Media - New Learners Of The 21st Century.
Saturday, April 09, 2011
A wordle replacement
Free Technology for Teachers: Tagxedo - Word Clouds With Style
I have a confession to make, I struggle to keep up with my email inbox. That is why earlier this week when an email appeared from Hardy Leung I didn't give it the attention I should have. Hardy Leung, as TechCrunch reported this morning, has released a new word cloud generation tool called Tagxedo..........
Tuesday, April 05, 2011
What Do Kids Say Is The Biggest Obstacle To Technology At School?
What Do Kids Say Is The Biggest Obstacle To Technology At School?
iPads. Interactive Whiteboards. Netbooks. Video games. Although educational technologies are being implemented more and more in classrooms across the country, we don't often stop and ask students - or their parents - what they think their technology needs are. But the newly-released Speak Up 2010 survey has done just that.
The project surveyed almost 300,000 students (along with 43,000 parents, 35,000 teachers, 2000 librarians and 3500 administrators) from over 6500 private and public schools last fall about how they're using - and how they want to be using - technology for learning.
The results are pretty fascinating, as they show great adoption of technology among even very young students, but lingering resistance on the part of school administrators to sanction some of those tools into the classroom.
The two major obstacles that students say they face at school: filters that stop them from accessing the websites they need for homework and bans on using their own mobile devices (namely cellphones) at school.
Saturday, March 26, 2011
Public Domain Images
Free Technology for Teachers: Lots of Great Public Domain Images of Nature
See that beautiful bald eagle image to the left? I found it on the site of Ken Thomas. That image and dozens of other great images of animals and other natural beauty are created by Mr. Thomas and released into the public domain. Mr. Thomas releases these images into the public domain because, in his own words, "When it comes to photos, I’m not trying to make art here. I take pictures of things. About 99% of the time, those are things that don’t belong to me. Claiming that I own the rights to a picture of a mountain, or a tree, or a sunset, just seems absurd to me when I don’t own the mountain, the tree, or the sun."
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Ubiquitous Learning?
FitFu Turns Your iPhone Into an Exercise-Motivation Tool [VIDEO]
Mobile fitness app FitFu hopes to get you out of your desk chair and on the ground doing situps — through a combination of push notifications, short exercise routines, social features and motivational speeches from a strange blue creature.
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
A great use of Google Docs
Free Tools Challenge #2: Create A Self Grading Multiple Choice Quiz Using Google Docs | Teacher Challenge
This is the 2nd post in the “30 days to using the best of the web’s free tools for educators” series. Be sure to subscribe to the Teacher Challenge blog by RSS, like us on facebook, and follow us on twitter to keep up with future challenge posts as they are published.
Thursday, March 17, 2011
iPad into an Interactive Whiteboard
Turn Your iPad 1 or 2 into an Interactive Whiteboard (Practical Practice)
Everyone is so excited about tethering the iPad 2 to a projector, admittedly very cool, that we have missed something else at least as good if not even better! Go all the way: make the iPad 1 or 2 into a complete interactive whiteboard solution!
If you already own an iPad, computer, and projector, this can be done for less than the cost of Apple's new Digital AV Adapter for the iPad 2. Ok, full disclosure: this solution only costs 2 cents less than the adapter. But for tethering with the Digital AV Adapter, you also have to purchase an HDMI to VGA cable too!
Monday, March 14, 2011
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Friday, March 11, 2011
The Four Big Steps To Cutting The Cord
The Four Big Steps To Cutting The Cord
Do it! Cut the cord and free yourself from the tyranny of the cable mafia. The movement is slowly gaining traction but the whole task is daunting. What do you do next? Where does your TV content come from? What are the options? So many questions you need answered before you take the scissors to the coax line.
iPad: A Magical and Revolutionary Guide – Free Download
iPad: A Magical and Revolutionary Guide – Free Download — Tech the Plunge
iPad: A Magical and Revolutionary Guide – Free Download
by Jeffrey Thomas on March 10, 2011
iPad: A Magical and Revolutionary Guide was released today by MakeUseOf.com. It is another of their great guides on technology.
This guide is 28 pages long and features their list of the 40 best free apps for the iPad.
Make sure you let all your teacher friends know about this guide to get them started with their new iPad. In addition, it might not be a bad idea to send a link to your favorite administrator!
The guide is a free download in pdf form or you can read it on Scribd.
MakeUseOf.com – iPad Guide
Friday, February 11, 2011
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