Saturday, December 10, 2011
Friday, December 9, 2011
Thursday, December 8, 2011
What Tim Found Today 12/08/2011
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Microsoft Partners in Learning helps educators connect, collaborate, create and share. TeachTec helps educators find relevant and effective ways to use technology to inspire teaching and engage students.
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The #ASEChat Interactive Science Links Summary | The Whiteboard Blog
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Digital Learning Day :: Toolkits
An expert educator working group with more than 25 innovative and master instructional technology leaders from across the country worked to develop these toolkits filled with helpful resources for all stakeholders. The toolkits include links and references to instructional strategy ideas, lesson plans, sample outreach, ways to collaborate, and resources organized in a succinct way to meet the needs of the following stakeholders recommended by practitioners just like you. These resources are not the totality of good information available. Instead, this resource is designed to help you think about how technology may strengthen your insructional strategies.
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
What Tim Found Today 12/07/2011
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How to Teach with Technology | Edutopia
We asked students and teachers nationwide to give us their best tech-teaching ideas and received hundreds of surprising responses. Below, you'll find links to a wide-ranging selection, organized by subject area for easy access. Discover some great new teaching tools to use in your classroom.
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60 Student-Centered Teaching Strategies
All 60 strategies promote students' literacy and critical thinking skills within a respectful classroom climate. And they can be used with students of all ages with any academic content.
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
What Tim Found Today 12/06/2011
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Easy Classroom Polling/Group Messages For Teachers and Students | ClassPager
Broadcast updates to parents and students. Engage any student on any device — during or after school. Ask and answer questions, individually or with groups of students. Incorporate modern technology in your teaching safely and easily.
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Record & Share your PowerPoint presentations | Present.me
This is a wonderful site for uploading a Powerpoint presentation and then adding a narration. The finished product is quite nice, as it shows both the narrator and presentation in a side by side window.
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Mind Leap: Education Apps for Kids - best iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch apps for kids
A great site for finding and reviewing educational apps on a five-star system for grades PreK - MS.
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ProProfs: Knowledge Sharing Tools & Free Online Education
A great "all in one" site for education that allows users to create quizzes, flashcards, polls, etc.
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Gnowledge- Where everyone can create, publish, share and take tests, exercises and assignments.
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Create Mobile Apps | Conduit Mobile
Without a doubt the coolest, most innovative site I came across this year. This is ideal for bloggers, web designers, or schools in a one-to-one environment who are looking to create a great-looking mobile app for free or share news/homework in a mobile environment.
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The ultimate guide to getting started with blogging! « makingiteducational
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Free Technology for Teachers: The Year in 60 Seconds - A Video Project Idea
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Twitter for Teachers – a professional development tool | learningblog.org