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Google Plus now open to Teens, with safety features
"Google has set some default settings for teens to increase safety and privacy, including setting it so that only people in the teens circles can send notifications and comment on posts."
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gathers all of Google's resources and lessons learned into one place for educators. It is a booklet, that will be updated continually as a resource for educators
Saturday, January 28, 2012
What Tim Found Today 01/28/2012
Friday, January 27, 2012
What Tim Found Today 01/27/2012
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How to Create Your Own Textbook — With or Without Apple | MindShift
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ClassroomWindow - find teacher-approved tech right now
an unbiased directory of teaching tools. From textbooks to assessments to tablets to smartphones, it’s all there.
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SoapBox- "looks to be the "do it all" back channel application for teachers."
You or students can create socially ranked questions where students can determine importance and that get updated in real time. Students can also participate in polls and respond to questions through a clicker type system. At the same time, students can mark whether they understand or are confused about something and the software updates real time. There is also an area for discussions where teachers can create topics and the can be discussed.
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Scholastic Teacher- Daily Starters
"daily starters" for review and practice in language arts and math skills. Teachers can select grade levels and even reveal answers. New skills and activities are posted every day!
Thursday, January 26, 2012
What Tim Found Today 01/26/2012
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PIPEDREAMS - Essential Tech Tools for NEW and Experienced Educators
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GradeCam - Free Formative Assessment Tool
a software suite that allows webcams and other types of cameras to be used to scan multiple choice tests and collect data to be used to aid instruction
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
What Tim Found Today 01/24/2012
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Teachers take to Twitter to improve craft and commiserate - The Washington Post
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Tool Review: Posterous Spaces - The Tempered Radical
If you're looking for a ridiculously easy tool that can save you time and hassle all while helping to ensure that your parents actually read the content that you are posting on your classroom website, Posterous rules.
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The Ultimate Guide To Apple’s New Education Initiative | Edudemic
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Homework: To Flip? or to Toss? | Beyond School
"My current experiment involves not so much flipping homework as (almost) ending it. I’m using document-based lessons in which all reading and discussion is done in class, and the only homework is a reflective blog post about the day’s content on a team blog — which student team-members read and comment on with corrections, extensions, challenges, etc."
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ideas for lessons contributed by teachers around the world
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